Daily recap: NESI snaps up UK’s largest crab processor; Indian shrimp prices stabilize, fall elsewhere

Here's?a recap of the top daily seafood stories from Tuesday, Aug. 6:?

• NESI returns to shellfish with deal for UK's largest crab processor

UK processor and distributor New England Seafood International (NESI) has acquired the trade and "certain assets" of the country's largest crab processor, Blue Sea Food Company, after the latter entered administration this month.

• Week 32 Indian shrimp prices stabilize, fall in Vietnam, Indonesia

The recent rise in shrimp farm-gate prices in India to a four-month high has lost steam, while prices have fallen again in Vietnam and Indonesia also after respective increases,?according to?Undercurrent News' data portal.

• Albacora repatriates Spanish workers attacked in Ecuador

Some Spanish workers, mostly from Galicia, employed by the fishing firm Albacora, have been repatriated after their bus was ambushed and shot last week near Guayaquil, Ecuador.

• US snow crab sellers uneasy about flat prices even as Canadian seasons wrap up

It's too quiet. That's the uneasy feeling snow crab sellers have right now about the state of the wholesale Chionoecetes opilio market in the US, where prices haven't budged much for months, even though the Canadian harvest seasons are almost completely wrapped up for the year.

• Alaska Glacier Seafoods to acquire Triad Fisheries, increase supply of troll-caught salmon

Two Southeast Alaska seafood processors are joining forces. Alaska Glacier Seafoods, which owns a processing plant in Juneau, has acquired Triad Fisheries, which specializes in freezing troll-caught salmon at sea, the two companies announced in a joint press release on Monday.

• Icelandic cod, haddock auctions hit by end-of-season price spike

Auction prices for Icelandic head-on cod and, to a lesser extent, haddock have both shot up over the last fortnight as the 2023/24 fishing season nears its end, according to data?freshly added to?Undercurrent's?price portal.