Editor’s choice: Boston show exhibitors ‘blindsided’; Mowi moves for NTS
Neil Ramsden, EMEA editor of Undercurrent News, brings you a roundup of the main stories from the previous week
Scotland gives first semi-closed fish farm the green light
Loch Long Salmon welcomed SEPA's decision to issue the permit for its proposed site on Loch Long, at Beinn Reithe near Arrochar
Norway, Chile salmon prices climb once more, Scots finally ease
Spot prices for salmon farmed in Norway and in Chile are strong again for week five of 2022, while Scottish prices are finally easing after an unusual post-Christmas lift
Norwegian vessels fill Icelandic waters, but capelin fishing slow
The maximum number of Norwegian vessels that can fish in Icelandic waters are now on-site, but fishing has been slow going thus far
Espersen makes ‘contingency plans’ for possible Russian sanctions over Ukraine
One of the largest seafood processors in Europe is planning for a worst-case scenario for the sector stemming from a Russian invasion of Ukraine
Norway Royal Salmon expects harvests to leap in 2023
NRS -- which is in the process of being merged with SalmoNor, and which may yet be acquired by Mowi -- said some changes in smolt supply could boost its output
Russian Crab launches first in series of new crabbers
The Captain Alexandrov is the first of seven crab harvesting vessels being built for Russian Crab at the Onega shipbuilding plant in Petrozadovsk
Pelagic roe prices to fall in 2022, but room in market for both herring, capelin
Iceland's bumper capelin quota should bring down what have been record prices for herring and capelin roe, but sources feel there is room on the market for both
Watch Aquamaof, Cargill execs give aquaculture outlooks
Shai Silbermann, VP of marketing and sales at Aquamaof, and Helene Ziv-Douki, Cargill's president of aqua nutrition, recently gave opinions on land-based shrimp and salmon farming
‘Tired’ Danish magnate sells vessel, quotas after 2021 prosecution
Henning Kjeldsen says he has sold all his rights to land pelagic fish, as well as the new vessel Gitte Henning, which is still under construction