Canada’s Baffin Fisheries ready to fish with new hotel-like trawler
Baffin Fisheries, the leading commercial fishing enterprise in Northern Canada, took delivery of the 80-meter-long Inuksuk on Monday (Sept. 30) at Tersan Shipyard in Turkey
Experimental gear helps Bering Sea trawlers avoid whale deaths
'We're hopeful that we have come up with a good solution here. But these whales are really intelligent' -- Chris Woodley, executive director of the Groundfish Forum
Stolt Sea Farm reports 42% profit jump on higher prices
Stolt Sea Farm, the aquaculture arm of shipping giant Stolt-Nielsen, attributed the growth to improved sales prices for both turbot and sole
Portuguese gov’t launches €22m funding boost for aquaculture
Portugal's minister of agriculture and fisheries, Jose Manuel Fernandes, announced a new funding initiative of €22.8m to support aquaculture and research within the Mar 2030 program
UCN’s seafood pricing data portal now at 2,800 sets with daily Japan, UK additions
Recent daily pricing additions from a huge wholesale market in Japan, as well as to two key UK fresh auctions, have taken UCN's industry-leading portal past 2,800 data points.
Meet Dwan Street, president-elect of the Newfoundland harvester union
'I've learned, growing up in this industry, that there's never been a gain in the fishery that's come easy' -- Dwan Street, president-elect of the Fish Food and Allied Workers
Newfoundland’s ‘Lucky Seven’ home safe after nights adrift in life-raft
The crew of the ill-fated longliner, the Elite Navigator, was greeted by hundreds of jubilant local residents at a wharf in the small community of Valleyfield on Saturday
Canadian Coast Guard searches for missing longliner off Newfoundland coast
Four Canadian Coast Guard vessels, a Cormorant helicopter and a Hercules fixed-wing aircraft launched a search Thursday, but thick fog hampered search efforts
Stolt Sea Farm earnings climb on higher prices
The Spain-based company earned $8.2m before adjustments in the April-June period, up from $4.4m a year ago
Harbour Grace acquisition gives Canadian Innu more shrimp, groundfish quota
The Innu fishing company Ueushuk Fisheries now owns one of the 17 commercial shrimp fishing licenses off Canada's east coast