The Ministry of Production of Peru (Produce) has established, through Supreme Decree No. 003-2023-PRODUCE, general provisions to facilitate the development of artisanal fishing, extending the term of validity of fishing permits until the end of year, which will benefit more than 5,000 artisanal fishermen.

The proposal plans to directly benefit more than 900 artisanal fishing vessels, whose operations will be allowed as long as they manage the fishing permit.

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Los productores de salmón en las Islas Feroe se enfrentan a aumentos considerables en su factura de impuestos, se supo ayer.

El piscicultor más grande de las Islas Feroe, Bakkafrost, reveló que el parlamento de las Islas Feroe finalmente aprobó una nueva ley que hará que algunas tasas se dupliquen en el extremo superior. Los detalles del esquema se hicieron públicos a principios de este año.

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Keynote speaker Sir Charles Godfray addresses the industry at the lectern of the 2023 City Food & Drink Lecture declaring: “If we fail on food, we fail on everything.” London Guildhall 15th May 2023.

Sir Charles Godfray, Director of Oxford Martin School urged more than 650 leaders in the food & drink industry to face up to the brutal realities of the “shifting challenges in building a just, healthy and sustainable food and drink system. 

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Recently, the Chamber of Deputies approved the draft resolution to request the President of the Republic to issue a supreme decree establishing that new concessions in marine protected areas for the salmon farming industry and its derivatives will not be renewed or granted.

The initiative was approved with 74 votes in favor, 41 against and 22 total abstentions, and it should be noted that it was presented by the Broad Front committee, as indicated on the occasion.

Author: Jonathan Garcés / SalmonExpert | Read the full article here

On May 11, Chinese Commerce Ministers Wang Wentao and Ecuadorian Julio José Prado signed the China-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement via videoconference on behalf of their respective governments. This free trade agreement is the 20th China has signed with other countries and makes Ecuador China's 27th FTA partner and China's fourth FTA partner in Latin America after Chile, Peru and Costa Rica.

In 2022, trade between China and Ecuador reached $13.1 billion, up 19.7% from the previous year and showing double-digit growth for two consecutive years. China has become the second largest trading partner of Ecuador, which is an important economic and trade partner of China in Latin America, importing agricultural, fisheries, energy and mining products, as well as being an important partner in the Belt and Road Initiative. 

The signing of a free trade agreement between China and Ecuador is a concrete measure to implement "promoting a high level of opening up to the outside world" as proposed by the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This agreement expands the network of high-level free trade zones for both countries.

The professional social network for farmers and rural entrepreneurs Agrobook, citing an interview with Oleg Pavlov, chairman of the Public Consumer Initiative, to Veterinary and Life, a departmental publication of the Rosselkhoznadzor, reports that a black list of food manufacturers is being created in Russia.

According to Pavlov, the non-profit association sent a proposal to compile an open list of counterfeit manufacturers to the Rosselkhoznadzor, Rospotrebnadzor and the Ministry of Industry and Trade - and received support everywhere. The work on the black list is nearing completion. It will be made public soon.

To be blacklisted, it is enough for a food industry enterprise to come to the attention of the Rosselkhoznadzor or Rospotrebnadzor twice as a manufacturer of a counterfeit product. First of all, retailers and food buyers for social institutions under the state order will be able to use the list.

Source: InfoRetail.ru

The 11th session of the Russian-Iranian Commission on Fisheries started its work in Astrakhan. The Russian delegation is headed by Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Fishery Vasily Sokolov, the Iranian delegation is headed by Deputy Minister of Agricultural Jihad (Development) of Iran - Head of the Iranian Fisheries Organization Seyyed Hossein Hosseini. 

The session was attended by representatives of the Government of the Russian Federation, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Federal Agency for Fisheries, Rosselkhoznadzor, Astrakhan State Technical University, VNIRO, Glavrybvod and Russian business.

As Vasily Sokolov noted, Iran and Russia have a long history of fruitful cooperation, the most important part of the interaction is the conservation and rational use of the resources of the Caspian Sea.

Portugal’s ministry of agriculture and food on Wednesday assured that it is training professionals in fisheries, but that “only 43% said they are now in employment,” after ship owners in the western Algarve complained about the lack of training.

In a written response to questions from Lusa, the ministry said that the Centre for Professional Training in Fisheries and the Sea (For-Mar), between 2018 and 2022 “trained 2,727 people in introductory courses in the career of fishing (“Sea Fishermen and Anglers”)”.

According to the ministry, “six months after the end of the courses, former trainees of the sea fishermen and anglers courses were surveyed in order to know, among other things, if they had found work in the fishing sector,” and, “according to the responses obtained,” “only 43% said they were working in the sector, which shows that the sector cannot absorb a good part of the former trainees”.

CANBERRA (Xinhua) -- Australian authorities have identified a large area in the Indian Ocean where they will focus the search for a capsized Chinese fishing vessel.

A spokesperson for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) told Xinhua on Thursday that, based on drift modeling, a remote 12,000 square km zone has been identified to search for the vessel.

A Chinese deep-sea fishing vessel capsized on Tuesday in the central Indian Ocean, which has so far left 39 people on board missing, including 17 Chinese mariners, 17 Indonesian mariners and five Philippine mariners.

China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Transport, and Shandong Province have activated emergency response mechanisms to organize the rescue work. On-site rescue is underway.

In Triton, a fish plant that would normally be well into its fifth or sixth week processing crab sits silent, while its 120 employees — like hundreds of others across Newfoundland and Labrador — wait for the snow crab season to start.

Plant worker Rita Lush said this year is the hardest workers have ever had in the four-plus decades she's worked at the Ocean Choice International facility.

"Our plant workers are suffering," said an emotional Lush on Wednesday, gathered with several co-workers outside the plant. "We're all worried about each other.… We're a family, and someone needs to do something for us. Our community is suffering."

Fellow plant worker Doretta Strickland — also the local plant union president and a vice-president of the Fish, Food & Allied Workers union — said the workers need help. Employment insurance is running out for many, she said, and that's affected the broader community, with people saving their money rather than spending in the community.

"It's serious stuff when you don't know if you're going to have enough money now in the days to come for EI," she said. "Everybody's EI cutting off. Every week it's someone different. And our community's not going to survive."

Like Lush, Yvonne Short has worked at the plant since it opened — and if the machines don't start running soon, she said, she doesn't know what she'll do.

Source: CBC