Posts Tagged ‘Salmar’
Salmon companies face nervous wait following ‘cartel’ hearing
Some of Norway’s largest salmon companies are in for an anxious time as they await the European Commission’s next move over alleged price-fixing. A three-day hearing in Brussels with the EU’s competition authorities came to a close yesterday.
Read MoreProducers face EU grilling over cartel allegations
Some of Norway’s biggest salmon producers are expected to appear in a closed-doors hearing this week in front of the European Commission’s Competition directorate, to face allegations of price-fixing.
Reuters has reported that Grieg Seafood, SalMar and others are due to appear in Brussels this week. The companies concerned have, so far, firmly denied any suggestion that the industry acted improperly.
Read MoreSting operation
Two projects are looking to unravel the secrets of the string jellyfish, as Vince McDonagh reports.
Read MoreWoman convicted of salmon smuggling ‘seriously ill’ in Chinese jail
A woman who had business links with salmon producer SalMar is reported to be seriously ill with paralysis and other major problems in a Chinese jail, where she is serving a sentence for smuggling seafood.
Her family fear that she could die in prison unless she receives proper treatment.
In 2022 Yimin Dong, a former Chinese national who is now a Norwegian citizen, was sentenced to 14 years, later reduced to 13 years, after being convicted of smuggling salmon into China through Vietnam, at a time when China had barred fish imports from Norway.
SalMar has always insisted she was acting privately and was never directly employed by the company.
Read MoreSalmon company threatened with £40,000 plus daily fines over lice numbers
The salmon giant SalMar is being threatened with fines of more than half a million kroner a day over high lice numbers, according to reports.
Read MoreSalMar Q2 profit down as winter issues continue to impact
Salmar, the world’s second largest producer of Atlantic salmon, unveiled an operational EBIT or profit of NOK 1.4 billion (just over £100m) during the April to June period this year, down from NOK 1.7 billion (£120m) a year earlier.
Read MoreScottish Sea Farms bounces back into profit and almost doubles harvest
Scottish Sea Farms has more than doubled its revenue and turned loss into profit during the second quarter of this year.
Read MoreISA at SalMar site
Infectious Salmon Anaemia is suspected at a SalMar location in Norway in what appears to be a growing number of cases across the country this year.
Read MoreFar out, man
Iceland has joined the list of countries looking at whether fish farming could expand into more challenging ocean locations, as Vince McDonagh reports.
Read MoreMowi and SalMar among world’s leading sustainable businesses
Two Atlantic salmon farming giants, Mowi and SalMar, have been named by TIME Magazine and the German data and analysis company Statista as being among the world’s most sustainable companies this year.
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