New EU water quality measures. New measures to enhance the EU’s water resilience and improve water quality and quantity will soon come into effect.
The Commission adopted today two new measures to enhance the EU’s water resilience and to improve water quality and quantity throughout the continent.They include a standard methodology to measure the presence of microplastics in water
Scottish Sea Farms has taken delivery of the first batch of “green” eggs at the new £2m incubation unit at the company’s Barcaldine Hatchery.
The move is part of a strategy aimed at making the company’s operations more self-reliant in terms of ova supply, and less dependent on imported eggs.
The eggs, which were fertilised on-site in a first for the company, are doing well so far, according to Scottish Sea Farms’ Head of Freshwater Rory Conn.
This week, the Alimentaria Barcelona Fair begins at the Fira Barcelona venue. From today, March 18, until next Thursday, the 21st, companies exhibit their products from the food sector from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The Galician Sea and Rural Departments participate in the event with around 50 co-exhibitors from companies involved in the canning and processing of products made with fish and seafood and the agri-food sector. They will also organize activities to promote Galician products.
The Consellería do Mar participates with its own space, which occupies nearly 500 m2 of exhibition area divided into three areas for co-exhibiting companies and an area for kitchen, rest and business center.
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There are only 2 months left before the start of SEAFOOD EXPO EURASIA that will present visitors a wide range of modern solutions for catching, aquaculture, processing, shipbuilding and other areas that are closely related to the fishery industry. Let’s see the latest updates on equipment and aquaculture sections in our new overview.
IWILL Co. Ltd is Korean company that produces fishing gear since 2002 and also specializes in developing Knotless Eye Splice and auto long line ropes. The company will demonstrate wide range of deep-sea trawls, including pelagic, semi-pelagic, bottom trawls, as well as codends, fishing nets, ropes, twines and other fishing gears.
MAT-KULING from Norway specializes in designing and supplying RAS equipment for both sea and freshwater aquaculture farms. It will showcase equipment tailored to support the entire lifecycle of aquatic farm animals, from larvae hatcheries to grow-out tank RAS filtration systems. Representatives of the company will also share their vast experience in applying these solutions in different regions.
One more Norwegian company Steen-Hansen is one of the leaders on manufacturing and marketing of antifouling for aquaculture nets. The company has representation in the Turkish and Mediterranean
aquaculture market but is looking to expand its presence in this reg
The following is an excerpt from an article published by The Guardian:
Negligence, physical and verbal abuse are common in unregulated industry. Now labor groups and government officials are trying to crack down
Labor groups and government officials are pushing to rein in rampant abuses of workers in the fishing industry, where migrant laborers are frequently subjected to slavery and violence from employers.
One out of every five fish is caught through illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in conditions where abuses of workers are common, according to a United Nations estimate. About 128,000 workers are thought to be currently trapped in forced labor on remote fishing vessels around the world, according to the International Labour Organization.
Child labor or forced labor has been documented in the production of fish, dried fish, shellfish and shrimp in 20 countries, according to the US Department of Labor.
In one case, a worker was blinded in one eye after a fishing line snapped. He said the ship’s captain forced him to carry on working instead of seeking medical help.
Thea Lee, the deputy secretary for international labor affairs at the US Department of Labor, told the Guardian the government agency was pushing to close enforcement gaps, promote guidance for marine authorities and inspectors to look for labor violations, and utilize the purchasing power of the US government to push for changes in seafood supply chains. [...]
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The Pacific cod season in Kodiak closed last week for fishermen using pot gear in waters managed by the state.
The guide harvest level for gear users was approximately 2.84 million pounds (approx.1,300MT) and the season lasted a little longer than usual, from February 16 to early March.
A total of 15 boats were registered to fish for Pacific cod with pots. The 7 ships were expected to that measured more than 58 feet long aprox.17,67m) finished emptying their pots on March 4 before midnight. Was expected that the eight vessels under 58 feet would end their season at noon on March 5.
Foto: NOAA
Pots were allowed to be in the water and open, but without bait, at a depth greater than 25 fathoms, or 150 feet (aprox.46m), until March 12. Now, any open pot in Kodiak waters must be less than 150 feet deep.
Anglers using hooks still have most of their limit available to catch: about 2.7 million pounds (approx.1200MT) in state waters. There are 19 vessels registered to use Pacific cod fishing gear and 11 have reported landings to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game
The volume of frozen herring imported into Korea in February 2024 was 5,915 tons, an increase of 72% compared to 3,446 tons in the same period last year.
The total import volume was 7,892 tonnes, a decrease of 4% compared to 8,180 tonnes in the same period in 2023, representing 5% of the total seafood import volume of 158,724 tonnes.
In February, 7,842 tonnes, or 99.4%, of frozen herring were imported from Russia, with the remaining 50 tonnes imported from Myanmar.
The import price of frozen herring by country was 0.90 USD/kg for that of Russian origin and 0.68 USD/kg for that of Myanmar. The average import price was US$0.90/kg, an increase of 14% from US$0.79/kg in the same period last year.
As of February, the imported amount was USD 7.1 million, an increase of 10% compared to USD 6.46 million in the same period of 2023.
Myanmar virtually hosted the First Meeting of the BIMSTEC Expert Group on Fisheries and Livestock yesterday.
Representatives of BIMSTEC member states such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and from the BIMSTEC Secretary-General Office, Directors-General of affiliated departments of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation and other relevant officials attended the event.
Director-General Dr Ye Tun Win of the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department presided over the meeting and discussed the matters related to fisheries and livestock technological cooperation with BIMSTEC members, fishing and animal product trade and investment, enhancement of research and development programs, state-level food security strategies, good practices in policy development and exchange of experiences.
The 17th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting in Colombo on 1 April 2021 decided to establish an Expert Group on Fisheries and Livestock to deal with issues pertaining to fisheries and livestock.
The reconstituted sectors and sub-sectors of cooperation were adopted in the Fifth BIMSTEC Summit held on 30 March 2022 in Colombo, and the fisheries sector became the fisheries and livestock sub-sector under the agriculture and food security sector in which Myanmar is serving as the leading country.
The EU shipping sector, through the Waterborne Technology Platform, has issued a joint statement setting the course towards a “resilient, competitive and sustainable future” for the sector. The declaration, signed by 13 European associations, including the Sea Europe naval employers' association and the ETF trade union federation, demands a “coordinated effort between public and private sector actors, with resilience, competitiveness and equal conditions.” as cornerstones” for the development of the sector.
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A Chilean court has rejected a lawsuit filed by Santiago Garretón, a former administration and finance manager at salmon-farming firm Australis Seafoods, for wrongful termination.
Garretón was seeking CLP 842 million (USD 885,000, EUR 810,000) in compensation, but the court only awarded him CLP 10.1 million (USD 10,600, EUR 9,700) for unpaid vacation time.
Australis fired Garretón in September 2022 for “a serious breach of his employment obligations” after he reportedly provided former Australis CEO Ricardo Misraji with access to confidential information.
Author: Chris Chase / SeafoodSource | read the full articlehere
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