Regin Winther Poulsen

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

New reports claim Samherji CEO Thorsteinn Mar Baldvinsson had close contact with Jóhannes Stefánsson, the company’s former director of operations in Namibia, during the time the Fishrot Scandal occurred, despite having previously denied regular communication with Stefansson during that period.

The Fishrot Scandal, originally publicized in 2019, featured Icelandic fishing firm Samherji allegedly bribing public officials

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The International Council on the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has recommended that mackerel quota in the Northeast Atlantic should be slashed 22 percent next year. Several representative groups in the region believe the recommendation should be followed to protect the stock but disagree on how to do so, continuing a multi-year stalemate on reaching an all-encompassing pelagic fishing agreement. “We had hoped it wouldn't be as much as 22… Read More