Last Week's Must-Read Seafood Headlines: Spanish smuggling; robots rise; pollock cold war; salmon numbers

snap up the company, or at least who is in the market for a pollock giant. Like last week, land-based salmon farming just won’t leave the headlines...; and this private equity investor also told us it was eyeing a move into land-based farming. Spain and Malta were in the headlines for all the wrong

NEWS  intrafish.com 7 hours old

FDA OK's single-cell protein ingredient for salmon diets

, in the United States with all the new land-based salmon farming projects,” Feinberg said. “Florida, Maine, North Carolina...our product fits nicely

Aquaculture  intrafish.com 7 hours old

Atlantic Sapphire closes $86 million credit deal

Land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire sent out its first notice of borrowing on the $86 million (€76.1 million) credit facility with DNB and Denmark’s export credit agency EKF, the company said in a notification to the Oslo Bors. The debt package includes a $17 million (€15 million) Bridge Facility with DNB, adding additional liquidity for the company and bringing the total committed amount from $69 million (€61 million) to $86 million (€76

Finance  intrafish.com 7 hours old

Aller Aqua launches RAS-specific feed

Danish feed company Aller Aqua is launching a new feed, designed specifically for land-based fish farming. According to the company, the “PowerRAS” concept meets a high demand for a feed designed specifically for recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS) in terms of efficiency, optimal water quality and subsequent fish growth. The concept is the result of continuous research and trial work at Aller Aqua research in combination with field trials. According to

Aquaculture  intrafish.com 7 hours old

Norway's license costs are making land-based farms increasingly viable

country may make land-based salmon farming more profitable. Trond Mørk Pedersen, innovation director at the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (FHF), which funded the study, found that a 45,000 cubic meter land-based facility with a production capacity of 6,000 metric tons would be equivalent to five...! Industry Report: The land-based salmon farming revolution -- The land-based facility, meanwhile, would require an estimated NOK 607 million (€62.2 million

Aquaculture  intrafish.com 15 Feb 12:12 GMT

Why Patagonia Provisions doesn't use an MSC label

these little guys," she said." Embed: mussels facebook spain A promising future for land-based seafood Outside of mussels, though, aquaculture is an...practice as harmful to wild salmon runs, the division is more optimistic about land-based salmon farming. "We're watching it all the time and looking at...on that." -- OUT NOW! Industry Report: The land-based salmon farming revolution --

Marketplace  intrafish.com 15 Feb 12:12 GMT

Fully automated salmon processing is closer than you think

the way forward. "We see the changes faster now than ever before," Joker said. DNB: Land-based salmon farming volumes falling short of projections

Processor  intrafish.com 15 Feb 12:11 GMT

Akva Q4 earnings drop, despite record high orders

excluding the effect of Egersund Net. Revenues and earnings for Akva's land-based segment both increased year on year, with revenues for the division

Finance  intrafish.com 15 Feb 12:10 GMT

Private equity investor eyes move into land-based farming

Investment group Broodstock Capital is considering investments in land-based fish farms in the “near future," a strategic shift from the group's focus on ancillary and support businesses to the sector. Why Virginia? Land-based salmon farmer lured by market proximity, grants Broodstock Capital Partner Kjetil Haga told IntraFish the group wants to utilize its “unique understanding and knowledge” of land-based aquaculture technology, and is planning

Aquaculture  intrafish.com 13 Feb 12:12 GMT

DNB: Land-based salmon farming volumes falling short of projections

Analysts at DNB Bank have say they continue to see “solid rationale for land-based fish farming” given rising costs in conventional netpen salmon...in the land-based salmon farming sector -- more than double the first of only two years prior. While some of that is delayed projects, generally developments have grown in number and scale, said the bank. Why Virginia? Land-based salmon farmer lured by market proximity, grants The number of new projects

Aquaculture  intrafish.com 13 Feb 12:12 GMT