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Seafood Week 2019. Seafood Week is an annual campaign aimed at getting more people to eat more fish, more often. Seafish runs the eight-day celebration every October and highlights the variety and quality of fish ...
World’s first ASC collagen supplement launched. The ASC label isn’t only found on food products, thanks to the many and varied uses of responsibly produced fish. This was further highlighted last week with the launch ...
Tesco launches battered fish free fillets. Tesco has launched a new range of plant based food products, including Battered Fish Free Fillets. Plant-based food has become the biggest culinary trend of the decade with demand ...
MSC North Sea cod certificate suspended. The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certificates for North Sea cod fisheries will be suspended after stocks dropped below the safe biological level. The suspension affects all MSC certified fisheries ...
Smokehouse first in UK to get international stamp of approval. A Cumbrian smokehouse has become the first in the UK to receive an industry watchdog’s stamp of approval. Grants Oak Smoked Ltd, which sells smoked ...
Thai Union ranked number one for sustainability. Thai Union Group PCL, one of the world’s largest seafood companies, has been ranked number one in the world in the Food Products Industry Index of the Dow ...
Seanova achieves sustainability certification. Seanova, the exclusive distributor of Epax® fish oils in France, Spain and Portugal, has earned certification for sustainable production by Friend of the Sea. “Seanova has made environmentalism a core part ...
Technological advances threaten fish stocks. Technological advances are allowing commercial fishing fleets to double their fishing power every 35 years and put even more pressure on dwindling fish stocks, new research has found. Researchers from ...
Aquaculture testing focuses on performance and sustainability. Marine raw materials are valuable ingredients for fish feed. Their value can be further exploited through targeted use of their functional properties to achieve higher performance and a ...
Shetland students’ Green Team. The Shetland students’ Green Team have been awarded the 2019 HISA Society of the Year Award. The Green Team, which was formed by students at both Shetland College UHI and NAFC ...
New partner for SFP. The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) has announced that Canary Islands-based seafood processor and distributor Unión Martín Grupo has become SFP’s newest partner. As a new partner, Unión Martín strongly believes in ...
Swiss retailer supports ASC salmon certification. The largest retailer in Switzerland, has made another big step in their commitment towards ASC by ensuring their entire range of fresh farmed salmon is now sold as ASC ...
Constructive European Fisheries Committee meeting. The newly elected chair of the European Parliament Committee on Fisheries (PECH) Chris Davies (Renew Europe, UK), the Director-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE), João Aguiar Machado, and ...
Canadian maker of fish oil products gains FOS Certification. Neptune Wellness Solutions, a leading North American turnkey provider of marine oils and other wellness products, has earned certification for sustainable practices by Friend of the Sea (FOS). With ...
Discover feed transparency tool. Three years in the making and unlike any transparency tool in the seafood industry BioMar announces Discover, the latest tool from their BioSustain programme, in the launch of their 2018 Sustainability ...
Skretting appoints global commercial director. Skretting has appointed Evy Vikene to the position of Commercial Director, reporting to CEO Therese Log Bergjord. The new position will focus on customer needs throughout the business and finding ...
Tuna Commission could have made more progress. The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission’s (IOTC) 23rd Annual Meeting concluded on Friday 21 June 2019 with the ratification of a few modest management decisions, but the International Pole ...
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