Nestle, Gorton’s join High Liner in sustainability partnership
Four major seafood buyers join High Liner in its partnership with the Wild Salmon Center’s Salmon fishery improvement project Major seafood buyers are teaming up to join the Wild Salmon Center’s salmon...
View ArticleHundreds of scientists sign letter asking EPA to stop Pebble Mine
Group and-delivers letter to the Seattle-based EPA administrator before his morning talk at an environmental conference in Anchorage A group of 360 scientists, researchers and university professors...
View ArticleIn pictures: The faces and landscapes of the Alaska fishing industry
The 2014 Fishing Families photo contest put on by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute brought some incredible family photos out into the public domainThe 2014 Fishing Families photo contest put on...
View ArticleBook on Trident founder Chuck Bundrant on sale
Story of one the most respected entrepreneurs in the seafood sector available FridayThe biography of Trident Seafoods’ chairman and founder Chuck Bundrant is available today. “Catching a Deckload of...
View ArticlePebble Limited Partnership remains confident, despite near EPA veto
Tom Collier, CEO of the Pebble Limited Partnership, says he ‘remains confident’ in the Pebble Mine project despite the US EPA’s decision to begin a process to stop itTom Collier, CEO of the Pebble...
View ArticleMurkowski speaks out against EPA’s Pebble Mine veto process
Alaska Senator calls the EPA’s move to block the Pebble Mine project before it goes through a full permitting process ‘bad or the region, state and nation’Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski spoke out...
View ArticleWhole Foods to source from Ocean Beauty after Seattle plant closure
Whole Foods is using Ocean Beauty as its ‘new partner’ in seafood processing in the north west, having announced the closure of its plant in Seattle By John Sackton, Seafood.com News High-end US...
View ArticleKroger, Safeway say no to GM salmon
US retail chains have reportedly made up their minds not to sell Aquabounty salmon, regardless of a pending FDA decision US retail chains Kroger and Safeway have reportedly made up their minds not to...
View ArticleIcicle Seafoods sells interest in Salmones Aysen to former CEOs Guhlke, Giles
Dennis Guhlke and Don Giles, both former executives of Icicle who initiated the company’s entry into the Chilean market years ago, have acquired Icicle’s half of the ownership interest in a transaction...
View Article‘Norwegian’ salmon has captured Chinese consumers’ minds, regardless of...
In Qingdao most salmon sold is labeled imports from Norway, if it came from there or not Translated by Amy Zhong, Seafood News, from Shuichan News In Qingdao most salmon sold is labeled imports from...
View ArticleFrozen processor eyes US launch for Michelin chef-designed cook-in-a-bag range
Having launched in Europe, Greek producer hopes to win over some US customers with its cook-in-the-bag branded seafood rangeExhibiting for the first time at the Seafood Expo North America in Boston...
View ArticleTrident’s east coast plant set for October opening
Vertically integrated company’s plant is set to open at the start of October, which will see more Alaska pollock go into the US marketTrident Seafoods is set to open its new plant on the east coast in...
View ArticleAlaska salmon hatchery return sets record in 2013
Alaska’s total salmon catch last year wasn’t the only metric to have set a record last yearAlaska’s total salmon catch last year wasn’t the only metric to have set a record last year. So did the number...
View ArticleUS Wholesaler Morey’s receives Alaska’s RFM certification
Golden Valley facility becomes first full line distributor in Minnesota to receive the RFM stamp created for Alaska’s salmon fisheryMorey’s Seafood International received the FAO-Based Responsible...
View ArticleHuge drop in wild salmon harvest expected this year
Fisheries managers expect the fishery to return to more normal levels this year with a projected 53% drop in fish, to 132.6m, on the back of last year’s record harvestThis year’s wild Alaska salmon...
View ArticleSpain’s Interatlantic hopes to up giant squid, scallop sales to US
Trader and Peruvian giant squid processor hopes to increase its sales to the US, though in past few years Thailand has been its fastest growing market Spanish trader and processor of Peruvian giant...
View ArticleChum market tight but steady
Seller sees Alaska chum market prices rising on a market that is tight but steady, as new season approaches in June Alaskan chum salmon prices have risen “perhaps 20% over the last three months”, a...
View ArticleWild salmon for BBQ: Meralliance rolls out summer range
French salmon smoker targets the barbecue market with marinated wild salmon ideal for grillingFrench salmon smoker and processor Meralliance is rolling out a summer range of marinated wild salmon under...
View ArticleKamchatka salmon catch advice set at 140,000t
Highest advice set for pink salmon, followed by sockeye and chumRussia has set the catch advice for Pacific salmon in it eastern region of Kamchatka to 140,000 metric tons for 2014. Of this, around...
View ArticleSources: Marubeni closes in on salmon supplier
Acquisitive Japanese trading giant Marubeni is in the final stages of talks with a farmed and wild salmon supplier, sources told Undercurrent NewsAcquisitive Japanese trading giant Marubeni Corporation...
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