Brazilian seafood imports skyrocket in Q1, pangasius demand fuels surge
Brazil's aquaculture imports grew by 27% in volume and 13% in value to 46,441t worth $288.5m in Q1 2024
Norway sees record April exports despite salmon volume decline, lower quotas
Norway announced record-breaking seafood exports for the month of April, totaling NOK 13.9 billion, up by NOK 924m or 7% y-o-y
Chilean seafood exports hit almost $2.3bn in Q1, yet see 1.6% dip
The decline can be attributed to several subsectors experiencing setbacks, including salmon and trout, fish oil, horse mackerel, mussels and algae
New plant, land-based trout volumes to take Blue Resource to $270m sales by 2026
The group's Filetfabrikken plant near Oslo is running double filleting shifts and with room to grow and to take the trout from Hima Seafood in 2025, 'it's only the beginning'
Cermaq posts $134m loss on higher operation costs, Chilean mortalities
Norwegian salmon farming company Cermaq Group, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi, posted an equity loss of JPY 20.3bn for the fiscal year 2023
Nissui to sell more Chilean ‘Five Star’ salmonids in Japan after processing investment
The Japanese seafood giant has a sales target of 14,000t each of farmed coho and trout, with more sashimi-grade products due from Chilean subsidiary Salmones Antartica
Japanese giant to market 57,000t of salmon, trout products this year
As a leading marketer of salmon and trout products in Japan, Kyokuyo intends to increase sashimi-grade product sales during 2024
Japan’s salmon supply likely to drop below 400,000t for first time in years
The total supply of salmon and trout -- both domestic production and imports -- should reach just over 385,000t for the 2023/24 season (from May to April)
Maruha Nichiro plans to market 7,000t of Chilean farmed coho this year
Those 7,000t of farmed coho salmon from Chile will be imported alongside some 2,000t-3,000t of trout from Chile, Turkey, and other regions
Investor group calls on Japan’s Toyo Suisan to withdraw from seafood
An investor group led by Nihon Global Growth Partners Management wants Toyo Suisan Kaisha to withdraw from the seafood trading business and concentrate on its ramen operations