Boston day two recap: NFI counters Alaskan view on Russian ban’s impact on supply from China
Undercurrent News is reporting live from the Seafood Expo North America trade show in Boson, Massachusetts
Tesco becomes first UK retailer to stock MSC, purse-seine tuna
Beginning at the start of 2022, retailer Tesco started buying MSC-certified canned tuna from suppliers that were not exclusively pole-and-line for the first time
‘Alternative’ seafood investments hit $175m in 2021 as cell-cultivated interest grew
Investment in plant-based, cell-cultivated and fermented seafood alternatives has reached $313m since 2013
UK gov’t issues sanctions against Russian whitefish imports
Under the new sanctions, there will be an additional 35% tariff applied to many products imported from Russia, including whitefish
Iceland’s whitefish prices go on rising, annual drop delayed
Typically, fish prices on Iceland's whitefish auctions drop to their lowest level from February to May at the height of the catching season -- that has not been the case this year
China suspends imports from three Ecuadorian shrimp packers
China's General Administration of Customs said eight samples from five batches of frozen vannamei shrimp tested positive for the coronavirus
American Aquafarms’ sister bids to be first firm raising cod in closed pens
New player Purecod has received a permit to farm Atlantic cod in closed pens with a maximum standing biomass allowance of 3,120t in Roneset, in Storfjorden
Seafood still seeing y-o-y value declines at UK retail, despite inflation
Meat, fish, and poultry continue to see value decline when compared with the strong household purchasing seen last year during much stricter lockdown restrictions
Young’s parent Sofina launches plant-based seafoods
Greenland Seafood has launched a rice protein-based range of frozen 'seafoods', for both retail and foodservice
Vietnam’s Omicron outbreak hits pangasius exports to China
China's General Administration of Customs of China has suspended four Vietnamese exporters from shipping seafood to China due to positive COVID-19 on packages