Other Media | fishfarmingexpert: Mowi Scotland celebrates Great Taste award for own-brand fillets
UNITED KINGDOM
Thursday, July 31, 2025
MOWI-branded Scottish salmon fillets have scored a double first in an annual taste test organised by the Guild of Fine Food, which tests thousands of products.
This is the first year that fresh Scottish salmon fillets have received a Great Taste awards, and also the first time that MOWI-brand salmon has achieved this quality recognition. Along with Mowi's product, a fresh fillet from Inverurie butcher and fine foods supplier Donald Russell also received a Great Taste award.
More than 14,000 products were put through the competition’s blind judging process by the Guild’s 500-strong expert panel, with MOWI Scottish salmon fillets being highlighted for a “clean aroma and oily richness”.
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The international event, which will take place in Norway, will bring together industry and science leaders to discuss innovation, challenges, and opportunities in the sector.
On Monday, August 18, at the Clarion Hotel Trondheim (Norway), the Aqua Nor 2025 exhibition week will begin with an opening conference that promises a full day of current and relevant content for global aquaculture.
As reported, beyond the world-class technology that characterizes the event, this event will open the official program with a focus on three major areas: the global landscape, technology and innovation, and the factors limiting the growth of the sector.
New technologies have completely transformed fishing operations, promoting systems capable of recording, transmitting, and processing data in complex environments such as maritime environments, enabling informed decision-making in real time. In this context, Satlink has established itself as a leading technology partner for the fishing industry in general and the tuna fleet in particular, thanks to a comprehensive approach and continuous development based on close collaboration with the fleets themselves.
All of Satlink's developments are based on a clear premise: responding to the real needs of the sector, working closely with crews and operators. This ongoing collaboration allows for the incorporation of the latest advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, not only in products such as smart buoys—thus promoting more selective fishing focused on target species, enabling quota compliance and saving time, resources, and fuel at sea—but also in the design of customized functionalities for each service.
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Japanese seafood company Nissui is on the cusp of breaking ground on a new production facility as the company pursues a 50 percent increase in its sales by fiscal year 2030.
The new facility, to be located in Kitakyushu, will utilize the site of a former frozen food factory operated by the company until 2021, when the facility burned down. The company said that it plans to break ground on the new factory on 7 August, with a projected completion date of December 2026.
Nissui recently appointed Teru Tanaka as its CEO as the company worked to implement its FY 2025 financial plan dubbed “Good Foods Recipe 2.
Author: Chris Chase / SeafoodSource | Read the full article here
Infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) looks to have returned to Norway for the first time in more than a month.
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority says there is a suspected case at a facility operated by the company Holmøy Havbruk in Nordland county.
As usual in such cases, the suspicion is based on positive analysis results (PCR) after sampling fish at the location.
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority said it is planning an inspection of the facility soon to take follow-up samples that will be sent to the Veterinary Institute for possible confirmation of the diseas
Author: Vince McDonagh / Fish Farmer | Read the full article here
The Prosecutor's Office is requesting more time to investigate Quiroga in the Australis case, while the arbitration claiming US$660 million remains suspended.
A key hearing will be held on August 5th in the lawsuit filed by the Chinese group Joyvio against Chilean businessman Isidoro Quiroga Moreno, accused of disloyal management in the context of the sale of the salmon company Australis, which was completed in 2019.
According to Diario Financiero, Joyvio maintains that during the purchase process, they were not informed about an overproduction situation affecting the company, which would have entailed violations of current environmental regulations.
The European Commission proposes simplifying the collection and production of statistics on European fisheries and aquaculture. This proposal, presented this Wednesday, July 30, seeks to replace the five existing sets of rules with a single, simplified, and integrated system that will reduce the reporting burden for Member States. It will also allow the reuse of administrative data already collected by the European Commission for the production of official European statistics on fisheries and aquaculture.
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The latest stocks report from the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) highlights steady progress in tuna stock health, but warns that a persistent lack of effective harvest control rules is hampering sustainability.
According to An Evaluation of the Sustainability of Global Tuna Stocks Relative to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Criteria, 12 of the 23 major commercial tuna stocks now meet MSC’s Principle 1 benchmark, indicating they are not being overfished and are maintaining healthy population levels.
The strike in the Argentine shrimp sector causes losses exceeding €170 million for Spanish companies
The strike affecting the shrimp sector in Argentina has triggered a supply crisis with multi-million-dollar consequences for the Spanish fishing industry. With a fleet virtually paralyzed in Argentine waters and the export of this coveted crustacean halted, Spanish companies in the sector have suffered losses estimated at more than €170 million.
According to industry sources, the situation began to worsen in mid-June, when shrimp fishermen, one of the star products of the Argentine Sea, began a strike to demand better working conditions and safer conditions on board.
Since 2016, the Hijos de Carlos Albo canning company has been owned by the Chinese company Shanghai Kaichuang. This, in turn, is part of a complex conglomerate with subsidiaries that have tuna fleets for krill capture—it uses the Shen Lan factory vessel on a lease basis—or processing factories (the Canadian company French Creek Seafood, FCS). One of the subsidiaries of Albo's current parent company is Shanghai Kaichuang Ocean Fishery, which supplies the tuna from the source with an army of fishing vessels that, in many cases, are in need of renewal.
Author: Lara Grana / Faro de Vigo | Read the full article here
In a recent survey of more than 1,000 Alaskans, most named banning bottom trawling as their top priority when it comes to federal fisheries management in Alaska.
Trawlers’ bycatch of non-target species like king salmon, chum salmon, halibut, crab and herring has emerged as a hot button issue in Alaska, with 74% of Alaskans saying they support banning it altogether in a separate March 2025 poll. Trawling was a central issue in last year’s political race between current Rep. Nick Begich and former Rep. Mary Peltola, both of whom named addressing trawl bycatch as central to their campaign.
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The international event, which will take place in Norway, will bring together industry and science leaders to discuss innovation, challenges, and opportunities in the sector.
SPAIN
New technologies have completely transformed fishing operations, promoting systems capable of recording, transmitting, and processing data in complex environments such as maritime environments, enabling informed decision-making in real time. In this context, 
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Japanese seafood company 
Infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) looks to have returned to Norway for the first time in more than a month.
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The Prosecutor's Office is requesting more time to investigate Quiroga in the Australis case, while the arbitration claiming US$660 million remains suspended.
EUROPEAN UNION
The European Commission proposes simplifying the collection and production of statistics on European fisheries and aquaculture. This proposal, presented this Wednesday, July 30, seeks to replace the five existing sets of rules with a single, simplified, and integrated system that will reduce the reporting burden for Member States. It will also allow the reuse of administrative data already collected by the European Commission for the production of official European statistics on fisheries and aquaculture.
UNITED STATES
The latest stocks report from the 
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The strike affecting the shrimp sector in Argentina has triggered a supply crisis with multi-million-dollar consequences for the Spanish fishing industry. With a fleet virtually paralyzed in Argentine waters and the export of this coveted crustacean halted, Spanish companies in the sector have suffered losses estimated at more than €170 million.
Since 2016, the 
Trawlers’ bycatch of non-target species like king salmon, chum salmon, halibut, crab and herring has emerged as a hot button issue in Alaska, with 74% of Alaskans saying they support banning it altogether in a separate March 2025 poll. Trawling was a central issue in last year’s political race between current Rep. Nick Begich and former Rep. Mary Peltola, both of whom named addressing trawl bycatch as central to their campaign. 
