Cermaq cancels Boston booth as US COVID cases rise
Norway-based Cermaq Group is the latest company to pull out of the Boston seafood show, which is set to take place March 13-15 amid rising cases of COVID-19
Large Indian vannamei price dips at last, smaller sizes keep rising
Farm-gate prices for the largest HOSO vannamei shrimp in Andhra Pradesh fell but remained at an annual high, while prices in Gujarat rebounded in week two
Russia’s largest salmon farmer boosts revenues on bigger harvest
Russian Aquaculture has reported a near doubling of sales in 2021 on the back of a 78% increase in harvested fish to 32,500t
First offshore wind lease sale under Biden expected soon
Some portion of the New York Bight, a nearly 800,000-acre area of the Atlantic Ocean, could start to be sold to wind-to-energy companies by the US Department
AquaBounty pledges to stock large-scale Ohio farm by 2023
AquaBounty sold $455,397 worth of fish in the third quarter of 2021 but it also lost $6.8 million, it said in a November exchange filing
Conservation group sues NMFS to stop sablefish gear from entangling humpbacks
Commercial fisheries, in total, entangle 25 humpback whales annually off the US west coast -- Center for Biological Diversity
African tilapia farmer Lake Harvest receives $7m investment from Aqua-Spark, Norfund
Netherlands-based Aqua-Spark has begun its $300m tilapia investment drive in earnest, with an initial cash injection to expand another farm operation in southern Africa
Sea Harvest seals $50m deal for Australian fishing business
The South African firm said the move was a significant step in its strategy to buy international seafood firms focused on high-value species
Russian Fishery takes Carsoe vessel spend up to $200m
RFC initially awarded the Danish firm a DKK 800m contract to outfit seven vessels with processing gear; now it has ordered the same again across another four
Vietnam’s Fimex begins 2022 with new shrimp farms, two new plants
During 2021 the shrimp farmer and processor launched two new factories, taking it into value-adding in a bid to mitigate COVID-19's impacts; now it will merge the farms it owns into one business
