Cliff White is the executive editor of SeafoodSource. He has 15 years of experience as a professional journalist, including serving as the senior business reporter for the McClatchy-owned Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit and the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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Bluefront Equity-owned Seacloud has acquired the environmental monitoring products and software suite of Meox, a technology firm based in Namsos, Norway.
Alta, Norway-based Seacloud, a provider of cloud-based software and sensor technology for analysis and utilization of management data for commercial aquaculture operators, was acquired by Bluefront Equity in December 2022. It merged with Naviaq in August 2023.
Terms of the deal were not
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based BioFeyn, a biotechnology company with a focus on nutrient optimization in aquafeed, has signed a partnership with Nord University to “develop a game-changing product line for animal health.”
Founded in 2019 by Timothy Bouley and Marie-Christine Imbert, and funded via a USD 5 million (EUR 4.7 million) capital investment from industry players including Katapult Ocean, SOSV, Agfunder, and the Kuok
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Through a new partnership, Bangkok, Thailand-based nutrient recapture startup Full Circle Biotechnology will supply Thai aquaculture technology firm HydroNeo with its insect-based shrimp feed additive.
Full Circle is a Bangkok-based nutrient recapture startup, that has created an insect-based animal feed. Their patent-pending technology allows agricultural waste to be upcycled through its unique use of black soldier flies and
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U.K. retailer Iceland and supplier Fastnet Fish have cut ties with a Chinese processor alleged to have employed Uyghur workers, deemed by the U.S. government to be the victims of forced labor.
Iceland Foods, which operates around 900 supermarkets in the U.K., said it had cut ties with Shandong Meijia Group, one of the biggest seafood processing companies in China, which was accused in a recent report – along with eight other Chinese
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Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based OBI Seafoods has replaced its CEO and chief financial officer.
OBI Seafoods announced the December 2023 retirement of Mark Palmer and CFO Tony Ross, and the promotion of John Hanrahan to the CEO position and Monica Hollenback as CFO.
The company said the moves come “as part of the company’s growth and succession plan.”
“We were fortunate for many years to have Mark and Tony as part of our
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s 2024 Bristol Bay sockeye salmon forecast is once again calling for a smaller run than the year prior.
ADF&G is predicting a run in Bristol Bay of 39 million sockeye, down from the 54.5 million run in 2023.
The prediction would equivalate to a harvest of 26.1 million fish; in 2023, around 40.6 million sockeye were harvested commercially. If the prediction holds true, the harvest size would be 39
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Doug Brinsmade and Raju Selvan have formed the Black-Fin Seafood Company, an Austin, Texas, U.S.A.-based seafood processor and vendor with a focus on tuna.
Brinsmade founded Anova Food in 1995 and served as its president and CEO until 2010. He has also served in executive roles at Sea Delight, The Fishin’ Company, and Fortune Imports. In 2020, he founded What the Fish, a company focused on quality control and assurance in online seafood
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Springdale, Arkansas, U.S.A.-based Tyson Foods, Inc. – one of the world’s largest food companies – has invested in insect ingredients firm Protix.
Tyson Foods is responsible for producing around 20 percent of the beef, chicken, and pork consumed in the U.S., through the Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright Brand, Aidells, and State Fair brands. Its direct equity investment, announced on 17 October, gives Tyson
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Birkirkara, Malta-based Aquaticode has introduced a new AI-powered gender-sorting system for farmed salmon.
Aquaticode’s SORTpro system is designed to categorize up to 10,000 juvenile salmon per hour based on gender and other performance traits. The system has been trialed since 2021 by Salmones Camanchaca and found to have a 97 percent accuracy rate, with no increase in mortality rates.
"Innovation is central to our strategy at
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CP-Uoriki, a collaboration between CP Food Global Solutions (CPFGS) and Uoriki, has opened two seafood markets in Bangkok, Thailand.
Tokyo, Japan-based Uoriki is a seafood retailer, wholesaler, and foodservice supplier. CPFGS is a subsidiary of Bangkok, Thailand-based Charoen Pokphand Foods focused on distribution of fresh and processed food products in Thailand. In May 2022, CPFGS signed a memorandum of understanding with Uoriki Co.,
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