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Undercurrent News toured Potipora's farms and processing plant as well as its hatchery in Brazil's Rio Grande do Norte state, in Nov. 2024.
Undercurrent News attended Brazil's shrimp largest trade show, which took place in Natal on Nov. 19-22.
Salmon Evolution, one of the most modern land-based salmon farms in the world, has had a mostly successful start to its 7,900 metric ton a year facility in Indra Havoy, Norway. The company has harvested several batches of fish, and was readying another with healthy Atlantic salmon weighing over 4 kilograms each during a recent Undercurrent News visit.
The company communicated Oct. 2 that is approaching steady state harvest volumes by year end. Salmon Evolution is already planning an expansion at the same site that will double capacity, using a novel hybrid approach that combines recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) technology with some flow through water.
The company communicated Oct. 2 that is approaching steady state harvest volumes by year end. Salmon Evolution is already planning an expansion at the same site that will double capacity, using a novel hybrid approach that combines recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) technology with some flow through water.
Undercurrent News visited Oyster Kings' office and processing facility and took photographs in October 2023 as part of a field trip offered in conjunction with the Global Seafood Alliance’s Responsible Seafood Summit.
Undercurrent News visited Dutch Harbor near the end of the pollock B season, as processors – including Maruha Nichiro’s Westward Seafoods and Alyeska Seafoods, and UniSea, which is the one of largest subsidiaries of Nissui Corporation – were turning Bering Sea pollock into filets, surimi, fish meal, and fish oil.
AquaGen invited a group of customers, industry colleagues and reporters to the official opening of its Profunda broodstock and egg facility in Orsta, Norway on Monday, Aug. 21. AguaGen aims to achieve pathogen free status recognized by the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) by 2025 to sell pathogen free Atlantic salmon eggs to international markets. The partial recirculation facility was designed by Artec Aqua.
Visitors to the 2023 Shrimp Summit in Vietnam were taken to Minh Phu Seafood Corporation's new super-intensive vannamei shrimp farm at Loc An, where the company has been operating a 153t/ha farm since 2020.
Undercurrent News visited the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador in August 2022. We took lots of pictures of cod being landed on a dock in the city of St. John’s and the colorful personalities who still make a living from the sea.
Boston Sword & Tuna (BST) invited Undercurrent News to visit its new 50,000-square-foot plant during the big Boston seafood show, March 12-14, 2023.
Undercurrent News attended the India International Seafood Show 2023, February 15-17, 2023.
Pescuera Diamante's fishmeal plant near Lima produces 170 metric tons of fishmeal an hour, 20 hours a day, during Peru's anchovy fishing season.
Undercurrent News visited Stella Polaris' coldwater shrimp processing facility near Tromso in November 2022.
Billed as South America's largest seafood industry event, AquaExpo drew over 200 companies from all over the world eager to sell to Ecuador's fast-growing shrimp industry. Undercurrent News reported live from the event held in October 2022.
Perhaps because of COVID's origins, or China's zero-COVID approach, seafood is under the microscope of Chinese health officials
Undercurrent News visited Frime's new plant in April 2022 which will produce 600t of tuna steaks a month.
Norwegian salmon farmer Nordlaks has taken delivery of, and is now stocking, the world's largest offshore aquaculture platform -- a design named Havfarm 1.
Havfarm 1, the world's largest offshore aquaculture platform, departed a shipyard in Yantai for Norway last week.
Two of the world’s largest offshore aquaculture projects in construction are nearing the final stages of completion in China
Undercurrent News visited China's largest seafood market in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, where seafood wholesalers are getting back to business
Undercurrent News visited St. Andrews mussel farm and processing plant in Chiloe, Chile
Chinese towns and villages in Hubei province have taken drastic steps to stop the spread of coronavirus
De Maas' giant offshore pen is being built at Changhong shipyard in Zhoushan, China. Undercurrent News visited the yard in November 2019
Alibaba Group's Hema stores in Shanghai exemplify how China's 'new retail' concept meets seafood. Undercurrent News visited two Hema stores in 2019
Guangdong Evergreen Group is one of China's largest aquafeed and aquaculture firms. Undercurrent News visited the firm's headquarters in south China in fall of 2018
Undercurrent News visited China's largest abalone company in Lianjiang county, Fujian province, in summer of 2018.
Undercurrent News visited one of CP's broodstock multiplication centers in Thailand in summer of 2019
Zhoushan National Pelagic Fishery Base is China's largest fishing industry development on the country's eastern seaboard. Undercurrent News visited in September 2019
China's largest shrimp company opened its new $100m plant in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province in September 2019
Undercurrent News visited the farming site of Australis Barramundi in central Vietnam.
Located in the Pacific Northwest, this salmon hatchery is one of many set up to preserve the region's wild salmon stocks.
Undercurrent News visited China's largest seafood wholesale market in summer of 2018.
Intensive pond race systems (IPRS) are revolutionizing Chinese aquaculture. Undercurrent News travelled to China to find out more.
Undercurrent News visited Donghae’s facilities near the South Korea resort city of Sokcho
Undercurrent News visited Viet Uc’s shrimp farms in Bac Lieu, Vietnam.
Undercurrent News attended the naming ceremony of the Kirkella, the UK's largest whitefish trawler vessel.
Undercurrent News reported from Seafood Expo Global 2019, held May 7-9, in Brussels, Belgium
Chinese e-commerce retailer Gfresh opens shopfront presence in Shanghai.
Undercurrent News reported from Seafood Expo North America, 2019, held from March 17 -19 in Boston, USA.
Undercurrent News visited Camanchaca's smolt hatchery in southern Chile in 2018.
Undercurrent News visited Guangdong Evergreen's 1,300-mu tilapia farm in Zhanjiang in early September.
Undercurrent News visited Mawei shipyard in China in early June where De Maas is constructing its first offshore pen.
Undercurrent News visited Skretting's validation center in Guayas, Ecuador, on Sept. 24, 2018.
Undercurrent News visited Hengsha International Fishing Port and salmon processor Hi-Chain both near Shanghai in September, 2018.
Undercurrent News recently travelled to Portland, Maine, to visit some of the US' largest producers of lobster.
We took a tour of BMR Group's hatchery near Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, in February 2017.
Atlantic Sapphire is building the US’ first large commercial land-based salmon farm. We visited the installation in January 2018.
Undercurrent News visited Blue Ridge Aquaculture, the largest land-based tilapia RAS facility in the US
Undercurrent News attended the Seafood Expo North America in March 2018
Undercurrent News visited a City'super store in Shanghai's ITC mall, to check out market trends
Undercurrent News was shown Guolian's full suite of seafood products at its headquarters in Zhanjiang, China
Sino Agro Food wants to build the biggest shrimp farm in the world. Undercurrent visited the 'Megafarm' in Zhongshan, China, in Sept. 2017
Undercurrent visited Guolian's new RAS shrimp farm and processing plant, both under construction in Zhanjiang, China
Undercurrent News visited a Thai Union shrimp plant in Bangkok, May 2017
Undercurrent News visited Cooke's facilities in New Brunswick, Canada, in November 2016
Qinghai Minze sent Undercurrent some photos of its trout farming operation on the world's highest plateau.
Zhanjiang Guolian Aquatic Products showed its tilapia hatchery, farm and processing plant in Zhanjiang during a visit in October 2016.
Visit on Aug. 23, 2016 to Granjas Marinas' San Bernardo shrimp farm in southwest Honduras. San Bernardo is the largest shrimp farm in the Central American country.
Despite cancellations due to fears over fresh terrorist attacks, the seafood sector's largest global event attracted over 22,160 buyers and sellers, according to its organizers.
Catch a few glimpses from the 2016 National Restaurant Show, held from May 21 to 24 in Chicago, USA.
Undercurrent News visited the University of Miami's School of Marine Atmospheric Sciences on Jan. 21, 2016
Several UK suppliers seem to be benefitting from the re-vamp of the private label seafood range of UK retailer J. Sainsbury.
Undercurrent News visited Cermaq's salmon farm off Brent Island, on the Canadian west coast, in October 2015.
Snapshots of the seafood industry's biggest annual gathering, in its 2015 edition.
Undercurrent News visited GST Group’s finfish site in Malaysia in the spring 2015.
Undercurrent News visited SBH Marine’s shrimp farm and seafood processing plant in Malaysia in April 2014.
Undercurrent News visited Aquagrow's hatchery and floating finfish cage farm in Malaysia in April 2014.
Undercurrent News visited Empresas AquaChile's farm at Abtao Island in the fall of 2014, before the company announced its plans to merge with Marine Harvest Chile.
Boston-based Stavis Seafoods CEO Richard Stavis took Undercurrent News on a tour of the company’s new processing plant in 2015.
Take a peak at the operations of the Boston-based fresh and frozen seafood wholesale supplier
Wholesaler Pangea Shellfish gave Undercurrent News a tour of its Boston operations in March, shortly after the 2015 Seafood Expo North America trade show.
Carlos Rafael gave Undercurrent News a tour of his groundfish & scallop fleet in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 2015.
As of February 2015, the £3 million project has just four unfilled units remaining, and has opened its seafood training school.
Pics by Picture by www.DaveMoss.co.uk
Pics by Picture by www.DaveMoss.co.uk
In October 2014, shrimp exporter Omarsa gave Undercurrent News a look at its processing facility in Duran and its organic shrimp farm on the outskirts of Guayaquil.
View pictures from an October 2014 tour Undercurrent News took of a shrimp processing facility and a shrimp farm run by Songa in Guayaquil, Ecuador
This 65,000-square-foot facility processes around 6.5 million pounds of seafood a year. Undercurrent News visited in October 2014.
Undercurrent News was on hand to watch the unloading of American Seafoods' Northern Eagle catcher-processor as it finished up the 2014 hake season in November.
Undercurrent News visited Marine Harvest's Huenquillahue farm in October, 2014, some 17 kilometers from Puerto Montt.
Iceland is ahead of the curve when it comes to using every last part of its catch. Undercurrent News caught a glimpse of this in September 2014.
In August 2014, Agropesca del Peru showed Undercurrent News its giant squid processing within the tour organized for buyers and journalists by the exporters’ association Adex.
During a visit in August 2014, Thai shrimp farmer and former colonel Paisarn Wong-wassana explained how his shrimp farming method boosts survival rates.
In August 2014, Undercurrent News toured one of Seajoy’s farms near the Gulf of Fonseca, and a nearby processing plant.
Companies Westward, Alyeska and Unisea opened their processing plant doors to Undercurrent News in July 2014.
Only fresh sardines caught at daybreak are processed at this Galician factory. Undercurrent News toured the plant in June 2014, during the sardine canning season.
Undercurrent News got a glimpse of Marfrio's pre-fried line of hake blocks as it visited the Spanish company's plant in Marin, Galicia, in June 2014.
Buyers and sellers gather every year for this event arranged by Cooke Aquaculture and East Coast Seafoods.
From new products to creative fish displays — here is a selection of our pictures from the 2014 edition of the world’s biggest annual seafood show.
Argentina’s largest toothfish catcher restructured its operations in 2013 to address Argentina’s challenging economic climate.
Spanish seafood processor Krustagroup, part of Grupo Amasua, re-launched a range of fish and sauce products in April 2014, with eyes on exports.
Island Creek Oysters grew to be a household name in the oyster world in just over a decade's time. Undercurrent News visited them in the spring of 2014.
Viciunai is the latest seafood company to look to up production of whitefish in Europe, betting on being closer to the markets.
A former lobster fisherman, Neil Zarella today runs this $20 to $25 million company from an office in a processing facility in Boston. Undercurrent News paid a visit in early 2014.
The following photos are the winners of Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute's 2014 Family Photo context.
Undercurrent News visited Norwegian whitefish and pelagic producers Brodrene Sperre and Nils Sperre in February 2014.
Clearwater Seafoods has added 15 meters into the middle of Atlantic Leader, a scallop vessel, which it is shifting from Canada to Argentina.
In November 2013, Norwegian salmon producer Cermaq took analysts and journalists on a visit of its facilities in Chile.
Sapmer inaugurated its new factory in Port Louis, Mauritius, in November 2013. Journalists were also shown onboard its sixth tuna freezer purse-seiner, Belle Rive.
Seattle Fish Company's personality lies in its love of seafood's lesser known and more interesting species.
Undercurrent News visited them in November 2013.
Undercurrent News visited them in November 2013.
Undercurrent News visited shrimp farms of Omarsa, Songa and Crimasa during the week of the XV Ecuadorian Aquaculture Conference and Aquaexpo 2013, which ran from Oct. 28-31.
In its 18th year, the China Fisheries & Seafood Expo has grown to be the world’s second largest seafood trade show, surpassing Boston, and second only to Brussels.
Peru may be known for its fishmeal and fish oil industries, but inside processing plants in the northern city of Piura, companies are processing a diverse array of both farmed and wild local harvests.
In October 2013, Undercurrent News joined a Biomar-led visit of Danish recirculation trout farms Kaerhede Dambrug and Aquapri.
Undercurrent News visited the UK whitefish supplier in October 2013, as it was investing in expanding its plant in line with increasing quotas.
Troutlodge was born in Eastern Washington, when a WW II flight instructor began experimenting with aquaculture. Undercurrent visited the site in September 2013.
WM Morrison Supermarkets is the first UK retailer to own a seafood processing plant and is making big plans on fresh and online expansion, seen as boosts for fish sales.
The Shetland-based branch of Norway's Grieg Seafood is the largest salmon producer on the island. It owns 48 sites spread across seven clusters, including offshore farms.
Viciunai is thought to be the world's largest surimi producer. Undercurrent News visited the company's vast processing complex in Plunge, Lithuania in July 2013.
On Nov. 6, 2012, Wm Morrisons Supermarkets, the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, unveiled a revamp of its seafood range and in-store display.
On Oct. 26, 2012, some 64 delegates gathered at the European Sushi Convention, an event organized by the packaging group Sealed Air.
Morpol's plant in Ustka is the world's largest salmon processing site. Undercurrent News took a tour in October 2012, covering about two miles in the process.
Agama, a Russian seafood importer and distributor, launched its first seafood-only shops in the autumn of 2012.
Undercurrent News toured Seachill's plant, for a look at the process behind the product, in the fall of 2012.
At the start of October 2012 the Norwegian Seafood Council took UK chippy owners onboard a trawler and inside a factory in this Norwegian fishing town.
“I am envious of this generation,” said Lech Walesa, speaking at the opening of the factory in Grudziadz in September 2013