Nicki Holmyard

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.

In

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

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

A new fight has emerged over the use of banned electric-pulse fishing systems, after a German beam trawler, the 21.6-meter Butendiek BRA 2, defied a European Union regulation and had a second-hand system fitted in the Dutch port of Den Helder. The vessel now fishes regularly in the North Sea out of that port.

Electric-pulse fishing was originally banned by the E.U. in 1998, but the Netherlands won an exemption in 2006 that allowed it to

The annual celebration to open the bottom grown mussel season in the Netherlands got off to a rousing start last week, as a convoy of trucks were waved off from the town of Yerseke – the country’s mussel capital – destined for wholesalers and restaurants throughout Belgium and the Netherlands.

The convoy was sent off by football commentator and former Dutch national player Jan Boskamp and Flemish radio DJ Sven Ornelis, who

Opposition to salmon-farming is nothing new, but today’s campaigners have become highly organized and vocal, and their efforts span both traditional mainstream media and social media, according to Norwegian Seafood Council Global Operations Public Relations and Communications Manager Anette Zimowski.

Much of the criticism may be based on incorrect facts and supposition, but it still has the power to dent consumer confidence and create

RH Investments and Kvarøy Arctic are the latest companies to announce land-based aquaculture projects in Scandinavia.

Seafood entrepreneur Roger Hofseth, owner and CEO of Hofseth International, has purchased a former olivine mine in Sunnylvsfjorden, a fjord in Møre og Romsdal, in western Norway through his private firm RH Investments. Hofseth is now applying for a permit to use the land for salmon farming and is in discussions with

The origin of Stockholm, Sweden-based Hooked, traces back to a few years ago, when co-founder Tom Johansson’s sister decided to become a vegan.

“As a family we all grew up eating fish and seafood, and when my sister decided to become a vegan, she found that it was one of the things she really missed. She tried plant-based alternatives, but couldn’t find anything that matched up in terms of taste, texture, and especially