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An Aqua Kompetanse employee on a boat
The investment was made through Bluefront's impact fund, Bluefront Capital II, which the equity firm said is supported by firms which "view the seafood value chain as a key enabler to solve the global demand for healthy and sustainable proteins" | Photo courtesy of Aqua Kompetanse
October 28, 2025

Bluefront Equity secures majority ownership of aquaculture advisory firm Aqua Kompetanse

Loch Fyne oysters in packaging
Loch Fyne Oysters, which ships live oysters directly to consumers and also supplies supermarkets, is the first U.K. oyster farm to achieve ASC certification | Photo courtesy of ASC
October 28, 2025

Loch Fyne Oysters becomes first UK oyster farmer to achieve ASC certification

Tanner crabs
Tanner crabs | Photo courtesy of Shpatak/Shutterstock
October 28, 2025

Alaska cancels Kodiak tanner crab season to let population recover

Workers posing in front of a promotional poster for the new project
The move, according to TASA, will reduce the facility's carbon output by 6,500 tons per year | Photo courtesy of TASA
October 28, 2025

Peruvian fishmeal producer TASA converts plant to natural gas in sustainability drive

Barton Seaver and Andrew Zimmern walking at an aquaculture operation
Barton Seaver and Andrew Zimmern have co-authored a cookbook devoted exclusively to seafood | Photo courtesy of Eric Wolfinger
October 28, 2025

Andrew Zimmern, Barton Seaver join forces to champion seafood in "The Blue Food Cookbook"

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Corals on the ocean floor in a seamount
The IUCN passed a resolution which aims to ban bottom trawling in international seamounts by the end of 2026 | Photo courtesy of NOAA

Resolution to end bottom trawling in seamounts headed to UN General Assembly

October 15, 2025
A map of the Channel Islands showing where gillnets were still allowed
Assembly Bill 1056 will phase out the use of gillnets near the Channel Islands, the last area in California that allowed their use | Image courtesy of Oceana

California Governor Newsom signs bill phasing out gillnet fishing in state waters

October 15, 2025
The Kuskokwim River
Longtime Alaska resident Eric Forrer sued the Alaska state government in September 2022, claiming that regulators were mismanaging declining Chinook and chub salmon stocks in the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers | Photo courtesy of Samoli/Shutterstock

Alaska Supreme Court backs lower court, dismissing challenge to state’s salmon management

October 15, 2025
Pelagic fishing in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean
The E.U. has warned that not establishing a comprehensive sharing agreement for 2026 would likely result in scientific bodies recommending zero catch moving forward | Photo courtesy of North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group

Drastic cuts recommended by ICES place extra pressure on Northeast Atlantic mackerel negotiations for 2026

October 15, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump
Trump issued the executive order in April, declaring that "seafood is one of the most heavily regulated sectors in the United States" | Photo courtesy of Joey Sussman/Shutterstock

Conservation groups warn Trump administration against allowing commercial fishing in marine monuments

October 15, 2025
Frozen shrimp at a Trader Joe's store in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Frozen shrimp prices rose over 8 percent in September, leading to sagging sales in the category | Photo courtesy of The Image Party/Shutterstock

Rising shrimp prices push down US seafood sales in September

October 15, 2025
Marco Zepeda
Channel Seafood has appointed Marco Zepeda as its new Chief Operating Officer. | Photo courtesy of Channel Seafood

Channel Seafood picks Marco Zepeda for COO; Nueva Pescanova names Keith Decker global sales manager

October 15, 2025
A Milarex processing facility
Summa Equity has sold Polish salmon processor Milarex to Pangea | Photo courtesy of Milarex

Summa Equity sells Milarex to Norwegian investment company

October 15, 2025
A Philippines Coast Guard vessel
China has taken aggressive action to discourage Filipino fishing in the South China Sea, using water cannons and risky maneuvers in an effort to turn their vessels away | Photo courtesy of MDV Edwards/Shutterstock

US backs Philippines after vessel collision with China

October 15, 2025
The Storting in Norway
The Norwegian Parliament, known as the Storting, put plans for changing the aquaculture "traffic light" system on hold in early 2025 | Photo courtesy of Anna Jedynak/Shutterstock

Norwegian salmon farmers file class action suit against government over “traffic light” system

October 15, 2025
Waitrose seafood counter
Seafish created the SCEPT tool to allow seafood retailers to asses the carbon emissions in their supply chains | Photo courtesy of Seafish

Waitrose adopts Seafish SCEPT tool to meet net-zero carbon emissions goal

October 14, 2025
A Chinese fish-processing factory
Amid the turmoil, Chinese processors have been attempting to sell more to the domestic market, but progress has been slow | Photo courtesy of Zhangzidao

Chinese whitefish processors in dire straits due to trade war, high raw material costs

October 14, 2025
The Court of International Trade
The same coalition of seafood industry representatives that sued NOAA over its MMPA findings are asking the Court of International Trade to halt the agency's import prohibitions | Photo courtesy of JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock

Seafood coalition requests Court of International Trade to step in on NOAA’s MMPA findings

October 14, 2025
The Port of San Antonio in Chile
Chinese vessels have been increasingly serviced in Chilean ports this year, including at the port of San Antonio, where local fishers recently held protests | Photo courtesy of Mariusz Bugno/Shutterstock

Chinese fishing fleet off Chilean coast sparks ire of local fishers

October 14, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden at the White House
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened a new set of 100 percent tariffs on Chinese goods in response to the Chinese government changing its export policies | Photo courtesy of the White House

Trump reignites tariff threats, proposes 100 percent duties against Chinese goods

October 14, 2025
ScaleAQ Software Director of Sales Stephen Budgeon
Scale AQ Software and Mowi have renewed their partnership | Photo courtesy of ScaleAQ

Mowi extends its partnership with ScaleAQ Software

October 14, 2025
Fishing boats in the Western Scheldt in the Netherlands, part of which is heavily polluted with PFAS due to factory runoff
Fishing boats in the Western Scheldt in the Netherlands, part of which is heavily polluted with PFAS due to factory runoff | Photo courtesy of TasfotoNL/Shutterstock

Environmental services report warns much of Europe’s fish are contaminated with “forever chemicals”

October 14, 2025
Port of New York
U.S. ports saw declines in August that experts are attributing to the effect of tariffs | Photo courtesy of ambient_pix/Shutterstock

Imports to the US expected to decline for the rest of 2025

October 14, 2025
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