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THE seafood sector has been told it will be able to recruit overseas workers under the government’s new points based immigration proposals. It had been feared that the scheme, announced […] Continue Reading
LONDON and Oslo have signed a new trade deal which allows the continued free movement of Norwegian seafood shipments into Britain. Salmon farming companies and fishermen were worried that the UK’s […] Continue Reading
NORWAY’S Seafood industry has expressed fears over the impact of a hard Brexit on its members now that Boris Johnson is Britain’s new Prime Minister. Johnson has promised to take […] Continue Reading
A FRENCH company producing insect meal as an alternative protein in fish diets has been given €20 million EU backing for a new factory. Ynsect, one of the early pioneers […] Continue Reading
SCOTTISH salmon exports in the first quarter of the year were valued at around £152 million, up 27 per cent on the same period last year. The figure, an increase […] Continue Reading
A FRENCH insect farmer has secured $125 million from venture capital investors to build the world’s biggest insect farm, to be run by robots. Ynsect, one of the early pioneers […] Continue Reading
A FIVE year EU funded study into advanced aquaculture breeding programmes has demonstrated the potential of selecting for disease resistance, say researchers. The NOK 75 million Fishboost project, led by […] Continue Reading
SUSTAINABLE aquaculture will have to ‘step up’ to close the food security gap, said the EU’s fisheries commissioner, Karmenu Vella, in a message to the World Aquaculture Society (WAS) conference […] Continue Reading
A CLAMPDOWN by the European Union has led to a market fall in seafood exports from Vietnam. The EU has been closely monitoring Vietnamese fishing practices in an attempt to […] Continue Reading