Erin Spampinato is the Georgetown, Maine-based price reporting specialist of SeafoodSource. Erin has held staff writer and editor positions at a number of mission-driven organizations, and her freelance journalism has appeared in various publications, including Electric Literature and The Guardian. She is also the author of numerous academic publications on the topics of gender, literature, and history. Erin holds a PhD in English Literature from the Graduate Center, CUNY, an MA from Columbia University, and a BA from Smith College.
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Larsen Mettler, the managing director Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.-headquartered investment firm S2G Investments' ocean strategy, said he believes the world's oceans represent a huge investment opportunity that often goes unrecognized and untapped.
“The natural capital in the ocean is worth around USD 22 trillion to USD 25 trillion [EUR 19 trillion to EUR 21 trillion],” he said. “These are investable opportunities."
Though
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To keep up to date with the latest personnel changes across the seafood industry, SeafoodSource is compiling a regular round-up of hiring announcements and other personnel-related shifts worldwide. If you have an announcement, please send it to [email protected].
- Acme Smoked Fish Corporation CEO Eduardo Carbajosa has announced that he will retire at the end of 2025 and the company’s Chief People & Sustainability Officer Rob
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New seafood labeling laws became official in Australia recently, requiring all foodservice establishments, including takeout shops and food trucks, to label imported seafood in compliance with the Australian-Importated-Mixed (AIM) model that Australian grocery stores already have to adhere to.
Under the AIM model, which has been used in the country for almost two decades, products are marked as either A (Australian), I (Imported), or M (Mixed
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Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland-headquartered land-based salmon-farming firm Laxey has raised USD 33 million (EUR 28.2 million) in private equity to begin constructing the second section of its flow-through salmon farm in Iceland’s Westman Islands.
The funding round is the company’s second successful share offering this year, bringing the amount raised so far in 2025 to USD 74 million (EUR 63.2 million), about half of which, the
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The Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Fisheries has announced updated regulations for land-based aquaculture operations and has lifted its temporary suspension of applications for salmon, trout, and rainbow trout facilities, which dates to 2022.
Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and the Oceans Marianne Sivertsen Næss said in a statement that the “great deal of technological development since the current regulations for
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