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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Klepp, Norway-based aquaculture technology provider AKVA group achieved record first-quarter revenues in the opening three months of this year.
The firm’s revenue for Q1 2025 rose 29 percent year over year to just over NOK 1 billion (USD 96.2 million, EUR 85.6 million).
By segment, revenues earned by its Sea-Based Technology (SBT) division in Q1 2025 totaled NOK 804 million (USD 77.4 million, EUR 68.8 million), which was up from the NOK
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U.K. retail sales of seafood increased by both volume and value in 2024, with purchases of salmon – the market’s most popular fish – outpacing the rest of the category, according to new data from Seafish, ScanTrack, and Salmon Scotland.
Shoppers in the country purchased 410,157 metric tons (MT) of fish and shellfish in 2024 worth over GBP 4.65 billion (USD 6.2 billion, EUR 5.4 billion). These numbers were up 2.4 percent and 2.9
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U.K. shellfish farmers facing a complex maze of regulations could greatly benefit from a nationwide aquaculture planning strategy, Shellfish Association of Great Britain (SAGB) CEO David Jarrad said.
Despite shellfish farmers producing around 30,000 metric tons (MT) of seafood worth approximately GBP 38 million (USD 50.8 million, EUR 44.7 million) in value annually, Jarrad said that the sector is often overlooked in policy decision-making.
This,
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Members of the North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group (NAPA) are committed to its pledge to source alternative species if Northeast Atlantic coastal states can’t end long-term overfishing of mackerel, NAPA Mackerel Subgroup Chair and Thai Union Ambient Sustainability Director Chris Shearlock told SeafoodSource.
NAPA recently released call-to-action film “Mackerel Maths” as part of a new campaign that’s urging the coastal
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Scottish seafood, especially mackerel, has made big gains in Japan ever since the U.K. signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with the East Asian nation in late 2020.
Over four years on from the signing of that agreement, the Scottish seafood industry is continuing to work hard to ensure more species similarly make their mark in Japan, according to Seafood Scotland Head of Trade Marketing for the U.K., Asia, and the Middle East Adam Wing.
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Fisheries and aquaculture must pull together and collectively ensure blue foods are part of every conversation taking place around food security and feeding a growing world population, according to Walton Family Foundation Oceans Initiative Lead Teresa Ish.
Speaking at the recent Blue Food Innovation Summit in London, Ish said the reality is that in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) terms, SDG 14 – the goal focused on the ocean, or
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The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) recently downgraded Northeast Atlantic mackerel caught by midwater trawlers from a 3 to a 4 rating in the 2025 spring update to its Good Fish Guide, which measures the environmental impact of harvesting seafood species.
In tandem with the downgrade, the U.K.-based environmental charity recommended that businesses not source the species and has reignited calls to end the political impasse surrounding the
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Bergen, Norway-headquartered salmon-farming firm Mowi harvested around 108,000 metric tons (MT) of gutted weight (GWT) farmed salmon in the first quarter of this year, which was 11,500 MT more than in the corresponding period of 2024 and matched the producer’s previous guidance.
According to the group’s latest trading update, in Q1 2025, its Farming Norway division harvested 62,000 MT (up from 55,000 MT in Q1 2024), Farming Scotland
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Elevated economic and political upheaval and the looming threat of tariffs have started hindering investments in the blue food economy, with backers of start-ups finding later-stage funders are edging away from the aquaculture innovation space.
Speaking at the Blue Food Innovation Summit, held in London from 8 to 9 April 2025, Aqua-Spark Chief Portfolio Officer Maria Velkova said there’s a tremendous amount of uncertainty in the
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