Team Scotland’s presence last year at Aqua Nor, the international aquaculture trade show, has been hailed as a resounding success.
In a poll, three-quarters of the Scottish businesses represented there said they expect to see an increase in turnover after attending the biennial exhibition and conference held at Trondheim in Norway, in August last year.
The Scottish Government is following up on this exercise with a presence at the Aqua Sur trade show in Chile.
£6 million fund to support UK fishing industry reopens for 2024.
Highly popular Fisheries and Seafood scheme (FaSS) re-opens for 2024
Around £6 million in funding will help to support projects across catching, aquaculture, and processing sectors, as well as projects that are improving the marine environment.
£27 million has already been committed through the scheme to safeguard the long-term sustainability, resilience, and prosperity of the seafood sector.
It is an artisanal vessel that will focus on capturing greenfish, bonito, hake and sea bass.
The Basque inshore fleet has a new fishing vessel in its ranks. This is the Beti Itsasoko, a boat made of polyester by the company Astilleros de Bermeo. The construction of a new boat constitutes news that is as new as it is positive for the Basque fishing sector. And since the fleet of Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa undertook a profound renovation of its ships at the end of the last century and the beginning of the current one, hardly any new additions have been registered. Astilleros de Bermeo built a fishing vessel for shipowners in the port of Donostia in 2020 and the Lekeitio minor gear fleet incorporated a new vessel in 2019 to replace an older one.
Two brothers from Armintza, Iñaki and Jon Mendizabal, owners of the Itxasoko Lorea II, a polyester fishing boat with 25 years of sea experience behind them, decided to take the step to undertake a new construction that has materialized with the recent launching of the Beti Itsasoko.[...]
The Monthly Index of Economic Activity (IMAE) closed last year with an expansion of 4.8 percent, which gives an idea of where the economic growth rate that the Central Bank of Nicaragua is about to make official will be, whose projection has kept it between 4 and 4.5 percent.
The report on how each of the 16 main activities ended up performing shows that only fishing and aquaculture ended up negative, with a minus 16.7 percent. This despite the fact that in December the activity managed to expand 1.4 percent, "due to the greater production of farmed shrimp and capture of lobster and other fishing products, particularly sea cucumber and crab."
In fact, farmed shrimp exports closed the year with a sharp drop in income. According to data from the Ministry of Development, Industry and Commerce, these shipments decreased last year -25.9 percent in volume and 33.7 percent in value.
Another product closely related to the IMAE of aquaculture and fishing figures is lobster, which together with exports of whole fish managed to grow. Lobster expanded 34.2 percent in volume and 3.8 percent in value. Fish grew 2.8 percent in volume and 3.6 percent in value.
And although these last two seafood products ended up growing, the truth is that income from shipments of farmed shrimp weighs more on the activity with 110.7 million.
Proximar Seafood said today that the first commercial harvest for its land-based salmon farm in Japan will take place in “high summer”, in the third quarter of this year.
In a trading update for the fourth quarter of 2023, Chief Executive Joachim Nielsen said the site, at Oyama in the foothills of Mount Fuji, is moving from the “construction” phase to an “operational phase”.
“2024 will be a pivotal year for our company, and we are looking forward to supplying fresh Atlantic salmon to Japanese consumers, lifting the company from investing to solid revenue streams,” he added.
Author: Vince McDonagh / FishFarmer | read the full articlehere
The Spanish fishing sector will attend the demonstration called by the primary sector next Monday in Madrid with the aim of also involving consumers. Cepesca, National Federation of Fishermen's Guilds, Apromar and Fedepesca, which will attend the mobilization under the motto "For the future of fishing, aquaculture, fishmongers and the health of consumers in Spain", consider it key to achieve the support of society with the objective of “defending with the Government and together with its primary sector, before the European Commission (EC), the right to decent production and distribution of basic foods, the only way to ensure, according to its criteria, a healthy diet
Source: Industrias Pesqueras | Read the full articlehere
In its recent presentation to investors, Salmones Camanchaca has highlighted the “irrational” decisions made for Chile's regulatory system as its biggest concern after a year characterized by better fish health and performance, but lower prices that impacted prices. Profits.
When asked about the topic during the presentation of results, the company's vice president, Ricardo García, said: "We are concerned about the situation on the regulatory front with surprises coming from government initiatives."
Launch of The National Seafood Chef of the Year Competition at the Grimsby Institute – 21st February 2024. The National Seafood Chef of the Year Competition was officially launched at the Grimsby Institute.
The launch luncheon held at the Institute’s Gallery Restaurant was attended by key figures from Seafood Grimsby and the Humber Seafood Cluster Board and competition Sponsors including The Norwegian Seafood Council organisation.
The National Seafood Chef of the Year Competition celebrates exceptional talent within seafood culinary.
U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on 22 December expanding a U.S. ban on Russian seafood to include imports of Russia-origin seafood products that were processed in third countries. The Biden administration later issued more guidance adding several harmonized tariff schedule (HTS) codes to its original ban, tightening loopholes that would have allowed certain Russia-origin seafood products to still enter the country.
Author: Chris Chase / SeafoodSource | read the full articlehere
The World Aquaculture Society (WAS), African chapter, in the West African region, says Nigeria’s aquaculture sector has the potential to generate an annual revenue of 296 billion dollars.
Mr Lanre Badmus, Director, West African Region, WAS , said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos.
Badmus, who lauded President Bola Tinubu’s administration for creating the Ministry of Blue economy and Marine, noted that if well harnessed the sector would increase income generation for the country.
He explained that the opportunities in the maritime sector if well tapped had the potential of generating resources in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner.
“The untapped potential of Nigeria’s blue economy can be worth 296 billion dollars, significantly boosting the overall GDP of the country.
“Knowledge, capacity and operational capability should be explored across five primary innovative themes, which include but not limited to technology, scientific, social, political and governance, physical and economic growth,”he said.
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