The impressive start to the New Year for Norway’s seafood exports continued during February, the latest figures show, with values rising despite a fall in volume.

In value terms, seafood exports rose by 14% to NOK 12.8bn (just over £1bn) with salmon again the main driver. But overall volumes were down by 17% to 207,000 tonnes, and the rise in value has been attributed to foreign exchange factors.

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Our Ocean Conference opens in Panama, governments to announce historic actions to address global ocean crisis. The Republic of Panama opened the eighth annual Our Ocean Conference (OOC) yesterday with the theme, ‘Our Ocean, Our Connection,’ inspired by its unique history, geography, and the inextricable bonds between the ocean and humankind. Panama is the first Central American nation to host the event—underscoring Latin America’s invaluable contributions to marine conservation and global ocean leadership in recent years.

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Alltech, a company specializing in agriculture and animal nutrition, and the Finnish circular economy company Finnforel join forces to acquire the Raisioaqua fish feed production plant from the Finnish company Raisio. Raisioaqua manufactures organic feed for aquaculture and specializes in functional feed solutions that are suitable for northern conditions. The acquisition will complete Finnforel's sustainable circular economy fish farming chain while improving aquaculture farmers' access to Alltech's nutritional technologies.

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Northern Iceland salmon farmer Háafell has signed a contract with Faroese company JT electric to deliver a feed barge designed for optimal fuel economy and suitable for use in a remote and exposed area.

A hybrid supply will power all systems onboard, with generators running only two to four hours per day, improving power efficiency, reducing fuel usage and lowering carbon emissions and noise pollution.

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Maruha Nichiro, the world's largest seafood company, reported its highest-ever sales and operating profit for the nine month period from April through December.

In its 6 February filing, the Tokyo-based company said that it grew net sales by 18 percent, from JPY 661.2 billion (USD 4.8 billion, EUR 4.5 billion) in the same period of 2021 to JPY 781 billion (USD 5.7 billion, EUR 5.4 billion) in 2022

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Barcelona will host the UN Ocean Decade Conference in 2024. The event, framed within the United Nations Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), will bring together the community and partners of the Ocean Decade to analyze the achievements made and establish joint priorities for the future of the decade.

The appointment will be from April 10 to 12, 2024 and is organized by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

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The Schörghuber Group is a value and impact-oriented business conglomerate owned by the Schörghuber family, operating in the real estate, hotel, food and brewing sectors. The family has been doing business in Chile for almost half a century, primarily through what was its majority stake in the beverage conglomerate of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. (CCU), in conjunction with the Chilean Luksic family. Bayerische Hausbau, the real estate division of the Schörghuber Group, is also recognized for two emblematic buildings in Santiago, Torre Las Condes and Torre las Verbenas.

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The AZTI technology center has led an international study that has concluded that, in all scenarios, by 2050, the tuna stocks analyzed will notice an average decrease in productivity of 36% and a decrease in size of 15%, due to the effect of climate change, so the demand, price and profits of this fishery will also be affected.

This study tries to determine how the combined effect of climate change and fishing pressure may impact the productivity and size of the main commercial species of tuna and swordfish in the future.

A team of professionals in the field of research and modeling from Europe and Canada has participated in the study that has been published in the prestigious journal Global Planetary Change.

Source: Europa Press

Elementary school students released juvenile salmon in the city of Iiyama in an attempt to bring salmon into the Chikuma River. About 70 elementary school students from Iiyama City, Nozawa Onsen Village, and Sakae Village released salmon. Iiyama City and the prefectural council, which planned the salmon release experience, continue their efforts to conserve the river environment through salmon release. This time, some 50,000 juvenile fish bought in Niigata were released into the Chikuma River. According to a survey conducted by the national government, two migratory fish were confirmed in the Nishi-Otaki Dam last year.

Source: Yahoo Japan

ASC launches stakeholder consultation on two major criteria of the ASC Farm Standard and Pike-Perch Module. From 1 March to 30 April 2023, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) is running a stakeholder consultation on three major topics, two of which are part of the upcoming ASC Farm Standard: Water Quality (Criterion 2.7), Fish Health and Welfare (Criterion 2.14). The third topic covers the Scope Extension Project to the European species of Pike-perch.

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