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Profit at Dongwon’s seafood unit surges 17% on greater Q1 tuna catches South Korean seafood giant Dongwon Industries posted a 17% year-on-year growth in seafood business revenue at KRW 327.6 billion ($289 million) for the first three months of 2024, fueled by strong performances in its tuna fishing operation, the group reported on May 10. The firm -- which owns US tuna brand StarKist Co. -- saw operating income in its seafood segment surge 17% to KRW 74.9bn, lifted by the favorable tuna catches during the period. Click below to read the full story from Masahiko Takeuchi. Undercurrent News 동원산업 StarKist Co.

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"The report urges governments to reinvest in local and regional supply infrastructure, relocalise public purchasing and food security strategies, and curb corporate capture of food systems. While corporate-controlled global commodity chains dominate land and resources, most of the world is actually fed by food chains that are closeto-home. Civil society assessments have estimated that over 70% of the world’s population is fed by small-scale producers and workers in ‘peasant food webs’, despite them accounting for less than 1/3 of agricultural land and resources.  Francesc Reguant Tatiana Fernandez Montserrat Núñez Júlia Ribó Ivo Degn

5 facts about Graza’s new limited-edition Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Potato Chips. 1. The potatoes are Galician potatoes. 2. Made with GRAZA’s extra-virgin olive oil from Spain. 3. Flaky salt from 6,000 year-old Anana salt flats. 4. Slow-fried: cooked at lower temperatures for longer. 5. Made in Spain. I got these chips at a Chicago Foxtrot.

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Norwegian fresh salmon sales rise further, average price continues at lowest in two years Norway's total fresh salmon exports rose week-on-week to 27,332 metric tons during week 36 (Sept. 2-8) of 2024. That is up by 7% year-on-year compared to week 36 2023. The average free on board (FOB) Oslo price fell slightly to NOK 73.70 (€6.22/$6.91) per kilogram, the lowest since week 46 of 2023, according to data published by the Norwegian Seafood Council, also available in the Undercurrent News prices portal. Click below to read the full story from María Feijóo. Undercurrent News Norwegian Seafood Council

Norwegian fresh salmon sales rebound across most main markets Norway's total fresh salmon exports rose to 12,997 metric tons during week 17 (April 22-28) of 2024, up by 10% week-on-week but down 26% year-on-year. The average free-on-board (FOB) Oslo price fell again to NOK 119.61 (€10.11/$10.82) per kilogram, down by 1% from the week before but still up 7% y-o-y, according to data published by the Norwegian Seafood Council, also available in the Undercurrent News prices portal. Click below to read the full story from María Feijóo. Undercurrent News Norwegian Seafood Council

Water use in food production (water withdrawal per kilogram of the final product):   🧀 Cheese: 5,605 liters 🌰 Nuts: 4,134 liters 🐟 Fish (farmed): 3,691 liters 🍤 Prawns (farmed): 3,515 liters 🥩 Beef (dairy herd): 2,714 liters 🍚 Rice: 2,248 liters 🥜 Peanuts: 1,852 liters 🐑 Lamb & Mutton: 1,803 liters 🐖 Pork: 1,796 liters 🥩 Beef (beef herd): 1,451 liters   This data shows how different food items contribute to this environmental impact, the above list ranks foods based on their water withdrawals, using data from Poore and Nemecek and Our World in Data.

Sitting down to a steak dinner or a burger in #Wyoming, you’d probably assume you’re eating Wyoming beef. Think again. While visiting with the Wyoming Stock Growers Assn the #foodsystems dots began to connect. Sure, Wyoming beef can command top dollar at restaurants in New York and Tokyo. But public food consumption trends of the 90s-10s also demanded “lean” hamburger — meaning it requires leaner beef inputs from Brazil and Argentina. Here’s a great article from #Montana on the Old Salt Co-op — different state, but similar forces at work. Local sourcing is a key driver of a healthy and resilient food system — and sourcing is just the start. With the #FoodFreedomAct, Wyoming enabled intrastate sale of meat and game processed at state processors, decreasing the bottleneck of USDA processing facilities. Then, onto building the systems and markets for consumption…

Most of the seafood we eat in the U.S. is imported. Most of what we catch is exported. In a Q&A with Civil Eats, Local Catch Network founder Joshua Stoll explains how we can start sourcing our own fish.