Mark Godfrey

The Sligo Oyster Experience, a seafood company based in Ireland, has won an award in the Seafood Innovation category at the national Irish Food Awards for its pickled oyster product sold in glass jars.

The company won the award with its recently launched Sligo Oyster Pickled Oysters. The product retails at EUR 18.00 (USD 19.62) per jar and contains six hand-shucked oysters in one of two flavors: wild blackberry balsamic, sourced from nearby

Processors at the leading Irish fishery port of Killybegs are suffering from a lack of raw materials, leaving recently added processing capacity idle.  

At a committee hearing of the Irish Parliament, advocates for the port said a combination of competition for stocks from vessels of non-E.U. states like Norway, as well as new weighing requirements at the port, are causing vessels to unload elsewhere. The shift is causing issues for

Chinese consumers have been slow to embrace tuna, so the nation’s massive tuna-fishing fleet has turned abroad to markets like the E.U. to sell its catch, worrying competitors that its takeover of the global market share is showing no signs of slowing down.

The canning industry in the E.U. has been increasingly utilizing Chinese tuna, with the country increasing its market share in the bloc from 9 percent to 24 percent of tuna purchases

An environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report filed by Chinese fishing company China Ocean Group Development has been described as “shocking” for its lack of material disclosures.

Since 2021, any company listed on the Hong Kong exchange is required to file an ESG report annually. But, China Ocean Group Development offers little detail on its operations in its 2023-2024 report, filed as part of the requirements of its listing

The World Trade Organization is once again pushing to get approval of a fishery subsidies draft agreement in advance of its December general council meeting, according to sources at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

The WTO has been trying to expand on its smaller 2022 deal by adding clauses that further limit subsidies leading to overcapacity and overfishing in global fishing fleets. A draft text circulated in July

Countries around the world implement tariffs and bans on foreign products primarily to protect the competitiveness of domestically made products, ensure products entering their borders are safe, and limit the number of products that enter their markets stemming from forced labor and other unsafe working conditions. However, these practices – justified or not – have hampered the growth of seafood industries in developing countries,

Jiumaojiu International Holdings, which operates the quick-service Tai Er fish soup restaurant chain, is curtailing its plans for new openings.

Jiumaojiu lifted its revenue in the the first half of 2024 by 6.4 percent to more than CNY 3 billion (USD 428 million, EUR 389 million), but its profit dropped 71.5 percent as it cut prices to hold onto customers, according to its H1 2024 results. 

In response, the company is curtailing its plans

The promoter of a large fishing and processing project in Nigeria has struggled to find investors to get the project up and running.

The backers of the Atlantico Fishing Port and Processing Zone want to tap the country’s “huge pelagic and demersal resources,” which are “untapped due to a lack of capacity of the local operators,” said Emeka Chukwu, CEO of the company seeking to develop the project.

“That