Chile continues to monitor the Chinese fleet present in the Pacific. From the Satellite Monitoring Center of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service, the national director of Sernapesca Alicia Gallardo Lagno and the deputy director of Fisheries, Fernando Naranjo, have detected that the Chinese fishing fleet continues to operate in the Pacific Ocean, now near the Zone Exclusive Economic of Chile.

“According to the satellite surveillance report, during the last week some 40 vessels from the Asian fleet, which were at the height of Arequipa, moved south. Some entered our maritime territory, but maintain constant navigation speed towards the Strait of Magellan, thus ruling out a fishing operation, ”explains Sernapesca.

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King’s Seafood Co is the parent company of King’s Fish House and Water Grill.

The OC Register reports that King’s Seafood Company, which has been in business since 1945, is laying off more than 1,400 hourly workers at restaurants in Southern California and San Jose.

Shutdowns in the most populated areas of the Sunshine State were triggered by an order announced Wednesday by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom last week.

Indoor restaurants are closed and the lockdown will be in place for at least two weeks and cover the Christmas holiday.

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About 87 percent of the worldwide commercial catch of tuna is coming from stocks seen at healthy levels of abundance, although some regional stocks including Pacific bluefin are overfished, the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation says in a new status report.

Based on findings by regional fishery management organizations though October 2020, the summary by the foundation – a cooperative program involving scientists, the tuna industry, and the World Wildlife Fund – breaks down 10 percent of the world catch coming from overfished stocks and 3 percent from stocks “at an intermediate level of abundance.”

The report summary states 87 percent of the total catch comes from healthy stocks in terms of abundance. This is due to the fact that skipjack stocks contribute more than half of the global catch of tunas, and they are all in a healthy situation.

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Norway is threatening to ban both European and UK fishing vessels from its waters from 1 January in a dispute that will hit the Scottish fleet and could spill over to the farmed salmon sector.

The warning was issued by the country’s Fisheries Minister, Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen, amid the looming prospect of the EU and Britain failing to strike a post Brexit trade deal.

The Minister told the Norwegian parliament: “’If we do not get a deal by January 1, we will not open our economic fishing zones to vessels from the EU and Britain.

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15.4 per-cent drop off of Chilean salmon and trout exports due to lower air connectivity.

On Thursday, it was reported that the trade association The Air Transport Association (IATA), speaking on behalf of the global airport industry, said that it believed that the Chilean salmon industry may have a considerable lack of air cargo space next year.

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The sustainable practices of the Irish aquaculture industry will form the focus of a documentary being broadcast later this month by France-based Euronews, a pan-European pay television news network.

Richard Donnelly, salmon and shellfish manager for BIM, Ireland’s seafood development agency, and John Harrington of Kush Shellfish were interviewed as part of the documentary to tell the story of Irish organic mussels.

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Restaurants, grocery stores, and online seafood suppliers are expected to have one of the brightest holiday sales seasons on record, in part due to the imposition of dining restrictions in several states.

The National Retail Federation forecasts a spike of between 3.6 percent and 5.2 percent in sales of all food and non-food items in November and December, compared to a 4 percent increase in 2019.

The NRF predicts that online and other non-store sales will increase between 20 percent and 30 percent to between USD 202.5 billion (EUR 167 billion) and USD 218.4 billion (EUR 180 billion), up from USD 168.7 billion (EUR 139 billion) last year.

Author: Christine Blank / SeafoodSource | Read the full article here

Some 200 container are believed to be lost by container ship north of Schiermonnikoog island, Wadden Islands, North sea. Containers were first spotted by Dutch fishermen, later Dutch CG Command confirmed fishermen report.

Containers are believed to be lost by Ultra Large Container Vessel 'MUNICH MAERSK' on Dec 2, some 90 nm north of Schiermonnikoog island. Ship’s track backs the suspicion – the ship left Bremerhaven in the afternoon Dec 2, bound for Gothenburg Sweden, gathered way to her cruising speed, but several hours later reduced speed to full stop or dead ahead, and kept limping in northern direction until afternoon Dec 3, when she resumed voyage, but at a reduced speed.

The ship docked at Gothenburg on Dec 5, left on Dec 8, bound for Aarhus Denmark, ETA Dec 9.

The report isn’t yet officially confirmed, with regards to ship’s ID and number of lost containers.

Author: Mikhail Voytenko/maritimebulletin.net

Feed group BioMar has won its battle against a patent infringement claim by competitor, STIM AS.

STIM’s request to ban the sale of BioMar’s Intro Tuning has been denied. The Norwegian courts have ruled that BioMar’s smoltification feed does not infringeSTIM’s patent and the production and sale of the feed will continue as per normal.

In July, STIM AS submitted a request to the Norwegian courts, stating that BioMar should be prohibited from the sale of their smoltification feed Intro Tuning. According to STIM, the feed violated a new European patent that STIM has recently been granted.

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AquaChile has made the first direct air freight shipment of fresh salmon from Chile’s southern Magallanes region to the United States.

Until now, fresh salmon produced in the region has been exported through Puerto Montt and the Chilean capital, Santiago.

AquaChile said the new option to fly from Puerto Natales was the result of coordinated work between the Magallanes Salmon Farmers Association, the region's economy, development and tourism minister, Natalia Easton, and the Sky airline.

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