The interior of a restaurant in Florida, U.S.A. — Restaurant sales in the U.S. are projected to reach USD 1.5 trillion – though operators are still facing higher food costs | Photo courtesy of Ritu Manoj Jethani/Shutterstock

February 6, 2025

US restaurant industry sales projected to reach USD 1.5 trillion in 2025

Bristol Seafood Vice President of Marketing Briana Warner sitting in front of a brick building — Former Atlantic Sea Farms CEO Briana Warner has joined Bristol Seafood | Photo courtesy of Bristol Seafood

February 6, 2025

Bristol hires Briana Warner as VP of Marketing, H-E-B VP Jason Driskill named chair of SNP board

Cermaq Group employees on a boat at a salmon farm with snowy mountains in the background — Cermaq Group posted an increased profit in the nine months ending 31 December 2024 | Photo courtesy of Cermaq

February 6, 2025

Cermaq posts higher profit in first nine months of fiscal year

A person holding a handful of fresh shrimp — The SSA previously called on the Biden administration to oppose funding for World Bank and International Monetary Fund programs to develop shrimp farming in other countries. | Photo courtesy of Phensri Ngamsommitr/Shutterstock

February 6, 2025

Southern Shrimp Alliance calls on US Congress to oppose funding for foreign shrimp farming

A blue catfish — Since their introduction to the Chesapeake Bay as a recreational fish in the late 1960s, predatory blue catfish have come to dominate waters in Virginia and neighboring Maryland. | Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

February 6, 2025

Virginia lawmakers look to reduce restrictions on harvesting invasive blue catfish

Aquaculture

A photo of Lerøy's Midt farm — Lerøy's Midt farm in the Hitra Municipality of Norway | Photo courtesy of Lerøy

Q3 2024 trading updates: Grieg, Bakkafrost harvest larger volumes; Lerøy turns in smaller harvest

October 11, 2024

Sea lice on a trout — Sea lice parasite on a trout | Photo courtesy of Jonas Aleksander Larsen/Shutterstock

Scottish, Faroese, Norwegian joint project aims to standardize sea lice modeling

October 10, 2024

A Cooke Aquaculture aquaculture facility in the U.S. state of Washington — A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' permit authorizing aquaculture in federal waters has been declared unlawful in a blow to the industry in the U.S. | Photo courtesy of the Washington Department of Ecology

US federal court strikes down Army Corps of Engineers' aquaculture permits

October 9, 2024

A rendering of an aerial photo of what Pan Ocean's offshore aquaculture technology would look like — Pan Ocean Aquaculture is working to build a seriola farm using offshore aquaculture technology it developed | Image courtesy of Pan Ocean Aquaculture

Dutch aquatech firm Pan Ocean Aquaculture plans offshore project in Malta

October 8, 2024

Appalachian Salmon CEO Austin Caperton stands in a field in the mountains of West Virginia — Appalachian Salmon has secured the permits it needs to start construction at the site of the former Maple Meadow Mine in Fairdale, West Virginia | Photo courtesy of Appalachian Salmon

Appalachian Salmon secures key permits to build trout RAS in West Virginia

October 8, 2024

A hand holds sugar kelp, which is golden brown. — Sugar kelp cultivated by Lerøy Ocean Forest | Photo courtesy of Lerøy

Lerøy expands seaweed-farming operations; Faroese seaweed farmer Ocean Rainforest secures USD 2.78 million in funding

October 7, 2024

A photo of Scottish Sea Farms employees removing dead fish from a net pen — Footage from Animal Equality UK, showing Scottish Sea Farms employees removing dead salmon from a net pen | Photo courtesy of Animal Equality UK

Scottish salmon industry responds to “extreme activist” claims of poor welfare

October 4, 2024

Workers with Proximar seafood pulling in salmon harvested from the company's RAS facility. — Proximar Seafood had a successful first harvest from its RAS facility in Japan, the first Atlantic salmon domestically produced in the country | Photo courtesy of Proximar Seafood

Proximar harvests first salmon from its Japan-based recirculating aquaculture system

October 4, 2024

Nordlaks Smolt Operations Director Øivind Skjevling and Executive Director Eirik Welde stand in grass by the ocean shore. — Nordlaks has purchased land for a planned smolt facility that it said will represent an investment of billions of krone | Photo courtesy of Nordlaks

Nordlaks purchases land for planned smolt facility in Rødskjær, Norway

October 3, 2024

An aerial shot of the port of Grimsby in eastern England — The port of Grimsby in eastern England | Photo courtesy of AquaCultured Seafood

AquaCultured Seafood's RAS farm plans stalled pending UK high court ruling

October 3, 2024

A photo of Underwater Contracting's Foover machine, which removes salmon mortalities — As part of its growth plans, Mowi intends to invest in new technology, such as through an expanded partnership with Underwater Contracting to up its use of the firm's remotely operated vehicle tech | Photo courtesy of Underwater Contracting

Mowi aiming for 600,000 MT of annual salmon production by 2029

October 1, 2024

A photo of waves lashing the Hainan coastline as Typhoon Yagi made landfall on 6 September — Waves lashing the Hainan coastline as Typhoon Yagi made landfall on 6 September | Photo courtesy of Zhongxinyashi_Photo/Shutterstock

Typhoon Yagi devastates tilapia production in Hainan, China

September 30, 2024

A photo of Protix CCO Piotr Postepski presenting at the 2024 Global Shrimp Forum — Protix CCO Piotr Postepski presenting at the 2024 Global Shrimp Forum | Photo courtesy of the Global Shrimp Forum/LinkedIn

Shrimp supply chains warming to insect protein use

September 30, 2024

Ecuador's Coca Codo Sinclair Hydropower Plant — Ecuador's Coca Codo Sinclair Hydropower Plant, which is the nation's top plant by generation capacity | Photo courtesy of Hydro Review

“It’s chaos” – Power outages may cost Ecuador’s shrimp sector USD 5 million a day

September 26, 2024

An aerial view of a salmon farm floating in the waters of British Columbia near small islands. — The Canadian government has released its draft salmon aquaculture transition plan for British Columbia, Canada | Photo courtesy of the BC Salmon Farmers Association

Canada releases draft transition plan phasing out salmon net-pens in British Columbia

September 23, 2024

Siri Tømmerås is the commercial director of land-based operations at AKVA group. — Siri Tømmerås is the commercial director of land-based operations at AKVA group | Photo by Cliff White/SeafoodSource

AKVA’s Siri Tømmerås: Money, infrastructure, personnel are holy trinity of land-based aquaculture

September 20, 2024

Diosmar's Teresa Larreta and Total Seafood's Michael Alarcón Arcentales at the 2024 Seafood Expo Asia — Diosmar's Teresa Larreta and Total Seafood's Michael Alarcón Arcentales at the 2024 Seafood Expo Asia in Singapore | Photos by Cliff White/SeafoodSource

From lowest lows, prices for Ecuadorian shrimp rise, but production flattening in 2024

September 19, 2024

Five tilapia farmers hold a net as they stand in a row in light brown water. — Tilapia farmers holding a net | Photo courtesy of FAI

Tilapia genetics company Spring Genetics teams up with UK data firm to improve fish welfare

September 19, 2024