Bombshell Outlaw Ocean report finds evidence of seafood processed by forced labor in US supply chain
Seafood processed by Uyghur forced labor in China has entered U.S. supply chains, according to an Outlaw Ocean report published in The New Yorker magazine.
Members of the Uyghur ethnic minority were relocated and forced to work in processing facilities operated by Chishan Group, Yantai Sanko Fisheries, Yantai Longwin Foods, Rongcheng Haibo, Rongchen Xinhui Aquatic Products, Shandong Haidu, and other Chinese seafood companies, according to the
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The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in the U.S. state of Washington, operates the shellfish firm Jamestown Seafood and the now-dormant Salish Fish. The tribe's steelhead and sablefish farming project – a joint venture with Cooke Aquaculture – is in the midst of a legal battle to restore what it claims is its treaty right to engage in net-pen aquaculture.
In December 2022, the Tribe filed suit against the Washington Department of Natural
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Bergen, Norway-based Lerøy Seafood Group, Glyvrar, Faroe Islands-based Bakkafrost, and Sistranda, Norway-based Måsøval have issued preliminary Q3 2023 updates.
Lerøy Seafood said it expects a total harvest volume of salmon and trout for Q3 2023 of 53,900 gross weight tonnage, excluding volumes from Scottish Seafarms. Its Lerøy Aurora operations in Troms and Finnmark will produce 16,500 metric tons
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CORRECTION: Thor Landeldi is not related to First Water, previously named Landeldi. These are two separate companies, though both are located west of Thorlakshofn and both are building land-based salmon farms.
IS Haf has acquired a 53 percent share of Thor Landeldi, which is developing a 20,000-metric-ton Atlantic salmon farm in Laxabraut, Iceland.
The Icelandic investment fund, created in February 2023 by Íslandsbanki’s
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The Center for Food Safety scored a victory on 5 October with a court ruling allowing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to revoke its general permit for commercial shellfish operations in Washington state.
However, the Corps’ has issued “letters of permission” to most shellfish operators in the state, and the environmental non-governmental organization is now targeting their rollback as its next task in its stated mission of
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Kinabalu Lestari, the operator of Malaysia’s first commercial recirculating aquaculture system (RAS), is expecting to begin harvesting its first crop of barramundi within months.
The company, a joint venture of Borneo Lestari and Sawit Kinabalu, received MYR 85 million (USD 18 million, EUR 17 million) in funding from Sabah state government when it launched in 2021. It has since built a functional RAS in Langkon, Kota Marudu, Malaysia, and
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Domaio, Pontevedra, Spain-based seafood firm Fandicosta is for sale, and fellow Galician enterprise WOFCO is interested.
Affected by higher costs and tighter interest rates, Fandicosta has entered negotiations with several interested parties in a sale, according to Faro de Vigo.
Fandicosta, founded in 1989, is comprised of an eponymous marketing firm and Casa Botas, Peixemar, Bonfrig, and a 50 percent share of Argentinean fishing firm Pesquera
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Gabriel Luna and David Castro have been dreaming and scheming about a global shrimp marketing campaign board for years. Now their dream is out in the open, and they’re hoping enough other industry representatives share their vision so that it can become a reality.
Formally announced at the Global Shrimp Forum in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 6 September, the Global Shrimp Council is “an initiative with the intention to
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First Seafood has opened a new salmon-processing plant in Kongsvinger, Norway, and has announced its plans to build another facility in Bergen.
The Oslo, Norway-based processor and exporter, which was acquired by Insula in 2016, confirmed its move on LinkedIn, saying it planned to open the facility in Q1 2024.
“Now it is official and we are happy to inform that Insula AS and First Seafood will establish a new salmon filet facility in
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The Russian Fishery Company has signed a promotional agreement with Meridian, a Kosovo-based supermarket chain, and launched the Mekhanik Sizov, its third supertrawler.
The Meridian partnership will result in RFC supply high-quality pollock and surimi products, traditional crab sticks, and snow crab, and develop additional products, to Meridian’s 43 stores in Eastern Europe. The agreement was signed on 27 September at the Global Fishery
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