Published: Jan 05, 2013 By: Foodmate team

A recent study contradicts earlier findings of reduced growth and appetite in salmon.

Published: Jan 05, 2013 By: Foodmate team

Norway is now the largest provider of both the EU and Russia. Twenty per cent of seafood imported into the EU is of Norwegian origin.

Published: Jan 05, 2013

For the last week of December, export prices of fresh salmon came to NOK 33.11 (USD 5.90, EUR 4.53) per kilo — a 12 percent increase from the previous seven-day period.

Published: Jan 05, 2013 By: Foodmate team

The board of directors of Norwegian aquaculture manufacturer Akva Group have rejected an offer by Egersund Group to buy out the company.

Published: Dec 29, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Akva Group is attempting to buy out Plastsveis AS, according to a release from Akva this week.

Published: Dec 28, 2012

New feed from Nofima gives higher productivity in the farming of wrasse.

Published: Dec 21, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Matjes herring is the latest product to be added to Nofima’s iPhone app "How fresh is your fish?"

Published: Dec 21, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Following the success of its new U.K. marketing campaign, the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) has announced plans to open a London office.

Published: Dec 20, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Marine Harvest has completed the acquisition of Morpol it announced it was beginning earlier this week.

Published: Dec 18, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Salmon farming and processing company Marine Harvest, Oslo, Norway, has entered into an agreement with Friendmall Ltd. and Bazmonta Holding Ltd. to acquire 48.5% of the shares in Morpol ASA for NOK 11.50 per share.

Published: Dec 17, 2012 By: Foodmate team

After long and very demanding price discussions, the Norwegian Fishermen's Sales Organisation and the fishing industry agreed on new minimum prices for cod in the coming season.

Published: Dec 14, 2012 By: Foodmate team

NIFES scientists have achieved a world first by developing a gene bank for the fish species Labrus bergylta, the ballan wrasse. Now they are ready to share their genomic library with other users.

Published: Dec 14, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The aquaculture industry is working to find a good system for marking and tracing farmed fish. Many factors must be clarified, and this is taking longer than originally anticipated.

Published: Dec 13, 2012 By: Foodmate team

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.

Published: Dec 11, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Spectroscopic analyses may be used to reveal how fresh salmon fillet is. A new doctoral thesis provides a new insight into why the spectral properties change during storage.

Published: Dec 10, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Norwegian researchers have been leading an international effort to make aquaculture more sustainable. In 10 years they have revolutionised fish feed.

Published: Dec 06, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The North Atlantic Seafood Forum, to be held 5-7 March 2013 at Bergen, is the world's largest seafood conference and a leading top-executive meeting ground.

Published: Dec 05, 2012 By: Foodmate team

New technology has made it easier for Norway’s largest crab producer Hitramat to kill and find the crabs with the highest meat content.

Published: Dec 03, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Norwegian company Zeracryl says that it has developed a patented process to reduce acrylamide levels in French fries between 50 – 90 per cent depending on selected solution.

Published: Nov 23, 2012

Norwegian Seafood Council fleets fishing in the Barents Sea positively concluded Friend of the Sea audit for cold water prawns (Pandalus borealis).