Tag: Salmon
Chinese retailer Hema Fresh, commits to selling ASC certified salmon. Chinese retailer Hema Fresh, has committed to work towards selling only ASC certified Atlantic salmon under its own brand label Difresco, the first brand in ...
Scottish Salmon reclaims top spot as the UK’s number one food export. Scottish farmed salmon is again the UK’s largest food export. In the first quarter of 2019 Scottish producers sold £206.5m to overseas buyers, ...
Progress on delivering sustainable aquaculture welcomed by SAIC. Heather Jones, CEO of the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC), said: “The management, control and prevention of sea lice is critical to the future of fish health ...
New aquaculture legislation from the Scottish Government, welcomed by SSPO. The Scottish government announced plans to introduce legislation to make the weekly reporting of sea lice data statutory, one week in arrears. Legislation will be ...
Mowi strengthens its fleet with a new feed barge for Maclean’s Nose. A brand new SeaMate concrete feed barge has been delivered to Mowi’s seawater site at Maclean’s Nose by the Ardnamurchan Peninsula The 400-tonne ...
Northern Norway algal bloom could be easing. The bloom of the alga Chrysochromulina leadbeateri in northern Norway, which has caused large-scale farmed salmon mortalities, has now lasted over a week and it’s impossible to say how long ...
Alaska salmon season underway. This year’s summer Alaska salmon season underway as the harvest officially began last week bringing first of the season Alaska salmon from sea to table. Alaska king salmon is harvested in ...
Loch Duart Exporter of the Year – Independent Scottish salmon farming business, Loch Duart, which is based in Sutherland and the Uists, has been named ‘Exporter of the Year’ at the 2019 Made in Scotland ...
John Ross Jnr launches new brand identity at Seafood Expo Global – Luxury smoked salmon producer, John Ross Jnr, has revealed its new brand identity and packaging at this year’s Seafood Expo Global as part ...
Salmon leads way in transparent reporting – At the Seeds&Chips Global Food Innovation Summit in Milan, Italy, the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) released its annual Sustainability Report, providing 6 years’ of data across 14 key ...
First ASC certified salmon for Brazil. For the first time shoppers in Brazil can buy ASC certified salmon thanks to a new range of products in Swift supermarkets. Four ASC labelled salmon products are available ...
AquaBounty posts first quarter loss. Aquaculture biotechnology company, AquaBounty Technologies, posted a $2.76 million loss for the first quarter of 2019. The first quarter main highlights were: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifted the Import ...
Not so sexy salmon. New research reveals that farmed salmon have smaller ‘jaw hooks’ or ‘kype’- a secondary sexual trait, likened to the antlers of a stag, making them less attractive to females than their wild salmon ...
Challenging period for New Zealand King Salmon. New Zealand King Salmon says the 2019 summer season was challenging for overall fish performance, due to sustained warm water temperatures which continued into April. The full year ...
Salmon by product group appoints new CEO. Biomega Group – the salmon byproducts company – has announced the appointment of Sten Estrup as its new Chief Executive Officer. He will assume the new role 1 ...
MOWI Underlines Commitment to Plastic Recycling – Salmon farmer Mowi has developed a company-wide policy on plastic waste management, and according to the company, one of their important material value drivers is the goal to ...
Loch Duart Make Shortlist – Loch Duart Shortlisted for Made In Scotland Exporter of the Year 2019 Loch Duart, the salmon farm based in Sutherland and the Uists, has been shortlisted as ‘Exporter of the ...
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