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Norwegian tycoon buys $1 million worth of land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire's shares 'The market is very strong': Norway farmed salmon prices rise despite ongoing logistics issues E-commerce seen as major seafood market driver in years ahead Danish seafood processing giant Espersen reopens Vietnam facility 'slowly but surely' as country battles COVID US, China markets drive rise in Russian crab giant's export sales 'Arbitrary and unfair': Mowi questions motivation for ejection from salmon farming in key Canada region Judge rejects American Seafoods affiliates' attempt to delay Bayside legal battle Ecuador shrimp prices hit more than three-year high Australian kingfish farmer Clean Seas reports record sales, first positive cash flow in 3 years Watch: Trident Seafoods founder Chuck Bundrant honored on floor of US Senate

'Arbitrary and unfair': Mowi questions motivation for ejection from salmon farming in key Canada region

Danish fish processing giant Espersen reopens Vietnam facility 'slowly but surely' as country battles COVID

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'The market is very strong': Norwegian farmed salmon prices rise despite ongoing logistics issues

Judge rejects American Seafoods affiliates' attempt to delay Bayside legal battle

Online purchases could account for 36% of total seafood sales by 2025, expert says

Norwegian tycoon buys $1 million worth of land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire's shares

This fast-moving company doesn't want consumers to stop eating salmon. Just less of it.

UK competition authorities investigate Grieg Shetland, Scottish Sea Farms deal

Analyst slashes target price for Atlantic Sapphire in half

US, China markets drive rise in Russian crab giant's export sales

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Groundfish Forum projects stable whitefish supply in 2022

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Mowi given green light for 'phenomenal' $20 million salmon processing facility upgrade

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Trident Seafoods, Alaska community development group settle dispute over processing facility costs

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EU readies tariffs on 'politically resonant' Scottish salmon as trade war looms

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US government presses judge to allow it to collect fines against Alaska firms despite injunction

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

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Ecuador shrimp prices hit more than three-year high

Atlantic Sapphire CEO snaps up $400,000 in shares as more bad news hits land-based salmon farmer

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Thai Union appoints group sustainability director to replace Darian McBain

Fresh off Italy listing, The Kingfish Company strikes retail deal with French giant Auchan

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BioMar appoints former Hendrix Genetics executive as marketing director for salmon

UK seafood association Seafish appoints new communications director

Land-based project Columbi Salmon appoints COO for aquaponics subsidiary

Land-based aquaculture equipment supplier AquaMaof appoints new salmon R&D specialist

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New fisheries minister takes the baton in Norway

Rafferty takes over as Cermaq CEO as Molvik steps down

Asian feed giant Grobest appoints new CEO

Aqua-Spark, BP-backed alternative feed ingredients producer Calysta names new CFO

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Thai Union appoints group sustainability director to replace Darian McBain

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BioMar appoints MD for new Vietnam business unit

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Chuck Bundrant, architect of modern Alaska seafood industry, dies at 79

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Former Young's, Royal Greenland executive joins surimi giant Viciunai

Icelandic giant Samherji hires ex-Brim executive for aquaculture division

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Judge refuses to delay case alleging AquaChile 'scuttled' Santa Barbara sale to Labeyrie

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

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

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Orca Bay, Odyssey merger created 'phenomenal' synergies ahead of Alaska Native group's exit

Sealaska sells off interest in Orca Bay, acquires stake in 2 Icelandic seafood firms

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Norwegian tycoon buys $1 million worth of land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire's shares

Private equity group hits halfway mark on $140 million oceans fund, closes in on first aquaculture investment

New Kverva-backed venture capital fund targeting ocean investments shuts down after a year

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

Thai Union enters $7 million joint venture for new packaging company

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US, China markets drive rise in Russian crab giant's export sales

Australian kingfish farmer Clean Seas reports record sales, first positive cash flow in 3 years

Atlantic Sapphire CEO snaps up $400,000 in shares as more bad news hits land-based salmon farmer

UK competition authorities investigate Grieg Shetland, Scottish Sea Farms deal

Israeli investor targets 18 percent stake in Akva Group

Analyst slashes target price for Atlantic Sapphire in half

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Australian kingfish farmer Clean Seas reports record sales, first positive cash flow in three years

Chuck Bundrant, architect of modern Alaska seafood industry, dies at 79

'Deeply disappointed': Scottish fishermen blast Young's Seafood for pelagic sourcing threats

'It's really dire': Experts warn no relief on the horizon from high shipping costs

EU offers concessions in Brexit trade fight, but threat of Scottish salmon tariffs remains

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Peter Pan CEO blasts Bayside Program for giving rivals 'unfair competitive advantage'

US Customs says offers to give American Seafoods relief to move pollock have been rejected

'It's brewing up a perfect storm': Fear grows as Norway's cod season approaches without Marine Stewardship Council certification

Russian Fishery Company begins to reap returns on value-added pollock investments as volumes surge

Nissui-owned Gorton's expanding McDonald's Filet-o-Fish production to West Coast

US surimi giants enter talks, but 'too early to speculate' on outcome

American Seafoods: US government wants to 'effectively put almost everyone along the supply chain out of business'

Wall Street Journal editorial board praises judge's decision to relieve Alaska pollock 'commodities catastrophe'

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

Does Russia still need the Chinese seafood processing sector?

'We will have the most modern fleet in the world': Russia wants to dominate fishing's future

Major refrigerated cargo shipping companies want American Seafoods to pay their Jones Act fines

Orca Bay, Odyssey merger created 'phenomenal' synergies ahead of Alaska Native group's exit

Espersen re-opens Vietnam facility 'slowly but surely' as country battles COVID

Judge rejects American Seafoods affiliates' attempt to delay Bayside legal battle

Australian kingfish farmer Clean Seas reports record sales, first positive cash flow in 3 years

US government presses judge to allow it to collect fines against Alaska firms despite injunction

Fresh off Italy listing, The Kingfish Company strikes retail deal with French giant Auchan

The Kingfish Company continues to grow retail presence, inking deal with Italian supermarket chain

'It's really dire': Experts warn no relief on the horizon from high shipping costs

Mowi workers return to remote Canada salmon facility in Klemtu following COVID halt

Russian fisheries giant Arkhangelsk takes delivery of the latest domestically built cod factory trawler

Israeli investor targets 18% stake in aquaculture equipment supplier Akva Group

'A tactic to extend immunity': American Seafoods wants to slow Bayside case to continue shipping, avoiding fines well into next year

The Kingfish Company continues to grow retail presence, inking deal with Italian supermarket chain

Mowi earnings soar in Q3 despite significant hit from Canada operations

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Alaska pollock's crazy train to nowhere

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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

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

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Has COVID cured you of seafood trade shows?

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Land-based salmon farming explosion came from years of hard work, not NGOs' blessing

Salmon farming companies are racking up the 'green' wins. Why aren't investors rewarding them?

The Hotel California of eco-labels?

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No large aquaculture operation has a free pass in the US

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'Do some research on your own': Clearwater founder spouts opinions, not facts on salmon farming

All aboard the itty bitty pollock train, plus a glimpse of farmed salmon's future

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Why is American Seafoods in trouble, and what happens next?

Why does marine feed ingredient certification keep changing?

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Messages mourning Bundrant's passing flood in from industry, politicians

Norwegian tax authorities place lien on home of Atlantic Sapphire CEO

Credit Suisse fined $550 million for wire fraud in massive tuna company scheme

Obituary: Chuck Bundrant, founder of Trident Seafoods

Blue Harvest, Quinn Fisheries unable to resolve vessel dispute in mediation with Carlos Rafael trust

Young’s Seafood latest to threaten to stop sourcing from Northeast Atlantic pelagic fisheries

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'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

Feuding politicians, social media trolls, even death threats: Developers of Europe's largest land-based salmon farming project are undeterred

Atlantic Sapphire explores raising steelhead trout, says species could be ideal for land-based Miami Bluehouse

$1 billion gone in just 8 months. Has the land-based salmon farming bubble finally burst?

Samherji executive on $370 million land-based plans: 'We know what we’re doing'

Nutreco: Slow growth, not mass-mortality, is biggest hurdle in land-based aquaculture's race to succeed

Atlantic Sapphire loses 17% of Danish harvest in another mass mortality event

Milarex owner makes investment in land-based fish farming firm

New Chile-backed company applies to build land-based farm in Canada

Andfjord to accelerate expansion to further de-risk project

AquaMaof: ‘Salmon is just the tip of the iceberg’ for RAS

Large land-based projects 'not going to happen' in Scotland

The upsides of starting local: Salmon Evolution on why it is building its first oepration in Norway

Listing in Oslo both a strength and challenge for land-based companies

Norwegian salmon group Gigante debuts on Oslo stock exchange

Land-based shrimp farming poised for a salmon-like investor boom

Proximar signs egg deal with Benchmark for Japan land-based salmon farm

Norway, Russia agree to slash Barents Sea cod, haddock quotas for 2022

Private equity firm snaps up scallop giant Northern Wind, merges with Canadian groups

Chile salmon farming industry downplays impact of state of emergency

Prove it: Environmental group wants cell-based seafood to back up its sustainability claims

Private equity firm makes first ocean fund investment in real-time aquaculture monitoring group

Russian whitefish giant signs deal to sharply increase sales of surimi, pollock fillets to China

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Despite 'nightmare' logistics, new buyers nudge farmed salmon prices higher

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Groundfish Forum projects stable whitefish supply in 2022

Whitefish suppliers step up efforts to tell the real story of 'cheap and rubbish' frozen fish

Technical problem forces early shut down of Cermaq's semi-closed containment salmon trial

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'We won't need to lay anyone off': Processor breathes sigh of relief as injunction frees up pollock blockage

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'I thought there would be more ongoing activity': Economists surprised by sharp decline in online retail sales

Fresh seafood is breakout star at US retail in first half as frozen, canned loses ground

Britain's seafood sales blow past pre-pandemic levels, and shoppers head back to chilled section

Foodservice in Focus

'There has never been such a shift in how people get their food'

Foodservice in Focus

The 'frenemies' disrupting the restaurant business are poised to have a big impact on seafood

'Their story needs to be told': Executive behind Grieg's Skuna Bay sees gold in California trout farmer

Foodservice in Focus

What can seafood expect when the foodservice sector finally recovers?

Russia subsidizing rail transport as cold stores fill up with unsold pollock

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

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How 'ghost kitchens' will change the game for seafood

'The market is very strong': Norwegian farmed salmon prices rise despite ongoing logistics issues

Online purchases could account for 35% of total seafood sales by 2025, expert says

US, China markets drive rise in Russian crab giant's export sales

Australian kingfish farmer Clean Seas reports record sales, first positive cash flow in 3 years

Thai Union appoints group sustainability director to replace Darian McBain

'Deeply disappointed': Scottish fishermen blast Young's Seafood for pelagic sourcing threats

Surging frozen fish sales open up new opportunities on Brazilian market, says retail analyst

US government presses judge to allow it to collect fines against Alaska firms despite injunction

UK competition authorities investigate Grieg Shetland, Scottish Sea Farms deal

Fresh off Italy listing, The Kingfish Company strikes retail deal with French giant Auchan

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

Class action plaintiffs in salmon price-fixing case involving Mowi, Cermaq and Leroy ask for more time

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

'Fish shouldn't fly’: This salmon farmer is challenging the industry to rethink ‘unneccesary’ shipping methods

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Grieg, Camanchaca buck trend on Q3 salmon farming harvest volumes as fellow producers report surge

New fisheries minister takes the baton in Norway

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

Cargill invests in land-based salmon farming firm, strikes feed partnership

Norwegian salmon farmer Midt-Norsk Havbruk suspects another deadly ISA outbreak

US salmon outlook strong as retail demand holds, foodservice stages comeback

Scotland's first semi-closed containment salmon farm submits planning application

Russian Fishery reaping big returns on value-added pollock investments

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