Octopus FIP launches off coast of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula
The fishery improvement project is supported by Netuno USA, Empacadora Promarmex, Orca Seafoods, LP Foods, Comercializadora Healthy Fish and MASPESCA
Nueva Pescanova’s farmed octopus could hit market by 2023
The company said that one of its octopuses has 'already laid some eggs, which it will be taking care of for approximately one month, when they will hatch and the larvae will be born'
Profand ‘throws the nets’ into US cephalopod market
Spain's Profand is ranked fourth in the domestic frozen seafood sector by volume according to the Spanish economic outlet Alimarket
EU gains access to Guinea-Bissau waters for another five years
A new deal allows access for several fish species -- tuna, demersal fish, cephalopods, shrimp -- as well as for a new category, small pelagics
Industry counts cost of octopus price crash
'It was an El Dorado' -- Pedro Cunha, purchasing director at Portuguese seafood firm Brasmar, recounting the bubble in octopus prices
Portugal’s Brasmar plans more chilled processing M&A after Spanish smoker deal
The Portuguese processor Brasmar, which reported a turnover of €194.5m in 2018, has reportedly lined up multiple European acquisitions to fulfil its double-digit growth targets
Falklands, Mauritania investments bring Pereira’s sales up 5%
Vigo, Spain-based Grupo Pereira saw its 2018 sales reach €155m, after putting a total of €23m into fishing in the Falklands and Mauritania
Study makes case against octopus farming
For ethical and environmental reasons, raising octopuses in captivity for food is a bad idea, according to a study from scientists at New York University
Giant octopus fishery becomes Japan’s third FIP project
The north Japanese octopus fishery of Tomamae employs roughly 10% of the town's workforce, but has been in decline in recent years
US’ retaliatory tariffs threaten to hit imported EU salmon, octopus, sardines
The tariffs could be as high as 100% -- Jessica Wasserman, Washington, D.C.-based trade expert