Marine Harvest’s operational earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) was about NOK 900 million in the second quarter of 2013 up from NOK 231 million during the same time period in 2012.
The $4 billion loan backing Chinese pork producer Shuanghui International's $4.7 billion bid for US meat processor Smithfield Foods has raised $5 billion from banks so far and could rise to $9 billion.
Waitrose, Morrisons, Tesco, The Co-op, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury’s and Asda have all signed a British Retail Consortium (BRC) statement pledging to improve shrimp industry practices.
Canadian beef producers need to focus on exports to emerging economies to maintain growth, particularly in the face of rising feed costs and flat demand in developed markets such as the US, BMO Economics suggests.
Cargill's animal nutrition business expanded its investment in the shrimp feed industry by purchasing Siamakme Aquatic Feeds Co., Ltd., a Thailand-based shrimp feed manufacturer.
The calendar says it's officially summer and just in time for the 2013 grilling season comes two new smoked-cooked sausage varieties from Johnsonville Sausage,Johnsonville pepperjack cheese sausage LLC, Sheboygan Falls, Wis.
While U.S. total retail sales of fish and seafood products exceeded $14.7 billion in 2012, this growth in dollar sales was offset by declines in unit and volume sales with the exception of frozen fish/seafood and frozen raw shrimp.
A ten-year study of Chesapeake Bay fishes shows that low-oxygen "dead zones" are impacting the distribution and abundance of "demersal" fishes—those that live and feed near the Bay bottom.
NOAA Fisheries announces federal waters from 9 to 200 nautical miles off Texas will open to shrimp trawling at 30 minutes after official sunset, local time, on July 15, 2013.
Viet Nam earned US$170.18 million from tra fish exports to the US in the first five months of the year, making it the country's largest tra fish importer.
Information Resources Inc. (IRI) has purchased FreshLook Marketing Group LLC, a leading supplier of market research information and consulting services to the fresh/random weight (fresh food) industry.
Tyson Foods' Fort Smith, Ark. poultry plant on Midland Boulevard produced 1.2 million lbs. on June 3, setting a new plant record for daily production, according to the Times Record.
Russia’s government is offering billions of dollars in subsidies to grow that nation's beef herd and is looking to the US for cattle, according to the Capital Press.
Industrias Bachoco, a Mexico-based producer and processor of poultry and other food products, has entered into an agreement to acquire the breeding assets in Arkansas of Morris Hatchery, a U.S. company.
UK-based Associated Seafoods is planning to commence operations at its seafood processing facility in Buckie, north-east Scotland, by the end of August 2013.
The Australian Federal Court has found processors and suppliers of Steggles branded chicken products, engaged in “false, misleading and deceptive conduct” in describing on product packaging.
