The Chilean Salmon Council, a guild made up of AquaChile, Australis, Cermaq, Mowi and Salmones Aysén, says the number of workers they employed in Q2 2022 has increased by nearly 6 percent, or 918 people, over Q2 2021.

“The different figures in the report show an improvement in the generation of employment by salmon farming, compatible with the rise in exports of Chilean salmon to the world,” says Joanna Davidovich, executive director of the Salmon Council.

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Should the appeal be successful it would grant permission for an additional fish pen to be installed together with an increase in the farms production capacity by 10 percent.

“After careful consideration we have concluded there are strong evidence-based grounds to contest the reasons for refusal and, in accordance with the statutory provision, we intend to appeal against the decision,” said Stephen MacIntyre, head of environment at Mowi Scotland, in a press release.

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Scottish Sea Farms has been awarded ASC (Aquaculture Stewardship Council) certification for the first time in Orkney, after recently gaining its first farm accreditation, for its Summer Isles sites on the west coast of Scotland.

Lober Rock, at the south-easterly corner of Scapa Flow, underwent a series of audits to meet the ASC criteria

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The Lerøy Seafood group is planning to invest well in excess of NOK 3bn (£260m) in its value chain to help drive an ambitious growth plan.

The company announced at its Capital Markets Day event yesterday that it is looking to achieve revenues of NOK 50bn (£4.3m) by the end of the decade.

It has since given more detail in a presentation setting out its strategy and how it intends to achieve that goal.

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Phuket, Thailand-based Tuna Paradise recently established a new program it has dubbed “PFP,” or People Feeding People, to help give back to the hungry in Southeast Asia.

A seafood processing company, Tuna Paradise processes and sells multiple seafood species including hamachi, marlin, swordfish, tuna, and mahi. 

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The UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF) has launched its fourth round of funding providing £3 million of additional funding to support cutting-edge solutions that disrupt the status quo and help address challenges across the UK seafood sector.

Taking the total funding made available under the scheme to £19 m, the latest round will support more research that tests new ideas and approaches to provide long-term, practical, and scalable benefits to the seafood industry.

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Coastal Workboats Scotland is due to complete its next stock LUV2208 in collaboration with Damen Shipyards during December this year.

This latest incarnation of the now proven Damen Landing Utility Vessel design comes on the back of successful deliveries into the Scottish aquaculture sector with the most recent LUV2208 (Tiffany II) having now been in operation since April.

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U.K. grocery inflation hit a record high in August 2022, pushing up overall grocery sales figures, while chilled seafood sales continue to decline.

Inflation reached 12.4 percent in August, according to research firm Kantar. Due to higher prices, overall take-home grocery sales rose 3.8 percent in the 12 weeks ending 4 September, according to Kantar.

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According to a news release from the WWF, the project will demonstrate leadership in line with a new vision to transition to nature-positive business operations and sustainable blue finance solutions. The two organisations are developing and piloting a holistic place-based approach that hopes to improve key seafood practices within a specific geography.

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What is natural capital and how is its value quantified in a piece of land? The answer to this question is part of the project that Salmones Camanchaca is leading in the province of Llanquihue, an environmental initiative whose main objective is to offset the carbon footprint and maximize the ecological co-benefits derived from said capture, a project which, according to experts, is located in a unique terrain in the world due to its rich ecosystem and climatic characteristics.

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