At Tuesday's parliamentary session, Mark Spencer, the Minister for Food, Farming, and Fisheries, introduced draft regulations aimed at amending the Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) regulations for 2024.
During the session, Spencer highlighted the importance of the UK’s membership in ICCAT and its commitment to sustainable management of tuna and tuna-like species in the Atlantic Ocean. He emphasized the need for the UK to implement and enforce binding measures agreed upon by ICCAT members to ensure sustainable fishing practices.
The proposed amendments include various changes to existing regulations to align with ICCAT recommendations and reflect the UK’s status as an independent coastal state. For instance, provisions related to the farming of bluefin tuna, which are not relevant to the UK, have been removed from the regulations.
Additionally, amendments aim to update regulations regarding the import and export of swordfish and bigeye tuna to comply with ICCAT requirements. The use of an electronic catch documentation system for bluefin tuna is also mandated to enhance traceability and enforceability of regulations.[...]
Taipei - Taiwan and Japan will hold their latest round of meetings regarding resolving fishing disputes from Thursday to Sunday in Taipei.
The 10th meeting of the Taiwan-Japan Fishery Committee will discuss and potentially update fishing regulations to help resolve frequent disputes between Taiwanese and Japanese fishers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said in a press release.
Such issues tend to arise due to the overlapping of both countries' exclusive economic zones (EEZ) in the East China Sea, the release added.
This year's meeting will again be convened by the Taiwan-Japan Relations Association, a MOFA-related organization that manages Japan's affairs in Taiwan, and the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association, the de-facto Japanese embassy in Taiwan in the absence of diplomatic ties.
MOFA did not specify who would be in attendance, but normally officials from both countries' fisheries agencies and coast guards are present.
The Taiwan-Japan Fishery Committee was founded following the signing of the Taiwan-Japan Fisheries Agreement on April 10, 2013 to help resolve fishing-related disputes in the East China Sea.
The committee has met nine times overall, with Tokyo and Taipei taking turns to host.
Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) is pleased to announce further uptake of its pioneering Feed Standard, with Thai Union achieving ASC Feed Standard certification for its Mahachai Plant in Thailand.
Thai Union joins the elite leading group of ASC certified feed companies. The single-site certification for their 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.
Well over a hundred million salmon and trout died prematurely from various causes in Norwegian fish farms last year, the country’s Veterinary Institute says in its annual fish health report.
Infectious diseases and injuries were behind a majority of the deaths, accounting for around 70% of the total but other important factors were involved.
The Institute publishes an annual report every March looking back at the previous year, and the figure this time is a marked increase on the 2022 total.
Author: Vince McDonagh / FishFarmer | Read the full articlehere
Fernando Villarroel is an Auditor Accountant with a degree in Management Control from the Austral University, proudly native to the Los Lagos Region, and knows local salmon farming very well, since he began working in the industry during 1998, always in related positions. to administration and finance in companies such as Cermaq and in producing countries as varied as Scotland, Canada, Norway, until reaching Mowi Chile where he has been general manager for seven years.
Delft, The Netherlands-based Veramaris has received full market authorization in Canada to include its algal oil in salmonid feed.
Veramaris announced on 11 March it secured the authorization after a three-year registration process, opening the market to its algal oil for the first time. Veramaris CEO Gertjan de Koning told SeafoodSource during Seafood Expo North America – which ran from 10 to 12 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – that the registration was the final step in getting its product to market.
Author: Chris Chase / SeafoodSource | Read the full articlehere
The European Parliament once again wants to put an end to “greenwashing” and any commercial claims of an environmental nature that are not verified on the labeling of products, including food. With 467 votes in favor, 65 against and 74 abstentions, the European Parliament has adopted its position on the establishment of the community directive that proposes the creation of a system of verification and prior approval of environmental marketing statements, with the aim of "protecting citizens from misleading advertisements.” The text has been approved in first reading, and will return to the Plenary after the June elections.
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Fishing a quota species without being a quota holder is prohibited by the Federal Fisheries Law and is considered a very serious offense.
The Tai An vessel does not have a quota for toothfish; Therefore, it can only incidentally capture up to 5 tons per trip, as established by Resolution 9/2023 of the Federal Fisheries Council.
However, this ship was operating in the toothfish distribution area, where wells with depths greater than a thousand meters are located, on March 2 and 6. It is suspected that such a large volume could not be loaded in just two days, so the cargo could be made up of 142 tons with a significant proportion of juvenile specimens, which would further aggravate the ship's situation.
The toothfish is a species that is protected internationally due to its limited availability and very high vulnerability. Therefore, illegal fishing anywhere in the world can be punished by certifying organizations and even by the market.
The fact is of unusual gravity: the Tai An ship has not only stolen 142 tons of toothfish from the Argentine Sea, worth three and a half million dollars, but has also endangered the sustainability of the resource. Given this situation, the only thing the Undersecretary of Fisheries did was tell the boat to leave the distribution area of this species, allowing it to continue fishing in other areas.
“It's what I can do,”Juan Antonio López Cazorla told the businessmen who complained about his inaction.[...]
Source: Revista Puerto (Translated from original in Spanish)
The Corsican scientific platform has obtained seven juveniles old enough to be released at sea. It has reached an additional stage of mastery of crustacean reproduction.
The Stella Mare scientific platform (University of Corsica – CNRS) has experienced several successes in its work on the reproduction of various species since its creation in 2011. Corsican scientists have thus been able, for several years, to provide shellfish farmers with Diana pond of flat oyster spats or even juvenile Corb to local aquaculture for experimental purposes. The most resounding result concerns the red lobster, because Stella Mare is only the second laboratory in the world to succeed in controlling its reproduction.
"Red lobster farming is unique compared to other species: it takes a very long time, with larvae that are very fragile in terms of health. It requires being constantly at their bedside,” insists Jean-José Philippi, aquaculture manager at Stella Mare. The very first juveniles date back to 2021. A year later, when stage 2 larvae are obtained, the survival rate has increased from 3 to 33%. Since November 2023, the scientific platform has had seven juveniles aged eleven months, a stage where they could be released at sea. If the goal of this work is ecological restoration, there is still a way to go.
A research team from the Andalusian Institute for Agricultural, Fisheries, Food and Organic Production Research and Training (Ifapa) El Toruño, located in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), and the University of Seville has designed a system to cultivate salicornia rich in antioxidants and other compounds beneficial to health with aquaculture waste.
This is the first time that a closed circuit has been developed in which the feces and remains of food from the breeding of bass and sole in tanks are used in other facilities as fertilizer for a green and fleshy plant such as salicornia ramosissima, which has indicated the Discover Foundation in a note.
Ifapa El Toruño investigative team.- FUNDACIÓN DESCUBRE
The novelty of the study lies in the design of a closed circuit where nitrates, a potentially polluting element, can be used from the water discarded from fish farming. However, with the researchers' proposal, the discharge is used directly as fertilizer for salicornia plants, which generate value-added compounds for the gastronomic and pharmaceutical industries.
With this integrated system that promotes the joint production of fish and plants, aquaculture waste can be used and its possible environmental impact reduced," Ifapa researcher Marta Castilla explained to the Discover Foundation.[... ]
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