Nicki Holmyard lives and breathes the seafood industry. As a specialist freelance writer for 25 years, she has
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When the long-running “scallop wars” between French and U.K. fishermen escalated in 2018, there was an inevitability about a sequel over access rights to the valuable scallop beds in the Baie de Seine, off the coast of Normandy in northern France.
Now, Pascal Coquet, head of the scallop committee of the Comité National des Pêches Maritimes et des Elevages Marins (CNPMEM), warns that the scallop wars could soon
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Tore Lyng, chair of Måløy, Norway-based Lyng Seafoods, has been working for the past three years on plans to build a 10,000 metric ton (MT) land-based trout farm in the grounds of a 17th century castle in Sweden’s Bjuv municipality ...
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Opportunities for marketing reef fish in Europe were spotlighted in a recent webinar hosted by the Centre for the Promotion of Imports (CBI), which encourages European Union nations to expand their imports from developing countries.
The webinar focused on the results of a study exploring the European seafood market, which shows high growth potential for importing reef fish such as snapper, grouper, and parrotfish.
Overall seafood consumption in
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Norwegian company Andfjord Salmon, which is developing a land-based Atlantic salmon farm on the island of Andøya, in its Q1 2020 results. In line with its pre-revenue status, as the company strives to build its facilities and operations ...
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Feed giant Cargill has just introduced updated microtechnology to help salmon farmers obtain real-time data about flesh quality, and gain a better understanding of how it can be influenced by nutrition ...
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Global Seafood Assurance (GSA) is urging anyone involved in the seafood industry to help it gather data on how workers’ voices are heard by filling in a short online global survey. The exercise is part of the Fishing Vessel Crews Worker Voice project.
The questionnaire asks respondents to explain their understanding of various terms, including fisheries worker voice, grievance mechanisms and procedures, works committees, worker
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Growing consumer interest in plant-based meat and seafood analogs is leading to more innovation and investment in the vegan food sector. Entering into this arena is new company Legendary Vish, which is creating 3D-printed salmon fillets made from high value plant-based ingredients, including mushroom proteins and algae extracts.
Robin Simsa, Hakan Gürbüz, and Theresa Rothenbücher came up with the idea while working together on an
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Greenpeace activists have once more been dumping large granite boulders into the sea in Germany in order to hamper fishing activity in protected areas.
The environmental activist group began dropping stones into the Adlergrund Marine Reserve, east of Rügen, an island in the German Baltic Sea, on Sunday, 26 July. The group’s aim is to drop around 200 boulders, which it claims will completely protected the area from bottom-trawling.
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The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) has announced a major grant to facilitate a review of the humane capture and slaughter methods used for commercially-caught fish. This work is part of an ongoing program of research to improve the welfare of fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods at slaughter, the organization said.
The GBP 166,000 (USD 218,000) grant goes to Nicola Randall, the director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Agriculture at Harper
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Aquaculture has been identified as a major global source of anti-microbial resistance (AMR), an issue of particular concern in low- to middle-income countries (LMIC) in Africa and South Asia.
The paper, "Aquaculture at the crossroads of global warming and antimicrobial resistance," was published in Nature in April. In the paper, its authors acknowledged that more farmed fish is needed to feed a growing global human population and to help
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