Cod

Young's Seafood reports £545.9 million turnover for the 2018 financial year (4.3 percent growth), and 16 percent growth in earnings between 2017 and 2018.

The Norwegian cod farming industry is all set to step up a gear, according to one of Norway’s preeminent cod research experts.

Linn Therese Skår Hosteland grew up helping her family produce salmon, cod and halibut on a farm in western Norway. Despite wanting to escape the sector at 15, she has no regrets at returning in 2014 …

A recently launched satellite monitoring programme suggests that a voluntary international trawling moratorium off the coast of the Svalbard archipelago is proving effective.

Norwegian cod exports achieved a record value in the first quarter of the year, topping NOK 3 billion (£273 million).

New trials that involved keeping net-caught cod alive on board a trawler have shown promising results, with 90 percent surviving.

A new system that aims to increase the value of whitefish waste (silage) to at least six times its current value has just been launched by a Norwegian company this week.

A scheme designed to encourage more Norwegian fishermen to keep their cod catches alive is successfully extending the fresh cod season, according to new research.

Dr Andrew Davie argues that, despite the struggles of Europe's cod and tuna aquaculture industries, there is still scope for the region’s fish farmers to diversify from the production of salmonid spec…

The belief that fish farms have an adverse impact on the quality of wild fish caught in their vicinity is largely misplaced, according to a recent study.

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has awarded North Sea cod its gold standard for sustainability today, in a move that’s been broadly welcomed by fishermen, politicians and conservation organisatio…

Live capture of cod, which can then be sold off-season at a premium price, is currently gaining ground in Norway.

A project investigating how keeping seine net-caught cod alive can increase their value is now underway in Norway.

Poor Pacific cod harvests have put pressure on single frozen fillet availability, causing prices to rise to levels akin to their Atlantic counterparts, reports Robert Reierson in the latest Tradex 3-m…

Slow fishing in Alaska and Russia has left Chinese processors hard pressed for Pacific cod raw materials and a tightened twice frozen market in North America, reports Rob Reierson and Kyla Ganton in t…

GLOBAL - The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has recommended a 10 percent decrease in the Barents Sea cod quota for 2017 but a 7 percent increase in the saithe quota, repor…

US - Many boats in Alaska are not dropping their nets for Pacific Cod as they continue to target Pollock instead, reports Rob Reierson in the Tradexx Foods 3-Minute Market Insight.

POLAND - Polish fish processor BG Production sp. z o.o. has unveiled plans to launch a new processing facility in the Bia?ogard Investment Park (BIP), in the countrys north-western part. The plant wil…

US - The Pacific Cod fishery opened on January 1 in the Gulf of Alaska and some processors have already begun offloading fish from their smaller boats, reports Kyla Ganton in the Tradex Foods 3-Minute…

NORWAY - Every year 340,000 tonnes of usable whitefish by-product are discarded into the sea. But the fisheries industry has now identified ways of halting this practice.