Chris Chase

Yumbah Aquaculture, an Australian producer of abalone, mussels, and oysters, has acquired Eyre Peninsula Seafoods, creating the largest mussel producing company in Australia.

Eyre Peninsula Seafoods, according to a release by Yumbah, was already the largest mussel farmer and processer in Australia, with more than 2,300 mussels produced each year under the Boston Bay Mussels and Kinakawooka Mussels brands. The new acquisition has stretched that

Gigante Salmon, the company building a land-based salmon facility in Lille Indre Rosøya, Norway, said it is on track to release smolt into its facility this fall. 

In the company’s Q2 2023 results, it reiterated it is still in the development phase, which means revenue is low. The company said it saw revenue of just NOK 28,000 (USD 2,728, EUR 2,489), compared to operating costs of NOK 870,000 (USD 84,800, EUR 77,300) in the

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued 71 different seafood entry line refusals in July, but for the first time since September 2022, the agency did not deny entry for any shrimp contaminated with antibiotics.

The U.S. FDA refused entry of shrimp from Edhayam Frozen Foods PVT on 25 July for the presence of salmonella and for being filthy. Another shipment of shrimp was also refused on 31 July, according to data on the FDA import refusal

The World Bank has announced USD 9 million (EUR 8.1 million) in funding for a program devoted to fighting against illegal, unreported, and unregistered (IUU) fishing in the Pacific Ocean.

The funding will go to further the objectives of the Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Program (PROP), a regional collaboration supporting the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) in its work on fisheries management in the region. The FFA is an organization

Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food, and Marine Charlie McConalogue has signed new rules for fishing within the Dundalk Bay SAC (special area of conservation), a move welcomed by coalition group Fair Seas.

The new rules come via multiple Fisheries Natura Declaration, the first and second of 2023. The new declarations add permitting requirements for cockle fishing, and includes restrictions on types of gear, eliminating the use of

Canada announced it is building four new patrol vessels for its conservation and protection programs, to replace four aging vessels.

Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) said the new vessels will allow the department to increase the capacity of its fishery officers to conduct enforcement operations. The new vessels, measuring 44 feet in length, will be built by Samson Enterprises through a CAD 5.4 million (USD 4 million, EUR 3.6

Correction: The original version of this story had a headline stating the E.U. joined South Pacific groups. The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) and Sustainable Indian Ocean Tuna Initiative (SIOTI) are both based in the Indian Ocean, not the South Pacific. 

The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Sustainable Indian Ocean Tuna Initiative (SIOTI), and the Spanish Association of Tuna Freezers (AGAC) have joined forced to launch a new project

The U.S. state of Maine recently passed an act to create a Lobster Innovation Fund to provide financing to commercial fishermen to test new lobster fishing technologies, just days before the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) released a report finding a full transition to ropeless lobster gear would cost the fishery in more ways than just higher equipment costs.

The new fund, created through a law signed by Maine Governor Janet