Tag: Covid-19 pandemic
Bakkafrost detects market improvements. The Bakkafrost Group delivered a total operating EBIT of DKK 223.5 million in Q1 2021. Total harvested volumes were 21.0 thousand tonnes gutted weight (tgw). Faroe Islands (FO): 14.0 tgw, Scotland ...
Pacific Seafood releases Social Responsibility report. Pacific Seafood, provider of the healthiest protein on the planet, released its fourth annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report detailing efforts to be socially responsible in all areas of its business including ...
Better than expected Norwegian skrei season. Many feared a challenging 2021 skrei season due to the global pandemic and record high quotas for cod. But when summarising this year’s winter cod season it is not ...
AquaBounty Technologies first quarter 2021 financial results. First Quarter 2021 Key Highlights Fortified balance sheet with $127.1 million in gross proceeds from the closing of an underwritten public offering of common stock in February, to ...
Fishers call for priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine. European social partners in the fisheries sector, ETF and Europêche, call on the European Commission to support Member States in developing a specific COVID-19 vaccination protocol ...
Research into the mental wellbeing of seafarers. The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) has annonced a new survey, the Seafarer COVID-19 Welfare Survey, designed to capture and reflect the mental health needs of seafarers around the ...
Morgère leaves its historic site in Saint-Malo. Morgère’s new modern production facility will provide platform for growth. Morgère, the leading French trawl door manufacturer, is moving from its historic base in Saint Malo to a ...
New freezer trawler for Norway. Spanish shipyard Gondan has delivered the freezer stern trawler, Magne Arvesen. It is one of the most advanced vessels of its kind, which will be operated by the Norwegian company Engenes Fiskeriselskap ...
Pandemic impacts PRFoods turnover. Fishing, farming and processing group PRFoods’ unaudited preliminary consolidated turnover in the third quarter of the financial year 2020/2021 amounted to 14.15 million euros, a decrease by 23.5% compared to the ...
Bord Iascaigh Mhara publish annual Business of Seafood Report. Importance of foodservice, a diversified portfolio and sector resilience key to seafood industry performance in 2020. Despite the challenges of the global Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, ...
£1.3m for Welsh seafood sector to help deal with Brexit and Covid impacts. The Welsh Government has launched a new £1.3m scheme to help the Welsh fishing and aquaculture sector following the twin hits to ...
Alaska looks to quantify impact of pandemic on seafood sector. The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) is looking for help from the broader Alaska seafood industry to help quantify the effects of the pandemic for ...
SalMar posts satisfactory results in the fourth quarter 2020 and recommends a dividend of NOK 20 per share. Highlights in the fourth quarter: Operational EBIT of NOK 413.8 million, EBIT per kg of NOK 9.50. ...
Scottish Seafood Association demands clearer Covid-19 timeline. Scotland’s seafood processing industry today (Wed) demanded a much clearer timeline from the Scottish Government for the re-opening of the economy. It follows yesterday’s statement from First Minister ...
Activity impacted at Lerwick Harbour in 2020. Annual traffic statistics released on 23rd February 2021 by Lerwick Port Authority confirm the depth of twin impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and oil industry downturn across all ...
MCTC strengthens its position in European market. International leading catering management and training provider, MCTC has underlined its commitment to the important Greek and northern European markets by strengthening its teams in those regions with ...
Thome Group partners with ShipMoney to introduce digital payment solutions for crew wages. Maritime Payment Solutions, LLC (d/b/a ShipMoney), a global, industry-leading provider of payment solutions for maritime companies, announced today that it will be ...
MAJ warns of potential seafarer shortages if crew change crisis isn’t resolved. The global crew change crisis could lead to a shortage of seafarers if exhausted crew choose to leave the shipping industry rather than ...
Norway Royal Salmon reports operational EBIT of MNOK 17 for the fourth quarter of 2020 and EBIT per kg of NOK 5.05. Corresponding figures for the same quarter last year were MNOK 136 and NOK ...
Global fisheries and aquaculture hard hit by COVID-19 pandemic, says FAO report. Global fisheries and aquaculture have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and could face further disruption in 2021 as lockdowns affect supply ...
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