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'Such an opportunity': Here's why Walmart went all-in on First Nations-Mowi partnership

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Sysco-backed research shows how the pandemic has brought 'profound shock' to the sector

'It's going to be a tough year': UK fish and chip shops battle the rising cost of everything

French hope to cap off a banner year for smoked salmon with a strong holiday season

3D-printed plant-based smoked salmon being tested in major German supermarket chain

'Crazy high' demand means Russia's massive surimi push will boost the sector's growth, not stunt it

Maruha Nichiro joins the wave of price hikes as it announces frozen retail increase

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Mowi takes slice of Tesco private label salmon contract

John Connelly to leave NFI after 20 years

US retailer H-E-B funds seafood marketing initiative

Global fishmeal market remains in balance but fish oil under pressure as Peru season ends

'Mother of all supply chain stumbles' puts global seafood industry at risk, experts warn

Is the seafood industry losing its personal touch?

He doubled Target's seafood business, and now he is moving on

Negotiations drag on as buyers and sellers disagree on farmed salmon prices

To go or not to go? That's not the question

UK seafood giant Young’s 'preparing for significant growth' as it returns to black

Shareholder group makes bid to buy up rest of aquaculture giant NTS

Aqua-Spark’s Bluegrove raises $13 million in first round of Series B funding

As aquaculture booms, this sector is poised to win big

New figures show Mowi's salmon losses in Eastern Canada far higher than first thought

AquaChile and Mowi are the latest to fall victim to algal bloom outbreak

Aker Biomarine appoints exec to spearhead sales of its core krill oil brand

He doubled Target's seafood business, and now he is moving on

Mowi earnings almost triple in fourth quarter despite mortalities in Canada

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'Jesus, we've been doing land-based farming for 30 years': Stolt Nielsen CEO made call to list aquaculture business on strength of Atlantic Sapphire valuation

Skretting building Florida land-based salmon feed facility to supply Atlantic Sapphire

Nordic Aquafarms clears crucial hurdles in Maine, but will not start building anytime soon

Atlantic Sapphire targets near threefold increase in land-based salmon production in 2022

Hatchery for Nutreco-backed land-based salmon project in China nears completion

Atlantic Sapphire under scrutiny for accounting irregularities related to breach of covenant on $50 million loan

Early sexual maturation the latest setback for land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire

Largest-ever retail promotion of land-based farmed salmon falls short of expectations

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Shares of land-based salmon farming group Atlantic Sapphire hit all-time low, but recover by day's end

Nutreco, Akva investing in US land-based salmon project AquaCon

Samherji expands farming facilities in 'precursor' to massive land-based salmon project

Can more 'focus on accountability' put Atlantic Sapphire back on track after string of disasters?

Analyst slashes target price for Atlantic Sapphire in half

'It wasn't selling': Atlantic Sapphire's land-based salmon dropped from key retailer

Land-based steelhead farming project hopes to give a Canadian lumber mill a new lease on life

'Norwegian land-based salmon operators have poisoned the well': Executive says rival's mistakes forced strategic shift

‘A bloodbath for RAS companies’: Nordic Aquafarms takes swipe at land-based salmon farmers who've gone 'big, too fast'

Another top executive leaves Atlantic Sapphire as group struggles with fire fallout

SalMar, Broodstock Capital's billionaire backers invest in land-based salmon farming project

Earnings spike at Russia’s largest Atlantic salmon producer Russian Aquaculture

Alternative aquaculture feed supplier Protix brings new CCO onboard

Negotiations drag on as buyers and sellers disagree on farmed salmon prices

Fish farmer signs deal with Brazilian government to create world's largest offshore aquaculture operation

UK seafood processing sector searches for solutions as Brexit, COVID worsen labor shortage

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Cargill executive departs for Aqua-Spark backed insect meal producer

With over 300 major executives changing roles, it was a year of upheaval for seafood

Shipping worker dies in salmon farm accident

Salmon industry veteran passes away

SalMar Aker Ocean appoints Roy Reite as CEO

Sainsbury's seafood veteran exits to join Aquaculture Stewardship Council

Stavis promotes longtime seafood executive to CEO

Gerard van Balsfoort steps down as president of EU pelagic group after 16 years

John Connelly to leave NFI after 20 years

SeaBOS hires former Cermaq sustainability executive

Russian Fishery Company appoints new CEO

Aker Biomarine appoints exec to spearhead sales of its core krill oil brand

Royal Greenland CEO to step down after 11 years

Alternative aquaculture feed supplier Protix brings new COO onboard

Is the seafood industry losing its personal touch?

He doubled Target's seafood business, and now he is moving on

To go or not to go? That's not the question

American Seafoods hires former Environmental Defense Fund executive to lead sustainability strategy

Cermaq Chile appoints new managing director

Bristol Wave Seafoods makes 'legacy hire' with new president

Chile salmon airfreight costs fall, but hold well above pre-pandemic levels

Salmon farming giant Mowi latest to pull out of Boston Seafood Show

Strong demand, tighter supply: Farmed salmon suppliers are bullish on the US market

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Surimi sales are booming in the US, and this Walmart supplier has a plan to capitalize on it

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Seafood's new race to the bottom: Carbon emissions

Here is why no British seafood brand will ever make it big in America

Are plant-based seafood labels really misleading? Judge for yourself.

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How does the Bristol Bay wild sockeye salmon run keep breaking records?

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It's time to put 'Blue Food' at the center of the climate negotiating table

Buckle up! The container clog may continue until consumer spending changes

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Plant-based seafood needs accurate labeling. Let's call it mushed vegetables pressed into a shape.

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The seafood industry cannot surrender to climate change

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These are the critical reasons alternative seafood labeling has to improve, says former Stavis CEO

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Who farmed this fish?

Politicians have failed Northeast Atlantic pelagic stocks. Will €244 billion change their minds?

Alaska pollock's crazy train to nowhere

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The industry is missing the boat on tropical marine aquaculture

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'Eating our Way to Extinction' had full access to Scottish salmon farms but chose not to come

Big agriculture is having a major FOMO moment about seafood

'You have been getting away with it': Shipping costs aren't rising, they're normalizing

Asking candidates about vaccination status 'a potential minefield for UK seafood employers'

Opinion

Here's why the future is looking bright for seafood

No, land-based salmon farming doesn't get a free sustainability pass

Has COVID cured you of seafood trade shows?

Cermaq Chile appoints new managing director

Salmon farming giant Mowi had a plan to open 2,000 restaurants across China. It ended up with five.

Boston show organizer says the show will go on despite cancellations related to omicron

Grieg Seafoods 2021 harvest volume falls short of target

Cermaq pulls out of Boston Seafood Show

Washington state Supreme Court dismisses NGO lawsuit over Cooke trout permits

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‘A cracking deal’: Acquisition of Costco smoked salmon supplier a big win, analysts say

Analysts project 40% drop in containership rates, but little relief on congestion

Cutthroat UK retail sector poses perils for new seafood brands, former Young's executive says

Iceland's first suspected ISA outbreak on salmon farm confirmed

After watching ugly pollock dispute, Norebo makes its own bid for Marine Stewardship Council certificate

French hope to cap off a banner year for smoked salmon with a strong holiday season

Backed with Kahoot money, this company is targeting 100,000 metric tons of wild and farmed cod production

Shrimp sector battered by shipping delays as costs escalate

After years without representation, fight heats up for Alaska Native seats on powerful fisheries council

Salmon farming industry wrestles with its single biggest sustainability hurdle

Maruha Nichiro joins the wave of price hikes as it announces frozen retail increase

'Grieg has been wise enough to see the writing on the wall': In landmark agreement, First Nation takes the lead on salmon farming lease

Blue Harvest Fisheries CEO: As global supply chains collapsed, domestic aquaculture took on new urgency

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'We are very enthusiastic about finding other legs': Sanford CEO Peter Reidie on how he is future-proofing New Zealand's biggest seafood company

Alaska's shrinking wild salmon taking alarming toll on industry revenues

First ever case of pathogenic ISA suspected in farmed salmon in Iceland

'An extremely difficult situation': Nissui hikes surimi, frozen seafood prices as soaring costs tighten their grip

Walmart supplier The Fishin' Co. goes on hiring and firing spree

Mowi holds back on Newfoundland expansion after steep losses in Canadian operations

'An ongoing nightmare': Seafood industry's shipping headaches grow as US ports overrun with traffic

American Seafoods hires former Environmental Defense Fund executive to lead sustainability strategy

Margins rise at Cargill's Norwegian operations despite spiking raw material costs

Peru anchovy season winds down with 98% of 2 million MT quota harvested

Pacific cod giant Bristol Wave Seafoods names new president

Russian pollock sector uninspired by Chinese port re-opening as new market tack drives change

A vaccinated workforce means an easier start to the Alaska pollock 'A' season

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Private equity's massive war chest puts seafood industry in the crosshairs

True World's surimi division acquired by rival US firm

This $132 million fund just invested in the shrimp sector, despite its initial reservations

Here's why this venture capital fund is backing Southwind's new plant-based seafood partner

Salmon farmer Bakkafrost inks $790 million sustainability-linked credit facility

Private equity firm invests in real-time fish monitoring group, its first ocean fund investment

Altor, Goldman Sachs-backed feed company looks for aquaculture growth strategy

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Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov snaps up pollock, salmon harvesting group

This $6 billion magnate just made his first investment in salmon farming, and he did it in a land-based project

'The ultimate goal is evolving': Aqua-Spark, Rabobank join latest financing round for aquaculture analytics group

Aqua-Spark’s Bluegrove raises $13 million in first round of Series B funding

Mowi earnings almost triple in fourth quarter despite mortalities in Canada

Shareholder group makes bid to buy up rest of aquaculture giant NTS

Earnings spike at Russia’s largest Atlantic salmon producer Russian Aquaculture

Grieg Seafoods 2021 harvest volume falls short of target

Aquaculture's rapid growth kicks equipment sector consolidation into high gear

Margins rise at Cargill's Norwegian operations despite spiking raw material costs

Fresh off a new acquisition, Walmart surimi supplier Aquamar readies a radical innovation plan

Tilapia farmer Lake Harvest gets $7 million cash injection as investment fund Aqua-Spark sets to work on Africa agenda

Danish equipment supplier wins another multi-million dollar contract with Russian Fishery Company as it races to upgrade processing vessels

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Citing omicron's spread, Peter Pan Seafood pulls out of Boston Seafood Show

Costco turns to new surimi supplier after exclusive vendor fails to fulfill contract

Is 2022 the year US offshore aquaculture finally gains traction?

Investment giants place record $90 million bet on aquaculture feed technology startup

Tilapia farmer Lake Harvest get cash injection as Aqua-Spark sets to work on Africa agenda

Another Chilean salmon farmer suffers mass die-off from algal bloom

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American Seafoods affiliates argue 'freight forwarding' status should exempt them massive government fines

Trident Seafoods acquires catcher-processor vessel, and a larger share of Alaska pollock

'It is impossible to meet these requirements': Russia fears new China labeling laws could cause complete stop to H&G pollock exports

Major shipping line tells seafood firms to avoid China COVID-19 epicenter

Russia pollock quota to dip 3.5% in upcoming season

Norway, EU, UK agree on North Sea quotas, with haddock, herring emerging as the winners

More big names awarded US government pollock bids, capping off near-record year

King & Prince's new fish sandwich contract threatened by Alaska pollock Bayside chaos

Russian Fishery Company appoints new CEO

Royal Greenland CEO to step down after 11 years

'Mother of all supply chain stumbles' puts global seafood industry at risk, experts warn

Fish farmer signs with Brazilian government for world's largest offshore aquaculture concession

Aquaculture's rapid growth kicks equipment sector consolidation into high gear

China's ports reopen for Russian pollock, but the industry still plans to pivot away

Fresh off a new acquisition, Walmart surimi supplier Aquamar readies a radical innovation plan

Tilapia farmer Lake Harvest gets $7 million cash injection as investment fund Aqua-Spark sets to work on Africa agenda

With over 60 major deals last year, even COVID can't stop seafood's M&A streak

Sea Harvest buys Australian fishing operation in $50 million deal

Citing omicron spread, Peter Pan Seafood pulls out of Boston Seafood Show

A vaccinated workforce means an easier start to the Alaska pollock 'A' season

'It's going to be a tough year': UK fish and chip shops battle the rising cost of everything

Which processors paid the highest prices for Bristol Bay sockeye salmon in 2021?

Norway Royal Salmon merges with SalmoNor, creating world's sixth-largest salmon farmer

Sea Harvest buys Australian fishing operation in $50 million deal

Russian Fishery Company races to fit out vessels, awarding multi-million dollar contract

Transpacific container rates look poised to rise again as omicron cases spike in China, California

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Algal bloom wipes out 760,000 fish at Chilean salmon farmer Blumar sites

UK government playing 'fast and loose' with livelihoods as slashed quota leaves seafood sector facing serious cod shortfall

Bumble Bee hires former vape company executive to to lead customer development

Blossoming volumes give land-based aquaculture producer The Kingfish Company a bumper fourth quarter

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UK seafood giant Young’s 'preparing for significant growth' as it returns to black

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