Whitefish consumer product prices must find ‘new level’
The rising costs for whitefish raw materials such as cod and pollock mean finished product prices will rise considerably in 2022, said the CEO of A. Espersen
P&P vessel makes huge blue whiting spillage off coast of France
The Margiris, the second-largest super-trawler in the world, spilled more than 100,000 dead blue whiting in the Atlantic after a net ruptured
Spain’s Profand appoints board of directors, Caladero name disappears
Profand has completed a corporate restructuring after the entry, last September, of the investment arm of Banca March, Corporacion Financiera Alba
Loch Duart begins operations with Scotland’s first hybrid feed barge
The new barge is powered by a hybrid system that should reduce the Oldany site's diesel consumption by roughly 60%, Loch Duart claims
China’s 14th five-year plan targets aquaculture, fishing boost
The plan comes as China cracks down on pollution from aquaculture and tightens domestic fisheries management
Editor’s choice: Fisher King initiates sale process; Maruha, CDQs buy Icicle assets
Neil Ramsden, EMEA editor of Undercurrent, brings you a roundup of the main stories from the previous week
Bornstein expands into Alaska processing with lease takeover
The plant in the city of Seward, Alaska, a community of 2,700 people on the Kenai Peninsula, will process salmon, halibut, black cod, cod and pollock, Bornstein Seafoods said
US House passes trade competitiveness bill with SIMP expansion provisions
The US House of Representatives has voted, 222-210, to pass HR 4521, the America Competes Act, including a provision that would expand SIMP to cover all species
Washington state to implement safeguards following steelhead escapes
The cause: a 1.5-inch gap between a pond outlet, screen system and rubber gasket that allowed smolts to escape
Three crew from sunken Intershell vessel recovering from severe hypothermia
The US Coast Guard and local rescue crews arrived to find the men clinging to an inflatable hose used to stir up the ocean bed in search of scallops and surf clams