Grant funding from the Fishmongers’ Company’s Fisheries Charitable Trust and Seafarers UK, enabling fishing and seafood businesses to sell direct to the public throughout the first lockdown in 2020 created…
The message is to keep eating wild-caught EU fish – it’s good for your health, it’s good for our planet, and CO2 emissions from fishing are already down by 40%.…
A number of key players in the Cornish seafood industry begin new research into the feasibility of bringing Cornish sole and Cornish king crab products to consumers across the nation.…
This weekend the Síldarvinnslan factory at Neskaupstaður in eastern Iceland began processing capelin for the first time in three years, working with raw material landed by Norwegian pelagic vessels. The…
Westman Islands fishing company Huginn ehf has been acquired by fishing and processing group Vinnslustöðin hf, along with its quotas for herring, capelin, mackerel and blue whiting, and purser-trawler Huginn…
Russian fishing company Luntos has gone back to Danish supplier Carsoe for a factory deck to be installed on its second new trawler. A first trawler for Luntos under construction…
Iceland’s Institute of Marine Research has updated its advice for the 2020-21 capelin season, raising its recommendation to 127,300 tonnes. This roughly doubles the previous advised maximum catch, based on…
The Oka Shipyard has started cutting steel for the first of a series of catcher-processor vessels for the Russian Crab Company. Having acquired crab quotas under the Russian government’s investment…
With a working lifetime of experience in the seafood industry already behind him, Bjørn Ståle Bjørkavåg has joined Danish food industry equipment supplier Intech, starting at the company’s Ålesund office…
A new organisation established to represent all sectors of Ireland’s fishing, seafood and ancillary service industries has a number of agendas – and high on the list is seeking recognition…