The Great Fish Company has announced its parent company in Chile, Congelados Pacifico, has obtained a three-star best aquaculture practices (BAP) certification for its salmon operation there.
Norway’s Fisheries and Coastal Affairs is considering amending the rules for ownership, allowing salmon farms to own more than 25 percent of the sector’s total standing biomass.
The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) has granted Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification to Australia’s Tassal, the first salmon producer in that country to be certified at farm level.
South Australian meat processing giant T&R Pastoral and Holco Meat have joined forces to create the largest Australian-owned meat processing and packing company.
Chicken of the Sea has hired Perpetual Licensing, a New York and Los Angeles-based brand licensing agency, to help with the company’s plan to expand into other food and non-food offerings.
Argentina has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Russia to strengthen ties in the field of conservation and management of living resources of the sea.
Commercial shellfish harvesting has resumed in most areas of Tasmania's east coast but the scallop fishery has closed early because of a toxic algal bloom.
The WCPFC has voted to allow an extension of the conservation and management measures for tropical tuna fishing in the Philippines originally adopted in March of this year.
Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) begin to work in China on developing more sustainable methods of tilapia farming, the ASC said in a release today.
Indonesian Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister, Sharif C. Sutardjo, has announced that the government is looking to aquaculture to help boost the country's fish exports.
