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Losses mount in Irish port as vessels turn away over weighing requirement

Losses are mounting in the Irish port of Killybegs with vessels turning away over a requirement that fish is weighed without water before further transport

Northern Ireland sees end of EU ‘discrimination’ with herring quota upped 1,500t

Alan McCulla, CEO of the Kilkeel-based Anglo-North Irish Fish Producers Organisation, said Brexit is bearing "substantial rewards" for the Northern Irish fishing industry

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Guolian helps draft China’s first ‘3R’ seafood standard

UK seafood firms warn labor shortages have ‘halved profitability’

Credit: Eivind Sævik (2019)/ Sildelaget

Norway’s mackerel, herring export prices fall in week 13

UK inquiry ‘struck by gov’t failure to grasp labor issues’

Peru’s fishery exports drop in January on lower fishmeal, frozen seafood sales

Imports of Russian whitefish possibly excluded from EU ban

Scots fund awards £7.4m to local fishing businesses, marine organizations

Stromness, Scotland, UK. Credit: Nicola Colombo/Shutterstock.com

Hatch launches €50m investment plan for ‘regenerative’ aquaculture

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Despite fishing sector recovery, Peru’s imports remained high in 2021

Latest EU sanctions on Russia to ban €5.5bn worth of imports, including seafood

EJF lays bare Chinese distant water fleet’s overfishing, abuses

UK crab, lobster rated ‘avoid’ in latest Good Fish Guide, North Sea herring a ‘best choice’

Changed approach to dealmaking has Nowaco seeking seafood M&A

Russian Far East fish prices weaken in week 13

Norwegian vessels turn to blue whiting with capelin season done

Credit: Norges Sildesalgslag (2018)

New Scottish plan seeks to make it ‘leader in marine management’

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Shetland’s fishermen latest to call for gov’t support on rising fuel costs

Whitefish boats moored in Lerwick Harbour

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Baltic, Lenin could receive Russian gov’t preferential treatment

Credit: Norges Sildesalgslag/Roar Bjanesoy (2018)

Norway herring export prices, volumes remain firm

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Norway’s Pelagia snaps up 100% of fishmeal, oil group

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International Council for the Exploration of the Seas suspends Russia

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Firms from Canada, Australia, Italy back calls for North Atlantic pelagics sustainability

Bangladesh shrimp fishermen

First FiTI report finds Bangladesh’s fisheries sector opaque

Norwegian fishing company’s vessel, quotas up for sale

Nowaco: Freight rates, bottlenecks causing ‘enormous problems’

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European Commission to help EU fishers with fuel costs

The EC has triggered emergency support measures available through the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund to help EU fishers with high fuel costs

Newfoundland harvesters question data gaps in capelin science

Harvesters in Newfoundland and Labrador are raising serious concerns over the lack of data and an 'inadequate science review process' by DFO

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aquaculture

China’s 14th five-year plan targets aquaculture, fishing boost

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prices

Norway pelagic prices likely stable in 2022, unless mackerel sharing agreement made

Norway, Iceland wind up capelin seasons

Norway herring exports hike, prices firm in week 11

companies

2021 seafood M&A passes $6.5bn after explosion of outside investment

people

Mikael Thinghuus to leave Royal Greenland after 11 years

US gov’t adds owner of Russian Fishery, crab sister firm to sanctions list

Fisherman killed as Scottish trawler capsizes off Norway

m&a

Pelagic activities, including capelin, take Iceland’s SVN to significant profits

Clearwater’s resource access is ‘nice’ inflation hedge for Premium

Its sales, earnings shoot up in 2021, but Premium stays mum on C&E talks

retail

Russia claims domestic supply of seafood healthy as pollock landings surge

Seafood still seeing y-o-y value declines at UK retail, despite inflation

Viciunai suspends operations in Russia

processing

Zoneco ownership at stake as shares slated for auction

Ireland announces €25.6m EU-funded schemes for post-Brexit blue economy

Pelagics sector sees markets shift, but volumes diverted from Ukraine being absorbed

fishing

Peru fishery exports grew 39% in 2021 as anchovy catches rose

NGO looks to take legal action against EU ministers for permitting overfishing

Danish pelagic group to bring fleet into digital age