Nicki Holmyard lives and breathes the seafood industry. As a specialist freelance writer for 25 years, she has
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The E.U. has long given its due to artisanal and small-scale fisheries, with high-level consideration to their contribution to human wellbeing, food provision, and environmental stewardship, as well as the challenges they face from climate, economic, and political changes. But the same understanding is not extended to small-scale aquaculture, according to Ola Öberg, president of the Swedish producer organization Recirkfisk, whose membership
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The International Organization for Women in the Seafood Industry (WSI) closed its doors at the end of December 2022, blaming a lack of resources directed at solving gender issues as one of the primary causes of its shuttering.
For the previous eight years, WSI had worked to bring the seafood industry’s attention to the issue of gender, in partnership with governments, international organizations, companies, and individuals. One major
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The U.K. environmental campaign group Feedback, a non-governmental organization with the mission of seeking to address historic and current injustices in the food system, is threatening the U.K. government with a lawsuit over its alleged failure to properly regulate Scotland’s salmon-farming industry.
In a letter written to the U.K. government in advance of launching legal proceedings, Feedback said the U.K. government is required to
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Ambassadors, product endorsers, and brand promoters are commonplace in today’s seafood marketplace, but their performance doesn’t always match up to the the cost of engaging them.
According to Danish media company Influencer Marketing Hub (IMH), ambassador marketing is a winning strategy – if done correctly.
“Ambassador marketing will always win over paid advertising because of the authenticity of the people involved.
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November 2022 marked an important milestone for Norwegian cod farmer Gadus Group, with the launch of its first commercial deliveries to market.
“We have been working for almost three years to prepare for this point, nurturing the fish from eggs to harvest, so it is good for us to finally see our product on commercial sale,” Gadus Group Founder and CEO Ola Kvalheim told SeafoodSource. “We had done a few small trial harvests
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Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries had launched an investigation into the mass escape of juvenile cod from three cages operated by the Gadus Group.
The escape occurred in late September, with an 87,000 cod going missing, weighing an average of 600 grams. So far, Gadus has managed to recapture 408 of the escapees.
Norway's aquaculture regulator blamed the escape on faulty design and construction of net-pens at the company’s
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A multinational consortium has successfully completed environmental trials for a sea lice treatment concept at a Scottish Sea Farms site in Shetland, Scotland.
The new trial treatment is from BREEZE, a collaboration between Norway and Scotland, which brought together technology developer Pulcea, veterinary services and systems provider AquaPharma, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Driven by increasing resistance of sea lice
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The Aquaponic Management Project is planning a venture on the outskirts of Chartres, France, which the company said is intended to become Europe’s largest “aquaponic” salmonid farm.
The farm is being planned for a production of 1,500 metric tons (MT) of trout per year, with a production cost of roughly EUR 10 million (USD 10.5 million). Aquaponics is a combination of aquaculture and hydroponics – growing both fish and
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Andfjord Salmon, a land-based salmon farming start-up operating in northern Norway, is on track to harvest its first fish by mid-2023, with high survival rates giving the company hope it will maximize revenue from the harvest.
In its Q3 2022 results, Andfjord Salmon CEO Martin Rasmussen the design of the company’s land-based system, which produces a laminar flow in the square-shaped pool, had helped maintain survival rates of its farmed
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New research released by genomics company AquaGen has found Norwegian aquaculture production could be significantly increased through more-selective breeding techniques.
A new paper, titled "The power of genetics" and published in the journal Aquaculture, quantified the benefits of achieving rapid growth in Atlantic salmon. The study used a “common garden experiment” eggs from females representing present-day farmed salmon were
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