Bhavana Scalia-Bruce is the Portland, Maine-based associate editor of SeafoodSource. She attended the University of Maine studying journalism and Spanish. Before joining the SeafoodSource team, Bhavana worked for DownEast magazine as an editorial intern, as well as a columnist and business manager for UMaine’s student award-winning newspaper, the Maine Campus.
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Averøy, Norway-based Pure Norwegian Seafood (PNS) has been selling frozen salmon unsuitable for human consumption, in violation of company protocols and Norwegian law.
Frøya, Norway-headquartered salmon farmer Måsøval, which has owned 65 percent of PNS since 2021, discovered irregularities in the company’s operations in October 2023. Since Måsøval’s acquisition of a majority stake in PNS in
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SeafoodSource is closely following seafood processing and equipment innovation by compiling a regular round-up of updates from the sector.
- Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based seafood processing company Carsoe recently received a contract to provide advanced processing services to Nunavut, Canada-based Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries Corporation's (QFC) commission of its largest factory fishing trawler: the Saputi II.
”Carsoe was a natural choice for
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Catfish, lobster, haddock, pollock, and crab each have regional strongholds in the U.S. But a few species have broken through to national popularity, with shrimp, salmon, and cod leading the charge.
Shrimp was ranked the most popular species of seafood in every region of the U.S. for 2023. Salmon also made an appearance in the top five seafood species in all nine regions of the U.S., as identified by a Circana SupplyTrack survey done
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To keep up to date with the latest personnel changes across the seafood industry, SeafoodSource is compiling a regular round-up of hiring announcements and other personnel-related shifts worldwide. If you have an announcement, please send it to [email protected].
-Gonzalo Vial Vial (pictured), the founder of Chilean food supplier Agrosuper, has died at 88.
Vial founded the company as an egg production business in 1955, In 2019,
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-Biddeford, Maine, U.S.A.-based seaweed company Atlantic Sea Farms launched its kelp-based Sea-Veggie Burgers at Whole Foods Market locations across the U.S.
“We thought it fitting to start this demo program during Healthy Eating Month, with a product that brings regeneratively grown sea greens to the center of the
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To keep up to date with the latest personnel changes across the seafood industry, SeafoodSource is compiling a regular round-up of hiring announcements and other personnel-related shifts worldwide. If you have an announcement, please send it to [email protected].
- Ribe, Denmark-based Nordic Aqua Partners hired Tom Johan Austrheim as CFO, taking over for Hjalti Hvitklett, who will resume his previous finance director role, with an
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Norwegian salmon prices increased in the fourth week of 2024 after declining at the beginning of the new year.
According to the Nasdaq Salmon Index, the average per-kilogram price of Norwegian salmon in the fourth week of 2024 reached NOK 105.42 (USD 10.14, EUR 9.32), which was up NOK 7.89 (USD 0.76, EUR 0.70), or 8.09 percent, on week 4 of 2024.
The index provides weekly sales updates and a weighted average price for fresh, head-on
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Karkkila, Finland-based food technology company Hailia has developed a system to push more fish-processing byproducts go toward value-added use, rather than their traditional lower-value applications.
The process turns leftover fish chunks, strips, bites, and patties into valuable protein. The result of its system resembles a cooked fish fillet and a “mouthfeel characteristic of fish,” according to Hailia.
"For instance, after
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Lerøy Seafood CEO Henning Beltestad has responded to a report linking a company slaughterhouse in Sandstad, Norway with more than 700 reports of listeria contamination between August 2022 and November 2023.
The slaughterhouse is operated by Lerøy subsidiary Lerøy Midt.
"Food safety is Lerøy's top priority, and we have several measures in place to prevent listeria in our raw materials and finished
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Oversupply and major price declines continue to plague the global shrimp industry, but promoting consumption remains a top priority for the sector, as an increase in consumption could lead to drastically needed price stabilization, according to the latest industry report from the Global Shrimp Forum Foundation (GSFF).
Compiled by GSFF Marketing and Branding Consultant Arnd Jan Gulmans, “The Future is in High Demand” found that in
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