TEHRAN - The value of Iran’s fishery export has risen 35 percent in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-December 21, 2022), compared to the same period of time in the past year, according to the secretary of the Aquatics Production and Trade Union of Iran.

According to Ali-Akbar Khodaei, the nine-month fishery export was also 20 percent more than the last year’s figure in terms of weight, IRIB reported.

The official put the total fishery exports in the previous year at 151,000 tons.

Iran’s caviar export, however, has decreased significantly due to the lack of demand in global markets, Khodaei said.

Iranian caviar is mainly exported to European countries, and Arab neighbors including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, and Oman.

Source: EF/MA | tehrantimes

The price of a McDonald's Fillet-O-Fish has raised as much as 23.4 per cent since last year, according to calculations by Stomper Shy Apple.

This is much more than Singapore's core inflation of 5.1 per cent and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) increase from 7 to 8 per cent at the beginning of the year.

"For example, now the Fillet-O-Fish is $3.95 and Double Fillet-O-Fish is $6.70. The Fillet-O-Fish Meal is $6.40 and Double Fillet-O-Fish meal $8.60 with upsizing priced at $1."

In response to a Stomp query, McDonald’s Restaurants Communications Director Linda Ming said: "McDonald’s shares the public’s concerns about rising food prices. Like all retailers, McDonald’s faces rising business costs due to increasing operating costs and inflation.

"While price adjustments may be necessary, our pricing remains competitive and we balance that by offering value on our customers’ favourite menu items, for instance, through value specials on McDonald’ app."

Source: stomp.straitstimes

URK/ANTWERP - A container with 20 tons of black tiger shrimp from the Urker fish importer Dayseaday stolen in Belgium was found in Breda a day and a half later. Several dozen boxes had disappeared. The boxes were printed with Dayseaday. 

Dayseaday director Jelle van Veen sounded the alarm on Wednesday afternoon 25 January. The 'fresh water' farmed shrimps came from Bangladesh and were unloaded in Antwerp.

The driver had uncoupled and left the chassis with container outside the city on Tuesday evening, but when a colleague from the Flemish transport company arrived from Ghent, everything had disappeared. All together, the container represented a value of 180,000 euros.

Fortunately, the quality of the shrimps recovered was still good, according to Van Veen. The shrimps were destined for the British market.

Source: visserijnieuws.nl(translated from original in Dutch)

The Directorate of Fisheries has ordered NorCod to slaughter two cages at a location in Frosvika in Meløy municipality, following the discovery of sexually mature cod in the facility.

In connection with an order to carry out an assessment of the degree of maturity of the cod at NorCod's location in Frosvika, fish that are in the process of developing into spawning fish were found in several cages.

The Directorate of Fisheries has therefore given the company an order to slaughter two out of five cages within four weeks. At the same time, further control and reporting of maturation in the remaining three cages is required.

"We are following the matter closely, and will impose further culling if the situation worsens."

Source: Fiskeridirektoratet /Directorate of Fisheries (translated from original in norwegian)

After the successful completion of sea trials of the trawler "Dmitry Kozharsky", PJSC "Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant" and JSC "Atlantrybflot" signed an acceptance certificate on the transfer of the trawler-processor. 

"Dmitry Kozharsky", a KMT02.02 project trawler, was built as part of the state program of investment quotas for the renewal of the domestic fishing fleet.

"Dmitry Kozharsky" is designed for catching bottom fish species. On board there is equipment with a planned capacity of catching and round-the-clock freezing up to 105 tons of fish per day, the production of canned cod liver up to 4000 cans per day, fishmeal up to 7.9 tons per day, as well as combined holds for marine products with a capacity of up to 2375 cubic meters . m.

The ship "Dmitry Kozharsky" was laid down at the VSS on November 1, 2018 as part of the first stage of investment quotas for Atlantrybflot JSC (part of the FOR group).

The main characteristics of the vessel:

• length - 80.4 m,
• width - 15.4 m,
• draft - 6.51 m,
• displacement - 5563 tons,
• gross tonnage - 3755.

Source: fish.gov.ru

This method is used by the freezer tuna seiners of the community fleet, made up of 46 vessels

The European fishing association, Europêche, has launched a cry of alarm at the future that awaits the tuna fleet after the last special session held by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) in Kenya between the 3rd and 5th of February. As explained by the group, eleven States -among which it cites Somalia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Madagascar, India, Iran and Australia- all of them contracting parties that have put a stop to "important management and conservation measures", have joined forces to prevent the use of fish aggregating devices (FADs), known as objects, in tuna fishing, a method used by the freezer tuna seiners of the Community fleet, made up of 46 vessels, including several Spanish or Spanish-owned vessels.

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The Seafood Algternative project is developing algae-based fish substitutes with support from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund. As reported by DG-Mare, the project team has been working since 2021 to convert the colours, flavors and textures of algae into an alternative to animal protein. The scope of application in this case is very wide; in fact, they have managed to produce everything from alternatives to smoked salmon and canned tuna, to taramosalata, a typical dish from Greece and Turkey whose main element is fish roe.

One of the successes of the project lies in the perfect combination between the algae and the finished products. This initiative "is definitely part of the 'algae revolution'," says DG-Mare.

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New School Foods, which makes a plant-based salmon alternative, has raised $12 million in seed funding to expand its team of food scientists, scale up the “scaffolding” technology it uses to create the product, and build out a research and pilot production facility.

The Toronto-based company hopes to have its product in restaurants next year.

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Norway exported NOK 12.7 billion worth of seafood in January, up by 23% on the year, largely helped by the price growth in exports.
January was the seventeenth month in a row with seafood exports exceeding NOK 10 billion.

Price growth is the most important reason why January was another record month for seafood exports. The export prices for salmon, cod, trout, pollock and herring were significantly higher than in January 2022

Source: Worldfishing l Read the fulla article here

This week, the registered quantity picked up somewhat from last week and more than 18,000 tonnes of NVG herring have been registered in the journal. The best registration day was Monday with 8,800 tonnes. Of the week’s quantity, purse seine accounted for 4,500 tonnes trawl 10,000 tonnes and coastal 2,500 tonnes.

Fishing in the north has also taken place this week both at sea, west of Senja, and inside Kvænangen.

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