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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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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The U.K. government’s recent promise to remove regulatory red tape across industries has brought fresh hope to Scotland’s salmon industry that authorities will heed its calls to simplify the permitting process for new farm sites.
The overly complicated process of securing new farm site permits has been a stated problem of Scotland’s salmon industry for several years now.
In 2022, Russel Griggs, the current chair of the South of
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Multiple salmon farmers posted increased harvest volumes during Q1 2025 trading updates.
Lerøy Seafood Group ASA (LSG) harvested approximately 38,200 gutted weight tons (GWT) of Atlantic salmon and trout in the first-quarter of this year, with the volume up 11,800 GWT compared to the corresponding period of 2024.
That total excludes the harvest from LSG’s 50-percent stake in Scottish Seafarms.
According to the Bergen,
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The European Union and Thailand are in talks to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) that could enable the duty-free passage of Thai tuna, among other products, into the E.U. market.
If the FTA goes through, it would cause immediate damage to Europe’s tuna fleets and increase the likelihood of consumers being exposed to inferior and potentially illegal products, European fishing industry representative body Europêche has
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A new E.U.-wide marketing campaign, "EU aquaculture: We work for you with passion," has the potential to both demystify fish farming in the bloc and give the sector a more positive perception among the region’s consumers, according to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE).
The campaign, in part, responds to a recent Eurobarometer survey which found that Europeans are not consuming
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To illustrate the importance of small-scale fishing and to highlight the damage that lost and abandoned fishing gear can have on coastal communities, Turkish supermarket chain CarrefourSA, a subsidiary of Sabancı Holding and Carrefour Group, recently launched a campaign titled, “If fishing dies, Ocaklar dies.”
Ocaklar, a Turkish coastal town in the Balıkesir Erdek district, is one of many Turkish villages to be affected by
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Billingsgate fish market – which is the oldest fish market in the U.K. capital of London and what was once the world’s largest fish market – is set to close in 2028 after the City of London Corporation recently decided to withdraw its support.
However, thanks to “a historic agreement” reached to relocate the operations, the 25,000 metric tons (MT) of fish and shellfish that are still sold annually from the iconic
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