A commercial diver was killed on Monday, August 22, while doing maintenance work at a Nova Austral company farm in Chile’s Magallanes region, local media reported.

The diver, Kateryn Yaneth Pérez Mora, was an employee of the service company Austral Service SpA.

Two other commercial divers from the same company were hurt during the rescue attempt.

Author: Liza Mayer / SalmonBusiness | read the full article here

There is no sea in the world where the Chinese fleet is welcome. Pakistani fishermen object to the presence of deep-sea trawlers that cannot fish within 12 nautical miles of a country's maritime border, but this practice has been carried out for years with total impunity. The arrival of 12 new Chinese trawlers in the port of Karachi in October 2020 has exacerbated fishermen's concerns.

Local fishermen complain that trawlers target the best spots. Some of these places are nestled between what they say are the seafloor mountains in front of Gwadar.

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Divided into at least three groups, Galician, Asturian, Cantabrian and Basque fishermen follow the bonito from the north on its annual migration. This Tuesday they were fishing about 500 kilometers north of A Coruña and about 300 west of French Brittany (the largest), more than 280 north of Santander and about 45 north of Avilés (the smallest). They continue on the coast of that tuna because not only have they not exhausted the quota, but they still have 7,500 tons left, 41% of the national quota.

Source: LaVozdeGalicia | Read the full article here

A major labor strike at the Port of Felixstowe in Felixstowe, United Kingdom is expected to further disrupt the U.K. supply chain.

Approximately 2,000 dockworkers at the port began an eight-day walkout on 21 August, according to Bloomberg.

The Port of Felixstowe is the largest gateway for containerized imports and exports, accounting for around a third of Britain’s total container volume, Bloomberg said.

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

The increasing contribution of by-products to marine ingredient supply in the future will be a key topic at the 60th annual conference of marine ingredients organisation IFFO in Peru in October.

IFFO technical director Brett Glencross will chair a panel comprising Kamel Gabriel EL Khaloui, from ScanBio, Vincent Percier, from Symrise, and Dr Silke Middendorf, from Biomega Group, who will dive into specialty ingredients and palatability and explain how to make the most of by-products.

Author: Gareth Moore / Fishfarmingexpert | read the full article here

Fresh salmon prices are falling back to levels close to those last seen at the start of the year.

Figures from Statistics Norway, which monitors trends on a regular basis, show they dropped by almost 2% in week 32 to NOK 73.83 per kilo (£6.38).

Market intelligence suggests this downward trend is continuing despite sales surging during the week.

Author: Vince McDonagh / FishFarmer | read the full article here

Liverpool, United Kingdom-based food and beverage group Princes has launched a roadmap toward achieving 100 percent sourcing of its U.K. Princes branded tuna from Marine Stewardship Council-certified sustainable fisheries by the end of 2025.  

The roadmap features three key milestones designed to increase Princes’ sale of MSC-labeled tuna products to 25 percent of its overall tuna sales by the end of 2023, 50 percent in 2024, and 100 percent by the end of 2025.

Author: Jason Holland / SeafoodSource | read the full article here

Industry Suppliers and Buyers to gather from 14-16 September 2022 for networking, sourcing and learning opportunities in the Asian Market.

Seafood Expo Asia, The Seafood Marketplace for Asia, produced by Diversified Communications, organiser of the world’s leading seafood trade events, is bringing the industry back together for three-day of in-person networking, sourcing and knowledge sharing. The 10th edition of Seafood Expo Asia is taking place in Singapore from 14-16 September 2022 at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre.

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The Conxemar-FAO Congress, which is being held as a prelude to the Conxemar Fair on Monday, October 3, and which this year will be dedicated to analyzing the global challenges of the seafood industry, has opened the registration process. Participation is free.

The event will bring together leading national and international experts to analyze the present and future challenges of the fishery and aquaculture product marketing and processing industry in the current context

Source: Industrias Pesqueras | Read the full article here

Commission proposes fishing opportunities for 2023 in the Baltic Sea in an effort to recover species

Today, the European Commission adopted its proposal for fishing opportunities for 2023 for the Baltic Sea.

Based on this proposal, EU countries will determine the maximum quantities of the most important commercial fish species that can be caught in the sea basin.

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