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Aker BioMarine CEO of Human Health Ingredients Simon Seward
Aker BioMarine CEO of Human Health Ingredients Simon Seward | Photo courtesy of Simon Seward/LinkedIn
December 10, 2024

Aker BioMarine Human Health Ingredients CEO Simon Seward on soaring China sales, future plans

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The port of New York at sunset | Photo courtesy Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
December 10, 2024

National Fisheries Institute urges resumption of talks in East and Gulf Coast port contract negotiations

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Oregon commercial fishers may begin putting traps in the water beginning 13 December and begin harvesting 16 December. | Photo courtesy of Photo_Time/Shutterstock
December 10, 2024

Dungeness crab season cancelled for remainder of 2024 in California, Washington

The Pure Blue Fish team at its Binyamina farm
The Pure Blue Fish team at its Binyamina farm | Photo courtesy of Nitzan Zmora/Pure Blue Fish
December 10, 2024

Pure Blue Fish begins operations at its fully recirculating RAS farm in Israel

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The CAD 38 million investment will be spread across 72 individual projects in New Brunswick. | Photo courtesy of Greenseas/Shutterstock
December 10, 2024

Canada invests CAD 38 million in New Brunswick’s seafood sector

March 18, 2024

China working to ink free trade agreements with Saudi Arabia, Israel, Norway in 2024

Mark Godfrey

China President Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
China President Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Photo courtesy of Saudi Press Agency
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China is prioritizing a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council in 2024, which would give Saudi Arabia low-duty access to the Chinese market for its exports of shrimp. The Gulf Cooperation Council is a trade bloc consisting of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. China has been negotiating a free trade deal with the GCC since 2005, but  China has tightened its political bonds with the block, and specifically Saudi Arabia, in response to…

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Mark Godfrey

Contributing Editor

Mark Godfrey is an Irish journalist covering the agriculture and fisheries sectors in Asia, with a focus on China. Proficient in Mandarin, he has frequently traveled across China's fisheries and aquaculture regions and learned the inner workings of China's corporate world during a nearly three-year stint at the Financial Times' “China Confidential” publication. He has also reported widely across Southeast Asia and the former Soviet Union. He has educational certificates in agriculture and food science, as well as Mandarin.

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