Seafarms to raise £49m for major prawn farm project
SEAFARMS, the Australian shrimp farming group, is planning to raise AUS $90m (£49m) to fund its Project Sea Dragon project in the north of the country. Project Sea Dragon is […] Continue Reading
Japanese giant buys Grimsby processor
THE Japanese seafood giant Nissui has acquired a controlling interest in Flatfish, the award winning Grimsby based fish processing business. Nissui is a worldwide leader in fish, particularly farmed salmon, […] Continue Reading
Japanese plan land based farm sales
AT least two Japanese seafood companies have unveiled plans to start commercial shipments of farmed fish from closed containment facilities later this year. The processors are Maruha Nichiro and Nippon […] Continue Reading
Japan's Nissui in prawn farm project
THE Japanese seafood giant Nissui has bought a $25 million stake in the Australian fish farming Seafarms group (SFG) to help it develop one of the world’s largest prawn farms. The […] Continue Reading
Japanese giant buys key UK processor
THE global Japanese fishing company Nippon Suisan Kasha (Nissui) has announced that its European arm is to buy Sealord Caistor, one of the most important fish processing centres in the UK. The […] Continue Reading
NZ firm's profits drop 60 per cent
THE big New Zealand fishing and seafood processing company Sealord, which last week announced jobs may have to go at one of its plants, has now reported a 60 per […] Continue Reading
Cheap imports may cost NZ seafood jobs
SEALORD, one of New Zealand’s largest fishing companies, has warned that jobs could be at risk at one of its main factories in the country due to cheap foreign imports. […] Continue Reading