NASF 2024: NESI whitefish wins push revenue over £200m; Atlantic Sapphire’s bullish update
Undercurrent News is reporting live from the North Atlantic Seafood Forum in Bergen, Norway on March 5-7, 2024
Norway sets new monthly export share record for salmon fillets
Norway exported NOK 13.3bn worth of seafood in February, a 3% improvement over 2023 when measured in krone, but a third consecutive month-on-month decline in euros
Washington state tribe pins Cooke steelhead net-pen hopes on regime change
'We're waiting for the winds to blow in a different direction in our favor' -- Jim Parsons, Jamestown Seafood
Leroy unlikely to hit 2025 whitefish earnings target with quotas falling, on track with salmon output goal
Leroy is reconsidering the earnings target of NOK 500m by 2025 for its whitefish division due to the fall in cod quotas in 2024 and the expectation of a further cut in 2025
Brandon Gottsacker to lead both Riverence, Superior Fresh as CEO
The owners of Superior Fresh became investors in Riverence in 2020 when Riverence bought Idaho-based Clear Spring Foods
Nissui names new president of Chile’s Salmones Antarctica
Naoki Kumakura, who assumes the role March 1, was previously president of Kurose Suisan, Nissui's yellowtail farming business in Japan
Camanchaca forecasts 2024 harvest of over 50,000t of Atlantic, coho salmon
Camanchaca anticipates 2024 harvests between 46,000t and 48,000t WFE for Atlantic salmon and a range of 4,000t to 5,000t for coho salmon currently growing out at sea
Japan’s Marubeni merges trading function into domestic wholesaler Benirei
Benirei is Marubeni's domestic seafood wholesale arm, which generated a revenue of JPY 90.7bn, or $605m, for the fiscal year ending March 2023
West Virginia RAS firm switches from salmon to steelhead, joins growing crowd
Appalachian Salmon, which plans on using water from flooded, abandoned coal mines, hopes to have shovels in the ground for its new RAS facility by the end of 2024
Canada’s fisheries, aquaculture industries not growing ocean economy as hoped
Canada must act to reverse declining aquaculture production and job loss, one industry leader argues