By Tom Seaman

Tom Seaman, editorial director of Undercurrent News, brings you a roundup of the main stories from the previous week 

Vietnamese tuna export value saw a strong increase year over year amounting to $757 million, up by 16.6% compared to 2020 figures

The company posted a total harvest of 117,000t for the quarter, some 11% above expectations; yet operational margins were down 10% on analyst predictions

By María Feijóo

Cooke's Wanchese Fish Company's new shrimp trawler 'Destiny' is on its way to Argentina's Mar del Plata fishing grounds in time for the offshore season

By Neil Ramsden

Spot prices for all three origins look set to remain high in week three of 2022, as Chile's algal bloom plays into buyers' thinking

Mowi was the single Norwegian salmon farmer to improve its production cost picture across the full year, while the algal bloom shows how the tight supply picture can become tighter still

Forever Oceans has signed an agreement with the Brazilian government to ocean-raise fish in two zones totaling 64,200 hectares, an area three-and-a-half times the size of Washington DC

By María Feijóo

Strong supply and increasingly lower sales through retail and other channels have put a lot of pressure on Brazilian tilapia prices, which suffered more drops

Chile's Sernapesca reported mortalities of 2,666t, of which 82% have been successfully withdrawn, at five fish farms belonging to Blumar, Salmones Austral and AquaChile

Pedro Courard has worked in the salmon industry for more than 20 years, holding senior management positions for several companies and organizations