Cliff White

Aarhus, Denmark-based aquafeed firm BioMar has signed a letter of intent with Woburn, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-headquartered Yield10 Bioscience to commercialize a fish oil alternative derived from Camelina sativa, also commonly known as false flax or linseed dodder.

The two firms will work together to “commercialize a camelina crop containing enriched levels of EPA and DHA equal to fish oil.” BioMar characterized the partnership as

Pacifico Aquaculture has scored an investment from U.S. sustainability-driven asset management firm Equilibrium Capital, along with additional funding from majority owner Butterfly Equity, to build a recirculating aquaculture system and expand its nursery and hatchery capacity for its striped bass farm in Ensenada, Mexico.

Founded in 2010, Pacifico produces around 2,000 metric tons of farm-raised striped bass annually and carries Best

Spanish seafood firms Atunlo, Fandicosta, and Actemsa have initiated formal pre-bankruptcy procedures, bitten by financial pressures related global trading shifts and higher interest rates.

Vigo, Spain-based tuna specialist Atunlo is suffering from surplus stocks and sales declines, forcing it to make a formal filing with a Spanish bankruptcy court that it intends to seek to negotiate with its creditors due to an inability to meet all its

Negotiations of a sale of Nueva Pescanova to Cooke Inc. have been called off by Abanca, the owner of the Redondela, Pontevedra, Spain-based vertically integrated seafood firm.

Cooke entered into an exclusivity agreement with Abanca in April 2023 in negotiating a purchase of an 80 percent stake in Pescanova, but the deal-making went cold in July after the two sides could not come to an agreement on the price. In

High Liner Foods, Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Trident Seafoods, and E&E Foods are among the competitors entering the 2024 Alaska Symphony of Seafood.

The event, organized by the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation since 1994, is a competition for commercial-ready, value-added products, with the goal of promoting new products made from Alaska seafood. The product entries will compete for prizes in eight categories: the Grand Prize, Salmon

Taprobane Frozen Foods’ Erukkalampidy shrimp farm has become Sri Lanka’s first to gain Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification.

The company hopes to have all 1,000 acres of the farm either certified to either the ASC or Best Aquaculture Practices standard by the end of 2024, according to Taprobane Seafoods CEO Tim O’Reilly. And he has set the goal of selling climate-neutral shrimp from the farm by next year.

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U.K. supermarket firm Waitrose has created videos to help migrant fishers in the U.K. better understand what is expected of them in their jobs and their rights as workers.

The chain, which operates 331 stores in the U.K., and its corporate parent, the John Lewis Partnership, said it was responding to reports of sector-wide labor issues, including overworking and the payment of illegal recruitment fees.

Its four-video series, which it translated