A new certification programme has been created for “seafood” created entirely from plants.

The certification is the result of cooperation between the World Sustainability Organisation (WSO) and the Good Food Institute (GFI) and will be part of the WSO’s Friend of the Sea programme under a new “Golden Standard”.

It allows plant-seafood companies to certify products according to sustainable criteria of the WSO’s Friend of the Earth agricultural standards. Plant-based meat products will receive a comparable standard from Fried of the Earth.

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The UK cannot expect to retain the privileges of membership while blocking its erstwhile European colleagues from its waters, and doubling its catch, according to Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO) CEO Seán O’Donoghue, who said it would be rank hypocrisy for the UK to expect to slam the door and keep the gains it enjoyed while part of the EU.

He commented that the complexity of moulding Britain’s future relationship with the EU is nowhere more evident than in fisheries, and is adamant that the UK should no longer benefit from the additional fishing opportunities it was granted after joining the EEC in 1973, particularly when the total allowable catches and quotas were decided in the early eighties.

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Brim’s pelagic vessels have finished this season’s fishing for Atlanto-Scandian herring.

The Venus and Víkingur are both now in Reykjavík, ready for their next assignment which could be Icelandic summer-spawning herring or blue whiting.

Bergur Einarsson, skipper of Venus, said that the Atlanto-Scandian herring season had been short and sharp. ‘Fishing went very well and there was a lot of herring there,” he said. “Fishing grounds were no more than 60 to 80 nautical miles from Vopnafjörður. The weather was fine and the herring in top condition, and we can say that production ashore dictated how quickly we fished.

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The following minimum prices for mackerel for human consumption apply:

• Gr 1 (mackerel weighing 250 grams and more): 2.4518 øre per gram gj. weight 
• Gr 2 (mackerel with a weight of less than 250 grams): NOK 3.50 per kg 
• Gr 2 (mackerel with a weight of less than 250 grams sorted to m / o): NOK 2.10 per kg 

In accordance with agreed driving rules between Seafood Norway and Norway Herring sales team is the minimum price for mackerel Group 1 subject to regulation every week if a minimum of 5,000 tonnes has been traded in the basic period. Information about changes in the minimum prices will be announced on our website on Fridays. And the new minimum prices will take effect from the following Monday. 

Source: Norges Sildesalgslag

These bivalves and other organisms like false barnacles and algae endanger the cables that carry electricity to the ground.

Neither activists nor fishermen, the great threat that looms over the future of wind energy is a small bivalve that delights the Galicians: the mussel. This mollusk that colonizes the rafts of the Rías Baixas is the worst enemy to be faced. facing the wind industry. The sector aims to cover half of Europe's electricity needs in the medium term. Of course, to achieve this they will have to find a formula to prevent the cable runs of the platforms that support the wind turbines from becoming mussel-growing areas.

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SalMar and Lerøy Seafoods, two of Norway’s largest salmon farming companies, are reporting lower harvests for the third quarter of this year.

In a trading update Lerøy said it slaughtered 44,200 tonnes of salmon and trout in three months between July and September, compared with 46,000 tonnes in the same period last year, the company announced in an Oslo stock exchange announcement.

However, its volume for the year as a whole is higher than last year, and so far this year the company has harvested 122.500, compared to 115.400tonnes in the same period in 2019.

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The European Commission meets this Thursday and Friday with Brexit as one of the central topics of the conversation and with fishing as the central axis of negotiations that still have not reached port.

The negotiations focus the meeting of the European Council this Thursday, a few weeks before the distribution of fishing quotas. The European Union and the United Kingdom are now facing the final stretch of the negotiations for an agreement to exit the British.

Time is running out and the sector faces in the short term the period in which the member states must focus their efforts on negotiating the TACs and quotas for next 2021, so the Vigo fishing is already appealing to establish a new transitional period as an option more viable in 2021 without any agreement.

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To meet growing demand for trout in metropolitan cities.

Times of India reports that a new state scheme will see using RAS technology during next five years.

The sites will be in the snow-laden province of Himachal Pradesh, Northern India.

Fishery Minister Virender Kanwar said that when all 15 fish farms under RAS technology are completed, 270 tonnes of fish will be produced annually in the state. Rainbow trout produced in Himalayan Northern India, will meet the growing demand of trout fish in metropolitan cities.

Author: Owen Evans / SalmonBusiness | Read the full article here

United Kingdom retailer Co-op has pledged not to sell any own-brand or branded yellowfin tuna in its stores until stocks in the Indian Ocean are managed sustainably.

The announcement comes ahead of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission’s (IOTC) annual meeting in November, which Co-op hopes will address the issue of overfishing.  

“We take our commitments to responsibly sourced fish very seriously and have not stocked yellowfin tuna on our shelves for over seven years. We are concerned that Indian Ocean stocks are not being managed effectively and protocols put in place by the IOTC to improve levels are not being enforced,” Co-op’s head of food policy, Cathryn Higgs, said. 

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

Ahead of the Global Conference on Aquaculture (GCA) Millennium +20, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization is convening a series of webinars, commencing with the presentation of six Regional Reviews of Aquaculture, culminating with The State of World Aquaculture 2020, from 26–29 October 2020.

These reviews provide up-to-date information on the status and trends of the aquaculture sector, at regional and global levels, developed from national, regional and global datasets, supplemented with expert opinion and literature review.

Presentations will be provided by regional review authors to highlight key messages emerging from the reviews. Panel discussion with invited experts, including from FAO and partners, will provide additional perspective on important topics, and a question and answer session will capture comments from participants to be considered during the finalisation of the reviews.

Author: Rob Fletcher / The Fish Site | Read the full article here