BREAKING – Whitby Seafoods drops scampi merger move

Whitby Seafoods Ltd, the UK’s largest scampi producer, has dropped plans to acquire Kilhorne Bay Seafoods of Northern Ireland following intervention by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The authority intervened last week expressing concerns that such a move could be anti-competitive, leading to higher prices, particularly in the food service sector and lower quality…

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Fish Update Briefing, Friday, October 26

CHINESE-FAROESE DICTIONARY TO BOOST SEAFOOD SALES THE first edition of a Chinese-Faroese dictionary will be published next year to help business communications, largely seafood related, between the two countries. Both farmed salmon and conventionally caught fish are the islands’ largest export commodities, and although Danish is widely used in the Faroes, most business deals are…

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