Bhavana Scalia-Bruce

To keep up to date with movement and job shifts across the seafood industry, SeafoodSource is compiling a regular round-up of the latest industry position-shift updates.

- Four members of The Barramundi Group's board of directors have stepped down, following the company's  posting of continued losses in 2022. Johannes Cornelis Antonius den Bieman, Andreas von Scholten, Marit Solberg, and Sjoeberg Tristan Nenne have resigned effective as of

At the 2023 Seafood Expo Global America/Seafood Processing Global– which ran from 25 to 27 April in Barcelona, Spain – SeafoodSource joined forces with Emily De Sousa, the CEO of the digital educational platform Seaside with Emily, who joined SeafoodSource again as the official SEG social media correspondent, after serving in the same role for Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America.

De Sousa promotes sustainable

Norwegian salmon prices remained relatively flat this week, but export volumes plummeted.

According to the Nasdaq Salmon Index, the weighted average index of weekly sales prices of fresh Atlantic superior salmon, head-on gutted – reported by Norwegian salmon exporters and salmon producers – increased to NOK 111.69 (USD 10.69, EUR 9.73) per kilogram in the eighteenth week of 2023.

That represents a price increase of 1.45 percent, or

SeafoodSource is closely following the plant-based and cell-based seafood alternatives market by compiling a regular round-up of updates from the sector.

- On 24 April, Steakholder Foods announced it has successfully printed its first whole fillet ready-to-cook cell-cultivated grouper fish, as a part of its collaboration with Umami Meats.

"We are delighted to have produced the world's first whole-fillet cell-cultivated fish in partnership with

On 5 May, 2023, the owners of a Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A.-based Island Seafood Co. restaurant were sentenced to prison terms after being found guilty of illegally collecting more than USD 4.8 million (EUR 4.3 million) in Covid relief funds.

Wilbert Stanley and Felicia Stanley pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, and false statements in relation to the theft of Covid-19 pandemic relief funds, the

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council's new feed mill standard represents a big step for the organization, according to ASC Feed Standard Senior Coordinator Alexandra Warrington.

The standard was published a year and a half ago and became effective in January. Certification bodies are now beginning the accreditation process and will commence audits later this year, Warrington told SeafoodSource at the 2023 Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona,

India, Ecuador, and Indonesia held the top three shrimp exporters to the U.S. in March 2023.

India sent 41 million pounds, or 18,703 metric tons (MT), of shrimp to the U.S. in March 2023, down from March 2022, when it exported 23,270 MT, or 51 million pounds. India has held the spot as top shrimp exporter to the U.S. for the past nine years running.

Following India was Ecuador, which exported 38 million pounds (17,459 MT) of shrimp to the U.S.

On 1 May, USD 3,000 (EUR 2,700) worth of king crab was allegedly stolen from a fish market in Morro Bay, California, U.S.A., the company said on its Facebook page.

According to KSBY, Giovanni's Fish Market & Galley Owner Giovanni DeGarimore said the theft took place at approximately 11:30 p.m., hours after the market closed at 6 p.m. 

DeGarimore said a suspect, who was seen on video footage taken by a closed-circuit camera, allegedly