Editor’s choice: Fisher King sale kicks off; India, Ecuador top US shrimp import list
Neil Ramsden, EMEA editor of Undercurrent, brings you a roundup of the main stories from the previous week
Boston 2022: Fortune seeks to expand fulfillment business beyond Wisconsin; Bakkafrost’s new plane
The Boston seafood show is back after a two-year absence and Undercurrent News has sent a large crew of reporters to cover the event, scheduled for March 13-15
Broadliner Gordon Food Service to buy Canadian meat, seafood supplier
Macgregors is one of Canada's longest-standing food distributors with brand partnerships that include Certified Angus Beef, 44th Street, Niman Ranch and Jail Island Salmon
New Zealand’s Sanford warns of Omicron impacts on supply chain
Q1 saw market demand, and prices, improve as some regions emerged from under COVID-19 lockdowns, but the fishing and aquaculture firm warned of new impacts to come
US startup Impact Food rolling out new whole-cut tuna substitute
Impact Food generally favors flavor over content, saying that its tuna might not have, say, as much protein as tuna, but it would have a more realistic taste
Champlain closed deal for US lobster supplier as sale process ramped up
Canadian private equity Champlain Financial closed a deal for a US live lobster specialist last year, as the ongoing sale process for its seafood platform ramped up
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay to avoid lobster roll controversy at Boston eatery
Ramsay's Kitchen, which opened Jan. 24, is serving both the Maine lobster roll and the Connecticut lobster roll
Over initial COVID shocks, UK’s Kirwin’s makes 2021 profit
Bad debts and the initial shock of coronavirus pushed it into the red in 2020, but 'careful management' and the establishment of a new company meant a brighter picture since
Price gap growing between large- and mid-sized US sea scallops
A total of 24,564 lbs of sea scallops sold Monday for $654,149 at the seafood auction in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an average of $26.63/lb
Two Washington state lobster roll spots to close over high meat prices
Chad White said he is being charged more than $64 per pound wholesale for the meat and would have to raise his prices to $59 for a lobster roll to maintain a healthy margin
