Sales-driven growth delivers a profit.

The Bergen-based (Norway), exporter saw sales increase by 30 per cent, to EUR 523 million, from 2018 to 2019. This, in turn, helped to increase last year’s operating profit to EUR 7 million – up from EUR 4 million in 2018.

Seaborn’s owners share a dividend of EUR 1.5 million, in effect unchanged from the previous year, according to the company’s annual report.

The largest owners of the salmon and trout exporter are Bru Eigedom (25 per cent), owned by the Vassbotten family, and Yri Holding (18.8 per cent), owned by Vice President Frank Yri. 

Author: Aslak Berge / SalmonBusiness | Read the full article here

A Warning has gone out that the potential to create up to 200 jobs will be lost if a proposal to ban fish farming along the fjord which leads to the northern Icelandic city of Akureyri is approved.

Last month the city council told the government in a surprise move that it does not want aquaculture to develop along the 47 mile (70 km) ice free approach to Akuyrei known as Eyjafjörður. But the decision has angered a number of smaller towns, who believe fish farming can improve prosperity. For example the Fjallabyggd town council representing a community at the top of the fjord has signalled to the government it is categorically against such a ban.

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

Per-Roar Gjerde (53) has on 30 June 2020 informed the company that he resigns as COO Farming Americas and the Faroes.

The process to find a new COO Farming Americas and the Faroes has started. Mr Gjerde will continue in his position until a new leader is in place, or until 31 December 2020 at the latest.

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

They will keep up the pulse to get a fishing deal on their terms

David Frost, British chief Brexit negotiator, held a telematic meeting with members of the UK's fishing organizations to bring them the latest news on the Brexit negotiation process, in which he maintained that the country will be a coastal state independent once you leave the European Union.

The executive chairman of the United Kingdom's National Federation of Fishermen's Organizations (NFFO), Barrie Deas, said the meeting "reassured us enormously." "

Source: Industrias Pesqueras | Read the full article here

As has happened with other competitions around the world, the uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 has ended up delaying the celebration of Alimentaria while waiting for a normality that allows this type of event to be held. In this case, Fira de Barcelona has chosen to delay 2021 (from May 17 to 20), in a decision "agreed with the sector", according to a statement. In recent weeks, companies and associations have conveyed to organizers the convenience of delaying the fair to next year, while other companies hastened the deadline before making a decision that they did not see clearly.

The president of Alimentaria, Josep Lluís Bonet, stressed that “the decision supports the majority will of the productive and associative fabric of the sector, betting on holding the event in a more favorable environment and without so many limitations on international mobility.

Source: Alimarket | Read the full article here

Cermaq Canada is to trial a semi-closed containment system at its British Columbia operations, the first such technology to be deployed outside of Norway.

The company, which is owned by Mitsubishi, has tested the system in Norway, successfully growing fish up to 1kg.

Components for the new style cage, designed and built by FiiZK in Norway, arrived in Canada earlier this month, and assembly is now underway.

Once the structure is complete, it will be taken by barge to Cermaq’s Millar Channel farm site in Clayoquot Sound, off Vancouver Island. It could be a companion to existing systems and farming techniques, said Cermaq.

Source: fishfarmingexpert | Read the full article here

Israeli RAS pioneers look to expand opportunities in strategic market.

In a press release on Tuesday, AquaMaof Aquaculture Technologies writes that it has hired Lior Gal for its Sales & Marketing team, as Director of Sales for North America.

Before AquaMaof, Gal was the international trade manager at Galilee Export, where he worked for five years in local and global sourcing of Agricultural products for trading worldwide.

Earlier this year, AquaMaof was commissioned by 8F Asset Management – which runs Pure Salmon – to provide its technology to a 20,000MT Atlantic salmon production facility to be constructed on the U.S. east coast.

Source: SalmonBusiness | Read the full article here

A new line dedicated to RAS and fry aquaculture feed production has been opened by BioMar in Denmark.

The new line is the result of a DKK 100 million (£12 million) investment that has enabled BioMar to increase the annual capacity of its Danish facility by 25 percent.

Situated in Jutland, it is close to many of the world’s leading RAS companies, allowing BioMar to focus on feeds for land-based farming.

“Being situated in an area with a long history of RAS research and development has enabled us to be first movers in RAS feeds and will continue to be crucially important in the innovation development of feeds for land-based farming. 

Author: Rob Fletcher / The Fish site | Read the full article here

Plant-based seafood analog developer Ocean Hugger Foods said it “must cease operations” due to deteriorating business conditions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The company, which sells exclusively to foodservice customers, has seen its business channels dry up in the face of the COVID-19 crisis, according to a 23 June update on its website.

“Over the last four years, we have been honored and privileged to serve our business partners and the general public with groundbreaking and award-winning, plant-based alternatives to some of the most endangered species on our planet. We will be forever grateful for your belief in this essential mission, and our business,” Ocean Hugger stated.

Author: Madelyn Kearns / SeafoodSource | Read the full article here

The General Fisheries Council of the Mediterranean has teamed up with scientific partners in nine countries to launch the first research programme on European eel in the Mediterranean Sea, aiming to strengthen co-ordination of stock management and recovery.

The European eel was classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) after multiple factors – including habitat loss, overfishing, oceanic changes and an increase pollutant and pathogen levels –  had collectively contributed to the decline of the species.

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