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NORWAY
Friday, April 25, 2025
Grieg Seafood fined for plastic spill in northern Norway.
Grieg Seafood has been fined NOK 450,000 ($43,000) for a 2023 plastic pellet spill in Laksefjorden, Finnmark, after releasing an estimated 35 million pellets into the environment. The company is now under formal order to conduct a clean-up later this year.
The incident was first discovered in June 2023 by the environmental group In The Same Boat, which traced the pellets to Grieg Seafood’s nearby smolt facility, according to NRK. Employees at the plant confirmed the source of the discharge, and the company subsequently reported the matter to the County Governor.
Source: SalmonBusiness l Read the full article here
Barramundi Group Ltd. (“the Company”) (EURONEXT: BARRA) – Reference is made to the stock exchange notice dated 19 February 2025 regarding the grant of an extension of the Moratorium Order.
The Company is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached with the Company’s principal secured creditor, United Overseas Bank Limited (“UOB”), on the main terms of a proposed restructuring of the Company’s debt with UOB.
The details of the arrangement are currently being documented in a proposed Pre-packaged Scheme of Arrangement (the “Scheme”), the implementation of which is subject to approval of the High Court of Singapore (the “Court”) pursuant to section 71 (1) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018.
As part of the process, the Company has today filed an application to the Court for an extension of the moratorium, till 11 July 2025, which will otherwise expire on 11 May 2025.
Further updates will be provided as the restructuring process progresses.
The European Commission's closure of 87 Atlantic areas where there are—or are believed to be—vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) has been ongoing for two and a half years, affecting both the trawler and bottom-sea longline fleets. Although the European Commission does not see it this way, as Charlina Vitcheva, head of the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG Mare), demonstrated to the sector this week during her visit to Vigo, the effects of longline vessels on the seabed are very limited. This is also the view of the Secretary-General for Fisheries, Isabel Artime.
Author: Adrian Amoedo / Faro de Vigo l Read the full article here
All fresh and frozen salmon and fish products sold under Finnish retail cooperative S Group’s own label are now certified by the Aquaculture StewardshipCouncil (ASC), the accreditation organisation said today.
S Group is a customer-owned Finnish network of companies in the retail and service sectors, with approximately 2,000 outlets in Finland.
'We are pleased to see a major retailer like S Group taking such decisive action to promote sustainable aquaculture'
Source: fishfarmingexpert l Read the full article here
Aquafuture Spain will be held in Vigo, Spain over 20-22 May 2025.
Taking part in the launch presentation were: Patricia García, Director General of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Innovation, David Regades; Secretary of State for the Vigo Free Trade Zone, Luisa Sanchez; Vice President of the Pontevedra Provincial Council, Arsenio Prieto; Director of the IFEVI Trade Fair Center, Javier Fraga; Director of Abanca Mar; and Juan Lijó, Director of Aquafuture Spain.
The 3rd edition of Aquafuture Spain will feature 210 companies from 26 different countries, representing a 50% increase compared to the previous edition. Significant growth in international companies is highlighted, particularly by the 12 Chinese companies participating in the event for the first time.
First-quarter figures show a remarkable increase in Danish-caught fish landed in Norway, valued at approximately $13.78 million USD.
Norwegian ports have witnessed a dramatic surge in landings of fish caught by Danish fishermen during the first quarter of this year.
According to figures released by the Danish Agriculture and Fisheries Agency and highlighted by Svend Boye Thomsen of fiskeritidende.dk, Danish fishermen landed an impressive 13,341 tons of fish in Norway between January and March. This represents a remarkable increase of over 166% compared to the 5,009 tons landed during the same period last year. The value of these landings has also more than tripled, reaching 145 million kroner (approximately $13.78 million USD based on today's exchange rate) this year, up from 41 million kroner (approximately $3.90 million USD) in the first quarter of the previous year.
The significant growth in Danish landings in Norway is primarily attributed to substantial increases in catches of mackerel, blue whiting, and sprat delivered to Norwegian ports.
The Balfegó Group, a world leader in the capture, fattening, and marketing of bluefin tuna, has inaugurated its new facilities in L'Ametlla de Mar (Tarragona), for which it has invested €35 ??million. The new complex, with a surface area of ??12,000 square meters, replaces the previous plant, which was damaged by a fire in 2018, creating the most advanced product processing facility in the world, the company explains in a statement.
The new facilities will allow Balfegó not only to double its current processing capacity but also to diversify its product and preparation offering, both for the professional market and for mass consumption, producing products such as carpaccio, sakus, and tartar.
Source: La Voz de Galicia l Read the full article here
The Vigo-based company has achieved 8% growth compared to the previous year and has overtaken Nueva Pescanova
Profand Fishing Holding has just confirmed its leadership in the national sector by achieving first place in the processed seafood industry in terms of turnover. By the end of the 2024 financial year, the Vigo-based company has reached the €1 billion threshold for the first time. Specifically, the company's results show a turnover of €1,009 million, representing an 8% growth compared to the previous year (€930 million) and overtaking Nueva Pescanova.
The company has achieved an EBITDA of 76 million euros, 11% higher than in fiscal year 2023, thanks to "margin expansion driven by the normalization of the cost of key raw materials and the growth in the Group's revenue."
Source: Industrias Pesqueras | Read the full article here
Volunteers have spent five hours removing a 1,300ft-long (400m) abandoned fishing net from Plymouth Sound National Marine Park.
The net, which had trapped and killed dozens of fish, seabirds, crabs, and lobsters, was found at Drake's Island.
Birds are thought to have drowned after getting entangled as they dived for fish trapped in the net
The team discovered the net was much larger than anticipated, stretching hundreds of metres underwater and entangling various marine life, including shags and an oystercatcher.
Author: Jonathan Morris / BBC l Read the full article here
Nick Shell, co-founder of Halophilic Marine Agriculture, who is pioneering the aquaculture of Salicornia using marine hydroponics in disused Vietnamese shrimp ponds, believes that the saline plant has huge potential – both to generate income and to improve global health.
Once seen as a poor man’s food, only to be consumed at the end of a harsh winter, cultivation of the salt-tolerant plant Salicornia has multiplied in the past two decades.
Known variously as samphire, sea asparagus and glasswort, this growing interest has drivers both in supply and demand.With the main markets in South Korea, the UK and western Europe, the biggest growers are in Morocco, Spain, Israel, Netherlands and Mexico
Author: Steven Hermans / The Fish Site l Read the full article here
The European Commission (EC) has launched a public consultation on whether the E.U. should add sustainability requirements to its autonomous tariff quotas (ATQs) on certain fishery products entering the bloc from outside countries.
The E.U. applies ATQs to a range of different products and unanimously adopted regulations in 2023 that applied to key seafood species like cod, Alaska pollock, shrimp, and cephalopods. ATQs entail the complete suspension or reduction of a duty attached to a certain volume of seafood products entering the E.U. from outside of the country, with specific volumes and duties attached to individual products.
Author: Chris Chase / SeafoodSource l Read the full article here
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NORWAY
Grieg Seafood fined for plastic spill in northern Norway.
SINGAPORE
The Company is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached with the Company’s principal secured creditor, United Overseas Bank Limited (“UOB”), on the main terms of a proposed restructuring of the Company’s debt with UOB.
EUROPEAN UNION
The European Commission's closure of 87 Atlantic areas where there are—or are believed to be—vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) has been ongoing for two and a half years, affecting both the trawler and bottom-sea longline fleets. Although the European Commission does not see it this way, as Charlina Vitcheva, head of the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG Mare), demonstrated to the sector this week during her visit to Vigo, the effects of longline vessels on the seabed are very limited. This is also the view of the Secretary-General for Fisheries, Isabel Artime.
FINLAND
All fresh and frozen salmon and fish products sold under Finnish retail cooperative S Group’s own label are now certified by the 
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Taking part in the launch presentation were: Patricia García, Director General of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Innovation, David Regades; Secretary of State for the Vigo Free Trade Zone, Luisa Sanchez; Vice President of the Pontevedra Provincial Council, Arsenio Prieto; Director of the IFEVI Trade Fair Center, Javier Fraga; Director of Abanca Mar; and Juan Lijó, Director of Aquafuture Spain.
DENMARK
Norwegian ports have witnessed a dramatic surge in landings of fish caught by Danish fishermen during the first quarter of this year.
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Profand Fishing Holding
UNITED KINGDOM
Volunteers have spent five hours removing a 1,300ft-long (400m) abandoned fishing net from Plymouth Sound National Marine Park.
VIET NAM
Nick Shell, co-founder of Halophilic Marine Agriculture, who is pioneering the aquaculture of Salicornia using marine hydroponics in disused Vietnamese shrimp ponds, believes that the saline plant has huge potential – both to generate income and to improve global health.
The European Commission (EC) has launched a public consultation on whether the E.U. should add sustainability requirements to its autonomous tariff quotas (ATQs) on certain fishery products entering the bloc from outside countries.
