Grieg Seafood has joined forces with the World Wildlife Fund and the Norwegian Institute of Nature Research to show how companies can report nature-related risks in aquaculture.

Together with the WWF and Norwegian financial service company, Storebrand Asset Management, Grieg has published a case study, Nature-related risk reporting for investors, to show how currently available information on salmon farming can be used to inform investors in the salmon farming sector about the impact of a company’s operations on the natural environment.

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

With positive expectations, the five national companies that participated together with ProChile in the largest aquaculture fair in Brazil: Aquishow 2022, held a few days ago in the city of San José de Río Preto, Sao Paulo, returned to Chile.

Álvaro Camargo Jr., from the Commercial Office of ProChile in Sao Paulo, highlighted the good reception achieved by Chilean companies in that country, where the experience and development achieved by Chile in terms of aquaculture was valued.

Source: Aqua | read the full article here

The Vigo Port Fishing Shipowners Cooperative (ARVI) reported this week, at the ordinary meeting of the Port and Navigation Council of the Vigo Port Authority (PAV), on the situation in which the sector finds itself, highly affected for the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, among others. For this reason, he explained that they will ask the Government of Spain for extensions in the discounts on diesel and the exemption of port taxes until the end of the year.

Source: Industrias Pesqueras | read the full article here

In response to Minister David Parker’s recent announcement about the national roll-out of cameras on commercial inshore fishing vessels, Seafood New Zealand (SNZ) Chief Executive Jeremy Helson says the most important questions still remain unanswered.

“The industry has been working in partnership with MPI on this programme since its early days. We have been very clear in our conditional support for cameras, and our recommendations for how they should fit into a larger strategy for sustainable fisheries management.

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The Norwegian Seafood Council is targeting a small garden city in England for a special campaign to promote seafood sustainability.

Letchworth in Hertfordshire was Britain’s first garden city. It has been selected for a pilot project which, the Seafood Council says, is very different from its ordinary marketing activities. Both farmed and wild-caught produce will be involved in the campaign.

Anette Grøttland Zimowski, who is responsible for international PR at the Seafood Council said: “This is a pilot project that is very different from our ordinary marketing activities.

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

A lawsuit alleging false advertising on the part of Cooke Aquaculture has been dismissed after a District of Columbia Superior Court Judge found the plaintiff did not present enough evidence to support the claim.

The lawsuit filed on June 28, 2020 alleged that Cooke’s advertisements that touted the company’s practices as “sustainable” and “ecologically sound,” and that its salmon are “naturally raised” under “optimal” animal welfare standards constitute false advertising.

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

June 2022 Fareham UK, Kopavogur Iceland – The 2022 Icefish exhibition opened its doors yesterday, welcoming exhibitors, attendees and VIPS from around the globe.

The exhibition, which runs from 8-10 June, began yesterday with the Opening Ceremony, in the presence of invited guest, Benedikt Árnason, Minister of Fisheries, formally opened the exhibition in the absence of the Minister of Food, Fisheries and Agriculture, Svandís Svavarsdóttir.
Marianne Rasmussen-Coulling, Events Director,Mercator Media thanked guests and the vital partners of the exhibition, Kópavogur City Council and the Icelandic Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture for their continued support of the exhibition over the years.

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The Balfegó purse seiners are already moored in the port of L'Ametlla de Mar after finishing the annual bluefin tuna (Thunnus Thynnus) fishing campaign in the western Mediterranean. The fleet, led and commanded by La Frau and Tio Gel II, boats captained by the Balfegó family, has captured the assigned quota –a total of 2,485 tons from the trade agreements reached this year– in just 11 days of effective fishing.

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The marine protection organization OceanCare has developed a system that allows sperm whales to be located by the characteristic sounds they emit to communicate and find food in order to transmit their position in real time and prevent them from colliding with ships.

The system, called SAvE Whales, consists of a series of high-tech buoys submerged up to 100 meters deep and powered by solar energy, which are equipped with hydrophones capable of locating the characteristic sounds of sperm whales, called clicks.

Source: La Voz de Galicia | read the full article here

On the Norwegian Coastal Administration’s new online service NAIS, you can follow sea traffic in Norwegian waters in real time.

The new service which was recently introduced can follow the traffic picture along the coast and in Norwegian sea areas in real time, it allows for you to search for single vessels up to a week back in time, get weather data, and click on virtual symbols in the map to see details about reefs and grounds.

Source: The Fishing Daily | read the full article here