Jason Holland

The European Commission (E.C.) is currently preparing an autonomous tariff quota (ATQ) proposal for volumes of select fishery products in 2024 and 2025. In response, companies like fishing industry body Europêche have highlighted that growing volumes of third-country-caught seafood have continued to enter the E.U. market with zero duties, while significantly increased controls placed on European fishers are infringing on fishers’

The United Kingdom’s seafood market has endured numerous difficulties in recent years. A recent whitepaper titled “Building Seafood Consumer Confidence to Boost Consumption,” compiled by the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC), addresses some of the problems by proposing a public educational campaign to improve public confidence in buying seafood products. In an interview with SeafoodSource, NSC U.K. Director Victoria Braathen

On 9 July, New Zealand signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union, a move that should provide a boost to New Zealand’s seafood industry when it goes into effect next year.

The FTA, which the two governing bodies signed a year after negotiations concluded in June 2022, will eliminate most export tariffs, ensure nondiscriminatory treatment for investors, improve market access for companies, and significantly reduce

The European Union recently approved a contentious law that would entail member-states implementing restoration measures on at least 20 percent of Europe’s land and sea by 2030.

A revised draft of the E.U. Nature Protection Law (NRL) that included several amendments passed in a crunch vote – 336 votes in favor, 300 against, and 13 abstentions – in Strasbourg, France, on 12 July, 2023, moving on to trialogue negotiations under

Businesses that serve Britain’s favorite takeaway food – fish and chips – are experiencing a crisis due to soaring prices, leaving these mostly independent, modest-sized ventures fearing for their future.

The U.K.’s National Federation of Fish Friers (NFFF) President Andrew Crook, who is also the owner of Skippers of Euxton, a fish and chips restaurant in Chorley, Lancashire, told SeafoodSource that he doesn’t worry

The U.K. government has announced a new package of measures aimed at alleviating the struggles the country’s fishing industry has faced post-Brexit.

According to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra), the latest reforms – unveiled on 17 July, 2023 – will enable the industry to seize on opportunities from existing outside of the European Union. It said measures will involve the introduction of a

Both the volume and value of farmed Atlantic salmon trade globally have soared over the past two decades, but the industry must onboard innovative technology if it wants to keep up with continued demand, according to Bergen, Norway-headquartered Mowi, the world’s largest salmon farming firm.

The 2023 edition of Mowi’s annual Salmon Farming Industry Handbook suggests the industry continues to be a “good fit” with

More than eight months have passed since Susanne Arfelt Rajamand was named CEO of Nuuk, Greenland-headquartered Royal Greenland.

New to the seafood industry but familiar with the wider food sector – her background includes time spent with such giants as consumer goods company Unilever and dairying co-op Fonterra – the transition has been smooth, mainly because she inherited leadership of a company with tried and tested strategies

On 27 June, five years after the European Commission’s initial proposal to modernize the European Union fisheries control system, a preliminary agreement on new regulation received approval from the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee.

The 20-8 vote advances a planned overhaul of E.U. fisheries control rules with the goal of strengthening measures to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, with compulsory

Large sections of the United Kingdom’s seafood economy continue to struggle in their efforts to build up and maintain the workforces necessary to optimize their operations, despite efforts from the government to ease labor burdens.

According to a March survey of 1,330 companies involved in the U.K. seafood industry by U.K. public body Seafish, recruitment challenges exist in both the fisheries and processing sectors, and on the catching