Scottish industry leaders have reported a challenging start to the year for some parts of the catching and processing sectors, with fishing hit by bad weather in January and February and demand and prices affected by the high cost of…
The UK minister for employment has pledged to look at how job centres can do more to encourage local people to work in the North East seafood sector, following a meeting with the industry in Aberdeen. Guy Opperman (pictured above),…
Seafood processing businesses are being encouraged to participate in the annual Seafish processing survey, which was launched last week. A research team will be contacting processing businesses across the UK between now and June. Consisting of a five-minute call and…
Work has begun on a major new £30m mackerel and herring processing facility and cold-store upgrade for Denholm Seafoods in Peterhead, reports Paul Scott. The investment, one of the largest ever undertaken by a wild-caught fish processing company in Scotland,…
The planned closure of the last fresh fish counters at Tesco has created its first casualty in the processing sector, reports Andy Read. Tesco announced in February last year that it was closing 317 fresh fish counters at stores around…
In another sign of the turmoil created in the seafood sector by the combination of Brexit, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the cost of living crisis, the Icelandic owner of Grimsby processing company Five Star Fish has announced the…
Seafish is encouraging seafood processing businesses across the UK to complete a short survey that will help to capture vital industry data, reports Paul Scott. From now until June, Seafish will be contacting processors across the UK to conduct the…
The House of Lords European Affairs Committee has published a report on the free trade agreement with Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, concluded in July, which says that the agreement has potential benefits for the UK fish processing industry. The agreement…
The first sections of Northbay Pelagic’s new state-of-the-art pelagic fish processing factory are now being erected at Peterhead, reports David Linkie. Scheduled for completion in the early autumn in time for the closing few weeks of the North Sea herring…
David Linkie reports: Scheduled for completion in the early autumn in time for the closing few weeks of the North Sea herring season, after which production will immediately switch to mackerel, the new building will replace Northbay Pelagic’s principal processing…
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