IFFO’s Members Meeting took place in Miami from the 16th to the 17th of April, gathering 220 delegates from 29 countries, representing the fishmeal and fish oil sector, the aquaculture and nutraceutical industry as well as scientists and certification program representatives.

At a time when the first anchovy season is starting in the North-Centre of Peru, the speakers shared positive expectations for a rebound in fishmeal and fish oil production to take place in 2024 after last year being marked by the El Nino / La Nina phenomenon.

With 20 speakers, the emphasis was very much on market trends and science and how evidence-based considerations can help frame the understanding of the sector and its contribution to the global food system.

“Everything starts with facts and data. These have to be our North star to support informed decision making in a wide range of fields such as fishery management, traceability, mitigation of environmental impacts, enforcement of labor rights” stated Petter Martin Johannessen, IFFO's Director general at the end of the meeting.

STEFANESTI/URK – Fish wholesaler Dayseaday Group from the Van Veen family has opened its new branch in Romania.

The Van Veen family flew to Bucharest on Friday morning together with a delegation of Flynth accountants, a total of 42 people from Urk. We flew back again on Saturday.

At the opening, CEO Jelle van Veen said he was proud of his team and thanked manager Bogdan Manoliu, who is also a co-shareholder of Dayseaday Romania. “We have been able to realize a beautiful factory. The most modern in Romania, with a storage capacity of 2,500 pallets for freezing in two cells and several cold rooms. We also have a freezer for meat storage.”

In 2012, Dayseaday took over the (Dutch) fishing company Oceanis Seafood on the south side of Bucharest. Last year, work began on a new building measuring 100 by 30 meters on the northern ring road. What is new is that fresh packaging (MAP) is now also available for the retail market. The number of employees has grown to thirty. The production area measures 450 square meters. 

Most of the fish at Dayseaday Romania is imported and concerns farmed fish. Runners are sea bass, sea bream, salmon and farmed shrimps. Hake is the most important wild-caught species.

Source: Visserijnieuws (translated from original in Dutch)

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OSTEND - The rising squid has replaced the more traditional fish species as the most landed fish species in Belgium.

The Flanders Statistics network reports this based on figures from the Agriculture & Sea Fisheries Agency. The total fish supply by Flemish sea fisheries fell by 6 percent to 15,921 tons.

Last year, 2,620 tons of squid were landed, 16 percent more than in 2022. Plaice (2,314 tons) and sole (2,260 tons) occupied places two and three. Rays and tub gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna) complete the top five supply. Shrimp and langoustines disappeared from the top ten of supply quantities.

Incidentally, for convenience, squid and cuttlefish appear to have been added together in the Belgian statistics. The leading role is reserved for the cheaper cuttlefish.

Sole is and remains by far the most important fish species for the Belgian trawl fleet, worth 39.4 million euros (44 percent of the total landing value). Last year, squid totaled 10.6 million euros, plaice for 7.3 million euros and monkfish for 5.7 million euros.

Last year, 3,700 tons of squid and 1,100 tons of cuttlefish were landed at the Dutch fish auctions. The plaice supply at the Dutch fish auctions was 12,000 tons.

The Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo) will hold an auction on May 23, 2024 for the sale of a share of the quota for the production of aquatic biological resources in the Western and Far Eastern fishery basins.(In the areas of international treaties of the Russian Federation)

Lots with quotas have been put up for auction again:

• Cod in the Baltic Sea (subarea 26)
• Atlantic red flounder in Subarea 3NO of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) Regulatory Area
• Stingrays in subdistricts 3 LNO NAFO
• Squid-illex in subdistricts 3+4 of the NAFO region
• White burbot in subdistricts 3NO NAFO
• Wea ??bass in the Northeast Atlantic Fisheries Convention (NEAFC) regulatory area
• Lemonemas in a 200-mile zone adjacent to the coast of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

        According to these lots for participation in auctions in 2023-2024. no applications were received. The auction was declared invalid; when repeated, the starting price of the lots was reduced by 10%.

Source: Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo)

On Tuesday, April 16, at the “Our Ocean 2024” Conference held in Greece, the European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevicius, announced the launch of 40 action commitments for 2024, “thus confirming the EU's firm commitment to international ocean governance.” Commitments that will be financed with 3.5 billion euros from various EU funds. This amount is the largest ever announced by the EU since the start of the “Our Ocean” Conferences.

These commitments to action by the EU for a safe, protected, clean, healthy and sustainably managed ocean cover, among other topics, sustainable fishing and aquaculture, marine protected areas, oceans and climate change, sustainable blue economies, marine pollution or maritime safety

Source: iPac.acuculture l Read the full article here

Thailand’s Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) has taken delivery of a new state-of-the-art research vessel designed by Incat Crowther, according to Incat's release.

The Incat Crowther 25, built by Thai shipbuilder Seacrest Marine, will be used by the DMCR to patrol Thailand’s coastal environments and monitor the nation’s fisheries and marine resources.

Based on a proven Incat Crowther design, the 25-metre catamaran has a range of innovative features and equipment to help its crew monitor and protect sensitive coastal areas while having minimal impact on the environment.

Designed to accommodate 12 crew and 16 passengers in six sleeping quarters, the main deck features three of the vessel’s sleeping quarters, five bathrooms, a large mess, an outdoor dining area, galley and a conveniently located storeroom.

The upper deck features an office and operations control room with a day head and an ensuite cabin for the captain. The large wheelhouse has been designed to optimise the captain’s line of sight, while the upper deck also provides storage for a tender and jet ski – both readily available for fast deployment via a strategically positioned crane. The hull deck features three crew cabins.

The Norwegian group Mowi closed the 2023 financial year with a turnover of just over €5,505.7 M (4,940.8 M the previous year) and the farming of 474,664 t of salmon (463,579 t in 2022), growth of 11.4 % and 2.4% that position it as the world's largest producer of salmon, both in turnover and volume. In this last chapter, its global market share reaches 20%. Mowi markets its seafood products in more than 70 countries around the world and has a direct operational presence in 26 of them, employing more than 11,000 people.

The company, in a statement, explains that it has an integrated value chain as a differentiating factor.

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The General Secretariat of Fisheries has summoned the Mediterranean fleet to explain its plan to recover at least 6% of days of fishing activity in the Mediterranean compared to the cut adopted by the Council of Minister of Fisheries last December, within the application of the Multiannual Plan for the Mediterranean. Based on the flexibility measures agreed by the ministers, and after the approval of the European Commission, the General Secretariat for Fisheries proposes mandatory measures, which will allow 5% of fishing days to be recovered for the entire sector, and voluntary measures, which open the door to scratching off an additional 1%.

Source: Industrias Pesqueras l Read the full article here

Australian seafood companies are increasingly targeting the U.K. market following the free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries, which entered into effect 31 May 2023.

The FTA brought an immediate end to tariffs on many Australian seafood exports, resulting in a “significant, positive impact” on most product categories, with savings realized on both importer and supplier sides, according to Ana Nishnianidze, the Australian Trade and Investment Commission’s (Austrade) trade and investment commissioner for the U.K. and Ireland.

Author: Jason Holland / SeafoodSource l Read the full article here