Editorial director Tom Seaman brings you a roundup of the main stories from the previous week

Last week, the Undercurrent News team was reporting live from Barcelona, Spain, for a record-breaking Seafood Expo Global (SEG) 2023. Over 33,000 seafood industry professionals attended SEG, a 24% increase year-on-year and a new record, according to organizer Diversified Communications. 

SEG, which moved from Brussels, Belgium, to Barcelona for the first time in 2022, had over 2,078 exhibiting companies from 87 different countries, also a record, said Diversified. 

You can recap all of Undercurrent's coverage of the show, which ran from April 24-27, in our blog here. 

During SEG, it emerged two of the main players in salmon processing in the US state of Alaska are in talks about combining their operations in Prince William Sound. 

Peter Pan Seafood and Silver Bay Seafoods are in advanced negotiations to form a joint venture to cooperate on their plants in Valdez, which are next to each other, sources in the Alaskan seafood sector said during SEG. 

Then, a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) story got a lot of attention, with Aquabanq, at least temporarily, changing its land-based farming focus in the US from salmon to shrimp [...]