NGOs raise concern over rapid growth of Antarctic krill industry
In 2020, vessels caught 450,000t of krill, the highest volume in a decade, leading to fears it could very soon reach and push to increase the 650,000t cap
Tunacor subsidiary Namsov opens $20m solar-powered processing plant
Namibia-based Namsov has built the country's first solar-powered horse mackerel processing plant at Walvis Bay
UK sustainability group acquires fishery consultancy firm
RSK group has acquired Devon-UK-based Fishtek, which designs fish and eel passes as well as providing fisheries consultancy both in the UK and abroad
Possible US ban on Russian seafood still in play after bill’s failed sprint to passage
Massachusetts companies should be 'processing American Alaskan pollock, not the authoritarian pollock of Russia' -- Alaska senator Dan Sullivan
First Nations get $9.18m grants in British Columbia
The funding came as part of Canada's Pacific Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative, fisheries and oceans minister Joyce Murray said.
Pakistani harvesters end blockade of Karachi port
This week's protest follows another in the port city of Gwadar in December, against trawling by Chinese fishing trawlers and vessels from Sindh
Boston show adds Canfisco, Ideal Fish, 54 others while CP, Aquamaof join exit
'I always learn a lot about the industry from this conference and, after two years of canceled shows, there is a lot to catch-up on' -- Eric Pedersen, Ideal Fish
Norwegian cod prices stay firm even as landings grow in week seven
Prices for both fresh and frozen whitefish products out of the country are still well above the levels of February 2021
UK fishermen still searching for answers after huge lobster, crab die-off
'There are fishermen here who've been working in the industry for 60 years and they've never seen anything like it' -- Joe Redfern, project manager at the Whitby Lobster Hatchery
Maine lawmakers reject forming legal fund to fight right whale regs
The fund would have been designed to help the industry challenge rules and regulations intended to protect the North Atlantic right whale
