Norway looks to South Korea as new live crab market
There’s a growing market in South Korea for live snow crab – and although this is a market that’s supplied largely by Russian producers, the Norwegian Seafood Council sees long-term…
There’s a growing market in South Korea for live snow crab – and although this is a market that’s supplied largely by Russian producers, the Norwegian Seafood Council sees long-term…
Norwegian snow crab is now MSC certified following an audit by Global Trust Certification to assess the fishery against MSC criteria relating to stock situation, ecosystem impact and management practices.…
A first shipment of live snow crab, air-freighted from Greenland to Kastrup and trucked to Hanstholm, has fetched promising prices. ‘On arrival, we took them out of the boxes where…
Researchers Norway’s Institute of Marine Research have advised a hefty increase of 2500 tonnes to the snow crab quota, with quota advice of 10,300 tonnes. The quota for this year…
Norway’s supreme court has upheld a decision that denied a Latvian fishing company the right to fish for snow crab on the Svalbard continental shelf. Latvian fishing company SIA North…
Norway’s Ministry of Fisheries has set an 7790-tonne overall quota for snow crab on the Norwegian continental shelf in 2023. This is an increase of 1065 tonnes compared to the…
The decline of populations of snow crab and Bristol Bay red king crab stocks in Alaska in 2022 have their origins in climatic events, with the red king crab closure…
Fishing vessel operators’ federation Fiskebåt is encouraging the Norwegian Seafood Council to initiate an MSC certification process for snow crab. According to Fiskebåt, this would provide a key selling point…
Canada’s Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Coast Guard Joyce Murray has announced that this year’s total allowable catch (TAC) for the snow crab fishery in the southern Gulf of…
Seaward Enterprises Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (SEA-NL) states that an immediate priority for the 2022 inshore fishery is for the province to amend its fish price-setting system to address…