Peru sets 2023 jumbo squid quota at 420,000t, down 16% y-o-y
The 2023 quota is down by 80,000t from the 500,000t authorized last year
PE-backed Spanish processor’s CEO leaves to lead fruit firm
Ramon Ojeda, former CEO of Grupo Union Martin, has left the company to join Tropical Millenium, a Spain, Malaga-based tropical fruit producer and wholesaler, as CEO
Peru fisheries see landings rise 46% as catches for human consumption soar
Peru saw its seafood landings rise year-on-year to 203,600 metric tons in March, up 46.1% in volume and 36.1% in value
China’s CNFC to merge three seafood companies, double its fleet size
Chinese state-owned fishing company CNFC Overseas Fisheries announced on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange that it would pay CNY 1.72bn for the merger
Seafood’s latest $1bn player plans European sales expansion
Spain's Profand is on a drive to push its wide range of crustaceans, cephalopods and fish into new European countries, having become the latest in the sector to pass $1bn in sales
Red shrimp leads Argentina seafood export volume’s 15% increase in Q1
Argentina's fisheries sector exported a total of 129,131 metric tons of seafood worldwide worth $471m during the first quarter of 2023, in part thanks to a notable y-o-y increase in red shrimp sales
Greater exports of frozen fish drive Peru’s seafood sales up 7% in February
Sales of Peruvian frozen fish products rose by 68.7% in volume, and 31% in value year-on-year to 81,200t worth $197.3m in February 2023
Peru fishery landings soar in February as catches for human consumption double
Peru's fisheries sector saw its seafood landings rise 88% year-on-year by volume, and 9% in value in February
Chinese squid vessels dodge Peru monitoring
Chinese squid vessels are avoiding Peru’s ports due to port monitoring
US lawmaker’s tweet points to politics around whale deaths
'Republicans are using offshore wind as a scapegoat for marine animal deaths. But the real culprit is climate change -- which, by the way, is driven by fossil fuels' -- US representative Jared Huffman