Great week on the herring in the north, and mackerel from the foreigners, writes Norges Sildesalgslag’s Sales Manager, Kenneth Garvik.
It was a very good herring week in the north with a total of 40,100 tonnes in the record, where the best registration day was Friday with 8,200 tonnes.
Of the week’s quantity, purse seines contributed a full 24,500 tonnes, from the coast 15,600 tonnes. Of the coastal fleet’s quantity, only 500 tonnes which are fished by the smallest boats, which need a guide boat.
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Norwegian salmon farmers have enjoyed a decade of unprecedented profitability, but plans to introduce a 40 percent resource rent tax on the sector - combined with the emergence of new systems for growing salmon in different regions - could undermine the volume and value of its net pen aquaculture sector.
The Norwegian government unveiled a plan in September 2022 to introduce a 40 percent resource rent tax to collect more of the profits from the sector, with effect from 1 January 2023. The public hearing deadline was on 4 January, and there has been a significant response from capital markets, fish farmers and suppliers
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Advance in the sustainability of fishing and agricultural activities and food systems. That will be the underlying issue of the issues that will mark Spain's agenda of priorities during the presidency of the European Union, which it will assume in the second half of the year. During those six months, seven Councils of Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers will be held, two of them informal in Córdoba and Vigo.
To prepare for the community presidency, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, held meetings in Strasbourg with the chairmen of the Agriculture and Rural Development and Fisheries committees of the European Parliament, Norbert Lins and Pierre Karleskind, respectively , to whom he has informed of the main objectives of Spain for the last semester of the year.
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The president of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Committee of the National Society of Industries (S.N.I.) of Peru, Alfonso Miranda Eyzaguirre, expressed his confidence that this year will unify all Peruvians and make it our task to eradicate child malnutrition through Fishing.
With good legal stability, he stated that the main tasks will be completed and with notable growth in the sector.
Miranda Eyzaguirre gave aquaculture as an example that a series of regulations for the promotion of aquaculture were recently approved.
By partnering with Inseanergy, the AKVA group will be able to offer customers total energy systems that include self-produced green power that will collectively reduce diesel consumption, operating costs and environmental footprint.
AKVA group and the Norwegian company Inseanergy have recently signed a letter of intent for the supply and integration of green energy solutions.
We work with our clients to better understand their challenges and opportunities. The goal is to achieve better sustainable and profitable operations, and here we have a product that AKVA group will integrate into its total package.
The certification constitutes several legal, social, and environmental requirements for both mills’ operations, and for the suppliers of ingredients used in feed production.
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[Nagano] “Kanten no Sato” In Chino City, Nagano Prefecture, the production of natural Kaku-agar is reaching its peak as a winter tradition. Blessed with cool mornings and evenings and fine weather during the day, this season's results have been favorable.
Manufacturing continues under the slogan of "good products first" under the slogan "Tenya Biyori".
In the early morning of the 11th, 10 people were working at the factory in Ichikaneto. In contrast to the heat of the cauldron, where raw seaweed such as Amakusa is boiled in a large cauldron, the temperature of the drying area set up in the fields in winter.
A total of 128,000 fishermen around the world are trapped in forced labor on board fishing vessels, the International Labor Organization (ILO) has revealed. These fishermen trapped in forced labor mostly work excessive overtime and are paid very little or not at all.
Alix Nasri International Labor Organization has pointed out that many of the labor violations on fishing vessels occur due to weak supervision of working conditions.
This authority believes that the ratification of ILO Convention No. 188 would help prevent many of the labor violations that occur on fishing vessels in the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC/CPCO) region.
On Monday, January 16, the General Meeting of the Nueva Pescanova Group was held in Redondela, Pontevedra. In it, and as reported by the company in a statement, the partners approved a capital contribution of 70 million euros. It is, they add, an operation aimed at "reinforcing the company's own funds and strengthening the execution of its Strategic Plan".
The capital will be contributed in its entirety by its main shareholder, ABanca, a decision, they point out, "that does not imply any type of alteration in the shareholding composition of the Group."
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Seafood company Thai Union Group PLC and global conservation organisation The Nature Conservancy (TNC), have released the inaugural progress report on their partnership on a commitment to improve on-the-water transparency in global tuna supply chains.
Since March 2021, Thai Union and TNC have been working together on a commitment which will see that the tuna Thai Union produces is sourced from vessels that are confident in the way they conduct their fishing activities by permitting monitoring at sea.
5 Latin American countries pledge to protect their fishing industry Peru
Marine resources in the eastern Pacific and southwest Atlantic, as well as the fishing industry in Latin American nations bordering either ocean, continue to be threatened by illegal and excessive...
Fall in shrimp exports will be in Taiwan and the European Union Honduras
78.1% of the foreign exchange generated by shrimp farmed in Choluteca and Valle comes from European countries and Taiwan. In 2022, 70.6% of production was exported to those markets
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