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Japanese plan land based farm sales
AT least two Japanese seafood companies have unveiled plans to start commercial shipments of farmed fish from closed containment facilities later this year. The processors are Maruha Nichiro and Nippon Suisan Kaisha or Nissui, which owns the Waitrose supplier Caistor Seafoods, near Grimsby. Although Japan buys huge amounts of farmed fish, including salmon from Scotland…
Read MoreEU fish farm profits double
EUROPEAN fish farming companies have seen their profits double between 2014 and 2016, according to the latest EU economic report on the aquaculture sector. And Britain remains one of the largest players in the business. In 2016, the EU aquaculture sector produced and sold 1.4 million tonnes of seafood, worth almost €5 billion. Employment figures…
Read MoreProcess more, earn more – seafood chief
THE head of Norway’s Seafood Council has said the industry could hugely increase its wealth and job creation if more of the fish it sold abroad was processed before it left the country. Presenting the 2018 exports figures yesterday, chief executive Renate Larsen pointed out that 84 per cent of the salmon went out unprocessed.…
Read More‘Mr Aquaculture’ retires after 45 years
FEED executive Niels Alsted, nicknamed ‘Mr Aquaculture’ by his colleagues at BioMar, has announced his retirement after 45 years in the industry. Alsted, executive vice president of business relations in BioMar, began his career in 1974 on a small trout farm in Denmark before studying aquaculture research at the University of Tromsoe, Institute of Fisheries,…
Read MoreRecord 2018 for Norway seafood exports
NORWEGIAN seafood exports hit a record high of 99 billion kroner during 2018 – or just over £9 billion. But there was a little disappointment that they did not break the magical 100 billion kroner barrier. Nevertheless, the figure, released this morning, represents a five per cent value increase on 2017 and, at 2.7 million…
Read MoreMowi looks to boost Asian sales
SCOTLAND’S largest salmon farmer is looking to expand sales to Asia this year as uncertainty over Brexit raises the prospect of tariffs on European trade. Mowi, formerly Marine Harvest, exported 32 per cent of its volume – out of a total of 47 per cent exports – to Europe in 2017, said head of sales…
Read MoreFish Update Briefing, Friday, January 4
10 MILLION KRONER BONUS FOR SALMON STAFF AROUND 100 staff at a Norwegian salmon farming company received a surprise gift this Christmas of 10 million kroner (£912,000) as a bonus to share between them. The company, Ellingsen Seafood, based on the fjord leading to the port of Narvik 70 miles away, said 2018 had been…
Read MoreIndustry fears over new discard rules
BRITAIN’S fishing industry could face serious damage from new European regulations, even though the UK is due to leave the EU in three months’ time, a House of Lords committee has warned. The warning centres around the age-old controversy of discards. Under the new rules, which came into force this week and are designed to…
Read MoreSalMar to go ahead with ‘smart’ farm
THE Norwegian salmon farming giant SalMar is to press ahead with its ambitious open sea development project despite a partial rejection of its application for 16 licences. The Fisheries Directorate tuned down around half of the licence applications by SalMar and its subsidiary, the advanced marine technology company Mariculture, just before the festive break. Now…
Read MoreSalmon farmer helps deliver faster WiFi
A REMOTE Highlands community is enjoying a faster and more reliable broadband service thanks to Scottish Sea Farms and other local partners. The village of Drimnin, located at the end of 30 miles of a single-track road from the A861 in the West Highlands, is home to just 57 properties, a village hall, a post…
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