Regin Winther Poulsen

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

The High Court of Justice in the U.K. has ruled that an Icelandic artist must permanently take down a website he created that featured the branding of Akureyri, Iceland-based fishing and processing company Samherji.

Odee Friðriksson created a fake website titled “We’re Sorry!” that made it appear that Samherji was apologizing to the Namibian people for its alleged wrongdoings during the Fishrot scandal, originally

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Paul Watson, the founder of Vancouver, Canada-based marine conservation nonprofit Sea Shepherd, will remain in custody in Greenland until at least 4 December, pending a decision by Danish authorities on whether to extradite him to Japan. Since 21 July, the 73-year-old activist has been in the… Read More

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, a Los Altos, California, U.S.A.-based philanthropic foundation, recently released a new investment strategy, and since then, its plans for ocean investments have been undergoing reviews.  According to the foundation, those reviews will conclude in… Read More