Post-harvest

Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co has committed $100 million to Minh Phu Seafood Corporation, Vietnam’s largest shrimp processing company.

Vietnam aims to increase the value of its aquaculture exports by 10 percent next year, reaching $10.5 billion.

2018 was a record year for SalMar, with operating revenues in excess of 11.3 billion kroner and an Operational EBIT of almost 3.5 billion kroner.

Mowi reports that profits (EBIT) for 2018 were €753 million, making it the group’s second-best year ever financially.

A record fourth quarter helped make 2018 the most profitable year in Norway Royal Salmon’s history.

Pierre Bessonnet has won one of France’s most coveted fishmonger’s prizes, following a competition involving Scottish salmon that took place at the Sirha exhibition in Lyon.

The conference will explore opportunities for increasing profits by finding innovative uses for processing by-products, which would otherwise be discarded.

The biggest firms in Scotland’s salmon sector have all moved upwards in an annual ranking of the country’s 500 best performing businesses.

Seaweed aquaculture is prominent across Japan, but in the southern prefecture of Saga it has a particularly successful history. Home to seaweed farming for more than a century, Saga faces the Ariake …

Mowi harvested 106,000 tonnes of salmon in the final quarter of last year, with its divisions in Norway, Ireland and Scotland proving the most profitable per kilo.

Stacy Schulz has been elected as the new chair of Sea Pact, an innovative association of ten leading North American seafood companies.

Salmon sellers must market their products as being “the leading healthy and sustainable protein and move away from being a ‘luxury’ product” if they want to continue to achieve high prices.

Originally from Brittany, Marie-Aude Danguy has been living and working in Ireland since the 1990s. She began working with a group of local shellfish farmers before establishing her own company, Trisk…

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) is showcasing its fresh and smoked Lochlander and Native Hebridean salmon brands at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco this week.

Aquaculture accounted for 72 percent of the record 99 billion kroner of seafood exports achieved by Norway in 2018, despite making up only 40.5 percent of the volume.

EU aquaculture doubled its profits to over €800 million between 2014 and 2016, according to a new report.

Only 9 percent of EU consumers favour cultured seafood products over wild ones, according to a new survey.

A group of 20 fish farmers, university professors and technical analysts from Brazil visited Puerto Montt last week, as part of a mission to learn from Chile’s aquaculture sector.

Marine Harvest’s shareholders have today voted overwhelmingly in favour of the company changing its name to Mowi.

Waste from the salmon farming sector will help to fuel the world's oldest cruise line.