Kyiv, Ukraine-based Universal Fish Company (UFC) is continuing to produce seafood products despite significant damage to its facilities and financial losses caused by Russia’s invasion of the country.
The war, which Russia launched on 24 February, 2022, directly impacted UFC’s operations when one of the company’s warehouses was shelled by Russian forces. .
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New general manager for AKVA group Helgeland Plast. Freddy Bakken Braseth has become interim General Manager in AKVA group Helgeland Plast. He takes on the position 1 June and will replace Finn Ola Helleberg.
Freddy comes from the position of Sales Manager in AKVA group Helgeland Plast and has been with AKVA group for 4 years. Before he joined AKVA, he worked at Sparebank 1 Nord-Norge for 8 years, where he held different positions in banking and finance.
Land-based fish farming company Salmon Evolution has said it expects to complete its first harvest towards the end of this year.
Salmon Evolution announced the key target as it unveiled its first quarter results for 2022 which show a deficit of NOK 11m (£916,000) against NOK 6.6m (£550m) for the same period last year.
Salmon Evolution’s state of the art site is at Indre Harøy, north of Bergen.
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Salmon farming heavyweight Cermaq Group achieved an Atlantic salmon survival rate of 95% last year, it said in its newly published Sustainability Report 2021.
The rate, slightly lower than in 2020, is the average of the survival percentages from Cermaq’s divisions in Norway, Chile and Canada.
Cermaq Chile had the lowest mortality rate of under 4%, and Cermaq Canada had the highest at just above 9%
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The European Commission's main priority at the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) meeting was to address how to manage the yellowfin tuna population in the Indian Ocean through the adoption of a new management measure for aggregating devices. of drifting fish (DCP), as well as approving an action to reduce the catch of skipjack tuna. In this sense, the EU regrets that the IOTC "has not been able to agree on any of these aspects" and considers that "an opportunity for the sustainable management of the Indian Ocean fisheries has been lost".
Source: IndustriasPesqueras | read the full article here
Pubs across the UK are being forced to adapt, as they are hit by a financial triple whammy of soaring food prices, rising energy costs and the impact of the cost of living crisis.
One step being taken by the Young’s pub chain, which runs around 200 venues in the UK, has been forced to drop salmon from its menu, picking the cheaper option of trout to serve to its customers due to the sky high cost of the fish.
Author: Edward Hardy / SalmonBusiness | read the full article here
Considered one of the most demanding of all global seafood certification schemes, the target is to have up to five farms and facilities ASC certified by the end of 2022.
The ASC standard for farmed salmon was developed in collaboration with scientists, government agencies, NGOs, farmers, processors and retailers, and is underpinned by seven core principles spanning regulatory compliance, fish health, responsible use of feed and medicines, environmental interactions, employee conditions and community engagement.
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), which held its annual meeting from 16 to 20 May, 2022, is once again being criticized by ocean-focused non-governmental organizations, which are claiming it failed to take sufficient action to conserve tuna stocks.
Environmental organizations have been pressuring the IOTC to take action on issues threatening the sustainability of skipjack and yellowfin tuna stocks in the Indian Ocean for years, arguing both species are being fished at rates above the commission’s own scientific advice.
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Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, today announced publication of a formal implementation plan for Food Vision 2030, the stakeholder-led strategy for the agri-food sector.
Minister McConalogue said:
“I welcome the formal publication of the Food Vision 2030 Implementation Plan. Food Vision 2030 is a landmark for the Irish agri-food sector and has the potential to further enhance our agriculture, food, forestry and marine sectors in the period to 2030.
The Arnomendi sets sail today from her base at the A Graña naval station to join a joint deployment plan, in which she will assume the role of inspection ship of the European Union (EU)
Source: La Voz de Galicia | read the full article here
Exports with a slight drop in May Argentina
According to data provided by CAPECA, foreign sales registered a 1.6% decline compared to the same period in 2021. In the first 5 months of 2022 there were sales of 674 million dollars. The biggest fa...
Pacific fishery council recommends tuna catch limit Guam
The Western and Central Pacific Fishery Council has recommended setting a 2023 catch limit of 2,000 metric tons of bigeye tuna each for Guam, the Northern Marianas and American Samoa.
“Each U...
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