London-based seafood writer and communications consultant Jason Holland has been a contributing editor to SeafoodSource.com since January 2010. Jason has more than 25 years of experience as a B2B journalist and editor – a career that has taken him all over the world. He believes he found his true professional calling in 2004 when he started documenting the many facets of the international seafood industry and he’s particularly proud of the strong, collaborative relationships he has formed at all stages of the supply chain.
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A proposal to expand the margin of tolerance in E.U. catch reporting has drawn flack from the Environmental Justice Foundation and environmental law charity ClientEarth.
Negotiations on the E.U. fisheries control regulation governing reporting requirements are upcoming between the Council of the E.U., the European Parliament, and the European Commission. Proposals being considered from E.U. member-states and the European
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Neskaupstaður, Iceland-based Síldarvinnslan has completed the last conditions of its acquisition of fellow fishing firm Vísir by increasing the number of new shares going to the selling company.
In July 2022, Síldarvinnslan entered a deal to acquire Vísir for ISK 20 billion (USD 140.3 million, EUR 136.5 million). With the interest-bearing debt of Grindavík-based Vísir amounting to ISK 11 billion (USD
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Reykjavik-headquartered Iceland Seafood International (ISI) has announced it will exit the U.K. value-added market and close its Grimsby, U.K. operations.
Delivering its second-quarter 2022 results in August, ISI’s board confirmed it was reviewing the group’s strategy in the United Kingdom. At that time, it advised that the Iceland Seafood UK operation was loss-making in the period, with external challenges continuing to impact the
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Iceland-based salmon-farming company Ice Fish Farm (Ifish) harvested 1,966 metric tons (MT) of fish in the third quarter of 2022, a 904-MT increase on the corresponding period of 2021. However, the average weight of the Q3 harvest was a low 2.7 kilograms due to early harvesting.
Ice Fish Farm is owned by Froya, Norway-based Måsøval and completed the acquisition of Icelandic salmon-farming firm Laxar in June 2022.
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BioMar Group posted increased revenue for the third-quarter of this year, with higher market prices more than making up for lower sales volumes in the three-month period.
The Denmark-headquartered aquaculture feed supplier’s revenue for the last quarter increased by 41 percent, or almost DKK 1.7 billion (USD 238.2 million, EUR 228.5 million), to more than DKK 5.8 billion (USD 812.8 million, EUR 779.7 million). That revenue came from almost
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Lerøy Seafood Group reported a 44 percent jump in this year’s third-quarter operating profit before fair-value adjustments to NOK 831 million (USD 83.6 million, EUR 80.1 million), citing strong demand and a substantial increase in prices for its main products as the key reasons for the improvement.
The Bergen, Norway-based fish-farming and fishing company’s revenue for the three-month period amounted to a Q3 record NOK 7.4
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More than 20 countries and the European Union have adopted 21 measures to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources in the Mediterranean and the Black seas.
Following a week of intense discussions, the members of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), adopted a series of binding recommendations and resolutions addressing
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Norwegian cod farming company Statt Torsk ASA and Norwegian land-based hybrid flow-through system salmon farmer Salmon Evolution both celebrated milestones in early November as fish begin hitting the market.
With weekly harvests now underway, Norwegian cod farming company Statt Torsk ASA entered into sales agreements for 1,600 metric tons (MT) of its farmed cod in the third-quarter of this year. The contracts are valued at approximately NOK 75
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Kverva, Norway-based farmed salmon group SalMar has today, 14 November, 2022, sent notice of layoffs to 851 employees at its processing facilities in Frøya and Senja, blaming the move on the 40 percent salmon tax proposal introduced by the Norwegian government.
The proposed tax, SalMar said, has destroyed the market for long-term fixed-price contracts. The group said such contracts are usually entered into well in advance of
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Christiansfield, Denmark-based aquaculture feed producer Aller Aqua A/S has confirmed that its CO2-equivalent emissions were reduced by 17 percent over the past year.
In 2021 August Aller Aqua became the first fish feed company to be verified to label its entire product portfolio CO2-equivalents according to the European Commission’s Product environmental footprint category rules (PEFCR) standard. The company recently re-verified its
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