Jason Holland

On the heels of recording a best-ever third-quarter Atlantic salmon harvest of 161,000 gutted weight tons (GWT), and with an overall 2024 harvest of 500,000 GWT almost a formality, Bergen, Norway-headquartered salmon-farming firm Mowi has issued a 2025 volume guidance of 520,000 GWT.

CEO Ivan Vindheim said the new guidance will put the company on course for its “next milestone” of 600,000 GWT, which it aims to reach in

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Glyvrar, Faroe Islands-based salmon-farming firm Bakkafrost reported drops in its operational EBIT and revenues in Q3 2024.

CEO Regin Jacobsen attributed the drops to several factors, and emphasized the four-week Faroese workers’ strike in May 2024 – which delayed his firm’s planned salmon harvests until after Q2’s peak price window. The early harvesting of two pens at its A-19 farming site, after the detection of

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Scotland is making a concerted push to better utilize its fisheries and aquaculture byproducts. To accomplish this goal, Scottish seafood stakeholders have focused on developing a secondary yield strategy for its byproducts and an innovation cluster similar to Iceland’s, Seafood Scotland CEO Donna Fordyce said at the Responsible Seafood Summit recently held in St. Andrews, Scotland. During a presentation at the summit, she highlighted a… Read More

The Council of the European Union has reached an agreement on Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2025, following total allowable catch (TAC) proposals for several key stocks in the area made by the European Commission in August.

The council followed the commission’s proposal on several elements of the agreement, but the commission has stated concern over components that it said are less likely to contribute to the recovery of certain

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A long-term initiative aimed at improving fisheries management in the U.K., with the end goal of securing Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for a variety of species, has, seven years on since its inception, led to practical, multi-stakeholder contributions and more U.K. seafood on store shelves, according to the project’s stakeholders. Project UK originally sought to build upon progress made under the now-defunct Project Inshore… Read More

The E.U. Fish Processors and Traders Association and the European Federation of National Organizations of Importers and Exporters of Fish (AIPCE-CEP) recently released a joint report outlining the trends playing out in the E.U.’s seafood trading and processing sectors. According to the 2024 edition of the AIPCE-CEP’s “E.U. Seafood Supply Synopsis,” formerly known as the “Finfish Study,” the bloc’s seafood processing and trading… Read More

The U.K. government has drafted five new fisheries management plans (FMPs) with the intention of improving the long-term sustainability of key stocks, and the plans are now open for consultation through 19 January 2025.

Covering cockles, queen scallops, southern North Sea and Channel skates and rays, southern North Sea demersal non-quota species, and North Sea and Channel sprats – a plan developed jointly with the Scottish government as it

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The European Union recently celebrated Ocean Week, which included debates, exhibitions, and other events in Brussels to celebrate Europe’s seas and determine the best path forward for protecting them.

During the event 140 organizations delivered a united call to the bloc’s leaders, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leye and newly appointed European Commissioner-designate for Fisheries and Oceans Costas Kadis,

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Frøya, Norway-based salmon-farming firm SalMar had its harvests drop by nearly 30 percent in Q3 2024 largely due to lower production at its Norwegian farming sites. 

SalMar said it harvested approximately 60,300 metric tons (MT) of Atlantic salmon in the third quarter of this year, marking a decrease of 17,800 MT on the corresponding quarter of 2023.

According to the salmon producer’s latest trading update, its Farming

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