Daily recap: Live from Icefish; Rodger May edges Silver Bay for Peter Pan assets
Here's a recap of the top daily seafood stories from Thursday, Sept. 19:
- Rodger May narrowly beat out Silver Bay Seafoods to win Peter Pan assets at auction
Rodger May has narrowly won an auction for the assets of the Peter Pan Seafood Company he previously co-owned, at a cost of $37.2m, confirmed documents filed in the King County Superior Court, in Seattle, Washington.
- Icefish/Fish Waste for Profit blog: New Canada redfish quota prompts demand for processing tech
Undercurrent News?is reporting live from the Icefish expo and the Fish Waste for Profit conference, running Sept. 18-20 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Mediterranean bass, bream prices climb in unusual September surge
Prices of Mediterranean seabass and seabream have been on the rise this September, a rare occurrence after the peak summer season.
- Labor strike, market uncertainty disrupt Argentina red shrimp season finale
The Argentine red shrimp industry is facing a challenging conclusion to its 2024 season in national waters, with the combination of a nationwide labor strike and fluctuating market dynamics creating uncertainty for the final months of the year.
- Lenk scales up Bangladesh ASC black tiger project, launches peeled line
Thai-headquartered Lenk Frozen Foods is set to expand its novel black tiger shrimp farm improver program in Bangladesh's Sundarban region as it pioneers a route for shrimp from the country into high-end European retail markets, managing director Heiko Lenk told Undercurrent at the recent Global Shrimp Forum.
- US report tallies billions in losses for Alaska seafood sector
Alaska's beleaguered seafood industry has had a turbulent couple of years with a perfect storm of natural and human-caused events leading to a $1.8 billion loss in direct revenue from 2022 to 2023.