London-based seafood writer and communications consultant Jason Holland has been a contributing editor to SeafoodSource.com since January 2010. Jason has more than 25 years of experience as a B2B journalist and editor – a career that has taken him all over the world. He believes he found his true professional calling in 2004 when he started documenting the many facets of the international seafood industry and he’s particularly proud of the strong, collaborative relationships he has formed at all stages of the supply chain.
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EU barely reaches agreement on new nature restoration law, prompting worries over uneven enforcement
The European Union recently approved a contentious law that would entail member-states implementing restoration measures on at least 20 percent of Europe’s land and sea by 2030.
A revised draft of the E.U. Nature Protection Law (NRL) that included several amendments passed in a crunch vote – 336 votes in favor, 300 against, and 13 abstentions – in Strasbourg, France, on 12 July, 2023, moving on to trialogue negotiations under
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Businesses that serve Britain’s favorite takeaway food – fish and chips – are experiencing a crisis due to soaring prices, leaving these mostly independent, modest-sized ventures fearing for their future.
The U.K.’s National Federation of Fish Friers (NFFF) President Andrew Crook, who is also the owner of Skippers of Euxton, a fish and chips restaurant in Chorley, Lancashire, told SeafoodSource that he doesn’t worry
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The U.K. government has announced a new package of measures aimed at alleviating the struggles the country’s fishing industry has faced post-Brexit.
According to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra), the latest reforms – unveiled on 17 July, 2023 – will enable the industry to seize on opportunities from existing outside of the European Union. It said measures will involve the introduction of a
Both the volume and value of farmed Atlantic salmon trade globally have soared over the past two decades, but the industry must onboard innovative technology if it wants to keep up with continued demand, according to Bergen, Norway-headquartered Mowi, the world’s largest salmon farming firm.
The 2023 edition of Mowi’s annual Salmon Farming Industry Handbook suggests the industry continues to be a “good fit” with
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More than eight months have passed since Susanne Arfelt Rajamand was named CEO of Nuuk, Greenland-headquartered Royal Greenland.
New to the seafood industry but familiar with the wider food sector – her background includes time spent with such giants as consumer goods company Unilever and dairying co-op Fonterra – the transition has been smooth, mainly because she inherited leadership of a company with tried and tested strategies
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On 27 June, five years after the European Commission’s initial proposal to modernize the European Union fisheries control system, a preliminary agreement on new regulation received approval from the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee.
The 20-8 vote advances a planned overhaul of E.U. fisheries control rules with the goal of strengthening measures to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, with compulsory
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Large sections of the United Kingdom’s seafood economy continue to struggle in their efforts to build up and maintain the workforces necessary to optimize their operations, despite efforts from the government to ease labor burdens.
According to a March survey of 1,330 companies involved in the U.K. seafood industry by U.K. public body Seafish, recruitment challenges exist in both the fisheries and processing sectors, and on the catching
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The epicenter of England’s seafood industry is enjoying a rare luxury – a wealth of skilled and ambitious new recruits available to meet the sector’s growth plans.
While the U.K. processing sector has historically struggled to optimize staffing levels amid negative perceptions about the tasks involved with the industry, recruitment challenges that increased further in the wake of Brexit and significant contraction of the E.U.
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Norway’s continued increase in export value being almost entirely attributable to a weak krone is causing concern in the seafood industry, according to the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC).
The Scandinavian country exported NOK 13.1 billion (USD 1.2 billion, EUR 1.1 billion) worth of seafood in May 2023, an increase of NOK 816 million (USD 75.7 million, EUR 70.2 million) year-over-year. NSC CEO Christian Chramer advised in a press release
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Norwegian land-based Atlantic salmon farmer Andfjord Salmon announced it will progress with build-out plans that will enable an increase in total production volume at its Kvalnes site, on the island of Andøya, to 40,000 metric tons (MT) head-on gutted (HOG) over the next seven years.
The company, which has developed a farming system based on flow-through technology that it said capitalizes on the natural advantage of its access to
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