The sales joint venture Ocean Quality owned by Grieg Seafood and fellow Norwegian salmon farmer Bremnes Seashore is to be dissolved and divided between the companies.

Grieg Seafood will take full ownership of Ocean Quality North America, Ocean Quality UK and Ocean Quality USA. Employees in these organisations will be employed in Grieg Seafood.

Bremnes Seashore will take full ownership of the Norwegian organisation Ocean Quality AS and will also take over Ocean Quality Shanghai.

Source: fishfarmingexpert | Read the full article here

According to a statement by a group of nine UK Fish Producer Organisations, the slump in demand for nephrops due to the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an already precarious over-supply situation in the UK nephrops (langoustine) sector.

Higher than normal landings volumes of whole prawns and prawn tails due to good fishing throughout 2019 had already begun to have negative effects on market prices during the first quarter of 2020, before the effects of the lockdowns in domestic and export markets fully took hold.

Throughout April and into May, most nephrops vessels have been tied up and most factories have remained closed. 

Author: Quentin Bates / FiskerForum | Read the full article here

“Para estos efectos y previo a la citación antes señalada, la administración de la Sociedad contratará los servicios de un banco de inversiones que tendrá por objeto la asesoría sobre el proceso de aumento de capital en general”, manifestaron desde la compañía.

El gerente general de Blumar S.A., Gerardo Balbontín, comunicó ayer a la Comisión para el Mercado Financiero (CMF) que, en sesión ordinaria de Directorio, celebrada este lunes 25 de mayo, se acordó, entre otras materias, que dentro de los próximos 30 días se citará a una junta extraordinaria de accionistas con el objeto de discutir la opción de aumentar el capital social en la suma de hasta US$40.000.000 mediante la emisión de acciones de pago.

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El alcalde de Vigo, Abel Caballero, mantuvo ayer una videoconferencia con representantes de Anfanco, Arvi, Conxemar, Espadeiros do Atlántico y Acopevi para tomar el pulso de la situación de la actividad pesquera en la ciudad. En el caso de Conxemar, Caballero indicó que “vamos a esperar a tomar decisiones porque no sabemos como será la situación en octubre, es pronto y mejor no tomar decisiones antes de que sea el momento”.

“Tuve una reunión con una representación muy importante de la pesca en Vigo, grupos que agregan decenas de miles de empleos, una parte esencial de la economía de la ciudad”, indicó antes de señalar que el sector también se ha visto afectado por la disminución de las ventas de pescado a la restauración y la caída de la demanda, además del aumento de los costes de enlatado debido a la necesidad de aumentar la seguridad.

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The introduction of grouper aquaculture in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) could be “economically sound, environmentally beneficial, and socially enhancing”.

So concludes a newly published study into the potential impacts of culturing orange-spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides). One of the most popular fish species in the UAE, the paper notes, it “has been pushed to the brink of extinction” by overexploitation of wild stocks, making the case for developing an aquaculture sector for the species all the more relevant.

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For three weeks DBS Schenker and Icelandair have been waiting to get the final approval from the Chinese authorities to fly in salmon by a remodelled passenger plane from Reykjavik. Now the permit has finally been granted.

“We now have the go-to fly into Nanjing and Shanghai. This is first time option of direct flights into China from Iceland. The cost and time will be significantly lower,” said Valdimar Oskarsson to SalmonBusiness.

Since the 5th of May, the logistic giant and Icelandair have been on hold. Waiting for a stamp from the Chinese Authorities to give them permission for the freighter carrying supplies to the US to be able to fly salmon to China on the way back.

Author: Katrina Poulsen / SalmonBusiness | Read the full article here

What’s being billed as the most modern fishing and processing vessel in the world has departed from a Chinese port for a “trial voyage” to the Southern Ocean.

A subsidiary of Chinese marine engineering firm Shanghai Chong He Industry Group (also known as Chong He Marine Heavy Industries Co) – which specializes in “niche” marine equipment such as underwater mining and wind power installation facilities – has launched what it claims is the world’s largest purpose-built vessel for fishing Antarctic krill. The ship was designed by Wärtsilä Ship Design Company, which in March was commissioned to design a second –even bigger – krill processing vessel for Chong He Marine.

Author: Mark Godfrey / SeafoodSource | Read the full article here

SALMON prices are showing positive signs of hardening as more countries gradually start opening up their economies in the wake of the coronavirus lockdown.

In Norway, which often acts as a marker for neighbouring countries, the country’s statistics office this week reports fresh or chilled salmon was just over NOK 59 per kilo. This represents an increase of 8.3 per cent on the previous week. This is the highest price level since early March. And there are predictions from processors that Scottish spot prices are also expected to go up next week.

And demand appears to be picking up with Norwegian exports rising by 5.6 per cent on the previous week to just over 16,800 tonnes sold.

Author: Vince McDonagh / Fish farmer | Read the full article here

Canadian salmon farmer Cooke Aquaculture has started direct delivery to the public during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Cooke’s Nova Scotia-based seafood distribution subsidiary AC Covert normally supplies the food service industries, which has been almost completely shut down by the lockdown required to stop the disease spreading, and retailers.

It has switched focus from food service to the public and is offering customers a choice of nine themed seafood boxes which can be bought online for delivery in Atlantic Canada’s three Maritime provinces - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

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One of the most successful trawlers in the Westman Islands has moved on to new owners.

Now owned by Grindavík company Thorbjörn, Sturla is the former Vestmannaey, built as one of a pair for Síldarvinnslan subsidiary Bergur-Huginn in 2007, and both have fished very successfully for the company for the last twelve years, until being replaced with new trawlers last year.

Sister vessel Bergey was sold last year to owners in Grundarfjörður in the west of Iceland, and is now Runólfur.

Now Vestmannaey, which was for a few months renamed Smáey, also has new owners and joins the Thorbjörn fleet.

Author: Quentin Bates / FiskerForum | Read the full article here