Workers with Ocean Harvesters on board a fishing vessel — The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is being petitioned to initiate a reallocation process for the menhaden fishery as it also considers whether to reduce a cap on the species in the Chesapeake Bay, a move the industry said isn't based in science | Photo courtesy of Ocean Harvesters

August 13, 2026

ASMFC petitioned to consider menhaden reallocation, will make decision on fishery cap in Chesapeake

Manolin's new Chile-based hire Agustín Piña — Agustín Piña was recently hired as the lead of Chile-based Manolin operations | Photo courtesy of Manolin

August 13, 2026

Manolin makes first Chilean hire; ASMI announces Trident USA president as new board member

Sea Sisters cans — Rather than simply telling customers what species they're buying, Sea Sisters introduces them to the fishers, ports, seasons, and fishing methods behind each can | Photo courtesy of Sea Sisters

August 13, 2026

UK conservas brand Sea Sisters building new value for domestic catch through preservation, provenance storytelling

a U.S. Coast Guard vessel — The chosen NGO will be charged with using emerging technologies such as satellite monitoring, public vessel tracking systems, artificial intelligence, web scraping, and more to identify and verify instances of forced labor and IUU fishing | Photo courtesy of EB Adventure Photography/Shutterstock

August 13, 2026

US State Department looking for NGO partner to shine light on forced labor and IUU fishing

salmon in ice at a store — Prices and masses for Norwegian salmon rose again in Week 32 | Photo courtesy of Nature'sLens21/Shutterstock

August 13, 2026

Prices and export mass for Norwegian salmon rise in Week 32, as forward prices strengthen

Processing & Equipment

A new CP Vietnam aquafeed plant — The 18-hectare Ca Mau Aqua Feedmill has a designed annual capacity of 124,800 metric tons (MT), bringing CP Vietnam's total aquafeed production capacity in the country to more than 650,000 MT per year across four plants | Photo courtesy of CP Vietnam

CP Vietnam opens USD 66.1 million aquafeed plant

August 12, 2026

Premier Packing's Lynden factory — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are reportedly conducting "soft raids" at and around the company's Lynden, Washington-based facility | Photo courtesy of Google Maps

ICE reportedly conducting "soft raids" at Premier Packing processing facility in Washington

August 5, 2026

Shinkei Systems' new PSDN-S technology — Shinkei Systems' new PSDN-S technology allows for sockeye processing | Photo courtesy of Shinkei Systems

Shinkei Systems adds sockeye processing capabilities

July 29, 2026

The grand opening of De Heus's new aquaculture feed mill in Vietnam — De Heus has opened a new fish feed mill in Vietnam, the first it has built specifically dedicated to marine and coldwater aquaculture species | Photo courtesy of De Heus

De Heus opens its first coldwater aquaculture feed mill in Vietnam

July 28, 2026

Employees of Vinnslustöðin and Empresa de Secagem de Bacalhau outside the facility — Vinnslustöðin has acquired Portugal-based processing company Empresa de Secagem de Bacalhau | Photo courtesy of Vinnslustöðin

Vinnslustöðin acquires salt fish processor ESBAL

July 27, 2026

Bubbles floating underwater — Hatch Blue has invested USD 2 million in Nernst Electric, a startup working on a new method to supply oxygen to aquaculture farms | Photo courtesy of Abdul Rohim Hapif/Shutterstock

Hatch Blue invests USD 2 million in Irish startup developing fish farm oxygen solutions

July 24, 2026

Renderings of Pan Fish's new processing facility near Qingdao, China — The facility will focus on salmon in its first phase before broadening into the processing of other imported species like king crab and shrimp | Image courtesy of Thommesen Architecture

Pan Fish opens USD 50 million processing facility near Qingdao

July 21, 2026

Two men pointing at a screen including a BlueTrace interface — BlueTrace is seeking international customers as it has grown from a small company with an app to help with shellfish tags to a full solution for seafood businesses to manage inventory | Photo courtesy of BlueTrace

BlueTrace continuing to expand seafood business platform, targeting international customers

July 10, 2026

SmoothMove fish moving net — East Coast Innovation launched its fish transfer technology, SmoothMove, with a welfare-centric mindset for mass movement | Photo courtesy of East Coast Innovation

Canadian tech company seeing positive effects on fish health with SmoothMove fish transfer product

July 9, 2026

Port Canaveral designs — The project is currently in the design phase, with construction set to be completed in early 2027 | Photo courtesy of Port Canaveral

Florida's Port Canaveral advances development of new commercial fishing facility

July 7, 2026

Godaco processing workers — The affected facility produces more than 70 value-added product lines using pangasius and other raw materials | Photo courtesy of Godaco

Fire at Vietnam seafood factory causes over USD 6.2 million in damages

July 6, 2026

Espersen CEO Tino Bendix — Danish seafood processing firm Espersen is planning to divest from some of its primary processing | Photo courtesy of Espersen

Espersen announces shift away from primary processing after poor FY 2025 performance

July 2, 2026

An aerial view of a 30-acre space near the port of Tacoma, Washington — The Port of Tacoma Commission has approved a 50-year ground lease for a proposed cold storage and food processing facility originally proposed by Tacoma Seafood | Photo courtesy of the Port of Tacoma Commission

Port of Tacoma approves large cold storage, processing space

June 23, 2026

Blue Food Innovation Summit panelists discussing full biomass optimization — Panelists echoed growing calls for the seafood industry to turn the dial further than 100 percent utilization toward full biomass optimization | Photo courtesy of Blue Food Innovation Summit/LinkedIn

Experts implore seafood industry to start looking beyond 100 percent utilization into total biomass optimization

June 11, 2026

Tom and Ian of CatchCam onboard boat — Tom Rossiter, co-founder of CatchCam, deploys an underwater camera system onboard a fishing vessel | Photo courtesy of CatchCam

Underwater camera company CatchCam helping to improve sustainability, decision-making within small-scale fishing

June 9, 2026

Gray Whale in California — Scientists have developed AI-powered thermal technology cameras to detect gray whales in the San Francisco Bay| Photo courtesy of Tory Kallman/Shutterstock

New AI-powered thermal cameras could reduce vessel strikes on gray whales in San Francisco

June 1, 2026

Nets in Alaska — ADF&G recently re-opened the commissioner permits decision in the Upper Cook Inlet area. | Photo courtesy of Alisa Metzler/Shutterstock

ADF&G will not issue permits for beach seine salmon fishing on Kenai River in 2026

May 28, 2026

Runi's sales booth at Seafood Expo Global — Runi is continuing to see demand for its compacting solutions for expanded polystyrene | Photo by Chris Chase/SeafoodSource

Runi seeing continued demand in seafood industry for its EPS compaction solutions

April 23, 2026