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Auckland, New Zealand-based water utility firm Watercare has paid out NZD 1 million (USD 560,000, EUR 485,000) to oyster farmers operating in Mahurangi Harbor on the nation’s North Island in response to a wastewater overflow incident that occurred in late October. According to Watercare, the spill was caused by a power surge that tripped the pumps at its facility in Warkworth and resulted in the building’s storage tank filling past capacity,… Read More

Buhl, Idaho, U.S.A.-based feed company Rangen Aquaculture Nutrition has become the first U.S. firm to earn the Aquaculture Stewardship Council’s (ASC) Feed Certification.  Confirmed on 11 November, Rangen’s feed mill in Buhl is now certified by the ASC to produce feed for freshwater trout, salmon, seriola, cobia, shrimp, and tilapia. “Rangen Aquaculture is committed to delivering nutritionally rich solutions from hatch to harvest, and ASC… Read More

Norwegian private equity firm Bluefront Equity has become the largest shareholder of Trøndelag, Norway-based fish and marine health advisory firm Aqua Kompetanse. The investment, which will see Bluefront purchase a 55 percent stake in Aqua Kompetanse, was made through Bluefront’s USD 100 million (EUR 85.8 million) second impact fund, Bluefront Capital II, which garnered investments from such firms as the European Investment Fund, Novo… Read More

Stingray Marine Solutions CEO John Arne Breivik has watched Norway’s aquaculture industry grow from simply being an extra revenue stream for livestock farmers to an industry worth around NOK 75 billion (USD 7.4 billion, EUR 6.4 billion) annually.

The rapid growth of the country’s aquaculture sector brought along equally swift advancements in technology to meet its shifting needs, and from a young age, Breivik became fascinated in the

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Antwerp, Belgium-based food-processing machinery firm Steen said that recent trade disruptions stemming from U.S. tariffs have caused some of their American buyers to hold off on new deals.

“After the tariffs were announced, some people who [verbally] committed to buying from us said they were, instead, going to hold off and see how things play out,” Steen International Sales Manager Laurenz Seesing told SeafoodSource at the 2025

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Vertically integrated fishing company Reunimer, which operates in the Indian Ocean waters off Madagascar and the French island of Réunion, has consolidated four of its subsidiaries under one group name in order to build better brand recognition. Reunipeche and Reunion Pelagique – which specialize in fresh pelagic fish – Réunion Pêche Australe – which specializes in toothfish – and Madagascar Seafood – which specializes in demersal… Read More

Supply chain risk management firm Authentica is using an ingredient as simple as baker’s yeast to bolster food safety and risk management in the global seafood supply chain.

Authentica Founder and CEO Mike Borg told SeafoodSource at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America, which took place 16 to 18 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., that importers, distributors, and anyone else who receives food products in their final packaged form

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Hsiang-Hsiu Hung, the manager of Tainan, Taiwan-based seafood company Fisherman’s Hometown International, is trying to spread the word to Western markets about a fish that is little known outside of Asia: milkfish.

Milkfish gets its name from the whitish color of its scales, and is a popular cuisine staple in Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and other Asian countries.

Though the fish might be little known in Western markets, to Hung, it

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Vlasis Tsezos has held many roles in his 25-year career, including time spent as an electrical engineer, a lieutenant in the Greek Marine Corps, and an Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud data specialist.

But, it was his time spent as a management consultant, where he worked with food companies to optimize their value chains, that sparked the idea to co-found Athens, Greece-headquartered food traceability software firm Agritrack in

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Hand-picked lobster meat, lobster cakes, lobster crostini, lobster mac and cheese, lobster dip, lobster toast, and stuffed lobster tail all signal one thing: Phillips is all in on lobster.

These products, some of which Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.-based Phillips Foods already offers, some of which are on the way, and some of which have only gone through initial ideation stages, are the result of the company's recent move into the lobster

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