Nicki Holmyard

Contributing Editor

Nicki Holmyard lives and breathes the seafood industry. As a specialist freelance writer for 25 years, she has travelled the globe to research in-depth articles, interviews and news stories on all aspects of fishing, aquaculture and processing for international journals and newspapers. She has contributed to books on sustainable seafood sourcing and the effects of climate change on the oceans, and acts as a communications consultant for leading fishing and aquaculture concerns. Nicki is also a director of Offshore Shellfish Ltd, which is developing Europe’s largest rope-grown mussel farm.

Published on
December 17, 2021

Threetimes and Lighthouse Finance have invested in Open Ocean Andalusia, a new project to install an offshore aquaculture platform to grow seriola (Seriola dumerili) more than six miles off the southeast coast of Spain ... 

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Published on
December 16, 2021

Unchecked global warming could reduce global aquaculture production by as much as 16 percent by 2090, a new study from the University of British Columbia Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries shows.

Marine aquaculture, or mariculture, could double its output by 2050, from a current 30 million metric tons (MT) per year live-weight to 74 million MT, but UBC’s researchers modeled that estimate against climate change scenarios and found

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Published on
December 9, 2021

A new report has found the European seaweed industry experienced exponential growth in the number and value of investments over the past decade ... 

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Published on
December 7, 2021

The current high price of electricity has improved Norwegian land-based aquaculture company Andfjord Salmon’s competitive position compared to other land-based facilities, the company said in its Q3 2021 results.

Andfjord Salmon CEO Martin Rasmussen said the company’s flow-through aquaculture system with laminar waterflow technology and its use of land-based pools …

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Published on
December 2, 2021

Fisheries management using maximum sustainable yields (MSY) is key to maintaining healthy stocks, according to Brett Glencross, the technical director of IFFO, The Marine Ingredients Organization.

The global fishmeal and fish oil industry has become increasingly sustainable as many of the world’s developed nations have put MSY limits in place, and as an increasing number of seafood companies make the use of sustainably certified

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Published on
November 25, 2021

A bill introduced in the United Kingdom in May 2021, and passed into law in November, formally recognizes animals – including marine invertebrates – as sentient beings.

The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill underpins the U.K. government’s action plan for animal welfare, with the goal of improving the treatment of animals in the U.K. and introducing measures to protect the welfare of animals abroad. The bill creates an animal

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Published on
November 23, 2021

Andfjord Salmon celebrated a milestone on mid-November as its first 20-meter-deep flow-through pool at its land-based salmon farm in Kvalnes, Andøya, Norway was successfully filled with seawater ... 

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Published on
November 22, 2021

Norcod has signed a partnership deal with Vesterålen Havbruk, to harvest all of the fish grown at its Frosvika site in northern Norway. The three-year extendable agreement covers the slaughtering and processing of up to 10,000 metric tons (MT) of cod per year …

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Published on
November 17, 2021

Progress on Salmon Evolution’s land-based salmon farm on the island of Indre Harøy, Norway, is on time and on budget, the company’s CEO, Håkon André Berg, announced during its third-quarter results presentation on 16 November ... 

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Published on
November 15, 2021

Varkaus, Finland-based Finnforel has received a EUR 45 million (USD 52 million) investment to fund the growth of its trout-farming operation, including the development of Finland’s first selective breeding center for rainbow trout and a rapid expansion into global markets.

Finnforel, founded in 2017 by Kaj Arvonen, Pekka Viljakainen, and Petri Heino, uses recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) technology and an organic fish-production

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