Other Media | SalmonBusiness: 1300 km trip and quarantine: Aquaculture equipment makers work out how to deliver salmon cages to Russia’s closed border
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
When Russia closed its borders because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Norwegian company Helgeland Plast had to rethink how to delivering salmon cages to its neighbours in the east. The solution was for a to team to drive over 1300 kilometres to have the cages put together and then picked up by a Russian tugboat.
“COVID-19 brought with it a great deal of uncertainty about our activities, both on the customer side and the supplier side. All the measures that were implemented, either by the government or the municipalities, changed our surroundings in such a way that we had to create some scenarios of situations that could potentially arise,” said Petter Jørgensen to SalmonBusiness.
Author: Stian Olsen / SalmonBusiness | Read the full articlehere
MOSCOW (Interfax) - Russia has officially accepted the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies.
Russia's representative to the WTO, Nikolai Platonov formally presented the country's instrument of acceptance of the agreement to WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on March 18, the trade body said in a press release.
"I am pleased to receive Russia's instrument of acceptance of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. Russia's formal acceptance demonstrates leadership and commitment to ocean sustainability. It brings this landmark agreement closer to entry into force, and underscores the importance of global cooperation for the benefit of people and planet. I urge the remaining WTO members to also deposit their instruments of acceptance," Okonjo-Iweala said in the press release.
Platonov said the "agreement is essential in terms of preventing and combating unsustainable patterns of marine capture production such as illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, activities in unregulated high seas, as well as in overfished stocks."
"Given that Russia is one of the major sea fishing nations, we hope that our acceptance will also contribute to completion by other members of their domestic procedures so that the treaty can enter into force sooner rather than later. Such a scenario would definitely bring all of us closer to achieving the UN 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals,"Platonov said.
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They will protest the lack of social dialogue and the inclusion of maritime transport in the emissions trading system
The unions of European dockworkers and port workers will demonstrate on April 3 in Brussels against the lack of social dialogue and the inclusion of maritime transport in the emissions trading system, the organization announced in a statement. The protest has been called by the European Dockworkers Council.
The main reason is "the lack of dialogue" in the social dialogue commission and the adoption of measures, such as the European emissions trading system.
Source: La Voz de Galicia l Read the full article here
Anfaco-Cecopesca is present at Alimentaria&Hostelco 2024. From its stand D200, located in pavilion 5, within the institutional space of the Consellería do Mar of the Xunta de Galicia, it will promote canned and processed fisheries and aquaculture with a complete activity program.
The main objective of Anfaco-Cecopesca's presence at the fair is to "promote the marine-industry sector, conveying to attendees the importance and quality of canned and processed fishing and aquaculture products, both for Galicia and Spain. being the main exporters of these products in the European Union", explains the association.
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Until recently, South Korean seafood companies largely relied on international machinery to handle their filleting needs, as no major domestic player had stepped up to the plate on a large scale.
Sensing an opportunity in the domestic market, Chamco Chungha Machinery, a seafood-processing technology manufacturer based out of Busan, rushed to fill that void.
The company collaborated closely with the South Korean government to develop filleting technology for the domestic industry, and has since become a global brand with partner companies in Spain, Japan, Singapore, Poland, and Russia, among others.
Author: Teddy Hans / SeafoodSource l Read the full article here
The construction costs for a 16,000-tonnes-per-year land-based fish farm in Norway have rocketed for the second time in six months.
Gigante Salmon AS, which is developing the flow-through facility, has today been informed of a new increase in the cost forecast which is in the order of NOK 350 million (£25.8m), it said in a stock exchange announcement.
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The catch of Icelandic vessels was 65.4 thousand tonnes in February 2024 which is 56% less than in February 2023.
The pelagic catch was 25 thousand tonnes, 78% less than in February last year. Tthe main explanation for this large difference between years is due to no capelin being landed. Demersal catch was 39 thousand tonnes, 10% increase from February 2023.
In the 12 month period from March 2023 to February 2024 the catch was 1,272 thousand tonnes which is a 1% decrease from the previous 12 month period. Demersal catch got reduced by 11% while pelagic catch increased by 5%.
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Information about catch of fish which are published in this press release are preliminary figures. The data is gathered by the Directorate of Fisheries.
The volume of frozen cuttlefish imported into Korea in February 2024 was 369 tons, an increase of 113% compared to the 173 tons imported in the same period in 2023.
Total import volume is 871 tons, showing a 65% increase from 527 tons in the same period last year, accounting for 0.6% of the total seafood import volume of 158,274 tons.
In February, 475 tonnes, or 55%, of frozen cuttlefish were imported from Vietnam, 147 tonnes, or 17%, from Thailand, 132 tonnes from Indonesia and 51 tonnes from Malaysia.
The import price by country was the highest in Thailand at USD 9.21/kg, followed by Vietnam at USD 5.64/kg and Indonesia at USD 7.60/kg.
The import amount of frozen cuttlefish in February 2024 was USD 2.26 million, a 77% increase compared to USD 1.27 million in the same period of 2023, and the total import amount was USD 5.35 million, a 78% increase compared to USD 3.01 million in the same period of the previous year.
As of February, the average import price was USD 6.15/kg, an 8% increase from USD 5.72/kg in the same period last year.
In February 2024, Vietnam's seafood exports decreased over the same period. However, cumulatively in the first 2 months of the year, seafood exports still increased by 13%, reaching more than 1.2 billion USD. Exports to major markets all increased compared to the same period.
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Author/Source: Nguyen Ha/VASEP (translated from original in Vietnamese)
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