Taprobane Frozen Foods’ Erukkalampidy shrimp farm has become Sri Lanka’s first to gain Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification.
The company hopes to have all 1,000 acres of the farm either certified to either the ASC or Best Aquaculture Practices standard by the end of 2024, according to Taprobane Seafoods CEO Tim O’Reilly. And he has set the goal of selling climate-neutral shrimp from the farm by next year.
“We are
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Josh Goldman is the CEO of Australis Aquaculture, a company originally founded as a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) barramundi farming firm in Turner Falls, Massachusetts, U.S.A., which pivoted in 2018 to growing its fish in sea cages in Vietnam.
Australis has been operating in Vietnam since 2006, with a growing presence over the years. In 2008, it received a 25-year lease of almost 500 acres in Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam,
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U.K. supermarket firm Waitrose has created videos to help migrant fishers in the U.K. better understand what is expected of them in their jobs and their rights as workers.
The chain, which operates 331 stores in the U.K., and its corporate parent, the John Lewis Partnership, said it was responding to reports of sector-wide labor issues, including overworking and the payment of illegal recruitment fees.
Its four-video series, which it translated
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A weak social auditing process, including heavy reliance on self-assessments, allowed the presence of Uyghurs in Chinese seafood processing facilities to go undetected by seafood certification nonprofits including the Marine Stewardship Council, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, and the British Retail Consortium, according to a report from The Outlaw Ocean Project.
The independent journalism group published a report in The New Yorker on 9
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Laksesystemer and VP Vélaverkstæði are partnering to expand the services and technology available to land-based aquaculture operations in Iceland.
Nærbø, Norway-based Laksesystemer is a provider of aquaculture equipment and services, and Vogar, Iceland-based VP is a design and construction firm with expertise in repair and metalwork. VP’s CEO, Jón Reynir Andrésson, worked for 25 years as chief
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SalMar’s Q3 2023 harvest is way up year over year, it reported in a 10 October trading update.
As a result of adding NRS farm sites as part of its December 2022 merger, its total gross-weight harvest volume in Q3 2023 rose to 78,100 metric tons (MT), up from 53,600 MT in Q3 2022. Its Farming Central Norway region produced 48,400 MT, up from 36,000 MT, and its Farming Northern Norway division produced 25,700 MT, up from 13,800 MT.
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Nordly Holding has initiated a sale process for STIM, an aquaculture service and fish health provider based in Leknes, Norway.
Nordly Holding Owner Jim-Roger Nordly said he expects the sale to be completed in H1 2024.
“It will be an interesting process, which I am confident will result in a solution that is in the best interest of the company,” he said. “The precondition, of course, is that we find the right owners who share
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The world’s largest salmon farming company is shifting its processing capacity and trialing an artificial intelligence solution for sea lice detection.
Mowi is selling its 7,500-square-meter salmon slaughterhouse, which sits on a 55,000-square-meter plot in Ulvøya, Norway, in Hitra municipality, as it moves to a new facility on nearby Jøsnøya. The facility, which is being offered with equipment included, was built in
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The primary gateway used by Russian cod and haddock exporters to access the European market has been closed by the Norwegian government.
The border crossing in the Norwegian town of Storskog has been closed because the physical infrastructure there is not adequate for completing customs checks, according to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, which said on 11 October all entry of seafood products through Storskog will be suspended beginning
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Huelva, Spain-based Krustagroup has acquired the majority of Italian Effegi Service, improving its distribution network in Italy.
The longtime partners will continue to operate independently, but will “seek to take advantage of synergies to enhance their growth in the Italian market,” according to a press release.
“Our goal is to grow together and take advantage of synergies with a company that has more than 25 years of
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