Haley Jones

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]. –  Craig Morris has stepped down as CEO of the Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers (GAPP) after seven years, effective April… Read More

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]. –         New South Wales, Australia-based aquaculture company Murray Cod Australia (MCA) announced Steven Chaur has been appointed managing director and CEO, effective 20… Read More

The Maine Farmed Seafood Coalition (MFSC), a Maine-based community program for sustainability, recently launched a campaign called “Maine Farmers Are Why,” intended to educate the public about Maine aquaculture in light of recent sea farming disputes across the state’s coastal regions. "The campaign puts sea farmers at the front of the conversation and tells the stories of innovators who make a diversified living on the coast of Maine,”… Read More

Pasaia, Spain-headquartered marine technology firm AZTI conducted an international study about how rising ocean temperatures affect Atlantic bluefin tuna, finding that climate change has a direct correlation to changing feeding, spawning, and harvesting locations.   The study, titled “Navigating Future Waters: The Resilience of the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Under Climate Change,” found that as the ocean warms, bluefin tuna are likely to… Read More

Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based seafood industry group Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers’ (GAPP) is working to expand markets for its products, and recently traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia for a trade mission. The trade mission, which took place from 2-5 February, is the first of many strategic international engagements for GAPP, to explore strategic opportunities for the expansion of U.S. wild-caught Alaska Pollock products,… Read More

New York City, New York, U.S.A.-based non-profit organization Compassion in World Farming launched a sea bass and sea bream welfare scorecard to examine 13 producers that together make up 36 percent of the world’s supply. In the 2025 report, factors for examination fell under three categories: fish stocking density, humane slaughter, and genetics. The scorecard ranks findings by a tier level system, with tier one scoring 0 to 20 percent, tier… Read More

Correction: Information on recirculating aquaculture systems was removed from this story, as it doesn't relate to Mowi's closed cages. Bergen, Norway-headquartered salmon-farming firm Mowi has ordered five new closed cages for its operations, which are expected to double its capacity by the end of 2027. The company claims to be the world’s largest operator of closed fish cages, producing around 20 million fish in its facilities to… Read More

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) has once again rejected the salmon sector’s demands for hard caps on chum bycatch caught by pollock trawlers in the Bering Sea, though the body did approve some limits intended to reduce bycatch. Alaska’s salmon sector has long sought stricter limits on the amount of chum salmon commercial pollock trawlers can take as bycatch, claiming that the industrial fishing activity hurts already… Read More

In Ecuador, volatile prices and dwindling supply threaten the backbone of the country’s USD 1.3 billion (EUR 1.1 billion) tuna sector, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). However, the WWF is working hard to mitigate overfishing and stabilize supply by working alongside local sustainability organizations like the Foundation for Tuna Conservation and Responsible Fishing (TUNACONS). In 2016, three tuna companies came together in Ecuador… Read More

Somalia-based NGO Marine Research and Coastal Development (MARCOD) Center is partnering with Madrid, Spain-based satellite communications company Satlink on a new marine debris clean-up project targeting the waters around Somalia. “This agreement marks a turning point in the recovery of end-of-life fishing technology in Somalia, opening new possibilities for local fisheries and environmental management along mainland Africa’s longest… Read More