Cliff White has been the executive editor of SeafoodSource since 2016. Previously, he worked as the senior business reporter for the McClatchy-owned Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit and the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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First Water produced around 700 metric tons (MT) of Atlantic salmon at its flowthrough land-based farm in Thorlakshofn, Iceland, in 2023, and that total will more than double in 2024.
The company, founded as Landeldi in 2017, completed its first harvest of 50,000 Atlantic salmon weighing an average of 3 kilograms in June 2023. It is on target to harvest 1,500 MT of 5-kilo salmon in 2024, according to CEO Eggert Kristofersson.
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Gava Foods CEO Jorge Azar is a Uruguayan national with a sizeable Ecuadorian shrimp business, and now he’s hoping to put Panama on the world’s seafood map.
Azar got his start in the seafood industry operating cold storage and packing facilities for hake and squid caught in the South Atlantic and brought into Montevideo, Uruguay. Gava Foods still operates that business, offloading hake from the domestic and Spanish fleets and
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Atlantic Sapphire has had its request for reapproval of a USD 250 million (EUR 230 million) bond approved by local officials in the U.S. state of Florida.
The bond, which had been approved in 2023 but expired in April 2024, was reapproved by the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners at its 7 May meeting. The commissioners’ resolution, which passed 13-0, authorizes the Miami-Dade County Industrial Development Authority to issue one or
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Ian Vázquez-Rowe is the director of Red Peruana Ciclo de Vida y Ecología Industrial (PELCAN) and a researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He is also a speaker at this year's IFFO Members Meeting in Miami, Florida, U.S.A., on 16 and 17 April 2024.
SeafoodSource: You are an expert in life-cycle assessments (LCAs). Why should seafood companies care about them?
Vázquez-Rowe: Companies should
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Susanne Arfelt Rajamand has been the CEO of Nuuk, Greenland-based Royal Greenland since November 2022. It recently announced it posted a DKK 255 million (USD 36.8 million, EUR 34.2 million) pre-tax loss in 2023.
SeafoodSource: How would you describe Royal Greenland’s positioning right now?
Rajamand: We've been very successful in continuously growing our four species: prawns, snow crab, Greenlandic halibut, and cod. But, there's absolutely
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Japanese seafood conglomerate Nissui recorded an 8.2 percent bump in sales and a 21.1 percent increase in operating profit in its 2023 fiscal year, which ended 31 March 2024.
Nissui’s net sales in FY 2023 reached JPY 831.3 billion (USD 5.3 billion, EUR 4.9 billion), and its operating profit hit JPY 29.7 billion (USD 189.9 billion, EUR 175.5 billion). Its ordinary profit rose 15.1 percent to JPY 32 billion (USD 204.6 million, EUR 189.1
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