Cliff White is the executive editor of SeafoodSource. He has 15 years of experience as a professional journalist, including serving as the senior business reporter for the McClatchy-owned Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit and the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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Levi Hanssen is the brand and marketing manager for Hiddenfjord, a salmon-farming firm based in Sørvágur, Faroe Islands.
SeafoodSource: Hiddenfjord is known as a family-owned company, which is rare among salmon-farming firms. Can you talk about the company’s history, its size, and its family ties?
Hanssen: Hiddenfjord is a family-owned company founded in 1929. It started as a whitefish-processing company with the
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The vast oil reserves buried around the Falkland Islands may represent the future of its economy, but fishing remains its biggest economic driver, accounting for 65 percent of the islands’ gross domestic product in 2023.
“It remains a massive deal,” Falkland Islands Fishing Companies Association Executive Secretary James Bates told SeafoodSource at the 2024 Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, Spain on 23 April.
The islands,
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Phillips Foods plans to broaden its product range to include snow crab and lobster following the acquisition of two seafood companies in Eastern Canada.
The Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.-based crabmeat specialist recently acquired the Pêcheries Bas-Caraquet Fisheries facility in Bas-Caraquet, New Brunswick, as well as the assets of South Shore Seafoods in a restructuring deal encompassing multiple plants in the province of Price Edward
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Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based American Seafoods has released its 2023 sustainability report, in which it claims to have achieved a 99 percent target catch rate in the Alaska pollock fishery.
The statistic rebuts the argument made by representatives of other Alaska fisheries claiming Alaska pollock trawling bycatch is negatively impacting the U.S. state’s salmon and crab populations.
“I am absolutely thrilled with the progress
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