An operational update from Nordic Halibut indicates the company is seeing increased sales prices for its farmed halibut.
Nordic Halibut produces farmed halibut in ocean-based production facilities in Midsund, Askøy, and Averøy, Norway. The company also recently received approval to construct a land-based halibut farm in Torjulvågen, Norway.
According to an operational update posted to the Oslo Børs, the company
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Seafarms Group Limited has made a new commitment to move forward with “Project Sea Dragon," its plan to build a large-scale, land-based prawn aquaculture project in Western Australia.
The company selected a contractor for the project in March 2021 to build a farm comprised of approximately 396 hectares of ponds and associated infrastructure in order to grow 6,000 metric tons (MT) of black tiger prawns annually. The eventual goal was to
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Miami, Florida, U.S.A.-based Blue Star Foods has been given an option from the local government in Beaufort County, South Carolina, U.S.A. to purchase land for a planned expansion of its soft-shell crab recirculating aquaculture system.
The company announced its expansion plan in August 2022, and that it had secured the services of HTH Engineering and Equipment LLC as its RAS technology provider for the project. At the time, the company said it
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Grieg Seafood Newfoundland has announced it plans to resume construction of its post-smolt recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility in Marystown Industrial Park in Marystown, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Grieg Seafood purchased Grieg Newfoundland in February 2020, a greenfield project with exclusive rights for salmon farming in Placentia Bay. The company has since steadily acquired the permits required to commence farming salmon in
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The Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has issued a notice to all fish harvesters that the snow crab season in certain areas of Newfoundland and Labrador has once again been extended.
The DFO first extended the season in late June after a six-week standoff over pricing led harvesters to stay tied at the dock until 19 May – over a month after the fishery opened on 10 April. That delay led the Fish Food and Allied Workers Union
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Mowi Canada West has chosen Vancouver, Canada-based Poseidon Ocean Systems’ oxygen technology for the company’s Monday Rock salmon farm off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Poseidon Ocean Systems has installed perimeter bubble curtains, 15-meter-deep barrier shields, and oxygen systems with real-time environmental monitoring technology at the aquaculture site. The combination of both physical and bubble barriers, along
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Danish Salmon, a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) salmon farming compan, achieved a financial turnaround in the fiscal year ending 31 March, 2023.
The Denmark-based company, which was purchased in part by Marubeni in 2020, saw a significant increase in revenue for FY 2023, which helped it achieve a profit for the first time in five years.
The company posted revenue of DKK 57 million (USD 8.4 million, EUR 7.6 million), a DKK
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Cermaq has piloted a project measuring the company’s plastics use across its operations for the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI).
The Oslo, Norway-based salmon farming company said the project measured the company’s plastics use across its smolt facilities, aquaculture sites, and processing plant over the past year. In total, the company said it found 350 different plastic items in use across the company’s supply chain,
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Certified Quality Foods (CQ Foods) has partnered with the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association (BBRSDA) and Alaska-based seafood processors to pilot a new method of measuring and assuring salmon quality.
The project, which received USD 20,000 (EUR 18,200) from the BBRSDA, is using CQ Foods Certified Quality Reader 3.0 (CQR 3.0) to measure thousands of different salmon being caught in Bristol Bay this summer. The new tool uses
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The Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation (AFDF) has put out the call for products for the 2024 Alaska Symphony of Seafood.
Started in 1994 by the AFDF, the Alaska Symphony of Seafood is an annual competition devoted to encouraging the development of value-added products made using seafood from Alaska, U.S.A. Previous winners of the contest have gone on to leverage the exposure to increase sales.
Last year, Peter Pan Seafood’s Wild
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