St James Smokehouse profits up
Thanks to some impressive cost savings, St James Smokehouse was able to increase its profits during 2020, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic. The Annan-based company has just published […] Continue Reading
Cooke sees Scottish profits fall to £34.2m in 2020
Turnover for Cooke’s Scottish fish farming business held steady during 2020, the year Covid-19 hit the industry, but pre-tax profits were down by just over 14%. Cooke Aquaculture Scotland reported […] Continue Reading
North Atlantic Seafood Forum postponed to June
One of the seafood industry’s biggest conferences, the North Atlantic Seafood Forum, is being postponed from March to June next year because of concern over the Omicron variant of Covid-19. […] Continue Reading
Fish International postponed over Covid fears
Trade fair Fish International 2022 has been put back from February to September next year, in response to concerns over how the continuing Covid-19 pandemic is affecting Germany. The event, […] Continue Reading
AKVA revenues, profits hit by Covid and cyber-attack
Aquaculture technology group AKVA has reported Q3 revenues for 2021 down by 8% year on year, with net profit down 22%. Europe and the Middle East (outside the Nordics) and […] Continue Reading
Unintended consequences
When all of this palaver started about coronavirus, writes Nick Joy, I was one of the people who consistently mispredicted what the outcomes would be. I simply could not believe […] Continue Reading
Pandemic dents AKVA Q2 results
Covid-19 and other factors had a bigger than expected impact on the performance of aquaculture technology services group AKVA AS during the second quarter of this year, the company’s latest […] Continue Reading
Fish processors air problems with the PM
Representatives of the fishing and fish processing industries in Scotland met with Prime Minister Boris Johnson today to share their concerns over quota negotiations and labour shortages. The meeting took […] Continue Reading
Scottish Government to back seafood with £1.8m
The Scottish Government has pledged funding of £1.8m to help seafood businesses sell to markets in the UK and overseas. The initiative is intended to help the sector recover from […] Continue Reading