Salmon Start-Up LocalCoho Attracts New Strategic Investors; Raises Additional Funding

November 3, 2022 LocalCoho

LocalCoho, a land-based aquaculture start-up producing premium Coho salmon already being served at Nobu in New York and several other noted restaurants, has received significant new funding from two prominent seafood industry entrepreneurs, Rodger May and Per Heggelund.

Performance Food Group Introduces Exclusive Fair Trade Certified Norwegian Salmon Product

Performance Food Group Company (PFG) (NYSE: PFGC) announced the launch of its latest seafood item, Bay Winds® Fair Trade Certified™ Norwegian Salmon. Through a partnership with Beaver Street Fisheries™, PFG has exclusive rights to distribute the only farmed salmon in the world that is Fair Trade Certified.

New Orkney Salmon Farm Approval Confirms Aquaculture is Planned Sustainably

September 13, 2022 Cooke

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland Ltd. welcomes the Orkney Islands Council Planning Committee’s decision today approving the creation of a six cage salmon farming site located offshore of East Moclett, Papa Westray, in the North Sound.

St. James Smokehouse Voluntary Recalls Scotch Reserve Scottish Smoked Salmon 4oz Because of Possible Health Risk

September 7, 2022 FDA

St. James Smokehouse of Miami, Florida is voluntary recalling 93 cases of St. James Smokehouse brand, Scotch Reserve Scottish Smoked Salmon, 4oz Packages (Product of Scotland) because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

No Commercial Openings for Fraser Sockeye

August 29, 2022 Nelson Bennett, BIV

B.C. commercial fishermen are now forced to resign themselves to the reality that they will be shut out of the Fraser River sockeye fishery for the fourth year in a row, and for some that means the end of the road.