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Lifeline deliveries over the sea from Skye
A SEAFOOD business on Skye is providing a lifeline delivery service to neighbours on the remote island of Rona during the coronavirus crisis. Ewen Grant and Janice Cooney normally operate seafood cruises aboard their 40-foot luxury catamaran, Seaflower. The popular tourist attraction, which operates from Portree to Rona and Raasay, serves freshly caught seafood on…
Read MoreAKVA reports ‘significant year’ in 2019
THE AKVA group, one of the main technology and service providers to the aquaculture sector, achieved an order intake of four billion kroner – or £311 million – last year, it has revealed in its annual report. CEO Knut Nesse described 2019 as a year of ‘significant milestones’ with revenues of more than NOK 3…
Read MoreEconomist Norway\’s new seafood marketing chief
ECONOMIST Camilla Beck Sætre has been appointed the new marketing director at the Norwegian Seafood Council. And it looks set to be a baptism of fire, with the industry still likely to be facing untold challenges due to Covid-19 when she takes up her post on June 1. Sætre has had more than 20 years’…
Read MoreEconomist Norway\’s new seafood marketing chief
ECONOMIST Camilla Beck Sætre has been appointed the new marketing director at the Norwegian Seafood Council. And it looks set to be a baptism of fire, with the industry still likely to be facing untold challenges due to Covid-19 when she takes up her post on June 1. Sætre has had more than 20 years’…
Read MoreBakkafrost Q1 harvest down by almost quarter
BAKKAFROST has announced that its first quarter harvest volumes from its Faroe Islands salmon operations will be down almost a quarter this year. The figure (head on, gutted) is set at 10,700 tonnes, compared to 13,700 tonnes for Q1 2019. No formal explanation has been given but in late February severe storms hit the island archipelago, causing considerable damage to…
Read MoreMowi providing more than 500,000 meals a day
Mowi Scotland is managing to deliver a steady supply of salmon to retailers, providing more than 500,000 meals a day during the coronavirus crisis. Although many of its employees are working remotely, the company, as a food producer, has a number of \’key workers\’ across its different departments. Mowi Scotland’s head of HR, Joanna Peeling,…
Read MoreSeafood delight as Norway invites EEA workers
NORWAY has opened the door to workers from the European Economic Area which includes the 27 EU countries, along with Iceland. The move, by justice minister Monica Mæland, should help ease some of the problems facing salmon and white fish processors. It should also take some of the heat out of the arguments over whether certain…
Read MoreCargo takes flight in cabin comfort
PASSENGER planes are increasingly being used to transport freight to the US, with some parcels even travelling in empty seats. Sending packages to the US during the current coronavirus epidemic remains largely unaffected, said the US parcel delivery specialist ParcelHero, although it warned of delays as airlines’ cargo capacity is limited. ‘Several airlines have increased…
Read MoreChanges at the top for land based salmon farmer
THE land based salmon farming company Salmon Evolution has elected a new chairman from its latest and biggest shareholder, Ronja Capital. Tore A Tønseth is investment vice president at Ronja Capital, the investment company owned by the Sølvtrans wellboat entrepreneur Roger Halsebakk. Ronja Capital bought a 19.6 per cent share in Salmon Evolution last week.…
Read MoreSalmon companies in flight plea to Russia
A NUMBER of Norwegian fish farming companies have called on their government to press Moscow to lift its ban on salmon flights over Russia during the Covid-19 crisis. The call has come from Sjømatbedriftene, the Federation of Seafood Businesses, which says the move would go some way to relieving a beleaguered salmon export sector. Several Norwegian media…
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