Regin Winther Poulsen

Fishing for cod in the Faroe Bank Channel, an area about 45 miles southwest of Suðuroy, the most southerly island of the Faroe Islands, was banned almost 20 years ago due to overfishing.

As fishing operations shuttered, a Faroese delicacy disappeared with it: bacalao made specifically with Faroe Bank cod.

Nearly 20 years later, stocks in the area have recovered enough to open up some fishing opportunities, and arguably nobody is more ready

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Russia has continued to fish declining redfish stocks in the Irminger Sea, even as scientists recommend a complete halt to such fishing and Russia itself has made promises to stop the practice.

In 2023, Russia caught over 24,000 metric tons (MT) of the threatened stock in the Irminger Sea, which is near Greenland and Iceland, despite having promised in the past to quit the practice as a “gesture of goodwill.”

Russia also continued to

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In 2019, Sørvágur, Faroe Islands-based aquaculture firm Hiddenfjord began brainstorming an idea to reduce the carbon emissions present in its supply chain. 

Although salmon farming as a whole has relatively low carbon emissions compared to other protein production, Hiddenfjord CEO Atli Gregersen thought more could be done to ensure his firm’s product was as environmentally responsible as possible.

"Before you send the

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It has been more than five years since Faroe Islands-headquartered salmon-farming firm Bakkafrost entered Scotland via the 2019 acquisition of The Scottish Salmon Company.

The Scottish Salmon Company was the second-largest salmon-farming firm in Scotland at the time, and through the deal, Bakkafrost gained exclusive rights to grow native Hebridean salmon.

“The Scottish Salmon Company represents an attractive acquisition at this juncture

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Faroe Islands-headquartered salmon-farming firm Bakkafrost is investing in perfecting, and then expanding, its production of roe to become self-sufficient in its operations.

The company is currently producing around 20 million roe annually, but is eyeing production of at least 50 million in the near future, Bakkafrost CEO Regin Jacobsen told SeafoodSource.

"We are investing in making ‘elite roe’ – roe that has a perfect immune

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Faroe Islands-based seaweed-harvesting firm Ocean Rainforest announced that it has acquired a majority stake in Alamarsa, a Mexican seaweed company behind the Algamar brand of products that includes biostimulants and food products derived from giant kelp and other seaweed. “The collaboration… Read More

Amid a seafood sustainability landscape that features several databases, regulations, and benchmarks to measure progress, it can be difficult for retailers, fishers, and other players up and down the seafood supply chain to find consistent data on sustainability and align their processes… Read More

Sea Shepherd Founder Paul Watson was met with cheering supporters when he arrived in Paris, France, after his release from Prison in Nuuk, Greenland, on 17 December following months in custody.  The anti-whaling activist spent five months in prison because of an extradition request from… Read More

Representatives of the Norwegian and Faroese governments have signed a sharing agreement on Norwegian spring spawning herring for the first time in over a decade.  Norway and the Faroe Islands are the two coastal states that fish more than half of the stock, and the agreement, signed on 13… Read More

“How is it possible that we could have a world in which all of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are underfunded but the one concerning the ocean and, therefore, 70 percent of the Earth is the most underfunded?” David Bennell, the managing director of investor… Read More