Nicki Holmyard

Contributing Editor

Nicki Holmyard lives and breathes the seafood industry. As a specialist freelance writer for 25 years, she has travelled the globe to research in-depth articles, interviews and news stories on all aspects of fishing, aquaculture and processing for international journals and newspapers. She has contributed to books on sustainable seafood sourcing and the effects of climate change on the oceans, and acts as a communications consultant for leading fishing and aquaculture concerns. Nicki is also a director of Offshore Shellfish Ltd, which is developing Europe’s largest rope-grown mussel farm.


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Published on
October 23, 2024
Amsterdam, Netherlands-headquartered land-based aquaculture firm AquaFounders Capital has taken major steps forward with its strategy to build two new companies from the ground up. The firm, set up by Ohad Maiman – founder and former CEO of Dutch yellowtail-farming firm The Kingfish Company – and Thue Holm – founder and former CTO of Norwegian salmon-farming company Atlantic Sapphire – has now delved into plug-and-play aquaculture… Read More
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October 8, 2024

Dordrecht, Netherlands-based aquaculture technology firm Pan Ocean Aquaculture (POA) is in talks with authorities in Malta to construct a 4,000-metric-ton seriola farm using its semi-submersible fish farm (SSFF) design.

POA Co-Founder and Director Philip Schreven told SeafoodSource that since its inception, his company has given considerable thought and time toward developing a cost-effective fish farm and mooring design suitable for high-energy

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October 3, 2024
Plans for the U.K.’s first onshore Atlantic salmon grow-out farm have stalled. Earlier this year, U.K.-based fish-farming firm AquaCultured Seafood received approval from the North East Lincolnshire council to move forward on a 5,000-metric-ton (MT) recirculating aquaculture system facility in the eastern England port town of Grimsby, which is anticipated to cost around GBP 120 million (USD 150 million, EUR 139 million) to… Read More
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August 8, 2024

Norwegian aquaculture company Baring has begun the first construction phase on its land-based salmon farm in the southern municipality of Farsund.

Baring obtained a license to build a land-based facility for post-smolt and harvest-ready fish in 2022. 

Now, the company said it plans to introduce 100-gram smolts to the facility in the second quarter of 2025 and produce 1,200 metric tons (MT) of 800- to 1,000-gram post-smolt fish within a

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August 6, 2024

After becoming a public limited company and completing its third funding round, food-tech company Big Akwa is inching toward achieving its ambitious plan to develop a 6,000-metric-ton (MT) land-based trout farm in central Sweden.

Big Akwa aims to revolutionize land-based aquaculture by sharing the farm with a processing industry partner, forming an effective symbiotic relationship, according to Big Akwa Co-Founder and CEO Elena Petukhovskaya.

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July 31, 2024

A fresh initiative in the U.K. making fish sticks, or fish fingers, out of underutilized species is underway, aiming to support local fishing communities and encourage consumption of local seafood, especially in the primary and secondary school systems.

The Plymouth Fish Finger initiative was born out of a series of workshops held by the Food Systems Equality (FoodSEqual) project’s team in Plymouth, U.K. 

Led by Clare Pettinger, an

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June 14, 2024

Companies, government officials, NGOs, and even some protestors all converged on London, England, to discuss what innovations are needed to maximize the potential of the blue economy. 

The 2024 Blue Food Innovation Summit, which ran from 21 to 22 May in London, brought together global seafood industry stakeholders to share knowledge and brainstorm how to scale blue food production sustainably.

During the conference, art collective Ocean

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