Cliff White

A Coruña, Spain-based Abanca, the owner of vertically integrated seafood firm Nueva Pescanova, is actively seeking a partner in the business, or potentially a sale of the company.

On 26 February, Cooke Inc. was reported to be in negotiations to buy a majority stake in Nueva Pescanova, which is headquartered Redondela, Pontevedra, Spain, but which has operations in 17 countries on five continents and sells its seafood products in more

Trade officials representing the Asian countries of Japan, Indonesia, and South Korea are hoping the days of dealing with the complications of selling seafood to the U.S. market during the Covid-19 crisis are over.

Hur Soo Youl, the team manager of the international sales department of K-Fish, the promotional group for seafood from South Korea, said the 24 companies in the country’s pavilion at the 2023 Seafood Expo North America were

The National Fisheries Institute’s crab sustainability envoy for its Crab Council has died, according to NFI.

Details of Ghofar’s death were not publicly available, but NFI confirmed his passing in a 14 March statement.

“Abdul Ghofar was an accomplished fisheries biologist whose contribution to global blue swimming crab work was renowned. He was a tireless advocate for science and sustainability, but he was far more than that

On 12 March at Seafood Expo North America in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. migrant fishers, many from Indonesia, protested the lack of mandated Wi-Fi onboard the distant-water fishing vessels they work on.

Global Labor Justice – International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-ILRF), a non-governmental organization that works transnationally to advance policies and laws that protect workers’ rights, organized the protest. Protesters in Boston

Fifty percent of Ozone International’s business is now with the seafood industry, thanks in part to a shift in the company’s business model.

The Bainbridge Island, Washington, U.S.A.-based company, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary in business, was one of the pioneers of using ozone (O3) to sanitize food products and food-processing facilities after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its use an antimicrobial

Cooke Inc. has acquired Slade Gorton, one of the largest distributors, importers, and manufacturers of fresh and frozen seafood in the United States.

The binding purchase agreement was announced on the sidelines of the 2023 Seafood Expo North America on Tuesday, 14 March, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., near Slade Gorton’s headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Cooke said it is expected to

Supply for the consumption of Alaska pollock fillets rose 30 percent than 130 million pounds in 2022, according to the Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers (GAPP).

The 2022 figure is the second-highest supply total since 2011 and has been driven, in large part, by an increase in consumer familiarity with Alaska pollock, GAPP CEO Craig Morris said. Alaska pollock represents at least 60 percent of U.S. consumption of pollock

After a long fallow period, commercial-scale shrimp farming appears to be taking off in the United States.

For years, the U.S. shrimp-farming sector has struggled to compete against low-cost shrimp imported from mega-producing nations including India, Indonesia, and Ecuador. But buoyed by consumption figures showing shrimp is pulling away as America’s favorite type of seafood – with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration