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Norway Seafood Minister Skjæran facing sack – reports from Oslo suggest
Norway Fisheries and Seafood Minister Bjørnar Skjæran could be about to lose his job, according to reports from Oslo. His replacement is tipped to be another senior Labour politician Cecilie Myrseth (below) , the national broadcaster NRK has said. Skjæran, a former land farmer, who has been in post since Labour and the Centre party…
Read MoreBalancing chemistry and technology
Alumichem is proud to collaborate closely with the aquaculture industry, where wastewater treatment plays a pivotal role in ensuring both sustainability and success. The company’s experience in water treatment has illuminated the significance of harmonising chemistry and technology in this process. Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) offer exceptional potential for high-quality seafood production with minimal environmental…
Read MoreBREAKING – Whitby Seafoods drops scampi merger move
Whitby Seafoods Ltd, the UK’s largest scampi producer, has dropped plans to acquire Kilhorne Bay Seafoods of Northern Ireland following intervention by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The authority intervened last week expressing concerns that such a move could be anti-competitive, leading to higher prices, particularly in the food service sector and lower quality…
Read MoreMowi to close Dingwall processing site
MOWI looks set to close the former Wester Ross processing facility at Dingwall, local reports have said. Around 15 people will be affected but they will be offered jobs at other facilities within the company. The Ross-shire Journal report said Mowi has entered a consultation period with the staff with a proposal to permanently close…
Read MoreSeafood teams pull tonnes of rubbish from Norwegian fjord
Hundreds of seafood industry volunteers collected more than 15 tonnes of plastic and other waste in a huge clean-up operation in and around Norway’s second largest fjord. The event, organised by an environmental group known as Framtidshavet , took place over several days on Hardangerfjord. Henrik Wiedswang Horjen, communications manager at Seafood Norway, said it was painful to…
Read MoreRed drum RAS farm to be based in Florida
The site for a new fish farm being developed by a former manager with The Kingfish Company has been announced as Pine Island in Florida. Former Kingfish Maine Operations Manager Megan Sorby said her new recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) venture will be known as Pine Island Redfish. Redfish (Sciaenops ocellatus), otherwise known as red drum…
Read MoreHong Kong buys into a rejuvenated Atlantic Sapphire
TWO significant developments have been announced overnight around the Florida land based salmon company Atlantic Sapphire. The company has announced on the Oslo Stock Exchange that its water temperature problems are now back under control. It has also been revealed that the Hong Kong based venture capital fund VLTCM has bought a ten per cent…
Read MoreSecond hybrid barge helps Cooke Aquaculture to reduce its carbon footprint
Cooke Aquaculture Scotland has deployed a second hybrid feed barge, which the company says will reduce carbon emissions and noise at its Vestness site in Westray, Orkney. Following successful results from installing its first hybrid system at its Mill Bay site in Stronsay, Orkney in 2022, Cooke Scotland has continued to make great strides in…
Read MoreProducers tempted back to salmon permit auction
The latest salmon and trout farming permit auction in Norway has raised around NOK 1.5bn (£113m), it has been reported. The licences should have been sold a year ago, but the auction was boycotted by several companies in protest over the salmon tax . A call for it to be postponed was ignored by the…
Read MoreSalmon prices back on the rise
Fresh salmon export prices are starting to climb back up again, according to the latest data from Statistics Norway. After a long period of decline, they rose for the second week in succession to above the NOK 80 per kilo level (£6). In the past seven days (week 40) they were up by 2.7% to…
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