Seafood giant Thai Union has become the first Asian producer to win Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification for one of its feed plants.
The single-site certification for Thai Union’s Mahachai Plant, located in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province just west of Bangkok, is the first ASC Feed Standard certification in Asia. The feed mill produces feed for seabass, seabream and meagre, tilapia and shrimp.
In order to achieve certification, Thai Union undertook a rigorous audit process over several months. The conclusion of the audit established that their processes and performances meet the ASC Feed Standard’s robust environmental and social requirements.
PESHAWAR: Omar Hayat Khan, an expert on the fisheries and aquaculture, has called for conducting a study to achieve the goals of sustainable fisheries and improve an effective governance tool.
Talking to this scribe, he said that this study should examine the qualitatively the costs and benefits of alternative module of transparency, including hypothetical fully transparent system.
It should also highlight how potential costs and benefits of greater transparency depend on both governance context and management goals and identify opportunities for further research to address key information gaps in the sub sector of fisheries management.
He said that fisheries and aquaculture sub-sector of agriculture have been progressing in improving its management but face challenges to sustainability including depletion of its fish stock in the natural water bodies due to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
The main issue is that fisheries staff cannot monitor who is fishing or where fishing is occurring; their scope for management interventions is limited.
This lack of transparency in spatial fishing activity is considered a key enabler of illegal fishing and over-fishing and hinders proper management of the natural resource. To increase transparency in location tracking is gaining momentum as a promising way to improve the management of fisheries resources.[...]
As a result of the work of previous meetings with the ANP during its visits to Vigo in recent years, the Memorandum of Understanding is signed between the National Ports Administration (ANP) of Uruguay and ARVI.
The signature by the respective highest representatives of both institutions, Dr. Juan Curbelo del Bosco as President of the ANP, and Mr. Javier Touza Touza as President of ARVI, will provide an instrument that enhances the already fluid bilateral relations. between both institutions.
In the signed MoU, which ARVI considers very positive, both parties recognize the importance of strengthening the relationship and working together to achieve common objectives, focused on the pillars of work that allow establishing a strategic partnership, to promote joint development in areas related to the operations of the fishing fleet assigned to ARVI, both Spanish flag and other flags, in all matters of port logistics, administrative procedures derived from the first, structural support for the care and maintenance of fishing vessels, etc.
Both parties will thus strengthen and keep permanently open a channel of dialogue from the ANP in Spain for issues related to the ARVI fleet.
Furthermore, to the extent of its possibilities, ARVI will facilitate, when required by the ANP, dialogue with regional, state and community authorities on matters of interest to the ANP or to both parties.
Many fisheries are rushing to develop alternative sales channels to China.
Genshoei Kitanihon Fishery Co., an Ofunato-based company engaged in land-based cultivation of abalone (pictured), had exported mainly to Hong Kong but has begun to expand sales in Southeast Asia, including Singapore.
Shota Furukawa, a sales manager for Genshoei Kitanihon Fishery Co., The Yomiuri Shimbun -->
The company, whose selling point is its high-quality abalone cultivated in clean, filtered seawater and fed with homemade food which humans can also eat, has begun shipping samples to local wholesalers in Southeast Asia.
Shota Furukawa, 28, a sales manager for the company, said,“If we can communicate the process of our aquaculture to them, they will understand the safety of our products. We hope to expand our sales to Europe and North America someday.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has evaluated the treated water release into the sea as consistent with international safety standards.
In tests of water quality from samples collected off the coast of Fukushima, there have been no cases where the concentration of radioactive materials exceeded the standard. The government has been requesting China withdraw its import ban, as it is not based on scientific evidence. But there have so far been no signs of China complying with the request.[...]
Norwegian and Chilean aquaculture suppliers link up
Fluctus enters into a commercial agreement with ITG.
Salmon farming equipment supplier Fluctus has signed a commercial agreement with Chilean company ITG for the sale of the company’s products in Chile. Fluctus will also be able to sell ITG’s products on the Norwegian market.
“We are experiencing a great deal of interest in our products, especially water feeding, from Chilean producers,” said Fluctus chief executive Harald Lien.
“ITG is a company with good experience and solid relationships in the market. They have more than 20 years of experience delivering technology and service to the industry, both nationally and internationally, and we are sure that they will represent our products in a good way.
“They provide us with the local expertise and proximity needed to provide customers with the best solutions. At the same time, ITG have an interesting product portfolio of cameras, sensors and nanobubble oxygenation that will be available to our customers in Norway.”
Source: FLUCTUS (translated from origina in Norwegian)
After the escape from Lerøy Midt Sjø AS's site Naustneset on 27 February, we expanded the area for recapture fishing in consultation with the State Administrator. Tips and messages have now been received about illegal fishing in the area.
There have been tips and reports about illegal fishing, and the responsible authorities are following up on the situation.
We emphasize the importance of familiarizing yourself with the rules for sinking nets, and special estuary protection areas in connection with rivers and other freshwater outlets.
Up to early Friday 8 March, the company has reported a re-catch of 2,381 salmon, including the company's own re-catch and fish handed in by other fishermen.
Let us know if you catch salmon
We want the public to tip us off about catching salmon in the area.
Planned investment programmes in the aquaculture industry worth NOK 30.8 billion (£2.2 bn) have still not been started since the introduction of the salmon tax.
That is the conclusion of a survey carried out by NHHS Consulting on behalf of the employer organisation Seafood Norway (Sjømat Norge).
Seafood Norway says the report shows that the situation is pretty much unchanged one year after the salmon tax was introduced, and that frustration around the tax is still just as great.
Author: Vince McDonagh / FishFarmer | read the full articlehere
The U.S. seafood category as a whole experienced harsh inflationary pressure in 2023 that pushed consumers toward alternatives like chicken, pork, and beef.
Data from consumer behavior analysis firm Circana showed that for the full 52 weeks of 2023, across fresh and frozen finfish and shellfish, almost all major seafood species experienced a slump in sales. Sales of frozen shrimp declined 8 percent by value in 2023, while frozen pollock sales declined 3.2 percent by value, fresh cod dropped 10.4 percent, and fresh shrimp dropped 12.7 percent in value year over year.
Author: Chris Chase / SeafoodSource | read the full article here
The Xunta de Galicia will present allegations to the draft Royal Decree that regulates the production of electrical energy in facilities located at sea, presented last February by the central Government. This was announced by the acting Minister of Economy, Industry and Innovation, María Jesús Lorenzana, who, accompanied by the acting Minister of the Sea, Alfonso Villares, chaired the meeting of the Offshore Wind Observatory convened with the purpose of collecting suggestions from the sectors. involved. The Xunta wants to gather opinions from interested parties to adopt “an unequivocal position.”
Source: IndustriasPesqueras | Read the full articlehere
The National Federation of Fishermen's Guilds, FNCP, launches the “ANCLA” Plan, a National Action Plan in Guilds for the visibility and strengthening of the role of women in the fishing sector, with the aim of carrying out a diagnosis, recommendations of good practices and priority actions to increase the visibility and valorization of the role of women in Fishermen's Guilds and Federations at the national level, identifying the challenges, needs and inequalities faced by women in the fishing sector and determining strategies to address and overcome these obstacles and challenges.
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