Camanchaca Enters Shrimp Market in Joint Venture with Krustagroup to Sell Argentine Shrimp Products
The aquaculture and fishing company Camanchaca has signed a joint venture with the Spanish company Krustagroup, which is the processing and marketing arm of the Amasua Group. The group owns a fleet of fishing vessels in Argentina that are mainly engaged in catching Argentine red shrimp. The deal will have Camanchaca debut three products next week during Seafood Expo North America in Boston under its Pier 33 brand. Among the products will be an Argentine red shrimp product. Demand for Argentina's wild caught red shrimp in the US market has been especially high in the last year both in the retail and foodservice sectors.
Vietnam's pangasius industry is under attack in the EU since Carrefour’s ban on sales in Belgium in late January has since gained quick NGO support. A wave of negative media attention directed at the farmed pangasius industry following the ban has hurt sales across the EU market, despite the fact that pangasius is farmed both to ASC and BAP standards. This media frenzy has caused immediate changes in consumer habits which have already been felt by exporters. However, traders, industry groups, members of the scientific community and even retailers have come to the defense of Vietnamese pangasius.
In other news, Peggy Parker writes of Urchinomics, a company founded by Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda. Takeda's company uses a revolutionary process to farm sea urchins from the barrens, which feeds them a kelp-based food product that triggers production of uni (roe) in weeks rather than months. The company was founded since sea urchin populations have rebounded by clearcutting kelp forests, which means they stop producing roe that sells for $200 per pound. The process is in trial stages in Quebec and the Canadian Maritimes, British Columbia, Australia, and Japan.
Meanwhile, the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI) said the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) seafood certification standards align with all of the Essential Components of the GSSI’s Global Benchmark Tool. This makes the MSC the third seafood certification standard to be successfully benchmarked by the GSSI. This process reaffirms our commitment to maintain world-leading science-based standards which are widely applicable and help to drive real change on the water. Anyone committing to purchase MSC certified seafood can be confident that it reflects global best practice in fisheries management,” said Dr David Agnew, Director of Science and Standards at the MSC.
Finally, Marine Harvest is experimenting with farming salmon using an advanced marine egg co
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