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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The European Parliament approved new fisheries control rules during a plenary session on 17 October in Strasbourg, France, securing a long-awaited revamp to the European Union’s fisheries control system.
The new rules come five years after the European Commission first proposed a revision of the E.U.’s fisheries control system, with the aim of modernizing and simplifying rules for monitoring fishery activities and ensuring compliance
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Trade organizations in the E.U. are pushing for the bloc to continue allowing Russian-caught fish into the region as negotiations on autonomous tariff quota (ATQ) regulations for 2024 and 2025 continue to roll along.
Europe’s ATQ regulations allow a certain quantity of a product to enter the E.U. at a reduced or suspended tariff rate for select fishery products.. In relation to the ATQ talks, the E.U. Fish Processors and Traders
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Inflation and the soaring cost of living in the U.K. have taken their toll on consumers’ wallets over the past two years, but “Explore,” a new omni-channel, recipe-focused Seafood from Norway (SFN) campaign rolled out by the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC), is looking to alleviate some of that pressure by spurring at-home consumption of sustainable, yet affordable food options such as Norwegian cod and haddock.
NSC’s U.K.
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Iceland’s government has proposed a new legal framework that provides a roadmap for the development of the country’s fast-growing salmon farming industry.
The proposal, presented by Icelandic Food, Fisheries, and Agriculture Minister Svandís Svavarsdóttir, heavily emphasizes the control, monitoring, and research of aquaculture production to meet stringent requirements to minimize environmental impact and to ensure
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Leknes, Norway-headquartered STIM, a company that has sold fish health products for over 30 years, announced the appointment of aquaculture industry veteran Carl-Erik Arnesen as its new CEO in September 2023. Arnesen previously served as managing director of aquafeed producer Polarfeed, and prior to that was CEO of Hav Line Gruppen, managing director of Firda Seafood, and marketing director at Alsaker Fjordbruk. Arnesen will direct his new
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Måsøval shareholders have approved a proposed demerger and subsequent triangular merger of the company’s subsidiaries.
On 10 September, Måsøval’s board of directors, together with the board of directors of each of the company’s subsidiaries – Aqua Farms Vartdal, Pure Farming, Måsøval Hjelpeselskap Drift, and Måsøval Hjelpeselskap Lisens – adopted a joint plan for a
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External factors such as rising oil and energy prices, inflation, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict – the latter of which resulted in the loss of the lucrative Russian shell-on prawn market – all impacted Royal Greenland’s earnings in the first half of this year.
According to the Nuuk, Greenland-headquartered seafood company’s H1 2023 financial report, it recorded a loss before taxes of DKK 113 million (USD 16.3 million,
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After recording a first harvest of 646 metric tons (MT) from the pilot pool at its Kvalnes site, Norwegian land-based salmon producer Andfjord Salmon AS is forging ahead with expansion plans that will increase its production capacity in the near future.
The planned expansion will increase production at Kvalnes on the island of Andøya to 8,000 MT of head-on gutted (HOG) fish by 2025, gradually growing to 40,000 MT HOG by 2030.
Andfjord
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Dutch land-based yellowtail kingfish producer The Kingfish Company recorded its best-ever harvest of 932 metric tons (MT) in the first half of 2023 and, amid high demand for larger-sized fish, saw its revenue for the period increase 31 percent year over year to EUR 11.2 million (USD 12 million).
By comparison, the company posted revenue of EUR 8.4 million (USD 9 million) in H1 2022 on the back of a 742 MT total harvest.
In H1 2023, The Kingfish
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The profitability of U.K. fishing vessels declined in 2022, with a rise in fish prices that drove higher revenues failing to outweigh the myriad difficulties faced by the industry last year.
According to information from U.K. public body Seafish’s annual fishing fleet survey for 2022 and its dataset showing the annual economic performance of the fleet in 2021, the size of the U.K. fleet decreased year over year in both 2021 and 2022, with
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