Processing

The US seaweed aquaculture sector is beginning to take off, in the process growing brand new businesses, providing important ecosystem services and allowing fishermen to supplement their income, as Tim Harder explains.

In a move that suggests an increased focus on the farmed whitefish sector, Marel Fish has appointed Diego Lages as its new sales director for Marel Fish.

The Scottish salmon farming industry could generate an additional £23.7 million a year if it used its salmon by-products more judiciously.

An advanced light meter could revolutionise fish processing by improving the utilisation of individual fish and the profitability of fishing and aquaculture companies, according to Nofima.

Around 58 percent of employees at Scottish seafood processing businesses are from the non-UK European Economic Area, a new report has found.

Russian Aquaculture, the country's largest fish farming firm, has acquired an option to purchase a 40 percent equity stake in Tri Ruchya, a primary processing company in the Murmansk region.

Robots are cutting up snow crabs in Canada, a sign of things to come in the seafood processing industry.

Polish fish processor Seko SA posted sales of PLN 42.58 million (10.1 million) in Q1, an increase of 16.5% compared with the same period a year earlier.

Alaska has had two weeks of strong halibut landings, prior to the opening of the main halibut season in Russia, according to this weeks Tradex Foods 3-Minute Market Insight.

Marine Harvest has unveiled plans to be the first global seafood company to install Keep-it, a smart labelling indicator that shows an accurate shelf life, on all its fish products.

PRFoods, which is engaged in fish processing in Finland and Estonia as well as fish farming in Sweden and Finland, has reported a 3.2% sales increase in the first quarter of the year.

Fifteen seafood producers, across eight of the 22 award categories, have made the shortlist for this years Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards.

Over a third of the successful entries for this years Seafood Excellence Global awards competition (16 out of the 43 chosen) come from French firms.

Polish fish processor Seko has reported record revenues of more than PLN 152 million (36.5 million) for 2016, up 7% compared with a year earlier, and aims to continue its investments to raise the output capacity of its f…

VIET NAM - Prices of raw shrimp have been increasing rapidly in the C?u Long (Mekong) Delta since early February when shrimp processors returned to work soon after T?t (Lunar New Year), according to the Ministry of Agric…

Croatian fish processors Cromaris and Sardina are investing in upgrading and expanding their facilities, and they were recently allowed to re-launch exports to the Russian market after the countrys authorities excluded a…

UK - To coincide with International Women's Day (8 March), Seafish, the UK industry authority on seafood, and IntraFish Media, have announced they are partnering to launch a survey of the challenges and opportunities fac…

CANADA - 2016 will be recorded as the seventh consecutive year of record top and bottom line results for Clearwater, according to Ian Smith, CEO of Clearwater, after the announcement of the company's full year results fo…

US - TerraVia, Bunge Limited and BioMar Group have announced the expansion of their distribution agreement for AlgaPrime DHA - a native, whole algae specialty feed ingredient high in omega-3 DHA - making the product comm…

CHINA - A permanent fishing ban in all 279 aquatic reserves along the Yangtze River has begun, as China races to revive the flagging ecosystem of its largest river.