All Fish articles – Page 78
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Commodities Update: tomatoes, fish, apricots
Tomato field prices lowerStock carry-over from last season has resulted in Italian canned tomato processors contracting with growers for 15% less fresh tomatoes.Field prices will be 5% lower than last season, but increases in the cost of...
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Lerwick port rakes in the mackerel catch
Fish landings in Shetland’s Lerwick harbour in the first three months of 2005 leapt dramatically, according to the Lerwick Port Authority.Lerwick Port Authority said that fish worth £23 million had been landed in the harbour, an increase of...
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Farmed cod set for big volumes
Britain’s major seafood supplier Young’s Bluecrest has hailed the birth of farmed cod as a major new food supply industry, anticipating it will reach some 200,000 tonnes by 2013.That level would represent a quarter of the volumes delivered...
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Commodities Update: tuna, salmon, sardines, dried fruit
Tuna catches spasmodicRaw material prices for tuna have eased, but catches are still spasmodic, leading to uncertainty over future price trends.Causing concern is the reluctance of packers to offer any long-term shipping periods. Bangkok...
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Fish farm merger forces job cuts
Marine Harvest and Stolt Seafoods, Scotland’s largest fish farming companies, have agreed to merge.The merger, which will create the newly-named company Marine Harvest, will lead to the loss of 120 jobs at the companies.Approximately...
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Commodities Update: beef, pork, salmon
Corned beef prices risingPrices of corned beef are continuing upward as Brazil wrestles with a weakening currency, the real, against a stronger US dollar.A Brazilian packer said: “Traders believe the industry is making excessive profits....
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Commodities update: fruit, salmon, sardines, dried fruit
Any discussion about canned fruit invariably involves the threat of Chinese low-cost production, as evidenced during the mandarin orange season when Spanish canners put pressure on Brussels to safeguard their industry, claiming Chinese production ...
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Commodities Update: tuna, pilchards, tomatoes
Tuna cost concernsA further rise in skipjack tuna raw material prices is causing serious concern among canners.Prices were expected to have begun to fall by now, but a scarcity of fish has pushed the Bangkok price to $900 a tonne,...
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Millar retires after 40 years in the industry
Kraft’s trade relations manager Easton Millar has taken early retirement after 40 years working in the grocery industry.Millar said he began his career as a four-year-old in sweet stock replenishment at his grandmother’s fish and chip shop. On...
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Forensic eyes on origin
Methods used in criminal investigations by forensic scientists could be the key to preventing food fraud and checking the origin of meats, fish, crops and other produce entering the UK.Counterfeit food and medicines seized as they arrived in...
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Consumer Insight
Consumption of salmon by age groupnIn the past year there were 147 million salmon meal occasions nSmoked salmon accounts for 15% of all salmon...
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Minimum import price ‘unhelpful’
Britain’s major seafood supplier Young’s Bluecrest has hit out at the Minimum Import Price imposed by Brussels on non-EU salmon as “unhelpful to development of the salmon market”.The company is forecasting an overall rise in the retail price of...
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Commodities update: Pineapple, tuna, dried fruit and chilli
Pineapple tribulations“It’s the same old story,” was the reaction of a canned fruit importer this week when asked about the prospects for the summer pineapple crop in Thailand. “Higher tin plate costs – up 42% – and adverse weather...
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Commodities update: tuna, tomatoes, beef, dried fruit
Tuna prices increaseTuna prices are rising after poor catches and concern that shortages are becoming the norm.Conservationists cite over-fishing as a reason, but weather seems more likely. There are many reports of recorded changes in sea...
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Gorged on prawns
Consumers’ burgeoning love affair with prawns has turned the chilled fish category into a £1bn business.The category is now growing faster than the other major protein groups at 7% (12 months to December 5, TNS), and now represents 20% of...
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Consumers urged to boycott cod
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is calling for consumers to boycott cod, haddock and other fish from depleted stocks in an attempt to force supermarkets to buy from sustainable sources.The MCS has divided fish into three categories,...
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Unilever sells oil and fats businesses
Unilever has sold its oil and cooking fats arm to Princes, the canned fish company.Unilever is reported to have said jobs at its factory at Purfleet in Essex, which produces 1m tubs of margarine a day, would not be affected by the sale of...
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Waitrose fish is in the pink
Waitrose has hailed its fish sales as “fantastic”, with 14% growth for its service counter and 40% growth for pre-packed over the year.Fish buyer Jeremy Langley said the strongest performers on the service counter had been organic salmon and...
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Commodities update: mackerel, sardines, olive oil, salmon
Mackerel prices rise 15%A reduced catch quota for North Sea mackerel will force prices up by at least 15%, according to sources in Denmark.Japan and Russia are enjoying year-on-year growth, so with a quota drop from 535,000 tonnes...
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Consumer Insight: mackerel
In the last year there were 36.9 million occasions of mackerel consumption. This is 1.2% of the overall chilled and frozen fish market and an increase of 7.6% on last year.Some 60% of mackerel is consumed in the evening, with...