Sirena, Lyons Seafoods buy into Canadian shrimp firm

January 27, 2015 Canada, International News

Danish firm Sirena and UK-based Lyons Seafoods have announced they are purchasing 50% in Canadian coldwater shrimp supplier Les Pecheries Marinard. Sirena will acquire its share of the stake in the cooked and peeled processor – which supplies the UK supermarket chain Marks & Spencer and owns the Mariniere brand – through its wholly owned Canadian arm, Whitecap International Seafood Exporters. St Johns, Newfoundland-based Whitecap is,, Read the rest here 12:43

Danish firm Sirena, UK-based Lyons Seafoods, Whitecap International Seafood Exporters

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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