Jason Holland

Label Rouge, a French mark of food quality originally established in the 1960s that places stringent quality standards on producers aiming to secure the certification, greenlit insect-derived ingredients in its feed standards for farmed salmon.

Since that time, the entire value chain’s interest in the potential of insect-derived feed has taken off, according to Dongen, Netherlands-headquartered insect ingredients company Protix.

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The E.U. has reached an agreement on 2025 fishing opportunities in the Atlantic Ocean, as well as in the North, Mediterranean, and Black seas. 

The deal, reached on 11 December following two days of negotiations, sets out total allowable catch (TAC) parameters and fishing effort limits for many of Europe’s most important commercial fish stocks.

The stocks covered in the agreement are ones the E.U. manages either on its own, jointly

The German Import Promotion Desk (IPD), a government-backed international trade program based in Bonn, has launched a new initiative aimed at connecting Europe with reputable seafood suppliers in countries around the globe.

Under IPD’s new “Sustainable Seafood” program, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), seafood producers from partner countries will be prepared to meet E.U.

Norwegian fish-farming firm Andfjord Salmon has put production on hold for the past year to expand its Kvalnes land-based salmon-farming facility, and CEO Martin Rasmussen recently confirmed that every part of the expansion is either on track or ahead of schedule.

Delivering the company’s Q3 2024 financial results in Oslo, Norway, on 28 November, Rasmussen said the project’s waterways are the closest part of the expansion to

According to a new report from Dutch banking and financial services firm Rabobank, hybrid flow-through systems (HFS) may be the answer to increasing volume and quality across the global fish-farming industry, particularly in the salmon sector.

Highlighting that traditional marine cage-based farming is not only struggling to grow global salmon supply but that mortalities associated with this form of farming have increased both this year and last,

Grieg Seafood (GSF) ended Q3 2024 with its Norwegian operations reporting a record-high standing biomass in the sea after all-time high seawater production over the three-month period.

However, while its underlying farming performance was good, the Bergen, Norway-headquartered salmon producer’s financial performance was impacted by seasonally lower spot prices and costs it carried over from historic incidents that pushed it into

Weaker salmon and trout prices, increased sea lice treatments, and lower earnings from its wild-catch segment due to diminished quotas negatively impacted Lerøy Seafood Group’s (LSG) earnings in the third quarter of this year.

Lerøy CEO Henning  Beltestad, presenting the Bergen, Norway-headquartered seafood corporation’s Q3 2024 results on 14 November, reported revenues of just under NOK 7.9 billion (USD 706.5

Scotland’s salmon-farming industry has overcome a lot of challenges over the past few years, but more work is needed to ensure it remains sustainable and prioritizes animal health and welfare into the future, according to Scotland Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform, and Islands Mairi Gougeon.

Addressing a Rural Affairs and Islands Committee of the Scottish Parliament, which is conducting an inquiry into the industry, Gougeon