Haley Jones

Over 60 industry professionals in Ecuador’s shrimp sector gathered in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on 16 April for a new edition of the SustainED conference to learn about the ways the industry is incorporating digital solutions and new technologies. SustainED is a “lifelong learning program” led by the Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP) and the National Chamber of Aquaculture (CNA), according to a release by CNA. This year’s conference focused… Read More

The Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers (GAPP) recently shared the findings from a second comprehensive life cycle assessment that aimed to measure the nine impact contributions from 2024 harvests of Alaska pollock. The nine contributions included greenhouse gas emissions, acidification potential, marine eutrophication potential, freshwater eutrophication potential, marine ecotoxicity potential, freshwater ecotoxicity potential,… Read More

Helsinki, Finland-based industrial global food production company SuperGround touted its mission of reducing waste from fish processing at this year’s Seafood Expo Global.  SuperGround’s products, including fish balls, burgers, fish cakes, spreads, and fillers made with ingredients that typically go to waste, were on display at the show, where Chief Product Owner Jere Vento said he was pushing samples in hopes of scaling the product to new… Read More

Juneau, Alaska, U.S.A.-based Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) recently secured USD 10.7 million (EUR 9.2 million) in federal grants to increase the international marketing of Alaskan seafood. In a release, ASMI confirmed USD 4.7 million (EUR 4 million) is coming from the federal Market Access Program, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a way to share the cost burden on U.S. organizations looking to advertise… Read More

The Metlakatla Indian Community (MIC), located on the Annette Islands 20 miles south of Ketchikan, Alaska U.S.A., is the only Native American reserve in the state, and tribal members have the exclusive right to fish in a 3,000 feet zone around the island.   Now, tribal members are fighting in court to expand that zone, as reported by Alaska Public Media. While several other Alaskan tribes forfeited areas of traditional land for money and… 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]. – Jyväskylä, Finland-based aquaculture technology developer and equipment supplier Paras Aqua Oy has named Sondre Høidalen as its incoming CEO.   The company said in a… Read More

In 2008, Raimon Moreu Soler traveled from his home in Catalonia, Spain to San Francisco, California, U.S.A. to see the world, and unknowingly, try wild Alaskan salmon for the first time. That chance encounter would lead him on a 16-year career path as an entrepreneur of Barcelona, Spain-based salmon importing company Wild Alaskan Salmon. Soler said his biggest concentration of clients are in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Austria, and… Read More

Correction: This article has been edited to correct the four genetically distinct groups identified in the study, and remove the claim that research addresses overfishing threats to Pacific cod.  A team of NOAA researchers from NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Alaska BioMap have been working on identifying genetic stocks of Pacific cod in Alaska to build a cost-effective genetic database full of… Read More

The U.S. state of Alaska has secured more than USD 115.4 million (EUR 98.4 million) in federal grants to improve its ports through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP). The money granted will fund seven projects statewide in Alaska, with a release from the office of Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy noting the projects span Alaskan coastal communities from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta to Southeast… Read More

Alex Farthing co-founded Delos, a Jakarta, Indonesia-based software technology company that aids farmers in the digitization and automation of farming practices, in 2021. After five years running that venture, he had a desire to customize a product from farm to table, leading to the the creation of Naughty Prawn, which exhibited at the 2026 Seafood Expo Global (SEG) just a week after launching. “We launched this week. I think the reason… Read More