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Biden Administration unveils largest single seafood purchase in USDA history Grasshopper aquafeed venture collapses Camanchaca hammered by algal blooms in Q1, dives to $7.4 million loss Nissui-owned Nordic Seafood sees earnings plunge 28% amid COVID-19 fallout Chilean salmon farmer Nova Austral widens losses as prices plunge, demand drags Bakkafrost's Scottish division suffers $1 million loss in first quarter as foodservice closures bite Private equity firm Bluefront takes control of aquatech company, brings ex-Mowi CEO on board Board of land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire gives CEO fresh share option package Clearwater Seafoods co-founder Risley calls for halt to salmon farming expansion in eastern Canada Stavis Seafoods adds operations exec to drive its overall growth strategy

Biden Administration unveils largest single seafood purchase in USDA history

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Camanchaca hammered by algal blooms in Q1, dives to $7.4 million loss

Nissui-owned Nordic Seafood sees earnings plunge 28% amid COVID-19 fallout

Foodservice in Focus

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Clearwater co-founder puts himself at odds with Cooke on salmon farming expansion

Pacific whiting fishery to open with lower quota, disagreement between US and Canada

Private equity firm takes control of aquatech company, brings ex-Mowi CEO on board

Royal Greenland's fresh fish ambitions will push the group outside its comfort zone

US lawmakers want to expand SIMP to combat IUU fishing, human rights abuses in seafood supply chain

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Stavis Seafoods adds operations exec to drive its overall growth strategy

Don Lightner, shrimp industry veteran that helped solve EMS crisis, dies

Former Leroy Seafood, Seaborn executive joins Icelandic Salmon as sales director

Look who's back! Ex-Mowi CEO takes role shaping Norwegian aquaculture's future leaders

Europe president of Asian surimi giant Lucky Union dies

Clearwater Seafood names new sales manager for Spain and Portugal

Young's on hiring spree as seafood demand soars in UK

Norcod hires ex-Stolt, Aleutian Seafoods exec as CFO

Thai Union innovation exec moves over to CP Foods

Circumstances of Leroy employee's death draws criticism from Norwegian labor inspectors

Nordic Aquafarms' land-based yellowtail subsidiary brings on new CEO

Peter Pan signs on former Mowi exec as it undergoes restructure

SalMar chairman Atle Eide stepping down

Norwegian halibut farmer appoints former Pepsi, Procter & Gamble executive as chief commercial officer

Two former Bumble Bee executives escape jail time in tuna price-fixing case

Cargill names new president for aquaculture feed division

Brim chairman joins Tesco, ex-Sanford boss on Marine Stewardship Council’s board of trustees

Akva Group names CEO for land-based aquaculture division

Salmon Evolution appoints executive to focus on Dongwon land-based salmon JV

Mitsubishi-owned Princes turns to Coke for new commercial head

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Fish oil prices plummet 21% year-on-year

Nova Austral widens losses as salmon prices plunge, demand drags

Atlantic Sapphire CEO awarded fresh stock option package

Bakkafrost's Scottish division suffers $1 million loss in first quarter as foodservice closures bite

Grieg battles through another quarter as biology and prices hamper recovery

Retailer expands sales of Atlantic Sapphire's salmon to 1,200 locations after positive reactions

Norway stops all vessel sales to foreign buyers after Samherji deal draws scrutiny

Slipping volumes, prices set salmon farmer SalMar off to a rocky start in 2021

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'It's pretty impressive stuff': Artificial intelligence tackling offshore aquaculture's biggest hurdle

Cooke CEO lays out salmon farming expansion plans for Nova Scotia, calls opponents 'ill informed'

Shades of Silver Bay? Bristol Bay salmon fishermen may forge their own path after $130 million loss

With Disneyland and KFC wins, Russian giant finds Chinese have a growing appetite for pollock

Ex-Marine Harvest CEO: Salmon farming in traditional netpens likely gone within this decade

Offshore or land-based? Why this exec thinks open ocean farming holds far less risk of 'dramatic failures'

'The Samherji case is not unique': DNB fined $48 million for failures on money-laundering oversight

Thai Union sees 'meteoric' sales potential with first-ever King Oscar tuna launch into US

Mowi lands branded salmon in retail giant Target's locations across the US

'If we hadn't got that right we wouldn't be here today': A big bet paid off for this alternative feed producer

UK government branded a 'national embarrassment’ as it fails to reach fisheries agreement with Norway

Diver dies at AquaChile salmon farming site

Visscher Seafood leveraging stake in Scottish salmon farmer to expand organic market

Meet 'the Gucci of surimi'

Bullish sentiment creeps into fishmeal market after quota announcement

Circumstances of Leroy employee's death draws criticism from Norwegian labor inspectors

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

Russian investment fund plans $40 million land-based salmon farm in Kazakhstan

OBI Seafoods suspends operations at Alaska cannery, citing poor salmon forecast

Lawsuit alleging Agrosuper contract breach killed Santa Barbara deal is headed to trial

Mowi forced to cull another 3 million fish as minister shows 'cavalier disregard' for salmon farming sector

Pro-vegan activists that targeted Cooke take aim at Atlantic Sapphire

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Japanese giant Marubeni to partner with land-based salmon farmer

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Alternative ingredients poised to play key role in reducing aquaculture's CO2 footprint

First batch of US-grown GM farmed salmon already sold out

Norcod hires ex-Stolt, Aleutian Seafoods exec as CFO

Amerra-backed salmon byproducts firm Biomega building new facility in Denmark

Grieg-backed land-based salmon farmer drops plan for bond loan

Wanted: Salmon farming company to produce 20,000 metric tons in Atlantic Canada

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This investor is betting the impact of aquaculture tech is only just beginning

Norway Royal Salmon earnings sink 20% on ‘unsatisfactory’ costs, lower prices

‘Toughest year in recent history’: Market turmoil, plummeting prices hammer Royal Greenland

Flexible value chain stabilizes earnings for salmon farmer Bakkafrost, returning 'satisfactory' Q1

$100 million Walton-backed fund makes first seafood-related investments

Foley Fish snapped up by $1 billion foodservice distributor The Chef's Warehouse

Japan seafood giant Nichimo looks to land-based salmon to shore up its future

Spanish group Profand acquires Isidro 1952 assets

‘On pace for another stellar year’: Birds Eye parent smashes another record as frozen food boom continues

BioMar earnings hit by uncertainty in Chile salmon, Ecuador shrimp segments

Salmones Austral pushes back $47 million share issue, citing low farmed salmon prices and COVID

Russian investment fund plans $40 million land-based salmon farm in Kazakhstan

Camanchaca hammered by algal blooms in Q1, dives to $7.4 million loss

Nissui-owned Nordic Seafood sees earnings plunge 28% amid COVID-19 fallout

Chilean salmon farmer Nova Austral widens losses as prices plunge, demand drags

Bakkafrost's Scottish division suffers $1 million loss in first quarter as foodservice closures bite

Private equity firm Bluefront takes control of aquatech company, brings ex-Mowi CEO on board

CEO of land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire awarded stock options valued at $30 million

Norwegian aquaculture giant NTS grows profit 21% in Q1 thanks to Froy merger

Slipping volumes, prices set salmon farmer SalMar off to a rocky start in 2021

Flexible value chain stabilizes earnings for salmon farmer Bakkafrost, returning 'satisfactory' Q1

Norway Royal Salmon earnings sink 20% on ‘unsatisfactory’ costs, lower prices

Former Leroy Seafood, Seaborn executive joins Icelandic Salmon as sales director

Mowi continues global rollout of branded salmon with Belgium launch

UK industry trade group Seafish appoints new chairman, board members

Spanish group Profand acquires Isidro 1952 assets

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Espersen sees UK facility as key to growing market share

United States Seafoods apologizes for, fires COVID-exposed crewmembers that visited local bar

Samherji subsidiary Icefresh snaps up 40% of Norwegian fishing group

Norway cod suppliers bracing for 'turbulent' European market in months ahead

New factory trawler for Murmansk-based company overturns at shipyard, killing 2

A decade after collapse, cod farming is back. Can the industry get it right this time?

'It should grow at great speed': Is this the next big pangasius producer?

Alaska pollock surimi supply catching up as domestic demand surges

Pacific whiting fishery to open with lower quota, disagreement between US and Canada

Royal Greenland's fresh fish ambitions will push the group outside its comfort zone

Norway stops all vessel sales to foreign buyers after Samherji deal draws scrutiny

Norcod hires ex-Stolt, Aleutian Seafoods exec as CFO

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‘Toughest year in recent history’: Market turmoil, plummeting prices hammer Royal Greenland

‘On pace for another stellar year’: Birds Eye parent smashes another record as frozen food boom continues

Russia's Western Bering Sea pollock provisionally meets Marine Stewardship Council standard, but opposition mounts

Marine Stewardship Council: Norway's eco-label loss shows there is a ‘line in the sand’

CEOs for Trident, American Seafoods, Bumble Bee among those backing $25 million in federal funds to market seafood

With Disneyland and KFC wins, Russian giant finds Chinese have a growing appetite for pollock

Norway cod's Marine Stewardship Council certification gets up to six-month reprieve

As canned tuna sales start to normalize, Thai Union still wins on fresh, frozen recovery

Salmon prices spike, hitting heights not seen since early 2020

Alaska's iconic Copper River wild salmon season to open May 17

Mowi fined $450,000 for salmon escape

Fire rips through processing facility at Spanish giant

‘Toughest year in recent history’: Market turmoil, plummeting prices hammer Royal Greenland

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Why are these people representing the aquaculture industry?

The one COVID-19 opportunity seafood has yet to corner

People want advice on land-based salmon farming projects. Here's what I tell them.

A flood of new funds are investing in aquaculture, fisheries and seafood. Will they succeed?

Sustainable fisheries are the secret ingredient in seafood's future

Jeff Bezos is investing his billions in the wrong kind of seafood

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Get real. People aren't scrambling to hear from unknown aquaculture industry executives.

$2 billion doesn't buy you much fish in the land-based aquaculture world

Land-based aquaculture has huge potential. But caution is key.

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This is why we chose 'unlikely champions of aquaculture' for SXSW event

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Aquaculture experts have more knowledge, but lack credibility to influence broader audience

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IntraFish editor owes SXSW aquaculture panelists an apology

It took a pandemic to boost seafood consumption

Norwegian salmon farms are becoming less efficient. What’s the way forward?

Would the world be better without voluntary certification standards?

Land-based aquaculture producers may be missing a key marketing opportunity

Does this industry care about anything?

When aquaculture becomes a pawn in 'ethics' branding

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Salmon farming group says Patagonia should engage with Cooke to learn 'the real story about aquaculture'

Has the 'invisible fish' broken the mold on seafood marketing?

Nearly 30 workers at Chilean salmon farmer being monitored for potential COVID-19 infections

CEOs for Trident, American Seafoods, Bumble Bee among those backing $25 million in federal funds to market seafood

Skretting considering site near Atlantic Sapphire's land-based salmon facility

Foodservice in Focus

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

Russia's Western Bering Sea pollock provisionally meets MSC standard, but opposition mounts

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Judge upholds decision requiring Mowi's Newfoundland expansion undergo further review

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Fire rips through processing facility at Spanish giant

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CEO Pay: Pandemic be damned, seafood's top executives take home healthy salaries

As canned tuna sales start to normalize, Thai Union still wins on fresh, frozen recovery

CEOs for Trident, American Seafoods, Bumble Bee among those backing $25 million in federal funds to market seafood

Thai Union sees 'meteoric' sales potential with first-ever King Oscar tuna launch into US

Two former Bumble Bee executives escape jail time in tuna price-fixing case

Sysco, Costco, Walmart close to $6.5 million price-fixing settlement with Thai Union's Chicken of the Sea

Tuna giant Sapmer pleads for crew vaccinations after COVID deaths

Flurry of directors pass through revolving door at Mitsubishi-owned Princes

Dolphin Safe group alleges 'Seaspiracy' left out critical details from executive's interview

Suez canal crisis may cause weeks of delays, higher freight costs for Asia-EU seafood shipments

First MSC-certified yellowfin tuna hits shelves of UK retailer Waitrose

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'We expect double-digit growth': CEO of Calvo-owned seafood group hopes to ride retail boom

The story behind Tesco's ambitious new tuna sourcing strategy

Thai Union pledges to a fully transparent tuna supply chain by 2025

'We are stronger today than 12 months ago': Continued lockdowns see Thai Union earnings surge

Tuna prices are slumping, but US canned tuna imports are booming

Spanish canning giant Jealsa sees double-digit growth in 2020

Mowi strikes deal with UK supermarket giant Sainsbury's for new seafood product range

'You can't move fast enough if you keep technology to yourself': Thai Union's plan to future-proof the global shrimp market

Coast Seafood goes to competition authority over 'startling' Blom and Firda salmon farming collaboration

The end of salmon farming as we know it?

Grieg Seafood's HR director decided to answer one last email before leaving work. Just hours later, she'd be undergoing brain surgery.

Shrimp industry veteran that helped solve EMS crisis dies

‘On pace for another stellar year’: Birds Eye parent smashes another record as frozen boom continues

Grieg Seafood suspects ISA at Norway salmon farm

Look who's back! Ex-Mowi CEO Alf-Helge Aarskog takes role shaping Norwegian aquaculture's future leaders

BioMar earnings hit by uncertainty in Chile salmon, Ecuador shrimp segments

French surimi giant Fleury Michon in talks to sell Canadian subsidiary

Marine Stewardship Council: Norway's eco-label loss shows there is a ‘line in the sand’

With Disneyland and KFC wins, Russian giant finds Chinese have a growing appetite for pollock

Offshore or land-based? Why this Aker executive thinks open ocean farming holds far less risk of 'dramatic failures'

SalMar's Icelandic salmon operation hikes production targets as it snaps up new facilities

‘The coming of age of the innovation space': Why the impact of aquaculture tech is only just beginning

Young's on hiring spree as seafood demand soars in UK

Cyber attack takes $6 million toll on Akva's Q1

Japan's aquaculture feed production slides, but farmed coho shows strength

Salmon farmer Scottish Sea Farms hits 'zero antibiotics' target