Friend of the Sea is thrilled to announce that Troticoltura Cherubini, a historic company from the Marche region in Visso (MC) in the Monti Sibillini National Park, has obtained the prestigious Friend of the Sea certification. This recognition confirms the company’s unwavering commitment to sustainability, food safety, and quality.
Founded in 1950, Troticoltura Cherubini is a beacon in Italian aquaculture. The company stands out for its innovative and sustainable approach, based on a short and closed supply chain that guarantees high quality and traceability standards.
Aquafeed manufacturer BioMar has signed an agreement to acquire full ownership of LetSea, which it describes as Norway’s leading experimental and research centre for aquaculture.
BioMar already owns 34% of LetSea and will buy the remaining 66% stake from the current owner, KapNor, subject to approval from authorities.
The feed producer said it has had many years of successful collaboration with LetSea on research and development.
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LAUWERSOOG – Until the end of the year, the OL 7 will spend one week each month trying to catch shrimp with pots. This involves research by Wageningen Marine Research as part of the ‘Passive Shrimp Fishery’ project in the Wadden Sea.
Due to extremely poor catches, fellow shrimp fishers returned to port early again last week. It’s a waste of time and fuel to continue. For the OL 7 of skipper Folkert Sloot, it meant peace on the water to fish the first week with pots undisturbed. Lines were shot from Schiermonnikoog to the dike near Lauwersoog, from deeper water to almost dry land.
Three different pots are being tested, with bait (herring) and light to try to lure shrimp. A total of 180 pieces. The complete rig fits nicely on a trailer.
,,We mainly gathered ideas on how to technically improve the next test week to achieve an ideal pot. At the moment there are very few shrimp, so little meaningful can be said about catches. Whether it is commercially viable to fish for shrimp passively can only be said at the end of the project when you have fished all seasons. We counted shrimp per pot, and there turned out to be significant differences between pots. The key to this seems to be the type of bait. In this test week we also had shrimp catches without crabs, which gives hope for the seasons with many shrimp,’’reacts WMR researcher Pieke Molenaar.
On March 4, 2024, the Russian government nationalized assets belonging to Alexey Kozlov's "crab empire." The Arbitration Court of Primorsky Krai transferred control of three Far Eastern companies, owned by Kozlov, to JSC Far Eastern Fishery Management Company (DRUK), a state-controlled entity. Grammy LLC and Tetis LLC will officially come under DRUK's control on January 31, 2025, followed by Tefis CJSC on February 20, 2025.
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia had previously determined that Tefis CJSC was under foreign investor control. Alexey Kozlov, co-owner of the companies, has resided in the United States since 2008, a factor that triggered numerous legal challenges. In mid-2023, the Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo) removed Tefis CJSC from the list of Kamchatka crab quota holders. Subsequent monitoring by the Prosecutor General's Office confirmed the presence of foreign control within the fisheries sector, despite attempts to conceal this information.
This nationalization follows similar actions against other fish producers, including Oleg Kan and Dmitry Pashov, whose assets were also transferred to DRUK. This trend indicates an ongoing government policy of nationalizing resources in strategically significant sectors of the economy.
Newsan, leader in the Argentine fishing industry, and Profand, leader in the Spanish fishing industry, announce the construction of a state-of-the-art freezer trawler, the most modern of its kind, intended for the capture of black hake and other species in Argentine and adjacent waters. The project, which will be carried out at the Spanish shipyard Nodosa, which designed it and which has recently delivered several technologically very advanced vessels, represents a step towards renewing the national fishing fleet, improving operational efficiency and increasing the company's productive capacity.
The Norwegian Marine Research Institute has presented a report on the risks of Norwegian aquaculture in which it has detected that animal welfare and sea lice are the main challenges facing the activity. These problems are focused on 13 production areas, causing economic losses and increasing the risk of mortality of specimens.
The report also lists another series of "undesirable events" such as the risk of salmon lice infestation in trout; genetic changes in wild salmon due to escape of farmed specimens or excessive fertilization of coastal waters.
In the report, the Institute states that figures reported to the Directorate of Fisheries Statistics on Norwegian farmed salmon biomass as of 20 January 2025 show that, in 2024, a total of 60 million farmed salmon were declared dead (57 million) or were in such poor condition that they were recorded as discarded (3 million).
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This International Women's Day, we’re turning the spotlight on the powerhouse women redefining ocean food.
From its start online in 2021 (then called Women in Aquaculture) our programme to promote women in the seafood space has expanded. Our first in-person studio took place in Bali 2022 and we have just finished our second Women in Ocean Food Innovation Studio in La Paz, Mexico.
Each programme has brought together extraordinary cohorts of female entrepreneurs - women who are making waves by innovating, scaling and challenging the status quo in aquaculture.
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BioMar reports record profitability in 2024 despite declining volumes.
BioMar has reported its strongest financial performance to date, achieving record profitability in 2024 despite a decline in revenue and volumes. The company’s EBITDA increased by 18% across its consolidated businesses, reflecting a strategic focus on operational efficiencies and portfolio optimisation.
CEO Carlos Diaz attributed the improvement to targeted commercial decisions, stating, “We have driven a meticulous focus on building a strong business, and the increase in profitability is the result of an unwavering strategic focus on optimising our product portfolio, combined with a series of operational excellence measures.”
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Global seafood trading and marketing group Iceland Seafood International has reported higher earnings and profits for 2024 and during the final quarter of last year.
It was a year in which salmon prices went from very high to low halfway through which affected trading, ISI said.
The 2024 profit before tax from regular operations was above forecast at ISK 1.1bn (almost £7.5m) which was a significant improvement from the previous year.
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Millions of young eels (glass eels) were released into the Randmeren lakes in the Netherlands to boost the declining eel population.
Led by the DUPAN Foundation, 2.5 million eels, originating from French estuaries and certified for sustainability, were carefully checked and distributed. This release aims to increase the number of adult eels that can migrate to the Sargasso Sea for spawning.
The initiative, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund, is part of a broader effort to comply with European Eel Regulation and ensure eel population recovery.
The release follows a positive trend in young eel numbers on European coasts since 2011 and a reported exceptionally large influx this year.
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Due to extremely poor catches, fellow shrimp fishers returned to port early again last week. It’s a waste of time and fuel to continue. For the OL 7 of skipper Folkert Sloot, it meant peace on the water to fish the first week with pots undisturbed. Lines were shot from Schiermonnikoog to the dike near Lauwersoog, from deeper water to almost dry land.
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The Norwegian Marine Research Institute has presented a report on the risks of Norwegian aquaculture in which it has detected that animal welfare and sea lice are the main challenges facing the activity. These problems are focused on 13 production areas, causing economic losses and increasing the risk of mortality of specimens.
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This International Women's Day, we’re turning the spotlight on the powerhouse women redefining ocean food.
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BioMar has reported its strongest financial performance to date, achieving record profitability in 2024 despite a decline in revenue and volumes. The company’s EBITDA increased by 18% across its consolidated businesses, reflecting a strategic focus on operational efficiencies and portfolio optimisation.
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Led by the DUPAN Foundation, 2.5 million eels, originating from French estuaries and certified for sustainability, were carefully checked and distributed. This release aims to increase the number of adult eels that can migrate to the Sargasso Sea for spawning. 
