Chris Chase is the Portland, Maine-based associate editor of SeafoodSource. Previously, he worked covering local issues at the Coastal Journal in Bath, Maine, where he won multiple awards from the Maine Press Association for his news coverage and food reviews. Chris is a graduate of the University of Maine, and got his start in writing by serving as a reporter and later the State Editor of The Maine Campus, an award-winning campus newspaper.
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Delft, The Netherlands-based Veramaris has received full market authorization in Canada to include its algal oil in salmonid feed.
Veramaris announced on 11 March it secured the authorization after a three-year registration process, opening the market to its algal oil for the first time. Veramaris CEO Gertjan de Koning told SeafoodSource during Seafood Expo North America – which ran from 10 to 12 March in Boston, Massachusetts,
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Sea Harvest Group reported higher revenue and earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) in FY 2023, but lower operating profits as high costs hit the company’s bottom line.
The Cape Town, South Africa-based seafood company reported a 6 percent increase in revenue to ZAR 6.2 billion (USD 331.5 million, EUR 302.8 million) for the financial year ending 31 December 2023, up from ZAR 5.87 billion (USD 313.9 million, EUR 286.7 million) in FY
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A British non-governmental organization has filed a legal petition to the United Kingdom government requesting formal sanctions against seven Chinese companies named by the Outlaw Ocean Project as having employed Uyghur labor at their seafood-processing plants.
The United Nations has accused China of arbitrary detentions of the Uyghur ethnic minority inside the country, along with serious human rights violations in the Xinjiang province. A U.N.
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Emil Andreassen was involved in salmon farming before he could walk.
Growing up in rural Norway, Emil was raised alongside his father Johan Andreassen’s fish-farming business – which itself was a project born out of the family’s longstanding connection with the ocean. Johan’s grandfather was a commercial fishermen and helped inspire him to follow the same professional path from a young age.
Johan had Emil when he
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Salmon farmers in British Columbia, Canada, are remain in the dark on whether necessary salmon farming licenses will be renewed in June.
In June 2022, Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) announced it was renewing licenses for marine finfish aquaculture facilities outside the Discovery Islands – located in British Columbia – for two years. The decision impacted salmon farms run by Mowi, Grieg, Cermaq, and
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High Liner Foods has finalized a settlement in a lawsuit it initiated against Brian Wynn for what it claimed were false representations and warranties in connection with its purchase of Rubicon Resources.
High Liner completed the purchase of Rubicon Resources – a shrimp importer and distributor located in Culver City, California, U.S.A. – in 2017. The sale closed for USD 107 million (then EUR 98 million) – with 70 percent
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