In a recent webinar hosted by the aquaculture technology investment firm Hatch, an international panel of aquaculture leaders connected virtually to discuss the importance of sustainability in the industry and the space innovation on that front, now and in the future.

“The world now produces more than 155 million tons of seafood every year. Around 55 percent of that comes from aquaculture. As our population is growing, demand continues to rise, and within the next 50 years we will have to grow more seafood than we have ever grown in the entire existence of mankind,” said Moritz Mueller, the head of marketing and communications at HATCH. “At the same time, understanding the limits of our oceans and protecting them, in order to keep our planet healthy is an essential task.

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Six sick people have been hospitalised.

Food Safety reports that at least two two people have died in a Listeria outbreak linked to chilled smoked trout fillets in the Netherlands.

“Six sick people have been hospitalised and two died from their infections. Another person has died but no information about the cause of death was given,” it wrote.

Four products were recalled in the third week of June. This included smoked trout fillets from Vis Marine, Albert Heijn (which is Netherlands’ largest supermarket chain) and two fish items from Bond Seafood. Shelf life dates ranged from June 20 to July 5.

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Salmon farmer Loch Duart and feed manufacturer Cargill have provided £14,400 to fund a new wireless broadband service for households in the Scourie area of Sutherland, where Loch Duart is based.

The money from the companies’ Salmon Pool fund is being given to Scourie Community Development Company (SCDC) for the new service, which will be provided through Highland Wireless.

The Salmon Pool offers funding to charities and projects which benefit local communities in the areas where Loch Duart farms across Sutherland and the Outer Hebrides.

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ICELAND’S determination to be a major player in salmon farming has taken another big step forward with the announcement that the company Fiskeldi Austfjarða hf, which trades under the name Ice Fish Farm, has received provisional clearance to add another 7,000 tonnes of biomass in the east of the country.

The company already has an operating licence for just over 20,000 tonnes at two locations in the region. This latest development will be centred on a small former fishing community known as Stöðvarfjörður, situated 385 miles east of the capital Reykjavik and which has fewer than 200 inhabitants. Since the loss of conventional fishing most of its young people have left for brighter lights so the investment will almost certainly be welcomed as an important economic boost.

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The latest addition to the Austral Fisheries fleet, the new Cape Arkona, is heading around the world for Fremantle in Australia after leaving the Båtgygg yard at Måløy in Norway, with a delivery trip of more than a month ahead.

This unique fishing vessel is designed to be able to switch between three fishing methods in a single trip. While it will fish primarily with longline gear for Patagonian toothfish in the Southern Ocean, Cape Arkona also has capacity to fish with traps and is rigged to trawl for icefish.

The 66.90 metre, 15 metre beam Cape Arkona’s arrangement has been developed between the owners, designers Skipskompetanse and Båtbygg. The hull was built by Marine Projects in Gdansk and brought to Måløy for completion.

Author: Quentin Bates / FiskerForum | Read the full article here

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has released the 2019 Provisions Statistics of organic production in Spain. General data confirms the trend of sustained growth and the consolidation of the organic production sector (agricultural and animal) in Spain, which lead our country to lead the EU.

The big data that Spain manages has little to do with aquaculture, whose organic production in 2019 was 6339.86 tons (which includes fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants). Conventional production in 2018 for all species was 348,395 tons, which shows the meager nature of organic production.

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The Port of Barcelona has inaugurated a new container scanner that incorporates the latest non-intrusive inspection technologies, which streamlines export and import operations that have to carry out an inspection. "Its implementation shows the commitment of the Port and Barcelona Customs with its Port Community since this new unit, in addition to being faster, guarantees more reliability and quality of the scans, improving service in transport companies, logistics operators and terminals involved in the transport of containers ”, explains the Port.

The new scanner is a Rapiscan Eagle® M60 mobile unit, equipped with an extendable arm-mounted X-ray system capable of inspecting containers on trucks and other types of vehicles up to 3.6 meters wide and 5 meters high and without length limit.

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Gathered Foods, the manufacturer of Good Catch plant-based seafood analogs, is launching a new line of frozen seafood entrees and appetizers.

The New York City-based company has rolled out New England Style Plant-Based Crab Cakes, Thai Style Plant-Based Fish Cakes, and Classic Style Plant-Based Fish Burgers in its latest offering. They are available at East Coast retailers and have a suggested retail price of USD 5.99 (EUR 5.29) each. The company is planning to expand distribution throughout the U.S. later this year.

"Ultimately, consumers simply want an enjoyable culinary experience, from ease of preparation to delightful taste," Gathered Foods Co-Founder and CEO Chris Kerr said in a press release. 

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Increasing willingness to price pelagic business.

On Monday this week, SalmonBusiness reported the conglomerate discount for Austevoll discount has increased, meaning that the fishing company was worth less than its Lerøy shares.

In fact, Austevoll Seafood’s large scale fisheries activities at the week’s entrance on the Oslo Stock exchange had a negative value of EUR 200 million.

Although the article did not involve any recommendation, it could form the basis for a so-called long/short-trade, where investors would buy Austevoll and sell Lerøy. It would thus be a market neutral trade, with one betting that the gap in pricing between the two shares is going in – regardless of how the stock exchange generally develops.

Author: Aslak Berge / SalonBusiness | Read the full article here

Global aquaculture consultancy SmartAqua and Australian project delivery company Wiley have teamed up to provide turnkey services for land-based aquaculture, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) project management, processing plant design and construction.

SmartAqua managing director Alastair Smart said: “SmartAqua have worked with Wiley over many years. The rapid expansion into land-based farming and the need for turnkey project management of a land-based facility integrated with processing led to us deciding to formally merge our skillsets.”

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