On March 15 and 17, the fifth meeting of the Network of Institutions will be held at the headquarters of the "José Benito Vives de Andreis" Institute of Marine and Coastal Research (INVEMAR), in the city of Santa Marta, Colombia. Fisheries and Aquaculture Research Networks of the Pacific Alliance (IIPA-AP Network).
The IIPA Network was born in 2017 in the context of the Work Plan established that year by the Ad hoc group on Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Pacific Alliance whose creation was agreed at the XI Summit of the Pacific Alliance in July 2016, with the objective of building a joint marketing strategy for fishery products of the Pacific Alliance.
The network is made up of the Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP) of Chile, the National Institute of Fisheries (INAPESCA) of Mexico, the Institute of the Sea of Peru (IMARPE) and INVEMAR in Colombia. INIDEP (Argentina), SCIRO (Australia) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have also participated as observer institutions.
The objective of this meeting, organized jointly between IFOP and INVEMAR, is to prepare a Work Plan for the period 2023-2024, based on the priority issues defined by the institutions in a previous meeting (2022), which include: Ecosystem Approach, Climate Change and Biodiversity, among others.
The large Chilean salmon company Nova Austral has admitted it is in debt default after grappling with various financial problems.
So far, a plea for patience from bondholders has met with a cool response.
Although the company is based in Chile, its bonds are listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Nova Austral said in a Stock Exchange announcement at the weekend that it is facing operational challenges and liquidity constraints.
Author: Vince McDonagh / FishFarmer | Read the full articlehere
In addition to the EU Action Plan for fishing, the deployment of offshore wind power contemplated in the Maritime Space Management Plans (POEM) was another of the issues addressed in the last plenary session of the Galician Fisheries Council.
The Minister of the Sea, Rosa Quintana, regretted that this planning "lacks" in its design the "necessary dialogue with the autonomous communities and the sectors involved" and that it does not properly guarantee, as she explained, the compatibility of the implementation of this industry with the fishing activity and the preservation of the ecosystem.
Source: Industrias Pesqueras | Read the full article here
Winners of the product competition to be announced at Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America
The 11 finalists for the 2023 Seafood Excellence Awards, the prestigious Best New Products competition at Seafood Expo North America, have been announced. Winners of the competition will be revealed on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at 3:30pm in the Demonstration Theater during Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America. The three-day Expo takes place March 12-14, 2023, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, USA.
The Choice Group and Ocean Beauty are among the bevy of seafood companies launching products at Seafood Expo North America, scheduled to take place 12 to 14 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
After success with its frozen Seafood Boil bags, launched last year, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A.-based Choice Group’s Tastee Choice brand is featuring two new seafood boil bags – Clam Bake and Crawfish Boil – along with Breaded Butterfly and Coconut Butterfly Shrimp in SENA’s New Items display case and at Booth #1549 at Seafood Expo North America.
Author: Christine Blank / SeafoodSource | read the full article here
Around 1:30 pm on the 5th, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force reported to the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters (Naha) that a fishing boat had capsized in the waters near the Senkaku Islands. According to the Japan Coast Guard, seven people, one Taiwanese and six Indonesians, are believed to have been on board, but none of them have been found.
The site is about 150 kilometers north of Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture and about 40 kilometers east of Kuba Island in the Senkaku Islands. The Japan Coast Guard is searching the area with four patrol boats.
Ishinomaki market 7% higher unit price, large ratio of large size
The catch of farmed coho salmon was the highest in the prefecture. [Miyagi] In Miyagi Prefecture, the first catch of farmed coho salmon this season was held at Ishinomaki Market (Ishinomaki City) on the 3rd. The quantity was about 7 tons, down 12% from the first catch of the previous year.
The long-awaited listing of Okinawan coho salmon was a celebration, and the average unit price rose 7% to 1,098 yen per kilogram. This is the first catch in the prefecture, about 10 days earlier than usual. The market's first catch last year was March 18.
Source: Minato-Yamaguchi (only available in Japanese)
Uvesco continues to promote local food and welcomes the first anchovies of the 2023 campaign, coming from the ports of Santoña and Hondarribia, which are already in the fishmongers of BM Supermercados.
With these first specimens, captured at dawn and highly valued for their high quality, this year's campaign begins. In total, between yesterday and today, Friday, more than 2,500 kilos have been distributed in all BM fishmongers, which add up to nearly 250 sections served.
The BM fishmongers model also allows us to bet on sustainability, by working directly with Cantabrian ports and fish from our coasts, and on excellence in service, with attended fishmongers that allow the customer to have the product they want at all times.
By February 2023, fishery products imported from Japan were 4,772 tons, an increase of 9% from 4,397 tons in the same period of the previous year.
The major imported fish from Japan are live scallops, live red sea bream, live yellowtail, fresh pollack and frozen ribbonfish in the order.
The import volume of live scallops, live sea skate, fresh pollock and frozen oilfish increased, while the import volume of live yellowtail decreased.
The average unit price of imports by major fish ; live scallops were USD 4.55/kg, live red seabream USD 8.26/kg, and live yellowtail USD 11.92/kg, fresh Pollack at USD 2.9/Kg
Land in Shetland, a joint campaign by Lerwick Port Authority and Shetland Islands Council to encourage more skippers to land their catches in the isles’ fish markets, has launched the first in a series of promotional videos along with a dedicated website.
At this time of high fuel prices, there are clearly significant cost and carbon footprint savings to be made from landing in Shetland.
New state-of-the-art fish markets in Lerwick and Scalloway have substantially increased daily landing capacity and the modern infrastructure, including its efficient chilling, ensures best quality of produce is maintained.
More than half of all the fish landed in the UK comes from within 100 nautical miles of Shetland, and with such first-class facilities and support services available, it makes clear sense to land in Shetland.
The videos, featuring fishing skippers and port and industry representatives, highlight the benefits to boats:
Time and money saved from reduced steaming to fishing grounds
Electronic auction with prices as good as if not better than markets elsewhere in Scotland
Easy berthing and fast, efficient landing into chilled markets
Ready availability of support services such as ice, boxes, engineering
Historical milestone. What the global agreement for the ocean is about Argentina
An agreement was reached so that the Altamar, the areas outside national jurisdictions, are from the enactment of a law, Protected Marine Areas. They cover 43% of the surface of the terrestrial globe
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On March 15 and 17, the fifth meeting of the Network of Institutions will be held at the headquarters of the "José Benito Vives de Andreis" Institute of Marine and Coastal Research (INVEMAR), in the city of Santa Marta, Colombia. Fisheries and Aquaculture Research Networks of the Pacific Alliance (IIPA-AP Network).
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With these first specimens, captured at dawn and highly valued for their high quality, this year's campaign begins. In total, between yesterday and today, Friday, more than 2,500 kilos have been distributed in all BM fishmongers, which add up to nearly 250 sections served.
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