Artyom Shevchenko, General Director of the Russian Far Eastern Fisheries Technical Center, said in an interview published on October 21, 2026, that the company's new production building was fully commissioned ahead of Fisherman's Day, adding 3,600 square meters of production space — the largest fixed-asset renewal since the company moved to the Churkin district of Vladivostok in the early 1970s.
On October 20, 2026, Tan Tan Nguyen Vietnam Mechanical Co., Ltd. held an inauguration ceremony for its plant in Nam Thuan Industrial Park, Tay Ninh Province, with total project investment of more than VND 307.7 billion, producing machinery and equipment serving agriculture, livestock and aquaculture.
The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia, has listed seven lake plots for electronic auction for pasture-style aquaculture. Applications are accepted until November 9, and the auction is scheduled for November 17 on the "RTS-Tender" platform.
In the week 38, 2026 sea diary, a Dutch fishing vessel captain records departing from Eemshaven on the night of 23 August for the Norway lobster grounds north of the 56th parallel, with 9 to 12 boxes per haul and Norway lobster averaging 17 per kilogram, but fuel prices have doubled year on year, adding 1,000 euros per fishing day and leaving the profit share at almost zero.
Iceland's Food and Veterinary Authority (MAST) published its decision on 19 October, amending Laxey's two operating licences in Vestmannaeyjar to allow the company to receive fertilised salmon eggs produced by Norway's AquaGen; the licensed capacity of both facilities remains unchanged.
Russian retail chain VkusVill has launched a seafood rice ball in stores and on its e-commerce platform that replaces rice with barley cooked in vegetable broth; the filling consists of baked Atlantic cod, surimi paste and pan-fried whiteleg shrimp, with each piece weighing 110g and retailing at 220 rubles. The product's process development was completed by a young research team under the guidance of the Department of Food Engineering at Kaliningrad State Technical University.
The Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources has charged two local seafood companies with purchasing illegally caught lobster, following a two-year investigation; a plea is scheduled for November 12.
On September 12, 2026, Dutch fisheries media outlet Visserijnieuws reported that the family business Dries van den Berg & Zn., based in Harderwijk, was awarded the title of 2026 Dutch Fish Specialty Shop of the Year at the VERS! festival in Nijkerk.
This month the Chilean government formally requested the voluntary resignation of María Soledad Tapia, national director of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca), who will leave office on October 31; meanwhile, the government's submitted 2027 budget raises funding for Sernapesca and Subpesca but proposes a 19.2% real-terms cut to the Environmental Superintendency's (SMA) environmental inspection program.
Chile's Environmental Superintendency (SMA) has filed serious charges against Pesquera La Portada S.A. over violations of odor capture and control measures at its Puerto Montt fishmeal and fish oil processing plant; the company says it will cooperate with the administrative process and notes that the relevant process management dates back to 2023.
In 2026, the Ha Tinh Province Agricultural Extension Center implemented a semi-intensive VietGAP demonstration model for giant river prawn (罗氏沼虾, Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in Toan Luu Commune. The pond of farmer Phan Luong became the province's first giant river prawn farming facility to obtain VietGAP certification, harvesting 2.02 tonnes over a 5-month cycle with a profit of nearly 170 million VND per hectare per season.
Data from Vietnam's General Statistics Office show that in the first 9 months of 2026, the country's aquatic product output reached 7,890,900 tonnes, up 3.9% year on year, of which aquaculture output was 4,860,600 tonnes, up 5.9%, continuing to be the main driver of growth for the entire sector.
The settlement dispute between land-based salmon farmer Andfjord Salmon and its former main supplier AF Hæhre & Contur has entered litigation. An August ruling by the Salten og Lofoten District Court shows the total amount in dispute could reach NOK 2.5 billion, with the trial set to begin in Bodø on 30 August 2027.
The Norwegian Institute of Marine Research reported on October 20 that pearl jellyfish have been recorded from the Oslofjord to Tromsø, but numbers are far below the 2023 mass outbreak period; the institute stresses that November is the peak season, and no damage to farmed fish has been reported so far.
Russia's Federal Fisheries Agency released monitoring data on October 20: as of October 19, Russian fishermen had caught a total of 3,867,700 tonnes of aquatic biological resources, of which the Far East basin accounted for 3,064,800 tonnes; major species such as Alaska pollock and Pacific herring all posted year-on-year increases.
The Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries reported on October 20 that since the beginning of the year, more than 230,000 juvenile Black Sea salmon with an average individual weight of 4 grams have been released into the Shakhe and Mzymta rivers flowing into the Black Sea; another 8,000 fish were retained at the hatchery to supplement the population.
Icelandic seafood software company Wisefish released AI Connect on 20 October 2026, connecting artificial intelligence tools such as Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot directly to real-time business data in Wisefish and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, covering the chain from raw material purchasing and production to sales and customer delivery.
The Norwegian Seafood Council released four market assessment reports, identifying Japan, South Korea and China as alternative markets for snow crab and red king crab after the US imposed a 12.5% tariff on Norwegian seafood; however, Russia accounts for 73% to 100% of frozen snow crab and king crab imports in these three markets.
The Indonesian government has announced the end of the emergency response phase triggered by Cs-137 contamination at the Modern Cikande Industrial Estate in Banten Province, but is retaining batch-by-batch testing, traceability and certification requirements for shrimp exports to the US; from October 2025 to September 2026, a total of 6,291 containers and 95,438 tonnes of shrimp products were certified, with an export value of about US$933 million.
Artyom Shevchenko, General Director of the Russian Far Eastern Fisheries Technical Center, said in an interview published on October 21, 2026, that the company's new production building was fully commissioned ahead of Fisherman's Day, adding 3,600 square meters of production space — the largest fixed-asset renewal since the company moved to the Churkin district of Vladivostok in the early 1970s.
On October 20, 2026, Tan Tan Nguyen Vietnam Mechanical Co., Ltd. held an inauguration ceremony for its plant in Nam Thuan Industrial Park, Tay Ninh Province, with total project investment of more than VND 307.7 billion, producing machinery and equipment serving agriculture, livestock and aquaculture.
The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia, has listed seven lake plots for electronic auction for pasture-style aquaculture. Applications are accepted until November 9, and the auction is scheduled for November 17 on the "RTS-Tender" platform.
In the week 38, 2026 sea diary, a Dutch fishing vessel captain records departing from Eemshaven on the night of 23 August for the Norway lobster grounds north of the 56th parallel, with 9 to 12 boxes per haul and Norway lobster averaging 17 per kilogram, but fuel prices have doubled year on year, adding 1,000 euros per fishing day and leaving the profit share at almost zero.
Iceland's Food and Veterinary Authority (MAST) published its decision on 19 October, amending Laxey's two operating licences in Vestmannaeyjar to allow the company to receive fertilised salmon eggs produced by Norway's AquaGen; the licensed capacity of both facilities remains unchanged.
Russian retail chain VkusVill has launched a seafood rice ball in stores and on its e-commerce platform that replaces rice with barley cooked in vegetable broth; the filling consists of baked Atlantic cod, surimi paste and pan-fried whiteleg shrimp, with each piece weighing 110g and retailing at 220 rubles. The product's process development was completed by a young research team under the guidance of the Department of Food Engineering at Kaliningrad State Technical University.
The Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources has charged two local seafood companies with purchasing illegally caught lobster, following a two-year investigation; a plea is scheduled for November 12.
On September 12, 2026, Dutch fisheries media outlet Visserijnieuws reported that the family business Dries van den Berg & Zn., based in Harderwijk, was awarded the title of 2026 Dutch Fish Specialty Shop of the Year at the VERS! festival in Nijkerk.
This month the Chilean government formally requested the voluntary resignation of María Soledad Tapia, national director of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca), who will leave office on October 31; meanwhile, the government's submitted 2027 budget raises funding for Sernapesca and Subpesca but proposes a 19.2% real-terms cut to the Environmental Superintendency's (SMA) environmental inspection program.
Chile's Environmental Superintendency (SMA) has filed serious charges against Pesquera La Portada S.A. over violations of odor capture and control measures at its Puerto Montt fishmeal and fish oil processing plant; the company says it will cooperate with the administrative process and notes that the relevant process management dates back to 2023.
In 2026, the Ha Tinh Province Agricultural Extension Center implemented a semi-intensive VietGAP demonstration model for giant river prawn (罗氏沼虾, Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in Toan Luu Commune. The pond of farmer Phan Luong became the province's first giant river prawn farming facility to obtain VietGAP certification, harvesting 2.02 tonnes over a 5-month cycle with a profit of nearly 170 million VND per hectare per season.
Data from Vietnam's General Statistics Office show that in the first 9 months of 2026, the country's aquatic product output reached 7,890,900 tonnes, up 3.9% year on year, of which aquaculture output was 4,860,600 tonnes, up 5.9%, continuing to be the main driver of growth for the entire sector.
The settlement dispute between land-based salmon farmer Andfjord Salmon and its former main supplier AF Hæhre & Contur has entered litigation. An August ruling by the Salten og Lofoten District Court shows the total amount in dispute could reach NOK 2.5 billion, with the trial set to begin in Bodø on 30 August 2027.
The Norwegian Institute of Marine Research reported on October 20 that pearl jellyfish have been recorded from the Oslofjord to Tromsø, but numbers are far below the 2023 mass outbreak period; the institute stresses that November is the peak season, and no damage to farmed fish has been reported so far.
Russia's Federal Fisheries Agency released monitoring data on October 20: as of October 19, Russian fishermen had caught a total of 3,867,700 tonnes of aquatic biological resources, of which the Far East basin accounted for 3,064,800 tonnes; major species such as Alaska pollock and Pacific herring all posted year-on-year increases.
The Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries reported on October 20 that since the beginning of the year, more than 230,000 juvenile Black Sea salmon with an average individual weight of 4 grams have been released into the Shakhe and Mzymta rivers flowing into the Black Sea; another 8,000 fish were retained at the hatchery to supplement the population.
Icelandic seafood software company Wisefish released AI Connect on 20 October 2026, connecting artificial intelligence tools such as Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot directly to real-time business data in Wisefish and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, covering the chain from raw material purchasing and production to sales and customer delivery.
The Norwegian Seafood Council released four market assessment reports, identifying Japan, South Korea and China as alternative markets for snow crab and red king crab after the US imposed a 12.5% tariff on Norwegian seafood; however, Russia accounts for 73% to 100% of frozen snow crab and king crab imports in these three markets.
The Indonesian government has announced the end of the emergency response phase triggered by Cs-137 contamination at the Modern Cikande Industrial Estate in Banten Province, but is retaining batch-by-batch testing, traceability and certification requirements for shrimp exports to the US; from October 2025 to September 2026, a total of 6,291 containers and 95,438 tonnes of shrimp products were certified, with an export value of about US$933 million.
Peru's Ministry of Production, based on the results of IMARPE survey cruise 2609-10, announced that no second anchoveta fishing season will be authorized in the north-central zone in 2026; the National Fisheries Society of Peru warns that the fleet suspension could extend to the first fishing season of 2027.
