Seafood

  • New processing venture for small MSC haddock

    New processing venture for small MSC haddock

    29th April 2024

    Trinity Seafoods, a new collaboration between three major players in the Scottish seafood sector – Denholm Seafoods, The Don Fishing Company and Seafood Ecosse – plans to create a new, highly automated business that it hopes will allow both UK…

  • Seafood ignored in food security debate

    Seafood ignored in food security debate

    22nd April 2024

    Industry leaders have called for the fishing industry to be given a much higher priority as a vital element in national food security, and for political parties to include a strategy for fisheries in their manifestos ahead of the general…

  • Brexit ‘has hit seafood exports to EU’

    Brexit ‘has hit seafood exports to EU’

    15th April 2024

    Brexit has added ‘considerable’ burdens for Scottish seafood traders, and while trade with the EU is manageable, it is ‘sub-optimal’ at present, according to Seafood Scotland. It says there are a number of additional trade barriers which hampered trade ‘significantly’…

  • Seafish revises proposed levy changes

    Seafish revises proposed levy changes

    4th January 2024

    Twenty-five years after the last change to its levy – the charge paid to Seafish for the majority of seafish products landed or imported into the UK – the body has published its full response to an informal consultation on…

  • Flavours of the future: innovations to preserve taste and reduce waste

    Flavours of the future: innovations to preserve taste and reduce waste

    17th October 2023

    With the UK Seafood Innovation Fund’s latest research and development projects underway, Fishing News is delving into some of the innovations that the fund has supported. This week: how two different supply chain innovations could help feed the UK’s appetite…

  • A Day In The Life Of: Seafood educator Simon Gray

    A Day In The Life Of: Seafood educator Simon Gray

    22nd September 2023

    “It’s a mixed reaction from the children to start off with,” Simon Gray, senior associate at The Food Teachers’ Centre, and the driving force behind the Fish in School Hero programme, told Fishing News. The initiative seeks to give secondary…

  • Celebration of Clyde seafood in Tarbert

    Celebration of Clyde seafood in Tarbert

    17th July 2023

    A successful Tarbert Seafood Festival, held on the shores of Loch Fyne recently, attracted a healthy mixture of tourists and locals, celebrating the best of the Clyde’s fresh seafoods and celebrating the port’s fishing heritage. Jonny Walker and Stacey Cameron…

  • A Day In The Life Of: Fish merchant Sean Perkes

    A Day In The Life Of: Fish merchant Sean Perkes

    30th June 2023

    Share a day in the life of a Brixham fish merchant and restaurant owner, Sean Perkes It’s fair to say that Sean Perkes, of Brixham-based fish merchant Ian Perkes Ltd and restaurant Shoals on the Lido, has well-established roots in…

  • Job losses at scampi firm, Whitby Seafoods

    Job losses at scampi firm, Whitby Seafoods

    26th June 2023

    Cutbacks at Whitby Seafoods add to pressure on prawn fishery A switch to cheaper foods in response to the cost of living crisis is one reason put forward for the announcement by Whitby Seafoods of the start of consultations with…

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