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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Laksesystemer and VP Vélaverkstæði are partnering to expand the services and technology available to land-based aquaculture operations in Iceland.
Nærbø, Norway-based Laksesystemer is a provider of aquaculture equipment and services, and Vogar, Iceland-based VP is a design and construction firm with expertise in repair and metalwork. VP’s CEO, Jón Reynir Andrésson, worked for 25 years as chief
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SalMar’s Q3 2023 harvest is way up year over year, it reported in a 10 October trading update.
As a result of adding NRS farm sites as part of its December 2022 merger, its total gross-weight harvest volume in Q3 2023 rose to 78,100 metric tons (MT), up from 53,600 MT in Q3 2022. Its Farming Central Norway region produced 48,400 MT, up from 36,000 MT, and its Farming Northern Norway division produced 25,700 MT, up from 13,800 MT.
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Nordly Holding has initiated a sale process for STIM, an aquaculture service and fish health provider based in Leknes, Norway.
Nordly Holding Owner Jim-Roger Nordly said he expects the sale to be completed in H1 2024.
“It will be an interesting process, which I am confident will result in a solution that is in the best interest of the company,” he said. “The precondition, of course, is that we find the right owners who share
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The primary gateway used by Russian cod and haddock exporters to access the European market has been closed by the Norwegian government.
The border crossing in the Norwegian town of Storskog has been closed because the physical infrastructure there is not adequate for completing customs checks, according to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, which said on 11 October all entry of seafood products through Storskog will be suspended beginning
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The world’s largest salmon farming company is shifting its processing capacity and trialing an artificial intelligence solution for sea lice detection.
Mowi is selling its 7,500-square-meter salmon slaughterhouse, which sits on a 55,000-square-meter plot in Ulvøya, Norway, in Hitra municipality, as it moves to a new facility on nearby Jøsnøya. The facility, which is being offered with equipment included, was built in
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Huelva, Spain-based Krustagroup has acquired the majority of Italian Effegi Service, improving its distribution network in Italy.
The longtime partners will continue to operate independently, but will “seek to take advantage of synergies to enhance their growth in the Italian market,” according to a press release.
“Our goal is to grow together and take advantage of synergies with a company that has more than 25 years of
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The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in the U.S. state of Washington, operates the shellfish firm Jamestown Seafood and the now-dormant Salish Fish. The tribe's steelhead and sablefish farming project – a joint venture with Cooke Aquaculture – is in the midst of a legal battle to restore what it claims is its treaty right to engage in net-pen aquaculture.
In December 2022, the Tribe filed suit against the Washington Department of Natural
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Seafood processed by Uyghur forced labor in China has entered U.S. supply chains, according to an Outlaw Ocean report published in The New Yorker magazine.
Members of the Uyghur ethnic minority were relocated and forced to work in processing facilities operated by Chishan Group, Yantai Sanko Fisheries, Yantai Longwin Foods, Rongcheng Haibo, Rongchen Xinhui Aquatic Products, Shandong Haidu, and other Chinese seafood companies, according to the
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Bergen, Norway-based Lerøy Seafood Group, Glyvrar, Faroe Islands-based Bakkafrost, and Sistranda, Norway-based Måsøval have issued preliminary Q3 2023 updates.
Lerøy Seafood said it expects a total harvest volume of salmon and trout for Q3 2023 of 53,900 gross weight tonnage, excluding volumes from Scottish Seafarms. Its Lerøy Aurora operations in Troms and Finnmark will produce 16,500 metric tons
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CORRECTION: Thor Landeldi is not related to First Water, previously named Landeldi. These are two separate companies, though both are located west of Thorlakshofn and both are building land-based salmon farms.
IS Haf has acquired a 53 percent share of Thor Landeldi, which is developing a 20,000-metric-ton Atlantic salmon farm in Laxabraut, Iceland.
The Icelandic investment fund, created in February 2023 by Íslandsbanki’s
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