Bergen, Norway-based Ovum, formerly known as Hauge Aqua Solutions, has announced plans to acquire its partner, Herde Kompositt, as a means of securing its production capacity.
Ovum produced the first pilot model of its Egget floating closed-containment system farm in May 2022 at the Herde Kompositt factory in Ølve, Norway. The Egget farm is 44 meters tall and 31 meters wide, and has a capacity of up to one million salmon. Ovum had
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A federal judge has ruled former Bumble Bee Foods owner Lion Capital can be held liable in a civil lawsuit alleging it was involved in a price-fixing conspiracy involving the so-called “big three” U.S. tuna companies – Bumble Bee, Starkist, and Chicken of the Sea.
The U.K.-based private equity firm purchased Bumble Bee in 2010 and operated it until it was sold out of bankruptcy to FCF Co. in 2019, following its guilty plea
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Thai Union and Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) are planning to expand a collaboration initiated in March 2022.
One of the world's largest seafood producers, with THB 155.6 billion (USD 4.4 billion, EUR 4 billion) in sales in 2022, Thai Union partnered with SFP, a marine conservation organization founded in 2006, on a range of initiatives, including SFP’s Ocean Disclosure Project and its Protecting Ocean Wildlife initiative,
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Jonas Scheurer, Jakob Niemeyer, and Mark Gerban have ambitions beyond building just another frozen seafood order management system.
They founded their company, Clear Sea, three years ago, with the goal of designing an app to facilitate the buying and selling of frozen seafood. It has since become a white label solution used by several companies in the seafood industry, including Regal Springs. But the co-founders of the Hamburg, Germany-based
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The closures of several high-end sushi omakase restaurants in New York City may be a sign demand for luxurious – and expensive – seafood indulgence has passed its peak.
The Michelin-starred Sushi Ginza Onodera, which opened in Midtown Manhattan in 2016 and which served a 20-course sushi-themed meal for USD 400 (EUR 367), closed 19 August. And two of the city’s other premier omakase joints – Kotaru and Sushi Noz –
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Oman Pelagic has launched a state-of-the-art tuna-fishing vessel with plans to operate it in the Indian Ocean.
Dubbed the Acila, the new vessel is 84 meters in length and boasts a capacity of 1,800 cubic meters. The new fishing vessel will be flagged to Oman and will fish for various tuna species in international waters in the Indian Ocean, according to Fisheries Development Oman (FDO), a government-operated group aiding in the development of
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Oquendo Capital has upped its share of Cambre, A Coruña, Spain-based octopus purveyor Discefa from 26.8 percent to 71 percent.
Madrid, Spain-headquartered Oquendo offers preferred equity and debt instruments for family-owned businesses and investors, focusing on the lower-mid market in Southern Europe.
Founded in 1982, Discefa is a wholesale seafood distributor and octopus supplier, exporting to than 35 countries. It owns the brands El
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U.K. grocery chain Sainsbury’s is rolling out a new premium to-go meal concept at 100 of its 1,400 stores.
The new Kitchen Deli concept includes sandwiches, salads, and ready-to-eat, heat-at-home meals.
“We are thrilled to introduce customers to Kitchen Deli, our new specialty selection of ready-prepared food that will add to and complement our existing range of own brand ready-meals and food on the go,” Sainsbury’s Fresh
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Researchers from the Murcia Oceanographic Center of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography have achieved the successful reproduction of bluefin tuna in a land-based facility.
The researchers are claiming this is the first time bluefin tuna reproduction has taken place in a land-based facility, however several Japanese aquaculture firms have previously accomplished closed-cycle tuna farming.
The Murcia Oceanographic Center has been working in
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Milan, Italy-based Badinotti Group has acquired Pacific Netting Product (PNP), a manufacturer of aquaculture netting and cages based in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
Badinotti Group is a designer, engineer, producer, installer, and servicer of aquaculture hardware – including nets, cages, mooring solutions, and other fish-containment products. The acquisition, announced 1 August, 2023, increases its access and exposure in the North American
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