Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
Urchin aquaculture company forges new alliances
A company dedicated to restorative aquaculture through “ranching” sea urchins has announced deals with a major capital investor and the owners of one of Japan’s leading sushi chains.
Read MoreProximar sales on track as Q2 harvest hits 360 tonnes
Proximar Seafood announced today that it has pre-sold sold at least a third of expected annual production for this year from its new land-based salmon farm in Japan.
Read MoreHuge loan for Japanese RAS project
The Japanese aquaculture company, Soul of Japan, has secured a huge 33 billion yen loan (£165m) to develop and build a RAS salmon facility in the country.
Read MoreUS Red Lobster chain fighting for survival
Red Lobster, the world’s largest seafood restaurant chain, is fighting off the threat of bankruptcy amid rising debts. The group, which has hundreds of restaurants across the United States, Asia and central America, has filed in a Florida court for bankruptcy protection in a bid to reduce debt and fend off collapse.
Read MoreProximar closing in on first main harvest
Excitement is growing at Proximar Seafood which is closing in on the first harvest of Atlantic Salmon at its new site near Mount Fuji, Japan.
Read MoreProximar on track despite February tank incident
Proximar Seafood has reported that biomass at its new land based salmon farm in Japan has more than doubled during the first three months of 2024. At the end of March the Norwegian salmon company had a standing biomass of 111.9 metric tonnes at the farm, located at Oyama near Japan’s Mount Fuji, compared with…
Read MoreFirst harvest at Proximar’s Mount Fuji site now only months away
Proximar Seafood said today that the first commercial harvest for its land-based salmon farm in Japan will take place in “high summer”, in the third quarter of this year. In a trading update for the fourth quarter of 2023, Chief Executive Joachim Nielsen said the site, at Oyama in the foothills of Mount Fuji, is…
Read MoreProximar suffers loss after leak at Mount Fuji site
Land based salmon farmer Proximar Seafood has suffered a biomass loss following a tank breach at its Mount Fuji facility in Japan at the weekend, the company has revealed. The incident happened in one of four operational tanks at the company’s new post smolt grow out facility. Preliminary estimates suggest that 50,000 fish have been…
Read MoreTuna sold for post pandemic record of £620,000
If you think the price of your tuna sandwich is too much, spare a thought for the buyers on Tokyo fish market earlier this week. They paid a post pandemic record 114.2 million yen – around £620,000 – for a 238 kilogram bluefish tuna at a New Year auction. It is the highest figure since…
Read MoreProximar’s salmon reach first post-smolt grow-out stage
Proximar Seafood AS has just announced that the first batch of Atlantic salmon has been successfully transferred from the nursery department to the post smolt grow-out facility (PSG). The fish will be harvested at the company’s Oyama facility near Mount Fuji during the third quarter of 2024. Chief Operating Officer (COO) Dharma Rajeswaran said: “It…
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