Marine Harvest signs Alibaba deal

By Jenny Hjul | October 23, 2018

MARINE Harvest signed a ground-breaking agreement with China’s Alibaba, the world’s largest internet trading company. Described as a memorandum of understanding, the agreement is with Win-Chain, the fresh food supply chain owned by the Alibaba Group, which dwarfs the likes of US giants like Amazon when it comes to internet trading. The aim is to…

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Salmon market surprisingly robust says DNB

By Jenny Hjul | April 24, 2018

DESPITE the volatility of salmon prices, the robustness of the market has surprised analysts, DNB’s Alexander Aukner told an audience of producers and traders at the DNB/Fish Pool seminar on the eve of the Seafood Expo. Aukner, an equity analyst at the Norwegian bank, said the ‘super cycle’ is set to continue, prices are at…

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Fish Update Briefing, Friday, March 2

By Jenny Hjul | March 2, 2018

ENTIRE TOWN TO LOSE WEIGHT ON FISH A community in north-western Spain has launched a pioneering fish inspired get-fit campaign involving everyone from children to the elderly. The campaign, by the municipality of Narón, is aimed at helping its 39,426 inhabitants shed a collective 100,000 kilos over two years. On the shores of the Atlantic Ocean,…

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