Cliff White has been the executive editor of SeafoodSource since 2016. Previously, he worked as the senior business reporter for the McClatchy-owned Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit and the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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Jason Chua knows Singapore’s seafood preferences like few others.
Chua is the chief executive of Sincere Food, one of the biggest food suppliers, including both wholesale and value-added seafood products, to Singapore’s hotel, retail, and catering (HORECA) sector. Established in 1998, Sincere Food now supplies around 85 percent of the HORECA market in Singapore.
In recent years, the company has acquired Premium Deep Sea Seafood to
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Asia-based seafood start-ups are having a moment.
The seafood industry’s newest unicorn – a start-up that has achieved a USD 1 billion (EUR 902 million) valuation – is Bandung, Indonesia-based eFishery, which offers fish and shrimp farmers an end-to-end platform to access to feed, financing, and markets. And numerous other Asia-headquartered companies, including India’s Captain Fresh, FreshToHome, and Licious have
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The Ukraine war has been blamed for the recent bankruptcy filing of Whittier, Alaska, U.S.A.-based seafood-processing and -trading firm Whittier Seafood.
In a Chapter 11 declaration in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Alaska filed 19 August, Whittier Seafood Owner Alexey Kozlov said his company was brought down by its ties to Marine Fishing International (MFI) and its sister firm JSC Tefida, a Vladivostok, Russia-headquartered
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Grupo Solimeno, a diversified fishing firm based in Mar del Plata, Argentina, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Gava Foods.
Solimeno operates 13 vessels, including three onboard trawlers, three wetfish trawlers, five freezer-beam trawlers, and two squid-jiggers. It recently added the new-builds Luigi and Anita, which have become the two largest vessels in the company’s fleet.
The fleet is large and diverse enough to
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Singapore-based Japfa Group has announced what it is calling a breakthrough in eel aquaculture.
The group’s PT Suri Tani Pemuka (STP), which operates the Aquaculture Research Center (ARC) in Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia, has successfully bred tropical eel (Anguilla bicolor) in captivity.
The eel is in high demand in Asian markets for its “rich flavor and high nutritional content, making it a popular choice for premium
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Premium tilapia farmer Regal Springs has faced difficulties in its operations in Mexico and Honduras, but the worst is over, according to Vernon Bradley, the company’s head of marketing and media relations.
In Honduras, the company faced high mortality in 2022 and 2023, as well as a government push to eliminate industrial activity on Lake Yojoa, one of the two lakes on which Regal Springs operated. As a result, it will now only operate on
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