Swiss Blue Salmon has chosen VAQ to design the recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) for its Atlantic salmon farm planned for Mollis, Switzerland.
Swiss Blue Salmon originally partnered informally with Billund Aquaculture to help advance its mission to build what it has dubbed the “world’s smartest RAS farm.” In July 2022, Billund Aquaculture Norway split off from its parent company, and became VAQ in September 2022. It is now
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Additional cases of infectious salmon anemia (ISA) have cropped up in Norway, along with a case of pancreatic disease. ISA is caused by a virus that is harmless to humans but which can cause mass mortalities at salmon farms as it spreads.
On 26 September, Salmar reported a suspected ISA case at a farm it operates with Veterinærmedisinsk Oppadragssenter in Norway’s Flatanger municipality, in Trøndelag county. The Norwegian Food
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Kverva, Norway-based aquaculture company Icelandic Salmon AS, which owns producer Arnarlax and other subsidiaries farming Atlantic salmon in Iceland, has been listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market.
The company, which is 51 percent owned by SalMar, expects to harvest 16,000 metric tons of salmon this year, making it the largest aquaculture company by production in Iceland. Through Arnarlax, the Bíldudalur-based company
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A strong run of sales growth has reignited the bidding for U.K. shelf-stable product brand Princes, which is being offered up by Mitsubishi for a minimum of GBP 600 million (USD 770 million, EUR 702 million).
The Japanese conglomerate, which has owned Princes since 1989, is entertaining bids from at least three bidders and is expected to collect GBP 700 million (USD 854 million, EUR 807 million) for the brand, according to The Grocer.
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A shutdown of the U.S. federal government was narrowly avoided with a last-minute spending measure passed by Congress.
The stopgap spending bill was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate and signed by U.S. President Joe Biden just hours before the 1 October deadline to avoid a shutdown.
The federal government entered a partial shutdown last week after Congress failed to pass new funding that would keep the government
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Creditors of Blue Harvest Fisheries are not expected to recoup much, if any, of the money owed to them by the New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based Blue Harvest Fisheries, which filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection on 8 September.
The company, which filed 40 separate Chapter 7 applications for its various subsidies, cumulatively listed more than 2,200 parties as creditors. The list includes fishermen who had worked for Blue Harvest,
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Aquamarine Seafood as a company is just six years old, but given its young age, it punches well above its weight in the global seafood industry.
That’s partially because, even though the company is new, its founder and owner, Bert Van Loock, has more than 30 years of industry experience, including 22 years at a trading company and five years as a director of a Belgium-based seafood processor and distributor. He said the experiences were
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Seafood is piling up in Japan after China instituted a ban on Japanese imports following the release of wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Japanese seafood exports to China crashed 67.6 percent in August 2023 year over year, according to Chinese customs data. While some of that was destined for China’s domestic market, a significant portion of it was headed to Chinese factories for processing and reexport.
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Tongwei, a dominant force in China’s aquafeed sector, has pledged to make a huge investment into recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) shrimp farming.
Liang Qinlang, the director of Tongwei Fishery Technology’s research and development department and the director of its fishery engineering research institute, said the company is investing CNY 1.2 billion (USD 164.2 million, EUR 155 million) in a 200,000-square-meter RAS shrimp farm
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Lima, Peru-based Océano Seafood has acquired 100 percent of Kingston, Rhode Island, U.S.A.-based Sea Fresh USA.
Founded in 1981, Sea Fresh USA is a fishing and processing firm specializing in loligo squid, with annual sales of around USD 50 million (EUR 47.3 million), according to Antarctica Advisors, which acted as its investment banking advisor through the sales process. It owns Handrigan Seafoods, a docking operation in Galilee, Rhode
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