Mull-based Inverlussa Marine Services has taken delivery of its new service vessel, the Eloise Eslea. It is the latest addition to its growing fleet of modern, purpose-built workboats for the Scottish aquaculture sector.

Designed and built at Nauplius Workboats in the Netherlands, the Eloise Eslea is equipped with the latest technologies, including dynamic positioning to increase usability out on farm during severe weather and provide a safer working environment for crew.

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The Faroe Islands and Russia have concluded consultations on their fisheries cooperation for 2023.

With consultations conducted via teleconferencing, the arrangement for next year includes necessary adjustments of the arrangement for 2022 given the reduction of the total allowable catch (TAC) for cod in the Barents Sea, resulting in a reduction in the quotas on both sides.

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is putting AquaBounty’s AquAdvantage salmon through an additional environmental assessment (EA) following a lawsuit from multiple organisations that resulted in a court order calling for additional analysis.

The FDA had previously greenlight the genetically engineered salmon to be sold in the US in 2015, but in 2020 a judge ruled that the agency needed to perform an additional review of the salmon and the chances it could be introduced into the wild and its potential danger to wild salmon populations.

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At its annual meeting, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, which discusses the management of Atlantic bluefin tuna resources, announced that Japan's annual catch quota for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean from 2023 to 2025 will increase by 295 tons from 2022 to 3,114 tons.

The Fisheries Agency announced on the 24th. Based on the evaluation that the resource is on a recovery trend. The catch quotas for bigeye and yellowfin tuna remained unchanged from the previous year. Bluefin tuna is popular as a high-end sushi ingredient. Atlantic bluefin tuna catch quotas are managed separately for the East Atlantic/Mediterranean and West Atlantic oceans. On the eastern side, the total catch quota for 2023-2025 was increased by 12.7% from 2022 to 40,570 tons. The West maintained the previous year's output of 2,726 tons.

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The company launched its Antimicrobial Resistance Policy or AMR in line with its Sustainability Roadmap for 2025, promoting the use of products that improve pharmacological efficacy, as well as non-pharmacological solutions for the prevention of diseases, committing to the reduction of use of antibiotics in the industry.

In the context of the World Awareness Week on the Use of Antibiotics, Skretting Chile calls for awareness of this important issue worldwide, launching its AMR Policy in line with compliance with its Sustainability Roadmap by 2025 .

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The Salmon Council published its first monthly newsletter called "FANews" on Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) - also known as the "red tide" phenomenon -, which seeks to contribute to improving community access to information about these events which in recent years have become more frequent, in part, due to climate change. The first report addresses what the FANs are, the history of these phenomena, and the situation in recent months in Chile and the world.

Microalgae are the base of the trophic chain in the oceans and are organisms that have always been present in aquatic environments.

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EU countries may continue to restrict the access of fishing vessels from other Member States to their national territorial waters up to a distance of 12 nautical miles from the coast for a further ten years. Access may only be given to boats that were already fishing in the area. This will make it possible to reduce fishing pressure in specific areas and preserve local and small-scale economic activity in coastal areas. In the case of the outermost regions, restricted access can extend up to 100 nautical miles from the coast and only for ships registered in their ports.

Parliament backed the deal reached with the Council in September - to reflect the UK's departure from the EU and various bilateral deals

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Norwegian salmon exports to Great Britain and Northern Ireland are up 9% but envoy warns of reduced buying power

The seafood market in the United Kingdom is likely to become more competitive due to high inflation and low economic growth, Norway’s new seafood envoy to the UK has forecast.

Norwegian salmon exports to the UK increased by 9% in the first 10 months of 2022 compared to the same period last year, partly as a result of lower domestic supply from Scotland.

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Following the adoption of the Partnership Agreement 2021-2027 with Germany, the Commission has adopted the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) programme for Germany, to implement the EU common fisheries policy (CFP) and EU policy priorities outlined in the European Green Deal.

The total financial allocation for the German programme 2021-2027 is €302.6 million, of which the EU contribution accounts for €211.8 million.

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A newly published academic study has found chitin to be a plausible sustainable energy source for electric vehicles

The paper, "A sustainable chitosan-zinc electrolyte for high-rate zinc-metal batteries," was authored by University of Maryland Professor Liangbing Hu, was published in September 2022 in the scientific journal Matter.

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