165,000 euros were paid for one of 208 kilos, very little compared to the 1.5 million paid a year ago for another of 276 kilos

Not an auction as mediatic as the first of the year in Tokyo (Japan) has been spared the impact of the pandemic. This Tuesday, around 165,000 euros have been paid at the Toyosu fish market for a 208 kg bluefin tuna, at 790 per kilo, reports the Efe agency. Although for common humans it is still an exorbitant price, in that market it is very little compared to the 1.5 million euros paid a year ago for a 276 kilos copy, at 5,434 euros per kilo.

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The merger will be effective on June 1 and an investment plan is announced

The Government of France has confirmed that next June it will finalize the process of merging the ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris, on the axis of the River Seine, which will become the main port infrastructure in the country. Annick Girardin and Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Ministers of Sea and Transport, respectively, made the announcement during a visit to Rouen, where they explained the roadmap to officials and operators. The government will also activate an investment plan, which will be given at the end of January.

These ports, fluvial and maritime, were already united in the “Haropa” economic interest group.

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A project that aims to identify emerging technologies and innovative practices in aquaculture value chains and pilot digital extension approaches that accelerate their adoption is currently being undertaken by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish.

To address this objective, the project team is undertaking a comprehensive survey of fish and shrimp farmers in southern Bangladesh. Pretesting and refining draft questionnaires is a key element in the research design. Though the team planned to conduct questionnaire development through face-to-face meetings in Bangladesh, this proved impossible due to Covid-related travel restrictions.

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Grupo Editorial Editec, organizer of the most important fair in the aquaculture sector, was forced to make that determination, in view of the health situation that Chile and the world are experiencing since the COVID-19 pandemic

Grupo Editorial Editec, organizer of the most important fair in the aquaculture sector, was forced to make the determination to postpone the AquaSur fair to March 2022. This is in view of the health situation that Chile and the world are experiencing since the COVID-19 pandemic. 19 continues.

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The Danish Fisheries Agency has launched a new grant program worth NOK 37 million (almost € 5 million) for the development of greener aquaculture productions.

The purpose of these grants is to strengthen technological development, innovation and knowledge transfer in the aquaculture industry and thus contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the Danish Marine and Fisheries Development Program in the field of promoting growth, both in volume and value, of aquaculture production.

Aquaculture companies, aquaculture associations, research institutes or private technical bodies, as well as public R&D institutes, can apply for the grants included in this program.

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Hull-based fishing company UK Fisheries fears that a lack of fisheries deals with Norway, Greenland, Faroes will scupper the fleet.

‘The EU deal is done, but for English distant waters fishing the future is anything but certain. Kirkella is tied up in Hull. Right now, we’re not supporting jobs upstream or downstream. We’re not generating wealth in the form of inward investment and UK taxes,’ a representative of the company said, and asked if the UK government will do the deals needed to keep our crews at work in 2021.

‘Does it intend to? As of now we don’t know when, or even if, we will be able to put to fish off Norway, our main fishing ground for decades.’

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People of all ages – particularly young children and pregnant women – have been recommended to eat seafood at least twice a week in revised guidelines published by the United States Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and of Health and Human Services (HHS).

For the first time since the 1985 edition, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), which are refreshed every five years, address the nutritional needs of babies and toddlers under two.

The guidelines recommend that seafood can and should be introduced to children when they are around six months old.

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The Organization continues to take as an example the EU agreement with Norway

The British organization NFFO has published a statement in which it recognizes that after the association agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU “our immediate task was to stop the Government's attempts to present the result of the fishing as a famous victory” since it considers that "the UK fishing industry has again been sacrificed for other national objectives." Beyond considering fishing as the part sacrificed to achieve a commercial agreement, NFFO considers that what has angered the fishing industry has been, precisely, "the attempt to present the meager profits as a leap forward, as a state independent coastal ”.

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The Xunta has approved 94 activity management programs that will incorporate 137 shellfishmen

Until 2019, shellfish workers worked with short roadmaps. At the end of each year, the work plan for the next 365 days was approved and, after these, the tasks were set for another 365. But the Consellería do Mar, in charge of giving approval to the exploitation plans, decided to change the system to have a longer-term forecast. Thus, it extended the plan from 2019 to 2020 and in 2021 it has approved its first Marisqueira Exploitation Plan for the next three years, which was published in the Official Gazette of Galicia on December 31.

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Ricardo García sees glass half full during year plagued by COVID-19.

Writing in La Tercera, Salmones Camanchaca vice chairman and director of the trade organisation SalmonChile Ricardo García has reflected on the year ahead.

Calling 2020 an “annus horribilis”, he said that the year “will be remembered by many generations as a year of crisis, with profound changes in virtually every order of things”.

On historic low prices, García said he looked at it as a “glass half full” situation.

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