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MALCOLM Pye, the chief executive and founder of the Yorkshire aquaculture health, nutrition and genetics business Benchmark Holdings has announced he intends to step down from the post this autumn. […] Continue Reading
FOLLOWING the announcement this morning that Knut Nesse will be the new chairman of AKVA, the company said Nesse’s own firm, Nesse & Co, had today acquired 50,000 shares from […] Continue Reading
TESCO, which has more than 3,000 stores in the UK, is encouraging its salmon suppliers to use more alternative aqua feed ingredients. The giant supermarket has updated its salmon standards […] Continue Reading
FORMER Nutreco CEO Knut Nesse has been appointed as the new chairman of AKVA’s board, taking over from today. He replaces Hans Kristian Mong who has stepped down from the […] Continue Reading
COOKE Aquaculture is planning to expand its Scottish operations with a proposed new farm in Shetland. The Canadian owned company has submitted an application for a 2,500-tonne, 12 x 120m […] Continue Reading
YOUNG’S Seafood spent more than £7 million on redundancy payments to the 450 staff who worked at its Pinneys salmon site in Annan, the company’s annual report has revealed. The […] Continue Reading
BBC Today show host John Humphrys has revealed that he once swam beneath a salmon cage to inspect fish waste. During an interview with Mowi Scotland director of communications Ian […] Continue Reading
THE Norwegian Seafood Council has revealed it is spending a lot of time and resources fighting fake news reports circulating around the safety of farmed salmon. The battleground appears to […] Continue Reading
PROCESSING salmon at sea could address the potential crisis of delayed cross Channel freight deliveries in the wake of a no deal Brexit. The new Norwegian processing ship Norwegian Gannet […] Continue Reading
AKVA group’s land based division has announced a deal with Cooke Aquaculture for ‘several larger land based smolt projects’. The first of these is a project in Chile, due to […] Continue Reading
YOUNG’S Seafood appears to be on a bounce, announcing higher turnover and profits for its latest financial year. Sales increased by 4.3 per cent to £545.9 million while EBITDA shot […] Continue Reading
A SCANDINAVIAN consortium is pressing ahead this week with a bold new plan to send Norwegian salmon across Russia to China by rail. The first container shipments are expected to […] Continue Reading
EXPORTS of Scottish farmed salmon for the first six months of this year are up 25 per cent in value on last year’s figures, to £319 million. And according to […] Continue Reading
THIS month, Fish Farmer features two special anniversaries – independent Scottish salmon farmer Loch Duart turns 20 in August, while Highlands haulier Ferguson Shipping & Transport is celebrating 60 years […] Continue Reading
JCS Fish, the family owned Grimsby salmon and trout business, has picked up star studded praise and honours at this year’s Guild of Fine Foods Great Taste award. The company’s […] Continue Reading
THE European Union’s fisheries commissioner, Karmenu Vella, said he is fully committed to a large scale expansion of aquaculture by member states. Speaking at the 50th anniversary of the European […] Continue Reading
NORWAY has turned to the kindergarten in an attempt to halt a decline in fish consumption among its young people. The country may be the world’s largest cod and salmon […] Continue Reading
AT least ten net pen fish farms in British Columbia are to be voluntarily closed or relocated in an effort to create a migration path for wild salmon. Described as […] Continue Reading
POLAR SEAFOOD FOUNDER FOUND DEAD ANDERS Jonas Brøns, the 68-year-old founder of Greenland based Polar Seafood, has been found dead near the harbour of Aalborgin, Denmark. His death is thought […] Continue Reading
THE Aquaculture Awards held in Aviemore last May are to become an annual event, with a date already fixed for May, 2019. They will also be thrown open to a […] Continue Reading
A THIRD of the workforce in Scotland’s salmon farming sector are under the age of 30, according to a new report published today by the Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation (SSPO). […] Continue Reading
SHELLFISH is proving to be the new ‘gold’ for many of Norway’s fishermen, the latest export figures show. Exports of king crab leapt by more than 40 per cent in […] Continue Reading
HB Grandi, Iceland’s second largest fishing and fish processing company, has announced reduced revenues and operating profits for the first nine months of this year. Income for the period totalled […] Continue Reading
NORWEGIAN fishing and salmon farming companies are facing growing demands to process more of the fish produce at home. Part of the crusade is environmentally based and part is on […] Continue Reading