Bakkafrost chief to co-head Global Salmon Initiative

BAKKAFROST chief executive Regin Jacobsen is to become co-chairman of the Global Salmon Initiative, working alongside Gerardo Balbontin, head of the Chilean aquaculture and fishing company Blumar Seafoods. The announcement was made by the GSI in London this week. Jacobsen, who master-minded Bakkafrost’s purchase of the Scottish Salmon Company last year, said the GSI was…

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‘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,…

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