Daily recap: Mixed fortunes for Ecuador shrimp; US wholesalers bemoan port standoff
Here's a recap of the top daily seafood stories from Tuesday, Oct. 2:
- Conxemar 2024: Ecuadorian shrimp industry faces ‘mixed fortunes’ ahead of Christmas, eyes European demand
Undercurrent News?is reporting live this week from the Conxemar trade show in Vigo, Spain. The event, running Oct. 1-3, was preceded by a conference on global seafood supply, organized by the Spanish industry association Conxemar and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Catch the updates here.
- US East Coast wholesaler on port standoff: ‘This strike is going to really wreak havoc’
Seafood importers are holding their collective breaths now that the long-threatened port strike on the US East and Gulf coasts has begun.
The US imports as much as 260,000 metric tons of seafood worth $21.1 billion monthly, much of it arriving in the more than 14 ports along the coast that were shut down on Monday (Oct. 1).?
- Week 40 shrimp price roundup: Indian prices pick up again, Vietnam’s dip
Farm-gate shrimp prices in India have jumped again at the start of week 40 (Sept. 30 - Oct. 6), ending a brief period of price stability, according to the latest price data available on?Undercurrent News' data portal.?
- Spain’s Wofco to process whitefish from Norway’s Bluewild
Spanish firm Worldwide Fishing Company, also known as WOFCO, and Norwegian frozen cod and haddock supplier Bluewild have entered into a strategic partnership which will see the former supplied with cod, redfish, saithe, haddock and coldwater shrimp.
- French investor buys majority stake in Danish trout farmer
A French investment family has acquired a majority stake in the Danish trout farmer AquaPri, with the founding family retaining a significant share.