Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, travel restrictions, and ongoing worldwide uncertainty, VNU Group modifies its show calendar to secure successful inter-regional exhibitions during the second half of 2021.
 
The schedule modifications will result in the postponement of six leading events in the agribusiness sectors, which are organized by VNU Asia Pacific, VNU Europe, and partners. The events were originally planned to take place in the upcoming months in Southeast Asia.  

VIV Asia and the newly co-located events, Meat Pro Asia and Free from Food Asia, were originally planned for March and are now scheduled to take place on September 22-24, 2021 at IMPACT, Bangkok, Thailand

ILDEX Vietnam will now take place from July 21-23, 2021 at SECC (Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Following in Q4, both ILDEX Indonesia and Aquatica Asia shows will take place from November 24-26, 2021 at ICE (Indonesia Convention Exhibition), Jakarta, Indonesia.

ICES has announced its 2021 North-Eastern Atlantic quota recommendations for mackerel, Atlanto-Scandian herring, horse mackerel and blue whiting.

The recommendation is for mackerel to be set at 852,284, an 8% reduction on this year’s quota. The stock is regarded as being in a strong condition with consistently good recruitment, even though the advice is for a reduction in catches.

Participating nations failed to agree on 2020 mackerel catch allocations, and quota for this year add up to 1,090,879 tonnes, exceeding the ICES 2020 recommendation for a maximum catch of 922,064 tonnes.

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After weighing up all the elements of risk and contingency, the EAS Board has decided that the Aquaculture Europe 2020 event planned in Cork next April cannot now go ahead. The Board has therefore decided to organise AE2020 as an ONLINE event, held over the same dates April 12-15, 2021.

The basic format of the event will stay the same as ‘normal’ Aquaculture Europe meetings, with morning plenary sessions and then breakout parallel sessions for oral and Eposter presentations. The parallel sessions will be made up of shorter slots for pre-recorded video presentations of the oral presentations and with time allocated to review Eposters and for Q&A.

The Board has also agreed to extend the deadline for submission of abstracts to January 31st.

While Chilean Naviera Orca is currently in legal proceedings against wellboat competitors Aquaship and Sølvtrans, major shareholder Odd Einar Sandøy has the support of another foreign shareholder, namely former Rostein chairman of the board Kjell Audun Aasen.

Odd Einar Sandøy, owner of the world’s largest wellboat company Rostein, has been reported as a stakeholder in Naviera Orca, the Chilean shipping company that is dragging Sølvtrans and Aquaship through the Chilean legal system for alleged violations of ownership laws in the country.

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Red Lobster is returning to some of the successful promotions it ran pre-COVID-19 in order to shore up slumping sales due to the pandemic.

The Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.-based restaurant chain is bringing back Daily Deals – previously available only during certain hours on weekdays – to run all day, every weekday.

Last week, Red Lobster also ran a week-long promotion to celebrate National Lobster Day on 25 September. 

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Scotland’s second biggest salmon producer, the Scottish Salmon Company (SSC), harvested 10,500 tonnes of fish in the third quarter of this year, its Faroese owner Bakkafrost said in a market update.

A further 11,100 tonnes of salmon were harvested in the Faroes – 5,300 tonnes in Bakkafrost’s Faroes North region, 4,700 tonnes in Farming West and 1,100 tonnes in Farming South.

All harvest volumes are provided in head on gutted (HOG) equivalents.

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Fishing industry bodies have reacted with scepticism to the European Commission’s announcement of, as part of its Green Deal, proposals to increase the EU’s offshore energy production twenty times to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 – aiming to meet this target while at the same time managing the maritime space sustainably.

Fishing industry body Europêche points out that a recent study commissioned by the EU Executive body puts forward a set of recommendations for positive interactions between fisheries and offshore wind farms.

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Led by Mowi, salmon shares rose in value on Wednesday, SEB singled out SalMar.

Just before the close of the stock exchange on Wednesday, salmon shares climbed on an otherwise slightly positive Oslo Stock Exchange. Mowi is leading the way, rising 4.2 per-cent, ahead of Grieg Seafood (3 per-cent), Atlantic Sapphire (2.8 per-cent), Bakkafrost (2.5 per-cent) and SalMar (2.1 per-cent).

There was no significant company-specific news on Wednesday, beyond investment bank SEB raising price targets on a number of shares.

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Norway and the United Kingdom have signed a new framework agreement on fisheries co-operation enabling both parties to agree to on the exchange fishing quotas as well as mutual access to each other’s areas of fisheries jurisdiction. The agreement will enter into force on 1st January 2021.

‘This is a great day! I am pleased that we have reached an agreement with the United Kingdom, which will be an important coastal state and partner from January 2021,’ said Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Seafood Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen.

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The Chinese government has asked frozen food importers to avoid countries with severe coronavirus. In fact, China suspended imports from seafood producers in Brazil, Indonesia and Russia for a week or more.

Chinese customs has detected several cases of imported seafood that tested positive for the virus. "Customs and local governments have repeatedly detected the coronavirus in imported food from the cold chain, demonstrating that there is a risk of contamination," the Beijing Municipal Commerce Office said in a statement issued to importing companies.

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