A new, accredited third-party certification program, the FISH Standard for Crew, seeks to ensure that fish sold all around the world is harvested by crews who are ethically hired, treated with respect, paid properly, and allowed fair access to address grievance.
Developed by a diverse group of experts in fish harvesting, with added insight from various labor non-profit organizations, the voluntary and independent standard will be open to
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Miami, Florida, U.S.A.-headquartered Blue Star Foods Corp. recently inked a term sheet to acquire Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada-based Taste of BC Aquafarms, Inc., a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) operation specializing in salmon production
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Belgium-based fish processor Gadus has contracted with Iceland’s Valka to implement the equipment developer’s new cutting system for portioning salmon and whitefish fillets …
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Ace Aquatec, winner of the 2019 Global Aquaculture Innovation Award, continued to leverage its industry partnerships and cutting-edge technologies in 2020 to do what it does best – accelerate the adoption of responsible marine practices.
Founded in 1999 by inventor John Ace Hopkins and investor Annette Pyne-Carte, the Dundee, Scotland-based aquaculture technology supplier is behind a decorated portfolio of innovations reflecting the values
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At the beginning of the year, food industry market research firm Datassential released its “Foodbytes: 2020 Trends” report detailing consumer and marketplace habits that could prove impactful over the course of 2020 – and even the next decade.
In the latter pages of the report, an elusive foodservice trend materialized, one that Datassential said could reimagine and redefine what restaurants are and could be: ghost kitchens
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Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.-based Aptar Food + Beverage spent over two decades developing food protection solutions and propriety active packaging systems for fresh produce before it turned its attentions to seafood a few years ago ...
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A collaboration between BioMar Norway and Bio Feeder is intensifying, as the companies get deeper into the development of the Kryssholm – a new cutting-edge hybrid vessel for shipping fish feed.
BioMar Norway and Bio Feeder announced in July 2020 that they were extending their collaboration on the hybrid vessel, which is slated to be completed in 2021. It will be the first ship in Norway to use battery power in fish feed deliveries, the
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The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of 2020 forced much of the world to reimagine its vision for the year, and even the decade.
Sequestering to help contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus quickly became the norm, resulting in the scaling back of business and personal travel, as well as social gatherings worldwide. Global industries have had to redefine the ways in which supply chains and stakeholders connect, an obstacle that
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Up until this year, the Norway-based Kvarøy Arctic exclusively used open-ocean net-pen farming to raise its fish. Now, the company is tapping into both sides of the coastline courtesy of its Arctic Seafarm project. Coastally located about 30 minutes south of Kvarøy Arctic’s headquarters, the land-based Arctic Seafarm facility's construction commenced this fall, with the site capable of producing up to 15,000 metric
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The coronavirus pandemic, which spread quickly around the globe during the first quarter of 2020, has caused a seismic shift in U.S. seafood market trends …
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