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What’s happening in aquaculture in the UK and around the world JENNY HJUL – EDITOR

Business as usual

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ummer may bring holidays for some people but fish farmers, it seems, are as active as ever. July saw the launch in the Outer Hebrides of two new AKVA feed barges for Marine Harvest’s more exposed sites. We were invited along to meet the Loch Seaforth team who will be operating the 450-tonne Panorama barge, the biggest yet for the Scottish industry.

This month the company will take delivery of a Steinsvik Thermolicer, the second to arrive in Scotland after Scottish Sea Farms’ investment in one of the machines for its Shetland operation. The drive to control sea lice continues to inspire innovations throughout the industry, not just in technical development and scientific research, but also in husbandry, as we discovered in Loch Seaforth (page 34).

Much of that enterprise and innovation will be the subject of presentations at the European Aquaculture Society’s conference, to be held in Edinburgh in September, and currently keeping many in our aquaculture community occupied over the holiday season as they put together the programme of speakers and forums, under the theme Food for Thought.

Also providing food for thought is Dr Martin Jaffa, who will be known to many readers from his weekly reLAKSation blogs. We are delighted to welcome him as one of our regular columnists from this month. We would also welcome feedback from you - to anything in the magazine - so please get in touch (jhjul@ fishupdate.com) with your views.

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Thermolicer on trial in Shetland SCOTTISH Sea Farms has invested more than £4 million in a Thermolicer machine as part of its quest to deliver a natural solution to control sea lice.

The Thermolicer arrived in Scotland in July and trials are currently underway in Shetland. Scottish Sea Farms (SSF) will cooperate with other farmers in Scotland, sharing the use and knowledge of the machine.

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farmers in most salmon producing areas.

At Scottish Sea Farms we intend being part of the solution to this challenge.

‘Our work with SAIC [the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre] and other industry partners in this area has already reaped huge benefits through our work with wrasse and lumpfish – varieties of cleaner fish.

‘The Thermolicer is the latest step in devel-

oping alternative tools to maintain a sustainable solution to fish health management.’

The Thermolicer uses zero chemicals in the treatment of sea lice. The lice have a low tolerance for changes in temperature and the new machine uses water temperatures to eradicate the parasite.

It is a simple and environmentally friendly method that goes beyond the traditional treatments.

This is the first Thermolicer to be used in Scotland and is part of Scottish Sea Farms’ continued investment in its infrastructure and development.

Scott Landsburgh, chief executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation, said: ‘Scotland’s salmon farmers have always been at the forefront of new inventions, creating technological solutions as needs have evolved.

‘Collaboration and sharing knowledge and skills have been paramount in enhancing fish welfare. It also reinforces our commitment to environmental and industry sustainability - crucial in driving our industry forward.

‘We look forward to hearing the results and seeing how it can integrate with established health management strategies to the benefit of the whole industry.’

Oban site for SSF’s £35m hatchery SCOTTISH Sea Farms is to build its new £35 million hatchery near Oban. The site, at Barcaldine, is part of a £70 million investment programme over the next few years that will create up to 25 jobs.

SSF will embark on a period of consultation with the community, following which it is hoped work on the land-based RAS freshwater facility will begin later this year, with the first fish reared entering the water in 2019.

The company, owned by Nor-

way’s Leroy and SalMar, said the new plant would raise its annual production of smolts from five to 11 million.

Jim Gallagher, SSF managing director, said: ‘We have ambitious plans for sustainably growing the volumes of salmon we produce to meet increased demand across the world for premium Scottish salmon. ‘ The planned facility will use 90 per cent less water than traditional freshwater sites.

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Works starts on new salmon hatchery A TURF cutting ceremony to mark the start of work on Marine Harvest’s new salmon hatchery at Inchmore, Glenmoriston, took place in July.

The facility replaces the existing hatchery, which has been on the site for 38 years, and will have a workforce of 18.

Around five million smolts, as well as similar numbers of fry and parr, will be grown each year at the hatchery to help meet increasing demand for farmed salmon.

Marine Harvest business support manager Steve Bracken invited Highland Council leader Margaret Davidson to cut the first turf at the site at Inchmore in Glenmoriston.

‘This will be a sister hatchery to the one at Lochailort we opened in 2013,’ said Bracken.

‘It is a much needed facility for us to grow our smolts in order to supply our expanding network of sea farms across the western Highlands and islands.

‘It is part of our plans to deliver an efficient and sustainable business with a long term future.’

The project is part of Marine Harvest’s investment programme to meet continuing growth in demand for Scottish farmed salmon.

Councillor Davidson said: ‘I am delighted to see work on this new hatchery get underway.

The salmon industry is very important to our

Above: Margaret Davidson with (L-R): Stephen McCaig, Marine Harvest construction manager, John Richmond, freshwater manager, Steve Bracken, business support manager, and Mick Watts, group engineer

economy and Scottish produce has a fantastic reputation across the world.

‘It is good to see new developments in Glenmoriston and Marine Harvest have made a good start with excellent relations with local people.

‘An increase in sustainable local employment opportunities is also very welcome.’

Also present at the ceremony were representatives from the West Glenmoriston Community Company and Fort Augustus and Glenmoriston Community Council.

Two new industry members strengthen SAIC board THE Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has appointed Ben Hadfield, managing director of Marine Harvest Scotland, and Paddy Campbell, managing director of BioMar, to its board.

The appointments, which took effect from August 1, see the number of industry representatives on the SAIC board increase from three to five.

Hadfield, who is also

chief operating officer of Marine Harvest’s fish feed segment, brings extensive production and technical experience.

Campbell, who held various senior level positions with BioMar before being appointed managing director in June, has in-depth knowledge of the development and production of fish feeds.

SAIC chairman Jack Perry said: ‘SAIC is for-

Above: Paddy Campbell and Ben Hadfield

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tunate to have such a committed and industry experienced board. The appointment of Ben and Paddy consolidates this further, bringing new perspectives.’

Hadfield said: ‘Having been immersed in Norwegian aquaculture over recent years, I am excited to return to the Scottish sector and focus my efforts – both at Marine Harvest Scotland and as a member of the SAIC board – on addressing the constraining factors that stand between the industry and its true potential.’

Campbell said he believes ‘that SAIC is the right model to help integrate pressing industry needs with applied R&D’.

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Salmon industry favours EEA post Brexit THE Scottish salmon industry believes it can best benefit in the post-Brexit market if Britain enters into a European Economic Area (EAA) agreement.

Scott Landsburgh, chief executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation, explained the industry’s position on Europe to Rural Affairs minister Fergus Ewing, shortly before a Scottish cabinet meeting on June 25, two days after Britain voted to leave the EU. An EEA provides for the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital within the internal market of the European Union.

Landsburgh said the industry was clearly in favour of immigration because it employs immigrants in rural

“We don’t

want constitutional speculation as that undermines confidence”

Above: Scott Landsburgh

locations on the west coast.

The price of salmon increased to almost record levels in the wake of the vote - an average of over eight euros

a kilo for Norwegian salmon, with Scottish Label Rouge reaching 10.30 euros per kilo.

‘Currently, we’re in the best market conditions we’ve ever

experienced,’ said Landsburgh. ‘There is a worldwide excess of demand over supply of salmon and the world can’t get enough of it.

It’s paying really top dollar prices at the moment.

‘That’s not going to change any time soon whether we’re in or out of Europe.What we do want as an industry, however, is

stability.We don’t want constitutional speculation as that undermines confidence in investors.

‘We want the best deal we can possibly get from the EU with regard to trade and that means, in our opinion, joining the EEA.’ He said that high market prices for salmon were countered to some extent by rising feed prices.These have

increased by 18 per cent because the industry buys all its feed – or at least the primary constituents – in dollars and the pound has dropped dramatically against the dollar.

‘Suddenly our feed costs – which are our main cost of production – have risen 18 per cent.Will one outweigh the other? Only time will tell.’

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A NEW generation aquaculture vaccine has been released into the market for commercial field trials, Benchmark announced last month.

The vaccine is the first in a series of the group’s new vaccines targeted at the €300 million Mediterranean seabass market.

It aims to provide producers with an effective control of Nodavirus — a disease that impedes growth and causes high production losses.

There was previously no effective treatment available for this endemic disease.

The trials will see a significant number

Above: Seabass

of leading producers use the new vaccine on farms at commercial scale ahead of market authorisation, a process which typically takes nine to 12 months.

Full development of the product has been undertaken in-house through exploiting the

group’s R&D expertise, vaccine manufacturing capability and aquaculture trials facilities to ensure a streamlined and secure development process.

Malcolm Pye, Benchmark’s CEO, said: ‘This is another key milestone for Benchmark.

‘This product represents a significant first for the company, as the full development process including research, design, development and manufacturing, has been delivered entirely in-house by our specialist teams.’

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Aqualife project with university ‘outstanding’

Europharma’s innovative transfer test attracts investment AN innovative test that will help farmers gauge when to transfer smolts from freshwater to seawater has received £78,190 funding.

The 12-month Rapid Response project, developed by Europharma, involves developing an onsite molecular test to provide farmers with near real-time information on whether salmon are physiologically ready to transfer to seawater.

Europharma Scotland, PrimerDesign, the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling and the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre have all invested in the initiative.

Currently, tests to determine whether salmon have completed smoltification - the physiological changes necessary to migrate safely – can take 48 hours or more and involve sending samples elsewhere in the UK or to Norway.

These delays can make it difficult for vets and producers to pinpoint the best time to transfer

the fish, sometimes resulting in salmon being transferred too early or too late, both of which can cause stress or health problems to the fish and lower harvest volumes.

If successful, the new test will result in quicker decision making, healthier fish and higher survival rates.

There is also scope to extend the project techniques into a multi-purpose ‘lab in a suitcase’ platform, enabling farmers to test almost instantly for a variety of diseases and pathogens.

Nikos Steiropoulos, managing director of Europharma Scotland, said: ‘Around 50 million salmon juveniles are stocked in UK sea cages each year, each one needing to undergo the change from freshwater to seawater. The commercial possibilities of this project are, therefore, significant; production people know how challenging the smoltification process can be for fish health and that a good start in seawater is key.

‘In addition, we will continue to work on extending capacity for on-site rapid diagnostics on key salmon pathogens.’

Lead researcher Professor Manfred Weidmann, of the University of Stirling, adds: ‘This research will provide the industry with new techniques they can use in non-lab settings and with minimal training. Not only can these new protocols significantly improve fish welfare and health, they can also ease the day-to-day decision making for a key industry in Scotland.’

STIRLING based fish care company Aqualife Services’ recent Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) has been awarded a certificate of excellence. The project was given ‘outstanding’ status by Innovate UK following independent assessment. .

The aim of the project was ‘to develop new processes and technologies to increase the efficiency and improve the animal welfare of the fish handling and vaccination process’.

Aqualife’s technical director, Phil Brown, who led the project said: ‘We were already very happy with the outcome of the KTP project.

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Aqua-Spark seeks salmon ‘alternative’ in Iceland DUTCH group Aqua-Spark, the first investment fund focused exclusively on sustainable aquaculture, is to fund an Icelandic Arctic char farm in its latest project.

Matorka is described as the most sustainable, cost-efficient, land-based salmonid farming operation in the world.

Aqua-Spark, established in 2013, has invested $2.5 million in Matorka, which aims to

Above: Standing out

produce the healthiest fish possible. They feed their fish a sustainable diet that’s absent of

ested in an Arctic char investment since we launched, as we want to offer a sustainable alternative to salmon,’ said Amy Novogratz, Aqua-Spark co-founder.

‘Matorka stood out as the right partner for absolutely every reason.’

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‘Fantastic’ first half for Norwegian exports NORWAY has unveiled a ‘fantastic first six months’ for its fishermen and fish farmers as figures announced last month show exports were up by 25 per cent on the same period last year.

Seafood exports hit a new high of 42.6 billion kroners (NOK), an increase of NOK 8.6 billion when measured against the first six months of 2015. The growth in farmed salmon sales was even higher at 28 per cent.

Geir Håvard Hanssen, director of communications at the Norwegian Seafood Council, said: ‘The Norwegian seafood industry experienced enormous growth in export value in the first six months.

‘The price of salmon is grabbing the most

Above: Sales growth

headlines, but the entire seafood industry has had a fantastic first six months.

‘These good results show that there is great demand and that we are achieving good prices for Norwegian seafood. A favourable foreign currency situation is, of course, contributing positively.’

Salmon exports totalled NOK 27.9 bil-

lion, a rise of NOK 6.2 billion. The average price for fresh whole Norwegian salmon in June was NOK 65.43, per kg versus NOK 40.85 per kg in June of last year.

Paul T Aandahl, analyst with the Norwegian Seafood Council, said: ‘Increased demand for salmon globally, in combination with reduced export volume from

Norway, has driven the price upwards.

‘The EU market has kept its share of Norwegian exports, while exports to the US have increased and are now responsible for six per cent of the Norwegian salmon exports.’

Norway exported trout worth NOK 1.9 billion in the first six months. This is an increase of 103 per cent or NOK 978 million

Irish probe impact of escapes on wild fish

‘Individual baased’ farming to target sea lice CERMAQ has launched what it describes as ‘individual based’ fish farming with its novel iFarm. The sensors of iFarm have computer vision, which recognises each individual based on the dot pattern of the salmon.

In a sensor chamber, the number of fish, fish size, number of sea lice, and possible signs of the disease are registered, meaning each fish can be treated separately.

‘There will be huge gains if growth can be channelled to the sites of the current type,’ said Cermaq CEO Geir Molkik.

‘This growth strategy will preserve and strengthen Norway’s advantage as salmon producer within the current site structure. iFarm will be a significant contribution to the solution of the area challenges that aquaculture is facing.

‘As the fish passes the sensor chamber we can take out individual fish - for example, for lice treatment.

‘We know that lice are very unevenly distributed. Thus, we can reduce lice treatment when we treat only the fish that has lice.

‘Similarly, we sort on the basis of weight and remove the fish ready for harvest without stressing the remaining fish.

‘As we can monitor each individual, we can detect whether a fish stops growing, differs from previous growth rate, or gets an unexplained decline in condition factor.

These may be symptoms that something is wrong with this fish.’

Because the iFarm sensor - a technical concept developed by BioSort AS - has the entire growth and conditional history of each individual, farmers can detect changes, and diagnostic and treatment measures can be initiated earlier.

‘This is a technological leap for cage based salmon farming, where we shift from group based operations to individual registration and treatment,’ said Molvik.

‘If we succeed with this, the growth vision can be realised within the inshore sites.’

Above: Impact of escapes will be studied

AN initiative investigating the impact of escaped farmed salmon on Ireland’s wild fish populations is one of five University College Cork projects awarded €8.5 million from the Irish government.

The research will exploit new techniques in population genomics and quantitative genetics to investigate if Atlantic salmon escaping from farms

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reduce the survival potential of wild salmon when they breed together in rivers, reported the Irish Examiner earlier this month.

The total investment in research at UCC will be €9.3 million.

Professor Anita Maguire, vice president for Research and Innovation at UCC, said: ‘Increased levels of collaboration between industry and aca-

demia have already delivered significant value to the Irish economy and initiatives like this help boost innovation through the transfer of technologies to companies.

‘Today’s announcement will also help make us more competitive when applying for research grants from Horizon2020 and other international sources of funding.’

Above: Individual monitoring for sea lice

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NEWS...

BC salmon exports hit record levels in Asia

BRITISH Columbia salmon has a rapidly growing market in Asia, according to export figures released at the end of July.

Data from Stats Canada (January to May 2016) shows exports of farmed salmon to key Asian markets is

on a record setting pace this year, with many markets already eclipsing previous annual volumes.

Exports to Japan are on track to double in 2016, with farmers already reaching 97 per cent of the total export volume

for 2015. Exports to Taiwan for 2016 have already exceeded the 2015 total.

Meanwhile, exports to South Korea are up tenfold over 2015 numbers, with more than 29,000 kg exported so far this year.

BC exported a record 54.4 million kg of farmed salmon to 11 countries in 2015. The US and China - the biggest and second biggest markets - are on-par or ahead of 2015 exports.

‘Boosting BC exports to Asia is a point of pride for communities and First Nations that work in and support the salmon farm industry,’ said Jeremy Dunn, executive director of BC Salmon Farmers Association.

‘We recently hosted 30 international buyers at the BC Seafood Festival in June, so it’s great to see our sustainable, healthy product on more plates in Asia.’

The fastest growing markets for BC farmed

salmon include Taiwan and South Korea.

‘Overall, our sales to Asia are doing very well, thanks in part to excellent quality and BC’s strategic location, which allows us to get fresh salmon to market in half the time than any other major salmon producing country,’ said Nick DiCarlo, sales manager for Cermaq Canada.

‘There is a strong global demand for salmon and we can boost BC’s exports further if provided the opportunity to carefully grow the industry.’

Dave Mergle, managing director of Ocean Quality North America, said: ‘As a global producer we

have the advantage of having our own sales team living in the region and this, along with excellent air logistics, has helped us to quickly reach the right customers.

‘Our customers really like farmed salmon from British Columbia and we see much future growth ahead.’

Salmon farming has a total economic impact of $1.1 billion in British Columbia and accounts for more than 5,000 jobs.

Salmon farmers work closely with coastal First Nations and have 20 economic impact benefit agreements in place, accounting for 78 per cent of all salmon raised in the province.

Nova Scotia unveils $2.8m investment THE Nova Scotia government has announced it is to invest $2.8 million to improve its aquaculture industry. Part of its plan is to lift the embargo for shellfish, marine plant and trout farming applications.

State Premier Stephen McNeil and fisheries and aquaculture minister Keith Colwell believe the move will bring more jobs and more commercial investment.

The province says the funding will be used on a ‘more rigorous’ approval process for new aquaculture operations, along with $2 million for research projects on how the sites affect the local environment.

At the moment salmon farming is not included in the deal, although applications can be made at a later date. The funding will also be used for planning for aquaculture development and innovation in production methods It is thought that around 70 primary producers are ready to expand their operations now

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they are free to apply for leases.

Tom Smith, executive director of the Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia, told the Canadian Chronicle Herald that the announcement will also attract interest from companies outside the province.

‘The Nova Scotia aquaculture industry is set for a new chapter of growth that will add good quality jobs and prosperity for our province, while ensuring the sustainability of our resources for future generations.

‘A large chunk of the money will be used to fund research projects. All the projects must have sustainability built into them.’

Premier McNeil said the investment would create jobs in an industry that is worth $60 million annually, supports 600 direct jobs and contributes to seafood exports valued at $1.68 billion last year. He also hoped the money would help to build up confidence in the industry.

Above: Stephen McNeil

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Farmers hit back at ‘publicity stunt’ AN anti-salmon farming campaign in Canada featuring Pamela Anderson, the former Baywatch star, has been dismissed as a misleading publicity stunt by farmers.

The campaign, launched last month by the Sea Shepard Society, plans to travel up the BC coast over the course of several weeks, stopping at various salmon farms to ‘conduct audits’.

The BC Salmon Farmers Association is concerned about the aims of this voyage.

Although the campaigners insisted they would be ‘non-aggressive and non-harassing’ when approaching farms, the Sea Shepherd Society has a long history of doing the opposite, said the BCSFA. Farming companies place great emphasis on the health and safety of employees, and the health and wellbeing of their animals, with every farm certified by third-party environmental sustainability and food safety standards.

Farmers raising Atlantic salmon have all committed to achieving the most stringent certification available – the ASC certification – by 2020, and are getting there as fast, or faster, than anyone in the world, said the BCSFA. Salmon on farms are healthy, with about 90 per cent surviving through to market. Fish on farms are examined on a daily basis, with thousands of laboratory tests done each year in BC to ensure that farmers know the exact health

Above: Pamela Anderson - conducting ‘audits’

status of their stock.Eiffel BCSFA executive director Tower Jeremy Dunn said: ‘We’re disappointed that this 324 m latest publicity stunt is attempting to paint a misleading picture of an industry that provides a

healthy, sustainable product that feeds millions of people.

‘Our industry is obsessed with the health of salmon as salmon health is essential to the success of our industry.

‘BC salmon farmers are involved with the Pacific Salmon Foundation, Department of Fisheries & Oceans, UBC, and others in the Strategic Salmon Health Initiative – the largest single study into the health of salmon on the BC coast ever undertaken.

‘A world class research team is currently testing close to 30,000 samples of wild, hatchery and farm raised salmon. We are relying on this team to ensure advocacy and research do not get confused. It is important to distinguish research from advocacy. Both are legitimate but they are different. The research question that is the focus of this voyage seems to be the presence of the virus PRV .Like people, all animals have thousands of viruses. What we worry about is do they cause disease. The answer for salmon and PRV after years of study is no.

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Rio 2016 serves up responsibly sourced seafood

Above: Extraordinary effort. Below: Tilapia

ATTENDEES of the Olympic and Paralympic Games are enjoying sustainably and responsibly sourced seafood, thanks to an extraordinary effort by the Rio 2016 Olympic Organising Committee and its partners.

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More than 70 tonnes, equivalent to more than 350,000 portions, of seafood served to athletes and media at the Games will come from fisheries or farms which meet the requirements of the Marine Steward-

ship Council (MSC) or Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC). This represents the most sustainable seafood offering to date of any Olympic or Paralympic Games.

Seafood served with the green ASC or blue

MSC label can be traced back to fisheries and farmers that are independently certified as meeting globally recognised standards for sustainable wild fishing or responsible farming.

Included on various menus within the Olympic Village, Media Village and media centres are: ASC certified responsibly farmed Brazilian tilapia from Netuno and Chilean salmon from Los Fiordos.

Delivering its commitment to sustainably and responsibly sourced seafood has required the Rio 2016 Olympic Organising Committee and its partners to bring new supplies of certified seafood to Brazil. As a result, numerous

farms and fisheries across the region have taken steps to improve their environmental performance.

Chris Ninnes, chief executive of the ASC, said: ‘With this landmark commitment by the Games, local suppliers and caterers can showcase the best

of Brazilian cuisine to a global audience and create lasting change by emphasising the importance of making the right choice when buying seafood. The public can join the effort to preserve fish for future generations by buying from producers who share their goals.’

Aquaculture boost for PEI The Prince Edward Island government is spending more than $140,000 on aquaculture programmes to help develop the industry, reported the local press.

Of that funding, $93,800 will go to the Aquaculture Futures Programme, with another $50,000 to the Aquaculture Technology Programme.

Matt Sullivan, executive director of the PEI Aquaculture Alliance, said the industry values the support to maintain the province’s position as a centre for sustainable seafood.

‘We are very happy that the provincial government continues to support the growing aquaculture sector,’ he said.

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All the latest industry news from around the world

South Korea and Iran in joint farm talks THE governments of South Korea and Iran have agreed to hold talks on fishery co-operation including setting up a joint fish farming venture.

The two countries have already held preliminary discussions and the news follows a trade show in Tehran in May where 80 Korean companies were represented.

South Korea is rich in fishery resources, but after years of pressure on wild fish stocks, conventional fishing has declined and given way to increased aquaculture related activity. It is now the world’s seventh largest fish farmer.

Extensive aquaculture has been practised in Korea for several hundred years, but modern intensive aquaculture (mainly for seaweed and shellfish) did not emerge until the 1960s. It has now grow into a major industry.

Joint ventures with other countries are coming into vogue.

There have been deliberate efforts to shift from the production of low value aquaculture, such as seaweeds, to high value species, such as oysters, in South Korea.

The government has been pursuing a long-term aquaculture development programme through the expansion of areas for

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aquaculture and the intensified development of both profitable and unexploited species The Seoul government said in a statement last month that it is to begin discussions with Iran on boosting their bilateral cooperation in the fisheries sector that will include a joint fish farming venture.

Korea News reported that the talks will be held in Iran involving officials from South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and their Iranian counterparts.

The visiting officials from the South Korean ministry will also check the feasibility of a joint venture in fish farming.

Iran is already the largest fish farming nation in the Middle East, annually producing some 325,000 tonnes of fishery products through farming, the ministry said in a press release. In 2015, Iran purchased 155,000 tonnes of fishery products, worth $21 million, from South Korea.

‘A joint venture in the Iranian market will not only provide an opportunity for our fish farming industry to leap forward, but it may also help create a Korean wave of fishery products in Iran,’ a spokesman for the Seoul government said.

Oman plans projects worth $607m SOME 17 applications for commercial aquaculture projects worth $607.7 million are currently awaiting approval in Oman, reported the Oman Daily Observer. The projects’ average production will be approximately 35,000 tonnes of various species.

Dawood bin Suleiman al Yahya’ee, director of the Aquaculture Development Department at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, said that applications could be submitted for commercial aquaculture projects, on land and at sea, between August 7 and September 8.

He added that those projects are intended for Omani institutions and companies wishing to establish commercial aquaculture projects.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries offers several locations allocated for the commercial aquaculture projects in the governorates of Muscat, South Al Sharqiyah and Al Wosta.

Mega RAS farm for China SINO-AGRO Foods Inc (SIAF), a US firm operating aquaculture systems in China, is building what will be the world’s largest indoor RAS farm, with a minimum production target of 100,000 tonnes per year of giant freshwater prawns, Asian cod, and freshwater eels.

The farm is designed to achieve a maximum annual production of 300,000 tonnes, according to a report by the Global Aquaculture Advocate.

SIAF operates indoor and outdoor recirculating aquaculture systems and has developed its a-Power Recirculating Aquaculture System (APRAS) over the past 11 years, aiming to reduce the

costs of RAS. Because of faster product cycles and higher turnover, coupled with year-round and stable indoor farming environmental conditions, the projected production is more than 13 times traditional pond culture of penaeid shrimps.

Species have been chosen for their adaptability to the system and their market price, and SIAF is confident in the

Chinese market.

The project is located on 600 acres of prime agricultural land in the centre of one of the world’s most highly urbanised regions in Guangdong Province, across the bay from Hong Kong.

A production unit of three buildings is targeted to produce 10,000 tonnes per year. A total of 12 units will be built in a phased construction plan to 2024.

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Aquaculture Europe 2016 – Edinburgh

Stirling reunion Institute’s global network to meet at EAS conference in Edinburgh

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taff and students of the Institute of Aquaculture, at the University of Stirling, are looking to kick off a new academic year with a record attendance at the European Aquaculture Society annual conference.

The conference is coming to the UK for the first time and with it being located in Edinburgh, less than an hour from the Stirling

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campus, Institute staff and students have been working with the conference organising committees to make sure that Aquaculture Europe 2016 is a success.

Dr Andrew Davie, from the Reproduction and Genetics group at the IoA and one of the conference programme co-chairs, said: ‘It has been a pleasure to work with the EAS and all the members of the steering and local organising committees to help shape AE2016.

‘This year’s theme is Food for Thought and we hope the programme and invited plenary speakers will do just that… give delegates the food for thought to ultimately help stimulate expansion across the sector.’

Many of the Institute senior staff will be chairing sessions, ranging in subject from globalisation of the aquaculture industry to the latest advances in nutrition and disease research.

This year’s student president of the European Aquaculture Society student group is Antonios Chalaris, a PhD student at the Institute of Aquaculture.

He has been helping to create an engaging

student programme that will give the student body an opportunity to meet with industry mentors, while also building networks in interesting Edinburgh venues.

The Institute will be exhibiting at stands 15/16 at the conference trade show, where it will be promoting its wide range of training opportunities and research activities.

Recently appointed deputy director of the Institute, Professor Hervé Migaud, said: ‘We’re hoping for a sizeable turnout of our alumni from both the academic and commercial worlds.

‘I’m looking forward to reconnecting with other alumni, as well as the opportunity to network and explore potential collaboration opportunities.’

The Institute will be hosting a lunch for alumni who will be attending the conference.

The intention is to celebrate the many years of research and teaching activity at the Institute while also providing an insight into what the future holds.

Says Prof Migaud: ‘This is a very exciting time as we develop an ambitious vision for

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Stirling reunion

TOP TEAM TO ADVANCE FUTURE VISION

Picture - Back row: Director of Facilities James Dick, faculty manager Owen Adams. Front row: Deputy director Professor Herve Migaud, director Professor Malcolm MacLeod and director of Research and Knowledge Exchange Professor Brett Glencross

THE University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture unveiled a new management team last month to take the leading research and teaching centre forward.

The team is led by newly appointed interim director Professor Malcolm MacLeod, deputy principal (Operational Strategy and External Affairs). He is backed up by deputy director, Professor Herve Migaud.

The executive committee also comprises Professor Brett Glencross, director of Research, Dr Darren Green, director of Learning and Teaching, and James Dick, director of Facilities.

Institute of Aquaculture director Professor MacLeod said: ‘This new team brings together an impressive mix of cutting edge skills and valued experience in the sector which will help us advance our ambitious vision for the institute.

‘Tasked with developing a new strategy which continues to champion pioneering research and teaching in aquaculture, and takes an outward looking, international approach to operations, we look forward to an exciting period of growth.’

The team will now oversee development of new state-of-the-art fish and laboratory facilities to support the world leading research carried out on campus.

‘We will continue to forge and maintain strong relationships with industry and develop strategic partnerships with research institutes across the globe in order to build on our existing success,’ said Professor MacLeod.

The institute management team will attend the European Aquaculture Society conference at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC).

Opposite page: EAS student president Antonios Chalaris. Above: Stirling - at the forefront of aquaculture research

strategy as well as an opportunity to meet staff and network with other alumni attending the conference.

To register for this free event please contact alumni@stir.ac.uk. The venue within the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) the future of the Institute and University with will be confirmed upon registration.

Aquaculture Europe 2016 is at the EICC from September 20-23, major investments in our facilities and staff.

2016 ‘We are looking forward to sharing our plans and exchanging ideas with our fantastic alumni community from all around the world.’

The Institute of Aquaculture would be delighted to welcome alumni attending Aquaculture Europe 2016 to join current staff for lunch on Wednesday, September 21, at 1pm.

There will be a presentation of the Institute’s

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Aquaculture Europe 2016 – SSPO

Focus

BY JAMIE SMITH

on farmers

Salmon sector will be able to engage with researchers

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he European Aquaculture Society’s annual conference in Edinburgh provides an important forum where Scotland’s fish farming sector and Europe’s leading aquaculture scientists can meet and exchange the latest knowledge, experience and research.

The conference is one of the more applied academic meetings in the calendar, and to support its applied focus it has been organised by a cross party steering committee, headed up by Dr Mark James (MASTS) which has drawn input from the local industry.

From the SSPO and salmon farming industry’s perspective, it has been important to help guide the programme and structure of the event to cover subjects we consider of key relevance, while appreciating the fact that this event re-

The “ cleaner fish

meeting will further strengthen the existing links we have with our Norwegian colleagues

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Left and right: Project teams and salmon farmers will be able to discuss research at the Edinburgh conference

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mains, largely, an academic conference.

Key for the Scottish salmon farming industry is the broad range of themes covered by the conference programme, which not only include production but consider the entire value chain, with sessions on health, nutrition, certification, governance, regulation and many more.

This diverse programme is, therefore, likely to be of interest to people from many different levels of our members’ businesses, from senior management to those working directly on the farm.

It is also a great opportunity for us to hear updates on some of the large European projects currently underway, and indeed those nearing completion, specifically projects that may have some relevance for Scottish salmon farmers.

We have never been shy in saying that, as a sector, we are sometimes frustrated that the key outputs of research are not relayed back to the industry in a timely manner, and this conference will hopefully help to address that and give salmon farmers the opportunity to engage directly with project teams.

We are also greatly encouraged by the inclusion of parallel meeting events and workshops, which will occur outside the main conference talks. These are likely to draw in further industry interest as they are perhaps more focused on optimising best practice and exchanging experiences among farmers and support industries – essentially discussing what is happening ‘on-the-ground’ today.

In particular, we look forward to the cleaner fish meeting on September 22.

This will provide an excellent opportunity to further strengthen the existing links we have with our Norwegian colleagues and will help drive forward best practice in cleaner fish production and use.

From an SSPO perspective, we are extremely pleased that our chair, Anne MacColl, will be giving one of the plenary lectures, on Friday, September 23.

Farmed salmon remains Scotland’s largest aquaculture sector and, with a strong focus on both domestic and international markets, has for many years been Scotland’s largest food export.

As such, it is extremely important that the sector is well represented at the conference and Anne’s keynote presentation will help set a distinctly Scottish theme to the event. Anne will discuss how innovation has led to the evolution of salmon farming in Scotland, how research has increased aquaculture production and what our future looks like in Scotland.

Anne is also a member of the Vision 2030 group, a cross sector working party which, over the course of the last six months, has been engaging with relevant stakeholders to better understand Scottish aquaculture’s development aspirations for the future, specifically targeting 2030.

The project is nearing its final stages, with its report due later this

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year. The timing of the EAS event, along with Anne’s attendance, will no doubt work well for the Vision 2030 project, providing the group with further opportunity for engagement with the aquaculture sector, and for refining the detail of the report. The SSPO and its members are certainly looking forward to

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its publication later this year All in all, the EAS conference is a key event for Scottish aquaculture, and something we, as a sector, should be very proud to see come to Scotland. The SSPO’s technical team will be attending, along, no doubt, with key figures from the Scottish salmon farming sector.

And we look forward to seeing you all at the event, and to having the opportunity to make new acquaintances and renew old friendships.

Jamie Smith is technical executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation (SSPO) and a member of the Aquaculture Europe 2016 steering committee. FF

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Opinion – Brexit

BY RONNIE SOUTAR

What happens to vets European membership has had massive impact on manpower and medicines

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s MD of a company serving the salmon farming industry and as a vet working to protect and promote fish health, the UK’s membership of the EU has a massive impact upon my working life.

The consequences of June’s referendum vote and the impact of the Brexit negotiations are therefore of real and significant interest.

Speaking personally, and I don’t seek to represent anyone else here, I remain very definitely pro-EU and am proud that this was the majority opinion in Scotland. What that means for Scotland’s relationship with the rest of the UK just adds to the uncertainty which will prevail over the next few years!

There are, of course, big questions over the implications of Brexit for the industry in which I make my living. What agreements, for example, will affect the trade in Scottish salmon and how will that impact upon investment in Scottish aquaculture?

For me as a fish vet, though, the focus is narrower – what will Brexit mean for manpower and medicines?

Many of the brightest and best of the new generation of fish vets have come from other EU countries to work here in the UK. I know that there is real and understandable concern in this section of the veterinary community over both the direct consequences of the referendum result and what that vote says about the UK’s attitude towards them.

I believe it is vital we look after these colleagues, make sure they know they are valued and fight to protect their ability to continue their good work here.

Everyone involved in UK aquaculture will know that the armoury of medicines available to fish vets, wherever we come from, is pitifully small.

Our ability to use those medicines is further

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For “ evidence of

whether it is possible for aquaculture to thrive outwith the EU we only have to look to Norway

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Above: Access to medicines must be maintained

restricted by environmental regulations.

For food fish other than salmon, there are often no authorised medicines (or vaccines) with which to combat specific conditions. We therefore rely to some degree on mutual recognition of EU medicines and to a greater extent on the Cascade.

The Cascade is a practical legislative provision which, in the words of the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD), ‘allows a veterinary surgeon to prescribe unauthorised medicines that would not otherwise be permitted’.

It falls within the Veterinary Medicines Regulations which implement EU legislation into UK law. Without the Cascade we could only prescribe medicines in strict accordance with their Marketing Authorisation: there would be no flexibility on dose or duration of treatment and no cross-species use.

I have absolutely no doubt that, under those circumstances, fish welfare would suffer and that some farms would be put out of business.

Of course, the medicines regulations exist primarily to protect consumers, particularly in regard to preventing the risk of medicines residues in food.

Under the Cascade, farmed fish may only be treated with medicines whose active ingredients are authorised in the EU for use in a food producing species.

That generally means that a Maximum Residue Limit has been set for those components; those MRL limits are set under EU law.

It’s therefore absolutely essential that, as the implications of Brexit are worked through, our access to preventative and therapeutic fish medicines is at least maintained at the current level.

My impression of the VMD to date has been that it has a pragmatic and balanced approach. This really has to be protected and nurtured if aquaculture, and livestock farming more generally, has any chance of competing in the altered competitive environment.

For evidence on whether it is possible for aquaculture to thrive and for fish vets to do their job outwith the EU, we only have to look to Norway.

Perhaps the most likely outcome of the Brexit negotiations is that fish farming in the UK will end up on an equal footing with Norway – or as equal as you can get when you are one tenth the size of the competition.

For exporting to the EU, that means complying with EU requirements.

Fish vets will have a significant part to play in that compliance, we just won’t have a say any more in what we have to comply with. Now there’s progress!

Ronnie Soutar is managing director of Aqualife (www.aqualifeservices. com). He was formerly director of Veterinary Services at the University of Edinburgh. FF

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Comment

BY DR MARTIN JAFFA

Lost toppings Fewer choices for consumers as salmon price soars

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hen I was growing up, breakfast time meant a bowl of cereal and staring into nothingness. Sometimes, the cereal packet was left on the table and time was spent reading the list of ingredients and wondering what riboflavin or ascorbic acid tasted like.

Nowadays, breakfast is eaten with the distraction of the iPad or iPhone (other makes are available) and hence reading cereal boxes has become a thing of the past.

However, while putting away the Weetabix one morning, my eye was caught by the word ‘salmon’ on the back of the pack.

Closer investigation revealed a headline – ‘How will you top it?’ This was accompanied by three recipes, one of which was for ‘Super Salmon’. Smoked salmon and cream cheese is something closely associated with a bagel but Weetabix are suggesting that they be used for a topping on a Weetabix biscuit.

Weetabix is not the most exciting cereal when drowned in milk but dry? I get the feeling that there must be some form of desperation before eating a dry Weetabix even if topped with smoked salmon and cream cheese, as well as lemon juice, chives and a slice of cucumber.

But then who thought of putting a slice of raw salmon on a lump of cold rice and yet sushi is now popular throughout the world.

While traditionalists might insist on raw fish, sushi is evolving to encompass a whole range of toppings, including tuna - not a slice of fresh raw tuna but a spoonful of cooked tuna straight out of the can.

Vegetable toppings have always been an option but chicken tikka sushi sandwich or sweet chilli chicken or red Thai chicken (what

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Salmon then was “perceived as hugely

versatile and could be made into anything and everything

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might be described as a culture clash)? Actually chicken on sushi is nothing new but it isn’t what I first think of when talking about sushi.

Mixing foods ingredients is no longer new following some of the food fusion trends that have evolved over the years.

Salmon has moved away from the time when it was a luxury food, and mostly served as a whole poached salmon centrepiece on a special occasion, to become an everyday meal choice.

A few years ago, I was asked to give a presentation at a meeting and I chose the title ‘Salmon – a world tour’.

I was told that the audience expected to hear about salmon from the main producing countries of Norway, Scotland, the Faroes, Chile and Tasmania, but salmon is salmon irrespective of the country of origin.

What they got were examples of added value

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Lost toppings

Above: Salmon with fried vegetables

ready to eat/cook salmon dishes with strong connections to about 20 countries around the world.

Dishes included salmon teriyaki, salmon tandoori, salmon in black bean sauce, salmon tacos and salmon lasagne.

The point was not that these were produced in the respective nations of Japan, India, China, Mexico or Italy but all were made by processors in the UK for sale in local supermarkets. Salmon was then perceived as hugely versatile and could be made into anything and everything.

Sadly, these products have now disappeared from the UK retail sector as salmon has become too expensive to be used as a base for added value processing. The resulting dishes would now be just too expensive for UK consumers.

High prices may be good for producers but they are damaging the market place. Salmon farming changed the market image of salmon from a premium food available to a few to a widely available affordable meal choice. As a result, salmonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s popularity soared.

Now, salmon may still be popular but its appeal is threatened as the prospect increases that it will become even costlier to buy. In the case of salmon, it seems we have already undergone Brexit as we have lost the

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cultural diversity of dishes in our supermarkets.

The industry does not have to be governed by the spot price. It can decide whether the future is one of high prices and a loss of versatility or, alternatively, it can accept a reasonable margin and promote salmon as the first choice when it comes to fish, especially in terms of the type of added value processing that will open salmon up to the widest range of potential consumers.

This is the dilemma facing the sector as I consider whether a dry Weetabix is really the most attractive option for consumers to eat salmon. There is nothing wrong with Weetabix for breakfast but a bagel is still the preferred base for cream cheese and salmon.

Dr Martin Jaffa is a consultant with 40 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience in the salmon industry.

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Trade Associations – SSPO Opinion – Politics

BY PROFESSOR PHIL THOMAS

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This is impacting at a variety levels: public consultation onquality, new commitment and care of the people involved – the professional skills, policy development; formulation of new legislation; large scale national experti se, passion anddevelopment dedication ofplanning. the producers themselves. and smaller scale local our ‘place production’public givestrust us a huge natural advanItInisScotland claimed that there isofdiminishing in experts; there is tage because we grow fi sh in the pristi ne coastal waters of some of scepticism about industry funded science; and a growing concern about the most beautifulon and wild scenicscience. areas ofInthe world, and our brand political influences government many public debates con-is protected by its status. theorists are not hard to find. troversy is rife andPGI conspiracy Likewise, this, adopti onnumber of the Scotti sh Finfish Code of Good Practiince Alongside the of ‘independent providers of public allied with the industry’s deep commitment to a range of independent formation’ has increased substantially. Many of these are advocates or farm qualityfor assurance campaigners a single programmes, chosen cause.including the RSPCA fish welfare scheme, on the underlying strength of our statutory regulatory There arebuilds few legal or professional safeguards on the facts and opinsystems assure our productiincluding on systems. ions they to offer.

Some providers, well recognised NGOs, were Finally, the skills, se, passion dedicati on of increasingly our farmers established with veryexperti high moral ideals and but have become can be demonstrated in abundance day in and day out – and they were embroiled in political lobbying. showcased by the recent awards event. are well founded. In a society In this context, Katherine Viner’s concerns However, being wholly objecti ve and forward well-being looking, it crucially is this third whose health, environment and socio-economic area of provenance where the Scotti sh industry has greatest scope depend on science and innovation, constant technology advance is for systemati c development.

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Season’s The othermeetings side of the pond

Shellfish the focus of three autumn forums, from Scotland to the US Can the Association of Scottish Shellfish Growers learn anything from 8Dr CaththeMcLeod s shellfish growth diminishes with the approach of autumn so it way becomes America’s EasttimeCoast Growers Association is organised? a suitable to talk Shellfish about shellfish.

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by Dr Nick Lake, CEO of the Association of Scottish Shellfish Growers growers’Herve association a few allies, started (ASSG).

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While setting up the ECSGA, Skid continued to run his own company, farming and marketing oysters trading as Moonstone Oysters working out of Narragansett, Rhode Island, and he is still an adjunct faculty member in the University of Rhode Island’s Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture. He established the East Coast Shellfish Research Institute and has been successful in attracting several

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Assessment will talk about the ‘EU status of norovirus: what are the real food safety substantial federal research to address research risksgrants associated with critical seafoodindustry consumption?’ priorities.

Dr Melody Clark of the British Antarctic SurHow has the ECSGA grown it still growing? veyand will is give a talk titled ‘Shellfish in a changWe grow in membership by about 10 to per cent yearreport and weon ing world: not so 20 bleak?’.

Thisa will had a sharp increase thisthe pastCACHE year, but we still onlyishave small fracproject which a farareaching tion of the industry as members.

Of the 1,300climate farms on the examination of estimated factors around change East Coast, we only have and about 15 per cent.

The nature of the industry how these may impact on commercial is such that many farmersshellfish are veryculture. small, part-time operations who won’t pay dues. There are There few large several of these believe will farms, also beand talks on harmful algal they don’t need to join an association.

They hire their own lobbyist. blooms and how to can manage them, manageWhat are the main issues facing ECSGA? species and practical issues ment of invasive We spend a lot of time around and energy dealing with Itshellfish transportation. should sanitation all make for Below: Historic issues.

Vibrio parahaemolyticus control seems to dominate much of my a very interesting day.

Charleston, setti ng for time. We are also trying toI rectify trade war with the EU so but we can have tothe plead special interest here of ICSR conference restore some of the lucrative connections we had in EU markets the three shellfish events the highlight five has years ago. We are trying to to be getthe acknowledgement forinthe ecosystem ASSG conference Oban from services we provide through nutrient we are conOctober 6-7. credit Early trading, Octoberand in Oban before stantly working to improve andcan expand harvesttime areas. thewater clocksquality go back be a lovely and Are there different chapters in the ECSGA or are are often members mainly the shellfish lunches taken out on oyster folk? the balcony of the Corran Halls, where the We represent about 60conference per cent clam farms, 40 per cent oyster farms is held. and there is a nascent mussel Thisindustry. year the ASSG is 30 years old so the I have heard you talk at theme conferences about the importance of lobbyis to be ‘Scottish cultivated shellfish ing – what do you advise?

– past, present and future’. While there may It is really important to be ensure the regulators don’t youthe out30of somethat element of looking backput over business. If you are not involved in the writing regula3 the years, mainprocess thrust of will be thethe future of tions, then the law of unintended consequences dictates that they will the industry. probably hurt you if you don’t yourself.

You to the participate Withprotect the Crown Estate asneed one of main in the scientific research,sponsors, the publicthe outreach and the education of your opening speaker will be Gareth legislators. By demonstrating the greenCommissioner jobs, the sustainable 08/02/2013 11:24:01 Baird, thegrowth CrowninEstate for seafood production and the ecosystem benefits, we can enlist the help Scotland. of politicians when the regulators or if weMussels have a need of reMichaelget Taitcrazy, of Shetland will pose search dollars. Educatingthe thequestion legislators constant Scottish task. There is huge asistoa whether shellfish turnover and they know have nothing industry.

If you don’t have theabout roomyour to grow, addressing the 2013 time to do it then you need to pay someone to do it for you.

This is why vision and challenges. busy professionals are members of trade associations.

A mixture of the recent past and the future Is export a major interest forbeyour growers? will covered

by Ian Wright of Isle of Barra We are experiencing anoysters/Traighe explosion in theMhor market for oysters Oysters in his right talk on now, so there is not a lotthe of surplus production to send problems in setting up theoverseas, company,but now in its second year of operation.

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While there may be some “element of looking back, the

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We will also have the opportunity to hear about the mussel hatchery development in Shetland from Gregg Arthur of NAFC, and also the potential for oyster selection from Tom Ashton of Xelect St Andrews.

ASSG is also fortunate in being able to host Dr Carter Newell from the US, who will bring the American view on mussel culture, with an update on new advancements in mussel growing technology there. These include his own, patent pending submersible mussel raft plus a variety of technological innovations including utilisation of coastal monitoring LOBO (Land/Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory) buoys and development of a novel low-cost coastal observer buoy (COB) for key shellfish growth drivers.

Carter is also a renowned fiddler so we hope he will further enliven the traditional shellfish dinner.

The third of the trio of autumn conferences

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is the International Conference on Shellfish Restoration (ICSR). This will be the 18th meeting of the group, which is also marking its 20th year of existence, and will be held in the usual location of Charleston, South Carolina, from November 16 -19.

Shellfish restoration sounds like an esoteric topic of great specialisation but in fact the conference covers a huge range of subjects and caters for a wide range of participants, from academics, to policy people to community groups.

This latter group is very active and almost every restoration project has depended very heavily on voluntary workers.

The themes for this year’s conference cover all aspects of the subject: looking at the policies and regulations that can help or hinder moves towards shellfish restoration; the documentation of all the benefits of restoration in terms of ecosystem services provided by both the restored shellfish populations and especially the habitats they re-create; looking at the benefits to coastal communities from the restoration; and looking specifically at ecological, social and economic impacts of restored shellfish population.

Since all this is not happening in isolation, one theme will be considering the impacts of climate change. And since the US very much leads the way in shellfish restoration, the final theme is actually directed at new projects, invited to present at the conference with the hope that they can get feedback from past projects and experience.

The ICSR is a very sociable event with such a wide range of participants and the music provided by some of the crowd is really exceptional!

All the conferences are going to provide a lot of discussion and information on shellfish – if you have to choose just one here’s a summary: Best for city life, accessibility and customised conference facilities EAS conference, Edinburgh Best for seafood and to access most Scottish shellfish growers - ASSG conference, Oban.

Best for live music, winter sun and breadth of interest – ICSR, US. FF

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Trade Associations – British Trout Association

Poor performance How can the sector in Europe achieve profitable growth?

BY OLIVER ROUTLEDGE, BTA CHAIRMAN

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efore assessing the prospects for the cultivation of rainbow trout it is helpful to take a look at performance of the sector in recent years, although all fish farmers are well aware that the past is not always the best indicator for future achievements.

However, in the words of the FAO, the rainbow trout ‘is a hardy fish that is easy to spawn, fast growing, tolerant to a wide range of environments and handling and…easily weaned on to an artificial diet’. As a result, it is a popular candidate for cultivation around the world.

Indeed, the production of rainbow trout has grown exponentially since the 1950s (see Fig 1), with global production almost trebling over the past 25 years, from 278,000 tonnes in 1990 to a high point of 882,000 tonnes in 2012.

There has, though, been a decline to 818,000 tonnes in 2013 and 813,000 tonnes in 2014 (FAO FishStat), so the period of growth could be argued to have come to a halt.

Nevertheless, the farming of rainbow trout appears to be a significant success story for the aquaculture industry, supplying valuable protein and contributing to food security in a world where hunger remains a major issue for many millions.

The geographical spread of production is global, with significant production volumes in numerous countries, ranging from Chile to Iran, Japan and Australia and across North America and Europe.

However, focusing nearer to home and on more recent history, aggregate finfish farm output in Europe has risen from 1.4 million tonnes in 2005 to 2.3 million tonnes in 2014, an increase of 67.5 per cent, while European trout production has risen more modestly, from some 331,000 tonnes in 2005 to just over 385,000 tonnes in 2014 (all data from ‘FEAP Production Report 2005-2014’).

This represents an increase of 16 per cent over the 10 years, although growth has not been steady for either ‘portion trout’ or ‘large trout’ (the latter defined as more than 1.2 kilos live

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weight), with major drops in production in various years (see Figs 2 and 3).

These ups and downs reflect the incidence of disease or climatic extremes (drought and flood) and illustrate the risk attached to fish farming, even with a ‘hardy’ animal like rainbow trout.

As a result, trout production has declined from 24 per cent of total European farmed finfish output to just over 16 per cent in 2014.

In EU member states alone, finfish aquaculture has failed to grow significantly in the period 2005 to 2014, with what can only be described as a mar-

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ginal increase of eight per cent over the decade, from 596,000 tonnes to 644,000 tonnes (Fig 4).

Trout production in the EU appears to have suffered from the same lassitude, exhibiting a gentle decline curve from 219,000 tonnes in 2005 (39.6 per cent of global trout output) to 186,000 tonnes in 2012 (21.7 per cent), before staging a modest recovery to 197,000 tonnes in 2014 (24 per cent).

However, trout remains the largest single species of farmed fish in the EU at around 30 per cent of total production.

In the UK, production has basically flat-lined over the period 2005 to 2013, generally oscillating between 11,000 and 13,000 tonnes per year (Fig 5).

However, there were increases in both portion and large trout volumes in 2014, leading to a total of 15,000 tonnes, so there are some tentative signs of expansion in the sector.

Against the background of a worldwide increase in rainbow trout production during this 10-year period of 45 per cent, the European performance appears – to put it mildly- somewhat anaemic, which naturally raises the question: why? And as a supplementary: how can the sector achieve profitable growth in the future?

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UK producers believe that areas where there could be significant improvement in our operating environment include the difficulty in obtaining appropriate sites, the regulatory burden (including the protracted process of securing permission to operate a new site), relatively low market prices and ever increasing operating costs.

These issues will all be examined in detail in the September issue of Fish Farmer. FF

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Industry pioneers – Goatsbridge Trout Farm

Fishwife’s tale Building up one of Ireland’s original aquaculture businesses ‘There is no doubt of the quality of this product, the real proof is in the flavour and what a flavour that is. It is a real winner from every point of view. The farm is pristine, using only the best feed, ethical practices and giving more than due respect to the Little Arrigle river that flows through it. The Kirwans are fiercely passionate and determined operators. They know the value of the provenance of their product and are fully immersed in the history and hard work that is their heritage. Long may it continue.’- Good Food Ireland

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ag Kirwan has spent more than 25 years farming trout and is the business brains behind the Irish enterprise she married into. She is also a trained biochemist, a marketing wiz and now book editor, so to describe her as a fishwife is a bit condescending.

However, that’s what she says she was when she first joined her husband to be, Ger, at his parents’ Kilkenny farm – and it is also how she is branding her latest venture, a trout recipe book.

Mag and Ger, an engineer, met at University College Dublin and when they graduated he headed back to the family firm, in Goatsbridge, on the banks of the Little Arrigle, outside Thomastown.

Mag, meanwhile, went to work as a biochemist but she soon joined

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Ger and decided to get stuck into rainbow trout farming.

Goatsbridge was established in the early 1960s by Padraig and Rita Kirwan (now aged 90 and 81), and was the first commercial trout farm in Ireland, selling fish to the local restaurants and hotels.

Mag, with a relevant academic background and her own family’s entrepreneurial spirit (they were horse breeders), worked with Ger and his parents, learning the trade, working in the hatchery and in packaging.

were going to give our customers what they wanted

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Left: Mag and Ger Kirwan. Above: Pond reared trout. Right: Processing expertise

‘I was quite happy because I loved it,’ she says, having discovered a passion for the product early on.

‘Over time we started to grow the market.

One day before we were married I remember saying to Ger, ‘this is an amazing product, why aren’t you talking about it? You should be telling the story’. It was almost like a defining moment.’

As Ger’s parents began to retire, the young couple looked at the business critically and considered how they could develop it.

‘We decided we were going to give our customers what they wanted as opposed to what we wanted to give them,’ said Mag. ‘The easiest thing to do would be to pull the fish out of the pond and give them to our customers. We realised we needed to process the fish – people weren’t buying whole fish any more.

‘We started to work with the Irish Food Board and BIM (the Irish seafood board) and ask people there with marketing expertise for help.

‘There’s that saying - if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day but if you teach him how to fish you feed him for life – and that’s what we went looking for. We went looking for that expertise and knowledge so that we could try to put that back into our own business so that we could feed ourselves every day.’

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Mag educated herself in business management and finance, and she did a course in IT. She and Ger agreed that he would look after the farming side and she would look after business development.

‘We started to listen to our customers and talked to other trout farmers to see what was happening in places like the British Trout Association, in terms of trends, in terms of consumers.

‘We started to bring all that back to our own business; we started to smoke some products, and market our fish more.

‘One of the things we found was that people didn’t know how to cook it, and they had a perception of trout being a strong tasting fish

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Ireland’s only trout caviar “Producing was a door-opener for us ”

Above: Goatsbridge markets under its Eat Trout brand. Right: Ger Kirwan

when in fact it’s a delicate tasting fish compared to salmon, for example.’

The other significant development is what Mag calls ‘psychological selling’ - trout was the first fish in Ireland to be sold in unit prices, instead of by kilo. Housewives, said Mag, could work out more easily how much it would cost to feed their families.

‘For that market share you had to go the extra mile - it’s not rocket science, and it’s not that we were massively innovative really.’

The Kirwans grew the business by looking outwardly, talking to chefs

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Winning recipe Mag Kirwan opened a cook book a couple of months ago and there was one recipe on trout. At least there is one, she thought, but then she found it was actually for salmon.

‘I said to myself, I’m not even going to moan about this, I’m going to do a book which has more than one recipe on trout.’

The result is called ‘Fishwives’ and contains a selection of trout recipes from high-profile women in Ireland from diverse backgrounds and professions.

and to restaurants, doing tastings in supermarkets and attending trade shows, both locally and internationally.

From these experiences they developed the value added products that have put Goatsbridge on the food map.

‘One thing we did which was very much a door opener for us in relation of publicity was producing Ireland’s only trout caviar,’ said Mag. ‘We did that about five or six years ago and the day we launched it we were on the main evening news! We were in the media all day long. It was trending on Twitter, it was phenomenal.’

They developed the product after a visit to the Boston Seafood Expo, where they met

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some trout farmers from North Carolina.

‘They had a trout caviar and were way ahead of us as a business – they were on Twitter and Facebook and had value added products – and so I said can we come and see you,’ said Mag. Two months later she and Ger spent a week in North Carolina and the following year they invited their new friends back to Ireland, to Savour Kilkenny, the annual food festival.

Mag stripped trout for the first time at the Teagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre in Dublin but she wanted to find a more efficient way of producing caviar.

Further inspiration came after a meeting at the Brussels Expo with the French trout experts Aqualande. Mag got herself invited to their facility too, along with a food technologist from BIM - the trout farming community is clearly a very supportive one.

Goatsbridge adapted the French process to its own needs and began producing its famous trout caviar, mostly for the Irish market, that has now won awards.

‘It’s a very important product for us,’ said Mag, ‘if you mention Goatsbridge people say caviar!’

They also have a new smoked trout pate and are now selling everything they produce, mainly to the Irish market, in supermarkets and in restaurants.

With its own processing and packaging facilities, as well as a visitor centre and shop, Goatsbridge is a very different operation to that created in the 60s. It now produces about 620 tonnes under its own brand, which includes trout raised by another fish farm, and there are plans to continue expanding.

The market is very buoyant at the moment in Ireland, said Mag, and Goatsbridge had been exploring opportunities in the UK before Brexit.

‘We were fairly well down the line in making progress in the UK and working on a market entry programme…but because of the EU referendum vote we’re proceeding cautiously now.’

Mag and Ger will be at Aquaculture Europe 2016 in Edinburgh in September to meet more friends and spread the word about Goatsbridge to a wider audience. FF

Goatsbridge Trout is funding the entire cost of producing the book and all the profits will go to Hospice Africa Uganda, where Mag’s sister, the well-known Irish journalist Miriam Donohoe, has been working.

The book will be published on October 28 and Dr Anne Merriman, the former nun who pioneered the hospice movement in Africa, will be in Ireland for the launch at the annual food festival, Savour Kilkenny.

‘Fishwives’ costs €20 a copy – contact Mag for more information (www.goatsbridgetrout.ie).

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Farm visit – Loch Seaforth

All aboard for barge launch Investment in feed system at remote site is ‘future proofing’

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eed barges are usually delivered without much of a fanfare so when Fish Farmer was invited to the Outer Hebrides last month to attend the official handing over of an AKVA barge to Marine Harvest, we knew it would be something special.

And so it proved. The vessel is the biggest feed barge yet acquired for a Scottish farm and merited a high profile visit from the senior management of both companies to its new home at Loch Seaforth on Harris.

Marine Harvest Scotland managing director Ben Hadfield, operations director Gideon Pringle and seawater manager David MacGillivray joined the Seaforth staff at the remote farm, along with AKVA Group’s managing director David Thorburn, UK sales director Dougie Johnson and other members of AKVA’s Inverness based team.

The new barge – a 450 tonne Panorama - and a new 320 tonne barge for Loch Stulaidghll on Uist, represent a £3 million investment by Marine Harvest specifically to meet the demands of its more exposed sites in the Western Isles.

The Loch Seaforth barge, built in Talinn, Estonia, is about a ten-minute journey (by an AKVA Polar Circle rib) from the shore base, which has also been recently upgraded by the company.

The barge sits between two adjoining Marine Harvest farms in the outer reaches of the loch, its eight feed lines supplying both sets of pens simultaneously. The maximum capacity allowed on any single farm in Scotland is 2,500 tonnes but the barge has the capacity to feed more fish if required.

Dougie Johnson said the barges, as well as equipping the industry as it moves further offshore, were ‘future proofing, offering greater flexibility if one day we get some bigger sites’.

The new barges also improve feeding efficiency and cut costs – including transport costs as they will not need filling up so often. At full capacity, the 450 tonne barge can deliver 45 tonnes of feed a day, so will be refilled every 10 days.

Currently, feed is transported overland from the east of Scotland, but Marine Harvest hopes to build a feed plant, which could be up and running as early as 2018, depending on the planning process.

The proposed £80 million facility, to be located in a quarry near Kyleakin on Skye, has been the subject of a series of public consultations, with the most recent drop-in sessions held last month in Kyleakin and Kyle.

Feedback from the local community has been predominantly positive and a planning application was expected to be submitted by the end of July.

The Loch Seaforth site has 4,310 tonnes of fish in its two farms, said

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The partnership with AKVA has been of great value in terms of developing a customised solution to meet our specific needs

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Ben Hadfield, who was checking the current biomass on the computer at the Seaforth shore base.

He said: ‘I’m delighted we are bringing this new equipment to the Western Isles as part of our drive to create an efficient industry which is sustainable in the long term.

‘These steel barges have proved themselves in very rough conditions at some of our most exposed sites and the partnership with AKVA has been of great value in terms of developing a customised solution to meet our specific needs.’

The AKVA Centre 450 tonne Panorama and the AKVA Master 320 tonne Comfort, which replace older equipment that has been moved elsewhere, each have eight silos with an automated hatch control, and can withstand wave heights of up to 6m.

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All aboard for barge launch

The steel construction allows for easy disinfection if required and the barges have a lower carbon footprint as the steel can be recycled.

Paint is guaranteed for five years on all AKVA barges, but these were given added protection with a metallised finish.

Both the new barges provide a safe and comfortable working environment with full overview and control of all the systems.

The latest feeding and integrated feedback monitoring systems can be controlled remotely from a shore base using the AKVA Connect software platform.

Johnson said centralising feed control was important, especially on more remote sites, as it allows the best feed people in the company to monitor and tweak the systems, from headquarters if necessary, to ensure precision. Given

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that feed is the most expensive production cost, getting it right is crucial.

Robbie MacKenzie, manager of the Seaforth site, said a team of eight work shifts on the barge. A minimum of two people have to be on board during the day, and everyone works five out of seven days.

The working day starts at 7am and ends at 4pm, with the majority of the feed dispensed in the morning, distributed from the giant silos through the eight feed lines. On a bank of computer and visual display screens, the Marine Harvest staff get a complete overview from which to observe the fish and how they are feeding with the AKVA camera system.

Overnight, feeding stops and the 100m circular pens are aerated through ‘air stones’. In the morning, a member of the team takes water samples from the pens to analyse in the on-board ‘lab’ for signs of, for example, potentially harmful algae or jellyfish.

Feed barges have been used routinely in salmon farming for many years now and allow the companies to store larger quantities of feed which can be delivered by sea. This minimises waste and reduces environmental impact. FF

Clockwise from top: The new barge; farm manager Robbie Mackenzie with Stewart Davidson and Ben Hadfield; AKVA’s David Thorburn at the handover; spacious accommodation; Thorburn and Hadfield

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Farm visit – Loch Seaforth

Striking early

Marine Harvest operations director outlines key to sea lice control

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arine Harvest’s operations director of farming believes the company can achieve 99.9 per cent sea lice clearance with a range of different treatments and prevention measures.

Gideon Pringle, who rejoined Marine Harvest in April after five years at Dawnfresh, said a combination of freshwater treatments, cleaner fish and the use of tarpaulin ‘skirts’ around all sea cages will meet the target set by Marine Harvest of .1 adult female lice per fish, which is below the .5 criteria suggested by the SSPO. The use of Salmosan Vet in freshwater bath

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treatments has been particularly effective, with the process taking as little as three hours so fish can be returned quickly to the pens.

At Marine Harvest’s Seaforth site, farm managers have devised an ingenious system to provide a ready supply of fresh water, via a loch on the other side of the surrounding hills.

Marine Harvest sought and gained permission to pump water from the inland loch through pipes and into a 100m pen ‘reservoir’ adjoining the farm.

The pen is encased within a Botngaard tarpaulin so the fresh water can be stored, and then pumped aboard the Ronja Challenger, the company’s latest

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Striking early well boat, which has now been taken off harvesting and deployed to tackle sea lice.

Pringle said the plan was to tow a similar reservoir pen, containing 4,000 tonnes of fresh water, to Skye to treat other locations.

Ben Hadfield, Marine Harvest Scotland managing director, said ‘one day everybody will be doing this’.

The key to Marine Harvest’s lice control strategy is to strike as soon as a problem is detected.

If just one cage is over the company’s own target, ‘we will put our full resources on that cage’, said Pringle.

So instead of having to later treat the whole farm, the outbreak can be nailed with one cage and ‘we don’t drive resistance’.

By treating for lice early enough, the female has fewer opportunities to mate, the life cycle is broken and there is less chance of an escalation of infestation. Marine Harvest Scotland has looked at best practice in Norway, where sea lice are now less of a challenge.

‘We will bring in Inter Caledonia to treat a single cage,’ said Pringle. ‘Our target is zero lice.’

Inter Caledonia, the first of the two new well boats delivered to Marine Harvest this year, uses reverse osmosis technology to turn sea water into fresh water at a rate of 200m3 an hour.

Marine Harvest Scotland has also engineered its own patented ‘hydro flusher’ machines that play a crucial role in tackling localised problems before the whole farm is affected.

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Opposite: The ‘reservoir’ with fresh water from an inland loch. Above: Marine Harvest’s upgraded site at Seaforth

There will be four in the ‘fleet’ by September, along with a new Steinsvik Thermolicer that arrives this month.

These machines, which are proving effective in removing lice mechanically, are each run by a crew of four and Marine Harvest is now recruiting a manager to head the team.

The flushers, which guide the fish forwards and then backwards through ‘blades’ to remove lice more efficiently, can eradicate 70 per cent of the parasites, with the rest being removed in subsequent low salinity bath treatments.

Although the flushers are unique to Marine Harvest, Pringle said ‘there is no competition over sea lice’ and experience is shared with other farmers.

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Farm visit – Loch Seaforth

One farm sited further inshore on Loch Seaforth is owned and operated by another company but there is an Area Management Agreement to coordinate the loch system in an attempt to control lice infestations.

Marine Harvest’s integrated pest management strategy has also seen the extensive deployment of cleaner fish, with 50 per cent of farms now covered, either by wrasse or lumpsuckers.

Around one million farmed lumpfish will be used on Marine Harvest Scotland farms this year

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and Pringle said they would like to do more, but further research needs to be undertaken in areas such as the development of vaccinations.

A site at an undisclosed location – ‘outside Scotland’ - is being investigated for farming lumpsuckers and if approved could meet the company’s entire demand for the species.

About half of the wrasse used in Marine Harvest sites this year will be farmed and half captured, but by 2018, three quarters will be farmed, and by 2019, it will be 100 per cent, said Pringle.

The company is involved in several collaborations to address the bottlenecks in both wrasse and lumpfish rearing and to improve husbandry and boost production, and it has ploughed £12 million into research projects.

But Pringle said much depends on individual farmers – ‘cleaner fish need well trained staff.

The fish require daily care and attention and this demands a whole array of learning and understanding’.

The group is now looking for a ‘training tsar’, a wrasse performance manager, to get all employees up to speed on the practical challenges of cleaner fish farming.

‘You need to build success farm by farm,’ said Pringle. FF

Clockwise from above: Visiting Marine Harvest’s Loch Seaforth farm; Ben Hadfield examines the reservoir; the salmon pens lie in the outer reaches of the loch; a Botngaard tarpaulin keeps fresh water in the reservoir; the jetty at Seaforth

WORLD’S BEST FRESH WATER TRANSPORTERS Water has been towed to arid regions in ‘water bags’ since the 1990s. Between 1998 and 2002 a Norwegian company performed the world’s first large-scale water transportation by towing bags of sizes up to 10,000 tonnes from Turkey to Cyprus, a distance of 60 miles.

Since then, a Japanese company has developed new technology in water-bag transportation. Research and testing is continuing on the use of large bags for redistributing fresh water to where it is in short supply.

There have also been plans to tow icebergs, enclosed within a synthetic ‘skirt’, from polar regions to drought hit Africa Bags of water: Page 40

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Farm visit – Workboat

On heavy

duty

Dutch built utility vessels designed for open ocean conditions

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arine Harvest Scotland’s investment in its most exposed sites has seen the delivery of two new workboats for the area.

The Dutch built Beinn Mhor and Beinn Scorabhaig are designed to be robust and seaworthy vessels with stable handling characteristics on the open ocean, ideally suited to the most north-easterly part of Scotland in an area that is notorious for its severe weather.

The 1507 utility vessesls, supplied by Maritiem Cluster Friesland and Nauplius Workboats, boast exceptional manoeuvrability and can almost turn on their own axis.

A notable feature is that their hulls and decks above the waterline are hot zinc spray metallised, providing the steel with a corrosion resistant layer. This makes the hull more durable for heavy duty use, and it will not rust as easily in the event of damage to the paint system. The normal paint system is applied over the corrosion resistant layer.

The boats are equipped with two hydraulic capstans on the starboard side and a hydraulic HS Marine AK30 HE4 crane on the aft, with a lifting capacity of 3,855kg at 5.23m and 1,080kg at 13.16m.

Both vessels are specifically adapted and designed for fish farms: everything has as round and smooth a finish as possible.

‘We can’t have any nets being torn or anything getting caught,’ said Gerrit Knol, naval architect at Nauplius Workboats in Groningen.

‘To be able to work extra cleanly, a net washer and pressure washer are

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installed to disinfect everything. After all, the ships work in the food industry.

‘The design was developed to make everything antiseptic as much as possible. It was very important to minimise places where residues could be left behind.

‘Outlets and openings in the hull are on the port side because the ship is moored on the starboard side at the fish farm.’

There are doors in the gunwales at the starboard and stern of the ship to make work in the farms easier.

Knol designed the workboats in close collaboration with Maritiem Cluster Friesland, the builder, and the Scottish client.

‘The ship has a work deck of 65m². That’s unprecedented for a ship of these dimensions,’ said Knol. ‘The deck is also designed for heavy deck loads of up to two tonnes per square metre. In total, the deck can carry 32 tonnes of cargo.’

A special feature is the maintenance friendly construction, according to the builder TjeerdWiebe Bijlsma, owner of Maritiem Cluster Friesland.

‘The client asked for the hot zinc spray metalising, which is not common in ships, but certainly provides added value in a workboat that is at sea 340 days per year.

‘The ship is versatile and can be used as a general work ship, diving platform and in hydraulic engineering or offshore.’

The wheelhouse is designed for an optimal combination of work space and mess room without affecting the work space for the captain. There is enough free space in the fore cabin to build in berths and a galley if desired later. This is currently used as storage space.

‘The client did not have the accommodations built in for now because the ship is only going to be used for day work.

‘The spacious machine room is equipped with two 172 kW John Deere type 6068 AFM 85 engines that power both propellers.

‘The top has a relatively robust construction

Left: The 65 square metre work deck with crane. Opposite page clockwise from top: Beinn

Mhor and Beinn Scorabhaig; the wheel

house is designed for an optimal combination of work space and mess room; the engine room; the Beinn Scorabhaig sailing during the sea trial

THE FACTS Main engine: John Deere, 6068 AFM85, 172 kW / 230 Hp - 2300 Rpm Gearbox: TwinDisc, MGX 5090A Generator: John Deere 3029 TFG 89 Capstan: Tjenford Industry, N300-5000, Hydraulic driven Length overall: 15.50m Breadth overall: 7.32m Depth: 2.00m

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To be able to work extra cleanly, a net washer and pressure washer are installed to disinfect everything. After all, the ships work in the food industry

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to be able to withstand heavy seas,’ says Bijlsma. ‘It is reinforced with ribs and an extra horizontal brace plate.’

This combination results in a ship with stable, very seaworthy behaviour that can reach almost 10 knots.

Nauplius Workboats is a relatively young ship builder and project management agency, but that only applies to the name. The people have a very long record of service, both nationally and internationally.

They have developed ships and delivered orders from northern Russia to Australia, from the Middle East to South East Asia, as well as in Europe.

Maritiem Cluster Friesland builds and converts ships both in its shipyard and on site, sometimes in collaboration with subcontractors. FF

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09/08/2016 15:23:44

Advertorial – Norwegian Weather Protection

From Viking sailing to fresh water transport and storage Norwegian solution set for farm trials

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WP has since its inception designed and produced tarpaulins, tailor made tents, storage halls, boat covers and other products of high quality for both industrial and private use.

Above: Viking boat from a Norwegian fjord - near Flåm on the west coast NORWAY, Scotland and the Faroe Islands have set high standards in the fight against sea lice.

‘We all have long traditions as seamen in extremely harsh waters, and this requires courage, good quality equipment and, not least, knowledge of survival at sea,’ said Arne Dalland, general manager of Norwegian Weather Protection (NWP) Aquaculture.

Norwegians have a more than 1,000-year-long tradition at sea - with a desire to explore and missions over long distances. This, says NWP, has established requirements for making boats and equipment that can withstand extreme Nordic weather.

This legacy has now been deployed in the aquaculture industry, with products tailored to meet NWP’s customers’ demands.

‘The weather on the coast of Norway, Scotland and the Faroe Islands sets the standard for the high quality of our products,’ said Dalland. ‘The knowledge and experience of our sailors, fishermen and craftsmen enable us to create solutions that last.’

Norwegian Weather Protection AS is located on the west coast of Norway, 40 minutes by car from Bergen. With 30 years’ experience delivering to fish farms, the firm produces high quality products that combine both a flexible and innovative approach to meet clients’ requirements.

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Above: Arne Dalland, general manager

Above: The new water bags for fresh water from Norway

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water is an effective way “Fresh to fight lice on salmon ” Challenges As sea lice become resistant to traditional medical treatment, one solution is the use of fresh water in treatments. It is a method that is getting more attention, both because of the effective results and the gentle handling of the fish.

Today, well boats spend time going to various water sources to refill their tanks - often over long distances.

A fresh water pool/reservoir - which NWP Aquaculture also delivers addresses the challenge for some, but this can still involve very long distances to and from the fresh water source.

To address this problem, NWP has launched a new product – the NWP Water Bag. At the company’s production facilities in Norway, Dalland has developed several innovative solutions for fish farms, including an enclosed cage concept. The water bag is his latest invention, boasting unique characteristics.

NWP, with its experience and expertise, has developed these transport bags together with the world’s leading engineers of fabric structures. The bags are very robust yet flexible, and will be certified.

the bags can be used to handle waste water after treatment.

Interest in the new product among fish farmers has been very positive so far, said Dalland, and NWP Aquaculture is preparing for trials with its first customer.

Lice skirts with a new 10-point check list NWP has also produced the third generation of its quality lice skirt, the ‘Extra Strong’.

Tow with your own workboat Some of the NWP`s water bags can be transported to and from the cage with a workboat.

They may contain from 3,000m3 of water upwards. In addition,

Above: NWP’s 10-point checklist makes choosing lice skirts easier

When purchasing lice skirts it can be difficult to choose the most suitable option when all suppliers claim to have the best product. NWP has devised a 10-point checklist to make the selection easier.

The company is in a good position to offer such advice, having set a record in producing and delivering lice skirts in the first six months of 2016, with more than 500 skirts sold.

Its new ‘Extra Strong’, version incorporates significant upgrades, with stronger and smarter solutions based on NWP’s experience and good feedback from users on the farms.

This results in an even stronger skirt that is more efficient to handle, and involves less downtime and lower lice penetration.

For more information about all NWP’s products visit www.nwp.as FF

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Advertorial – C-Feed

Great starters

World’s first commercial copepod producer expects ‘enormous’ market

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he world’s first commercial producer of live copepods is open for business in Trondheim in Norway and the company’s CEO, Tore Remman, describes his role at the head of the company as ‘truly an exciting job’.

C-Feed AS is the result of 15 years’ research and development at SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, where the aim was to produce live copepods and copepod eggs.

These small crustaceans are the natural starter feed for more or less all marine species and provide the missing link to ensure great survival rates and good nutrition for the fish at an early stage.

A typical effect of introducing copepods is better juvenile quality with natural pigmentation and fewer deformities, better initial survival rates and stress resistance, combined with increased growth which is sustained throughout the lifespan.

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We can “help to

promote new species that have proved difficult to farm so far

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Remman expands on why he finds his role so exciting: ‘Combine the facts of 15 years of R & D to get here, a great product which is mandatory for marine fish farming and a wonderful team to work with, then you understand why.’

Behind the company is a set of investors of which SINTEF Venture is the largest. SINTEF Venture is a fund investing in early stage companies from the SINTEF research and development institute.

By 2014, the copepods research was far enough advanced to enter into the commercialisation phase and the company was launched.

Following laboratory trials and partly com-

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mercial deliveries from the SINTEF labs it was decided to build a commercial production facility in Vanvikan, just across the fjord from Trondheim City.

The production plant was completed and up and running from March this year and is already in a position to deliver animals or eggs from the production.

The success of the facility is a combination of excellence in several production parameters, such as temperature, light, the algae for feeding the copepods, and so on.

Some of the parameters have even been patented.

Remman gives the greatest credit to the expertise of his team: ‘The know-how, experience and dedication that our production manager Yngve Attramadal and our biologist Elin Eidsvik have are our greatest assets I think.

‘Combine these two with an eager technical manager and marketing manager and I think I have a good management team.

‘We are able to deliver eggs, algae and live

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copepod animals in different sizes, fit for different sizes of larvae and juveniles.

‘For export we are mostly selling eggs for hatching at the customer hatchery. We also offer a full package of personal training for the staff, as well as hatching manuals.’

The company expects a slow start this year but aims for an annual turnover of several million euros per year within a short period.

‘The market for copepods is enormous and widely spread geographically,’ said Remman.

‘We expect to build markets worldwide over some years, as the largest markets are outside Norway.

‘We are already delivering to the Mediterranean and to some other European countries and we are certain that a high number of species in Asia and South America would benefit greatly from the copepods.

‘However, we are also not neglecting our domestic market, given the large production of cleaning fish such as ballan wrasse for the salmon industry.

‘Our belief is that we can successfully add value to already established species such as cleaner fish for salmon production, shrimp, seabream and many others.

‘Just as interesting is the fact that we can help to promote new species that have proved difficult to farm so far. One example of this would be bluefin tuna which seems to be dependent on copepods to survive and maintain good health during its early stages.’

Moving forwards the company is already thinking of where it can build up more capacity and enter new markets in the coming years.

The company is eager to get in touch with more customers that either have knowledge of or are curious about the effects of copepods as a feed for their fishes.

To that end C-Feed will have its own booth at EAS Edinburgh from September 20-23 this year.

‘Please feel free to visit us at the booth,’ said Remman. ‘We are excited to tell you our story and get in touch. However, if you are not attending then please visit our website (www.cfeed.no) or contact us.’ FF

Clockwise from top left: Commercialised copepod production; the production plant in Trondheim

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Advertorial – Nutriad

Beating bottlenecks Multiple benefits from functional feed additives in aquaculture

BY DR PETER COUTTEAU

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quaculture is the fastest growing industry producing animal protein. Still, aquafeed production only represents four to five per cent of global animal feed production and is fragmented over many species and countries around the globe.This lack of critical mass limits research developments, particularly for tropical species of fish and shrimp.

At the same time, the young aquaculture industry suffers from several bottlenecks which must be solved to maintain its sustainable growth and satisfy global demand for fish and shrimp in the future.

Strong fluctuations of feed ingredient prices in combination with low market prices for farmed products have repeatedly affected the profitability of all bulk species, including shrimp, marine fish, trout and pangasius.

As a result, optimising cost efficiency of feed is a major issue for aquaculture producers.The profitability of all major species is threatened by a wide range of viral, bacterial and/or parasitic diseases.

At Nutriad, we believe that functional feed additives, powered by natural, bio-active compounds with specific functional properties, are an important component of any solution for these key issues in aquaculture. Functional feed additives that enhance digestive and metabolic processes are crucial to make novel feed formulations work within the limitations of the digestive system of fish and shrimp. Also, a wide range of natural compounds with bactericidal or gut modulating capabilities have shown to be an important component of many disease prevention strategies.

Functional feeds containing gut health promotors deliver with every meal an adequate concentration of natural antimicrobial activities into the

team “Our of aqua

experts works handin-hand with producers around the globe

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Above: Allen Wu, Nutriad’s regional manager aquaculture for the Asia Pacific region, assisting at a sampling in a tilapia farm in Indonesia

digestive system. Natural feed additives combining different action mechanisms such as direct bactericide/bacteriostatic properties as well as Quorum Sensing inhibition properties at concentrations below MIC, are most promising to reduce the impact from opportunistic bacterial diseases.

Our team of aqua experts works hand-in-hand with producers around the globe to identify and resolve bottlenecks in productivity.

Find out more at www.nutriad.com FF

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Interested? Let’s get in touch: visit nutriad.com for your local contact.

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Advertorial – MSD

BY DAFYDD MORRIS

Healthy approach Summer vaccinations and the need for professional development in the salmon sector

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hile others are jetting off on holiday, the summer period is one of the busiest for Scotland’s fish farming industry when it comes to vaccinations.

The summer months are undoubtedly one of the most important periods for the UK’s salmon producers as they strive for optimum fish health.

MSD Animal Health’s fish health specialists have been working with Scotland’s top five producers over the past few months to ensure that plans are in place to support their summer vaccination programme.

Effective pre-planning with both the farmers and the vaccination teams allows us to ensure that adequate supplies of vaccine are available.

We’ll also collect the data from across farms in Scotland to assess the effectiveness of this summer vaccination programme. MSD will use that data to provide detailed analysis and feedback to our customers individually, to ensure that year on year, we learn lessons and best practice to further enhance fish health management.

We’ve also commissioned a number of videos for those working on farms which demonstrate best practice across all stages of the vaccination process.

The videos made their debut at our trade stand at May’s Aquaculture UK conference in Aviemore and have been sent out to more than 200 industry experts across Scotland, with the aim of sharing the most effective and efficient vaccination techniques and aftercare to ensure optimum fish health.

MSD remains committed to continuing professional development (CPD) in the industry and we have extensive global expertise in fish health management.

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Only through hard work and the sharing of best practice can the industry continue to grow and prosper

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Scotland earlier this year, we are arranging for a small delegation of Scottish industry experts to travel to Iceland in August as part of their CPD, to see how industry colleagues in that part of the world approach fish health management as well as exploring other best practices.

We’re also developing an industry-wide survey that will seek to gather examples of best practice and industry knowledge on a range of focus areas.

The findings will influence how MSD delivers its products and services in the future, as well as highlighting any bottlenecks or gaps in provision or education, so we can learn from each other as an industry going forward.

It’s an important time for the industry. Demand for fishery and aquaculture products remains strong, with consumption per capita increasing.

It’s more important than ever that we continue to work together to do all we can to deliver optimum fish health – not only because it delivers positive results for producers but also because we can deliver a quality and nutritious product to dinner tables across the globe.

The signs are good for the industry here in Scotland, especially in light of fish health challenges in other parts of the world.

MSD has experienced a productive year so far, with uptake of our PD3 vaccine going well to meet producers’ demands, as the industry recognises the importance of tackling health issues head on.

Only through hard work and the sharing of best practice can the industry continue to grow and prosper.

Dafydd Morris is business manager at MSD Animal Health FF

Above and right: MSD’s fish health specialists are busy with summer’s vaccination programme

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North America

On the

waterfront

Film reveals pitfalls and potential in US aquaculture industry

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espite its vast coastline, more than 90 per cent of the seafood consumed in the US is imported from overseas. The US aquaculture industry meets only five to seven per cent of the nation’s demand for seafood.

And although the world aquaculture sector is valued at $100 billion, the US produces less than one per cent of this.

American farmers are asking why they are not growing more of their own fish, as a recently released film, The Working Waterfront, reveals.

In January, NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) established rules to enable offshore aquaculture in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. NOAA is now waiting for applications, but elsewhere in the country there are already some thriving aquaculture sectors and the opportunities for expansion are immense.

In the south, catfish farming is a 330 million pound business occupying 85,000 acres. One company, Harvest Select, in Uniontown, Alabama, employs 352 people, and all the ingredients for feed (soy, wheat and corn) are produced locally, processing is local and the fish are eaten locally.

The company’s president, Randy Rhodes, said many traditional farmers in the region supplement their incomes with smaller scale catfish farms.

In the Pacific north-west, salmon farming has been a successful industry for more than 30 years. In Seattle, Alan Cook, vice president of aquaculture at Icicle Seafoods, said they have 30 pens in Puget Sound, producing about 10 million pounds of salmon.

After harvesting the pens are fallowed for a couple of months.

‘Then we test the seabed because our fish rely on a good environment – we don’t want to do things that are going to compromise the long term health of the farm,’ said Cook.

They keep 30,000 fish in a pen, a stocking density of 18 kilos per cubic metre – 98 per cent of the pen is water, said Cook, so the fish have lots of room to move.

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little stress as possible. We don’t handle them until they leave the pen.’

Icicle has an ambitious plan to increase production and is implementing a targeted campaign to permit a new farm in the next two years, but Cook acknowledges the challenges.

‘The US consumes more than 450 million pounds of farmed salmon a year but only 10 per cent is produced in the US – in Washington state or Maine.

‘If we had access to one per cent more water in Washington state and Maine we could produce all the farmed salmon to meet US demand.

‘There is no biological reason we can’t do that, it’s purely a political barrier to us investing in the industry and growing it.

‘There hasn’t been a new salmon licence issued in Washington for over 20 years,’ said Cook. ‘The process for applying for a permit is extremely challenging, very expensive and slow and there is no certainty in the system.

‘What we need is a coherent permitting system that will allow us to invest in the science required to vet the new site and go through all the legal applications that need to be in place. It’s too much of a challenge at the moment.’

In Maine, Sebastian Belle is executive director of the Maine Aquaculture Association, founded in 1974 by a group of finfish and shellfish growers.

There are 180 farms, fresh and saltwater, farming fish, shellfish and aquatic plants. As Belle says, Maine is unique in the US in its diversity and big range of species, from seaweed to oysters, mussels and salmon.

Tonie Simmons, owner of Dodge Cove Marine Farms and Muscongus Bay Aquaculture, said: ‘Aquaculture is becoming increasingly important in Maine because of the sheer growth of successful farms and farmers.’

Belle said aquaculture is still a new industry and ‘we’re learning as we’re going. We are a business based on research and development’.

‘There are tremendous research and development assets on the east coast, the west coast, in Hawaii, in the Gulf of Mexico – all important for us to be able to build the sector.

‘The irony, of course, is that much of that research is now being commercialised in other countries because it takes so long to get a busi-

Left: American aquaculture on film Above: Mussels; oysters; aquatic plants; salmon and catfish

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We need a national aquaculture “ economic development programme like we have a space programme ” ness up and running in the US.’ Stephen Eddy, director of the Centre for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR), in Franklin, Maine, said they also help new companies.

‘We’re probably the only marine hatchery in the US – and possibly the world – able to rear sandworms, sea urchins, California yellowtail, halibut, cod and others in the same facility. We have broodstock for all those species.

‘Our main goal here is to develop and diversify the aquaculture sector in Maine and in the US. We believe it’s important to farm our seafood.

Every other protein is farm raised except seafood.’

Sebastian Belle said Maine is also unique because it still has a working waterfront, with no divide between traditional fishing and aquaculture communities.

The next generation of commercial fishermen are becoming aquaculturists because of over fishing or fisheries being closed altogether.

Aquaculture provides a way to make a living on the water.

Commercial lobster fisherman turned mussel farmer Gary Moretti works alongside his son Matt in their business, Bangs Island Mussels, based in Portland, Maine.

He said: ‘To grow aquaculture in the US is going to take an educational effort – it’s not on the radar screens of anybody, it’s a new kind of ag-

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riculture. Once people understand it they begin to appreciate what the end product is – which is very good, economically viable and puts people back on the water.’

While he was a lobster man, the opportunity came up to learn about mussel farming through a federal grant administered in Maine. Most of the people who went through that are mussel farmers now.

Maine is at the forefront of aquaculture development in the US. Belle said permitting in the state used to take three years like most other states; now it takes only six months.

‘Imagine you had to wait three years for someone’s opinion before you could start your business, and then wait another three years before you saw any cash,’ he said.

‘Permitting is so important so we developed regulations that work but are not so onerous that we can’t do business.

‘We’ve learnt that regulations are a good thing but sometimes when regulators write regulations they don’t understand the nature of the business and so they need some help.

‘We’ve had so much experience and have been through leasing and permitting so many times, we now definitely have the shortest permitting time in the country.’

Belle said the industry in Maine could share its experience with other developing US aquacul-

ture sectors - ‘It’s important not to reinvent the wheel nationally.’

Back in Seattle, Alan Cook says they just want access to more farm sites.

‘It’s very complicated in Washington. Eleven different permits are required and if you don’t have them all you have nothing.

‘If we could simplify that it would go a long way towards promoting the kind of investment there is out there for salmon farming.’

Belle said: ‘We’ve been very clever in the US to do research but we’ve been slow to view aquaculture development as an economic development exercise.

‘We need a national aquaculture economic development programme like we have a space programme; a programme that targets commercial aquaculture economic development and not a programme that focuses on research alone.

‘The countries we compete against – Norway, Japan, Ireland, the EU – all have development programmes that are targeting aquaculture as an economic development tool and we’ve never done that in this country.’

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Maine chance

Sebastian Belle explains how his state has managed to thrive

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aine stands out from the rest of the US, with an aquaculture sector that is thriving. Sebastian Belle, executive director of the Maine Aquaculture Association (MAA) for the past 15 years, has helped guide this growth ‘We have done two things. We’ve built good relationships with some of the government agencies and we’ve learned how to interact with local communities in a more positive and constructive way,’ Belle told Fish Farmer.

‘That makes a big difference to people’s resistance, particularly to new operations. Existing operations have to stand on their own merits and the good ones will get support and the ones that are not so good will get some conflict, although we’ve been lucky in Maine and have had very little of that around existing operations.’

Like other states, farmers in Maine have to go through a long public process to acquire a lease, but that process has been shortened considerably over the years.

‘With regulations we haven’t reduced the number of channels we have to go through and that’s still a frustration but what we have done – and the agencies deserve some credit for this – is that they have streamlined their process and their inter-agency communication.

‘So we submit our applications to one entity and that entity then distributes the application out to the other agencies. It’s kind of a one-stop shop.’

Now the MAA is hoping to expand its 10-year leases to 20 years, hopefully within the next year, said Belle.

‘It’s a political process that has to go forward but I think from the point of view of financing in particular, 20-year leases are much more helpful.

‘We have very strict monitoring and oversight here so if somebody is doing something bad the agencies have the authority to revoke the licence at any time so the length of the lease isn’t linked to the agencies’ ability to enforce the conditions that were put on that lease.’

Ten-year leases generate more work for the agencies, more cost for the operators, and unease in the financing community.

‘So if we can reduce the workload on the agency, reduce the cost and increase the level of comfort in the banking community and not take any authority away from the agencies then it’s a win-win for everybody.’

With years of experience, the MAA has been able to build trust in the sector. Leases that might have been contentious when they were originally applied for do not attract the same opposition when they come up for renewal.

‘I can think of no leases out of the several hundred we have here in the state when they come up for renewal there’s been any opposition – or, if any, certainly anything like what was originally opposed,’ said Belle.

‘I think what that’s a measure of is that the public’s resistance to these kinds of operations, whether they’re finfish or shellfish or seaweed, is largely based on fear of the unknown.

‘The one instance when we did have resistance to renewal was when we had an operator who wasn’t very responsible and the community was right to voice their concerns at his renewal.’

The MAA, said Belle, has long had a reputation as an honest broker and this has helped the industry secure a growing foothold in the state.

‘In the early, early days of the industry people were reluctant to admit they had made mistakes and certainly we’ve changed that over the years. We

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don’t have a confrontational relationship with anybody in the community or in the various state agencies…we may not always agree, but we can work through the issues and be open.’

Belle believes it’s an advantage that the MAA, since its inception in 1974, represents all farming sectors- salmon, shellfish, and seaweed, large companies and small companies, all the different species groups and, within that, different production methods.

‘Not all of them have the same perspective and so that forces us as an association to really listen to different perspective and try to find middle ground.’

Americans have developed expertise in aquaculture but have often had to export that elsewhere – are the other states very far behind Maine?

‘I think it varies tremendously from state to state,’ said Belle. ‘One of the challenges we have in the US is what are the species that it makes sense to grow here? We have such a diversity of growing conditions.

‘Our salmon conditions are limited to Washington state and Maine and even within those states we don’t have the kind of expanse of area you have in Scotland or they have in Chile. Washington probably has larger areas that have potential than Maine.’

Will offshore developments come up with a solution, particularly in light of the decision earlier this year by NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) to offer permits in the Gulf of Mexico?

Belle said the challenge will be for the Gulf states and some of the west coast states – California being the obvious example – to get their regulatory and permitting systems ‘to be nimble enough to provide a positive investment environment’.

Investors tend to go where they can get the operations up and running quicker, and countries (nearby in Central America or Mexico) have similar growing conditions and easier permitting systems than some of the US Gulf states.

‘The challenge is that the folks who developed those rules were the Gulf of Mexico fisheries management council and they are largely run by commercial fishing interests or federal fisheries management agencies so some of those don’t think aquaculture is a great thing.

‘In some incidences they very specifically tried

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to throw up some conditions that would make it hard for a commercial fish farmer to go through the process.

‘To the federal government’s credit, NOAA tried to balance those two needs and their draft rules certainly are a start. But people will find those rules have problems once they go through the permitting process.’

How can Maine share its experiences nationally?

‘If anyone from any other state or any federal agency wants to come to Maine and tour round the sector we’ll organise it for them…we’ll take them to meet the state regulators, the farmers, and local environmental groups.

‘Local state politics are all different and people will have to solve their own local challenges. We may be able to explain how we did it but it’s likely that the solutions they come up with locally will be different because of the local politics.’

Would Maine have something to share with international visitors?

‘On the salmon front we have a lot of discussion on an international level, trying to share experiences and learn from each other.

‘That happens to a lesser extent in the shellfish sector – in part because it is much more diverse, growing different species using different methods.

‘We have as much to learn from our colleagues as they have to learn from us so it’s always a twoway exchange.’

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like the space programme – is that likely to happen?

‘I think there are several things changing that will increase the likelihood of that happening,’ he said.

‘Food prices in the US are climbing quite dramatically. Until a couple of years ago the average US household spent 10-12 per cent of its income on food. In Europe it’s more like 20-22 per cent.

‘The cost of food going up and particularly the cost of seafood – which is much higher than other protein groups – presents two possibilities: consumption of seafood will go down or we have to control costs. Domestic production is one way to do that because it reduces the cost of transport.

‘A Chilean salmon fillet and a US salmon fillet are the same price in the market place but the cost of getting the Chilean salmon to the market is significantly higher than the domestic product. So cost will drive production.

‘The second thing is that US commercial fisheries are at a plateau – we’ve lost over 150,000 jobs in commercial fishing over the last 20 years.

‘Government has been so focused on the state of the stocks but now they are focusing on the employment side and that is causing a discussion at the policy level.

‘The third thing is that within the big environmental groups in the US there is a realisation that because it’s been so difficult to start aquaculture companies here – in part because of some of the public campaigns they have funded – that investment has gone into other countries where

environmental regulations are not very strict.

‘So there is a discussion internally within some of the environmental groups that is saying we have actually caused greater environmental impact because we have deflected this investment into jurisdictions that have fewer environmental regulations.’

Belle said this debate is not being conducted publically but ‘people admit off the record that they are troubled and it’s begun to become part of a discussion internally’.

‘Before I started here, 15 years ago, I was a farmer and I talked to environmental groups and there was always a debate about whether aquaculture should occur. Within the last five years that debate has changed to how aquaculture should occur.

‘That’s an acknowledgement by the NGOs and particularly their funders, who are I think really driving this, that aquaculture is here to stay and has changed a lot since it began, and they need to focus on the ways they can contribute to improving practices.’

Of course, the industry can help itself too, said Belle: ‘We’ve been great at cheerleading to ourselves and not so great about talking to the general public about what we do. We need to get better at that.’

Sebastian Belle is executive director of the Maine Aquaculture Association. A former lobster fisherman, he has worked for many years in the aquaculture industry in the US and around the world. FF

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World – New Zealand

Breed apart

New sites for king salmon will help meet growing demand for US exports

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EW Zealand King Salmon has officially opened two new farms in Marlborough, the first new space allocated for salmon in the area for nine years.

The new sites, together with a third that has just begun operating, will eventually double capacity for the Chinook salmon producer from around 6,000 to 12,000 tonnes.

The Pelorus Sounds farms at Waitata and Kopāua were officially opened on July 12 by the Minister for Environment and MP for Nelson Dr Nick Smith.

A third farm in the Tory Channel, Ngamahau, has begun operating and an official opening is expected later in the year.

The sites add to the operating farms the company has in the Queen Charlotte Sound and the Tory Channel – Ruakaka, Otanerau, Te Pangu and Clay Point.

The company has experienced protracted and costly applications for new space but the first harvest from the Waitata farm took place in July, producing salmon averaging more than four kilograms in size.

The new sites are in the first stage of farming, with small increases allowed every three years in accordance with resource consents and environmental conditions. New Zealand King Salmon CEO Grant Rosewarne said it will be up to 16 years before each farm is fully productive.

The extra production is destined to fill the strong demand from international markets, in particular North America.

Rosewarne, who comes from a marketing background, said while farming has been challenging, the sales side has been relatively easy, led by the crea-

tion of the Ora King brand.

‘We’d spent $17 million breeding fish over 17 years and were able to prove that genetically ours was a unique breed of king salmon – in the same way that Angus is different to Hereford.

‘Provenance is often used with salmon because salmon farming, whether in Norway or Scotland or Chile, is always in beautiful places – but our breeding is a truly differentiated programme and something that we could own, and we have it registered as a breed and as a brand.’

He said salmon farming has helped put Marlborough on the map as a world class culinary destination.

‘Not only do we grow the best salmon in the world, we tell the NZ story with our brands.

‘Salmon represent one of the most sustainable ways of producing animal protein and these farms are an important addition to the regional economy.

‘They also support the government’s commitment to creating sustainable food sources through aquaculture.

‘These two new farms – and Ngamahau, yet to be officially opened – are recognition of our commitment to meeting the best practice guidelines for salmon farming issued by the Marlborough District Council in 2013 and supported by our company.

‘Our environmental credentials are in demand and internationally recognised through our accreditation with the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, and we are in an elite group of less than one per cent of salmon farmers recommended as ‘Best Choice’ by Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch and Ocean Wise,’ said Rosewarne.

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We haven’t even scratched the surface yet in terms of potential it should be celebrated in the same way the wine industry is

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Left top: Marlborough.

Left: The Kopaua barge.

Opposite top: Marlborough Mayor Alistair Sowman, MP Nick Smith and NZ King Salmon CEO Grant Rosewarne. Inset: Chinook salmon. Below: Sowman, Rosewarne and Smith

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‘The farms provide green jobs for locals, support for local industry and suppliers and add to the region’s rapidly growing reputation for high quality seafood.

‘Once fully operational, salmon farming in Marlborough will generate around $230 million in direct revenues plus flow-on business for local companies supporting the industry.

‘These include transport operators, engineering firms, science providers, tourism operators, local contractors and retail shops.’

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Waitata farm is similarly named for its location.

Both farms have been built to blend in with the local environment, with nautical style barges and muted camouflage colours. The barge at Kopaua consists of four x nine tonne feed silos, a maximum of 36 tonnes, while the Waitata barge across the bay has four X 25 tonnes, with a maximum of 100 tonnes capacity.

The pens are a new Wavemaster design with a lower profile. They are flexible so as to better cope with the seas in the more exposed sites of the Pelorus Sound. The pens at the new farms measure

between a third (Kopaua) and two thirds (Waitata) of a hectare- a rugby field is approximately one hectare- while they sit in water between 35m and 55m deep.

The Kopāua farm’s computers are controlled from the Waitata farm just across the Waitata Reach, a practice developed by NZ King Salmon at its Te Pangu and Clay Point farms in the Tory Channel.

As part of the resource consents for Waitata and Kopāua, a Tangata Whenua Advisory Panel has been established to assist NZ King Salmon on matters of importance to the iwi in the exercise of their kaitiakitanga (guardianship).

‘I’m 100 per cent confident of selling the extra fish and maintaining a premium price,’ said Rosewarne. ‘There are many more premium niches than people realise. We haven’t even scratched the surface yet in terms of potential.

‘If we can create an environment with conditions that support growth, we could be an industry that is prosperous for the entire region.

‘The value NZ King Salmon can bring to the ‘Top of the South’ is huge. We should have feed mills, processing facilities, education and all the auxiliary services that go with a successful industry. And it should be celebrated in the same way the wine industry is.’ FF

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World – Japan

BY BONNIE WAYCOTT

From Tsukiji to Toyosu Industry prepares for relocation of the world’s most famous fish market

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t’s 3am, and Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market is in full swing. Traders unload fish from vehicles and small trucks zigzag between the stalls and mazelike streets carrying boxes loaded with seafood.

Wholesalers calculate the value of products and prepare them for auctions. Buyers inspect the fish to see what they would like to bid for and for how much. Tourists wait for the pre-dawn tuna auction, while sushi restaurants outside prepare to open for the day.

But these scenes will soon be a thing of the past for the Tsukiji area, as the market prepares to say goodbye and move to a new location.

The world’s largest and busiest fish market has long been one of Tokyo’s most popular tourist destinations. Built in 1935, it’s the capital’s oldest wholesale market.

A market was first established during the Edo period (1603-1868) when fishermen were asked to provide fish for Edo castle. Anything left over was sold near Nihonbashi Bridge at one of the many specialised wholesale markets in Edo, the former name of Tokyo.

Today, the market handles nearly 500 different kinds of seafood each day. Although it’s famous for this vast selection, it also deals with plenty of fresh produce and serves as a vibrant commercial district with restaurants and specialty shops selling gourmet food and kitchen items.

The market’s biggest draw is its tuna auction. As the number of visitors is limited to 120 each day, tourists line up in the early hours for a chance to get in.

The bidders are wholesalers with stalls within the market, as well as agents for restaurants, food processing firms and large retailers. With bright lights and plenty of noise, the market has become a bustling international attraction.

Left: Entrance to Tsukiji.

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Yet things are about to change. On November 2, 2016, this cultural landmark will close its doors for the last time after operating in Tsukiji for eight decades.

On November 7, it will reopen about 2km away in the Toyosu district on a 40.7ha site, with temperature controlled buildings, improved distribution systems and a more hygienic environment.

It will also be closed off from the outside, with public access more tightly regulated.

Talks on the relocation began in 1998 when economic and technical obstacles prevented operators from rebuilding the market on its current site.

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Some believe the relocation will improve problems such as deteriorating facilities, lack of space and sanitation issues, and enhance the capital’s image in the run up to the Olympics, in 2020.

But not everyone is enthusiastic. Consumer groups and labour unions are concerned about high running costs, logistic and traffic issues, and soil and water pollution.

Indeed, the discovery of chemical contamination at the proposed site further delayed the relocation and raised concerns over food safety.

There are also fears that the market’s buzz and working class feel will disappear, as well as some of the merchants who cater to the market’s workers.

Demonstrations have been held, calling on the government to renovate the market instead, but as the day of the relocation draws near, many are resigned to a new life in Toyosu.

Despite opposition, the government is standing firm, acknowledging the recognition and

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cultural legacy of Tsukiji and outlining its aim to create a new market that will be just as good.

Some hope that the market will remain a symbol of some of Tokyo’s freshest food and that through media coverage and the huge interest

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in Japanese food such as sushi, tourists will continue to come.

The task now, they say, is to make sure that the new market becomes an establishment that everyone can be proud of. FF

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09/08/2016 15:39:09

Advertorial – HS Marine

Lift off for

cranes

Firm moves to bigger facility as aquaculture market expands

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he short lifespan of cranes operating in the marine market proved to be the inspiration for the setting up of a company based near Parma in Italy in an attempt to tackle this reliability problem in the industry.

HS Marine is a company established in 2003 by Stefano Forni (managing director) and Ermanno Rapacchi (technical manager). Both are engineers with long experience in the cranes market and both are still constantly involved in the daily activity of the company.

Their business plan was based on the observation that the marine crane market was primarily made up of truck designed cranes converted for marine usage.

All HS Marine’s crane designs have been specially developed and improved for operation in the marine environment.

All structures have been designed to take up heavy lateral forces and to have a low value of elastic deflection under load. All the parts have been designed and protected for easy maintenance and each component has been selected and designed for long life.

Forni takes up the story: ‘We totally understand what downtime means in marine business and the impact of service costs. Our goal is reliability, therefore we only use components or technical solutions of a proven long lifespan.’

The company achieved a turnover of €13 million in 2015 and now

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Right : HS Marine cranes are designed for the tough marine environment

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boasts 40 employees. A subsidiary in the Netherlands, HS Equipment, was established in 2014 for sales and service activity.

The activity of the company consists of design, painting, assembling, testing, commissioning and service. The welding activity is performed by reliable sub suppliers with a long track record, all located in Italy, and working from HS Marine drawings which are periodically inspected and evaluated by the company’s quality department.

In spite of the recent offshore and marine

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fish farming equipment needs to “beThespecially designed and developed ”

market crises, HS Marine is growing quickly. The main applications are tug and workboat, fish farming, fishing and offshore vessels.

In relation to each of these fields the company has designed special crane versions in order to always provide the best solution. The company has a very solid financial status and continuously invests its profits in research and development as well as improving the products and staff training.

Due to strong growth in recent years the company will be moving in the first half of 2017 to a new facility with 1,000 square metres of office space and an 8,000 square metre workshop.

This will allow for larger production capacity, with plans in place to add a further 3,000 square metres later next year.

The fastest area of expansion for the company is in fish farming, with increased demand for specific products of quality and reliability.

HS Marine is convinced that the industry will continue to need equipment that will ensure reliable operation for many years.

Forni says:‘For supporting the progress of the fish farming industry and guaranteeing safety, the fish farming equipment needs to be specially designed and developed for this application.

‘It is now evident to the major operators that truck cranes or marinised cranes are not a good solution for the fish farming industry.’

Rapacchi said: ‘Our cranes are prepared for

the tough marine environment and are designed and built from the ground up for marine use, with high attention to detail.

‘Together with extensive checking and tests, the result is an unparalleled strength and reliability with a superior quality.’

Bard Arne Saunes, who moved from Norway to Italy to join HS.Marine as sales manager, said: ‘As our cranes have a longer lifespan, we offer the best value that money can buy.

Our cranes simply last.

‘We design our cranes to minimise and simplify the maintenance.

‘The crane reliability reduces the need for spares and, consequently, the operational costs.

This is the reason why we get so many satisfied and repeat customers.’

In order to support customers in the fish farming market, HS Marine has established a sales and service network around the North Sea, allowing closer proximity to the clients.

Gary Scott from GS Marine in the Shetlands has become an agent for Shetland and Orkney this year. His family is a well known name in Scottish fish farming as his father was one of the pioneers of Shetland aquaculture.

With their in-depth knowledge and experience, the Scott family is pushing ahead the HS Marine brand into the Scottish market.

For more information visit www.hsmarine. net FF

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Markets & Retail News

Seafood pubs go for growth The private equity firm Penta Capital has bought a large stake in the award winning Seafood Pub Company, which should open the way for expansion

Above: Joycelyn Neve receives her award from Claudia Winkleman

PENTA has arranged an £18 million funding package to support the deal and provide funds for expansion. The funding includes additional debt support from the Royal Bank of Scotland in Manchester.

Joycelyn Neve, who founded the business

in 2010, and other members of the management team will remain substantial shareholders and continue to lead its growth.

The Seafood Pub Company began with just one outlet and now has eight pubs in north west England.

More are planned in the north of England, including a move into Yorkshire.

Torquil MacNaughton, managing partner of Penta Capital, said: ‘We were attracted to the Seafood Pub Company’s unique proposition and the fact that it had demon-

strated an impressive track record of growth since its inception only six years ago.

‘Joycelyn is a talented, young entrepreneur and we look forward to working together with her to continue to build the business.’

Meanwhile, the Seafood Pub Company has won another major accolade by picking up the Pub and Bar award at this year’s Catey awards.

Neve collected her award from television presenter Claudia Winkleman before an audience of more than 1,200 at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. The judges were im-

Natural flair We look forward to “working together to build the business ”

pressed with her natural flair for the industry .

Neve described it as a testament to the hard work of her staff. The Neves come from a long line of sea dogs, originating in Grimsby, who have fished in the North Sea and in the Irish Sea.

Put sustainability above price, says MSC survey

SUSTAINABILITY is a key driver for seafood purchases, according to new research conducted on behalf of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).

Across 21 countries, sustainability is rated more highly than price and brand, with nearly three-quarters of seafood consumers agreeing that in order to save the oceans, shoppers should only consume seafood from sustainable sources.

The survey is the largest ever global analysis of attitudes to seafood consumption.

UK’S top fish and chip shops

The UK’s top fish and chip shops were announced on August 3 by the 2017 National Fish & Chip Awards.

THE 62 shops will now compete for the ultimate accolade - Independent Takeaway Fish and Chip Shop of the Year Award – and aim to claim the title of ‘best fish and chip shop’ in the UK. Hailing from every part of the country, the contenders have been appraised by industry experts across a variety of judging criteria, including menu development and innovation, sustainable sourcing policies, customer service and staff training processes.

Over the coming weeks, shops will be subjected to further judging as they receive mystery shopping assessments. This next stage of the competition, organised by industry authority Seafish, will establish a UK top 20 that will compete to be crowned with a prestigious ‘regional’ title. The overall national winner will be announced in January.

Handing over the crown will be Bonny and James Ritchie of Simpsons Fish & Chips in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, winners of the 2016 Fish Above: Bonny and James Ritchie and Chip Shop of the Year Award.

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Danish firm offering equipment for water treatment in aquaculture is set to double its turnover this year as it builds on the steady growth achieved since the company’s launch at the end of 2012.

CM Aqua Technologies APS is based in Farum in Denmark, not far from the capital Copenhagen.

It is the brainchild of its two founding members, mechanical engineer Kurt Carlsen and biologist Henrik Mortensen.

Carlsen already had a well established career as a supervisor of projects to build fish meal and oxygen generating factories alongside sales experience selling pumps and microscreens.

Mortensen, meanwhile, brought a wealth of experience to the table after a 30-year career in the aquaculture industry as a fish farmer, consultant and teacher.

Like his co-founder, Mortensen also had a sound sales background with a track record of selling fish feed, RAS and technical equipment.

There are currently five employees working at the firm’s headquarters in Farum and they undertake a wide variety of roles coordinating sales

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and production, which is outsourced to Slovakia, Germany and other parts of Denmark.

Mortensen is bullish when asked about current revenues: ‘Revenues are increasing a lot and will probably be twice as much this year as last year,’ he told Fish Farmer.

CM Aqua works closely with its sub suppliers, both in production and in research and development.

Mortensen and Carlsen have observed that their innovative drum filters with Beecell panels create more capacity per m2, while their new drive system, Gear Wheel, creates less maintenance as there are no chains. This has proven to be a great success.

Many steel parts have been replaced by plastic and so all filters are made with a view to optimising corrosion protection. There is a growing market among saltwater RAS and other marine installations.

The company is currently a supplier to the AKVA group, CFlow, Inter Aqua and Billund as well as having an established distribution network all over the world. The two main product strands are filter technology and oxygen/gasses.

Mortensen sees the company’s role as being more than just a supplier: ‘We are not just a producer of equipment but also a partner for our customers in the design and sizing of proper solutions.

‘In these fields we intend to become the leading company to service those operating in the emerging RAS market.’

CM Aqua can be contacted at +45 211 75600 and its website can be found at www.cmaqua.dk FF

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Archive – July/August 1991

Wrasse

need due care

and attention

Encouraging progress is now being made towards understanding wrasse. JIM TREASURER of Marine Harvest describes the do’s and don’ts of capture and husbandry, based on latest experience

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ortalities and damage to salmon from sea lice are likely to continue, despite improved husbandry techniques such as extended fallow periods, cooperative management plans for each loch system/area, and reduced stocking densities.

Although the long-term solution to sea lice may be a vaccine, the only immediate alternative to chemotherapeutants is to utilise the cleaning behaviour of wrasse. It is therefore understandable that financial assistance in developing the method has been provided by the Crown Estate Commissioners and the Highlands Enterprise Trust.

The Scottish Salmon Growers Association and the Crown Estate have also funded a research student working from Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory and the Marine Biological Station, Millport, to study the biology of wrasse, and Trinity College, Dublin, meanwhile, has been awarded a grant from the EEC to look at the use of cleaner fish in Scotland, Ireland and the Mediterranean.

The Norwegians pioneered the use of wrasse in controlling sea lice on salmon farms and the Sea Fish Industry Authority carried out promising trials in Shetland in 1989/90 (Costello & Bjordal, 1990).

The industry in Scotland first used the technique from the summer of 1990 in the commercial environment, but still on an ‘experimental’ basis (Rae, 1991).

Left: Chalimus stage IV of Lepeophtheirus salmosis. Total length 2.25mm

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Capture Farmers have generally been too busy to catch their own wrasse, so a better option appears to be to buy from fishermen, who have now taken to fishing commercially for wrasse with prawn creels. Divers in Skye have also been trapping wrasse using baited fyke nets, which are used to catch eels in freshwater. Fishermen have been secretive in the methods used and in disclosing the location of capture.

The guidance provided by Peter Smith of the SFIA (Smith, 1990) appears to have given good results. Prawn creels, baited with shellfish, are set for periods of 20-30 minutes on kelp beds on rocky ground, close inshore and at water depths of 3-15m. These should be fished on a rising tide and hauled quickly to the surface to prevent the wrasse escaping.

Creels are best fished at low water, as the swimbladder may be damaged if they are fished too deep. Fishermen have designed variants to the standard creel design to prevent wrasse escaping. These include soft and one-way eyes. Fyke nets have also been tried, but many of the wrasse these captured were undersized, and some were damaged. In particular, smaller fish tended to be gilled by the head in the mesh of the leader net.

Fishermen on the Scottish east coast and in Yorkshire revealed that mainly ballan wrasse were caught in these waters. This species is notoriously unsuitable because of its aggressive behaviour towards salmon.

Wrasse are abundant in Wales, but experimental fish was hindered by strong currents which damaged pots and carried them some distance.

Distribution on the Scottish west coast is highly variable, but the Mull and Lochaline areas have given the best catches to date, with only small numbers being caught farther north. The fishery is seasonal, with best catches in summer and early autumn.

Five species of wrasse were captured in experimental fishing in Loch Linnhe (Fig 1), with goldsinny (66 per cent of catch) the most abundant. Goldsinny (85 per cent) also dominated catches in Loch Ailort, and corkwing (13 per cent) were more evident than in Linnhe. The length frequency distribution was typical of these species (Fig 2).

The fishing effort required was examined by expressing catches as numbers of fish caught per 100 prawn creels/fyke nets (Fig 3). Catches were found to be too low to make commercial fishing in these localities viable.

Higher catches were obtained using fyke nets, but 64 per cent of the goldsinnies caught this way were less than 90m in length.

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Wrasse need due care and attention found in the favoured wrasse habitat, on stony ground and in kelp. Also, a string of several creels can be set and hauled in the same time as a single fyke net. The efficiency of fyke nets can, however, be improved by linking nets, end to end, and setting them at right-angles to the shoreline.

Mesh retention Mesh retention in salmon nets was examined (Fig 4) in association with John Waters of McConnell Salmon. Only goldsinny wrasse of over 89mm length were retained by the common 12mm mesh. In several cases, smaller wrasse have been bought which escaped or were ‘gilled’ in the mesh.

A minimum length for the fishery should be set, and in view of the possibility of ‘gilling’, this should probably be 100mm. It would be possible to ask fishermen to supply wrasse of over, say, 130mm, to stock pens with 20mm mesh, but numbers in this size category are limited, and a significant premium would be asked.

Transport Wrasse have been transported in smolt transfer tanks. They appear hardy enough to withstand this, provided the tank is aerated and water temperature is kept at less than 15 deg C. Problems with condition have been encountered when fishermen have kept them too long in tanks prior to transport, giving mortalities of up to eight per cent during, and shortly after, transfer. Fish have looked thin, with considerable damage to the tail from biting by these territorial fish. Stocking rates for smolt transfer are a suitable guide for densities

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during transport: up to 2,000 wrasse (weight range from 15-50g) have been conveyed successfully, with fish arriving in good condition.

Husbandry ‘Domestication’ of wrasse by holding in a pen/ tank for several days prior to stocking with salmon at ratios of 1:10 to 1:200, is desirable (Bjordal & Costello, 1990). Salinity should be checked, as wrasse cannot tolerate reduced levels (precise limits of tolerance have still to be determined). As many sea lochs may have a surface layer of low salinity, care should be taken not to utilise water from this strata, nor to leave nets shallowed.

Shellfish, such as crushed crab or mussels, can be fed to the wrasse during this period. However, the advantages of this should be offset against bird predation which tends to be higher if wrasse are kept in a pen on their own.

Protection, in the form of a ‘hide’ or home, is required to give the wrasse the cover and dark habitat they prefer in the wild. This helps to reduce stress, affords protection from birds and encourages them away from the deadsock, to which they normally gravitate, particularly when first placed in pens.

Sectioned plastic drain pipes with small holes cut in the casing to permit entry and fine mesh netting covering the two open ends have been used. As wrasse are territorial, many smaller tubes tied together could be more effective. Lantern baskets, used in shellfish cultivation, have also been tried. There is still room for improvements, the ultimate aim being to design a home which can transfer wrasse between pens when most lice

in a pen have been consumed, or recover fish for treatment in the event of disease.

The provision of suitable hides is a key requirement when using wrasse. Further developmental work is required, and may farmers are improvising their own shelters. Further research is required into stocking ratios and the importance of the territorial behaviour of wrasse to the success of the technique.

Rearing Supply of wrasse did not appear to present any difficulty in 1990, provided farmers were willing to pay the ‘going rate’, which can still be recovered within the cost of four treatments with Aquagard.

Work on rearing wrasse continues. The SFIA have brought several hundred to their first summer, and Golden Sea Produce are developing the technique at Hunterston. Much will depend on the economics of this approach and whether the growth of wrasse can be enhanced in captivity, as they normally take three years to grow to a suitable size (Hillden, 1978) for stocking. FF

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Aberdeen seafood jobs at risk, company warns

Processor silent on fish deal capture

Nolan Seafoods in Aberdeen has warned that 40 jobs could be at risk as it restructures its business.

Extreme volatility

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The costs of doing business in Aberdeen are prohibitive

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Above: Big employer in Aberdeen

IT has entered a consultation process with staff saying market volatility and business costs have led to a decline in profits.

There has been a downturn in salmon production ‘because of a lack of supply

and extreme volatility in the marketplace along with the prohibitive costs of doing business in Aberdeen’, said a spokesman.

The company is one of the largest seafood processors in the

area, with around 230 workers employed at its Aberdeen plant.

But it is thought not to be the only UK seafood company currently facing problems.

Founded in Belfast just before the First

World War, the Nolan group expanded into Aberdeen in 2002.

The Aberdeen site was extensively upgraded in 2012 which allowed it to expand production and expand into new products.

It is a significant

processor in north east Scotland, producing salmon fillets and portions and white fish fillets and portions. Much of its output is exported to Europe.

YOUNG’S Seafood has so far remained silent on a report that it has captured a key coated fish contract from a local rival.

The company said it could not confirm or deny the report that it had taken the private label coated fish contract for the Iceland chain from Five Star Fish.

Five Star recently captured £40 million of a total £60 million Marks & Spencer contract previously held by Icelandic Seachill.

Saucy pops up in Austria

Young’s Seafood boss Grimsby firm celebrates ‘A grade’ steps down

PETE Ward stepped down as chief executive of Young’s Seafood last month after 38 years with the company.

Bill Showalter, CEO of the parent company, Young’s Seafood International Holdings, is taking on the role on an interim basis.

It has been a difficult year for Young’s, which lost a big salmon processing contract to Marine Harvest last year, but has pulled in new business to partly compensate for that loss.

Ward’s departure follows the completion of a strategic review of Young’s.

He said: ‘My commitment to the seafood industry, and the local communities in which we are located, continues to be important to me and I will now be able to dedicate more of my time to these priorities.’

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GRIMSBY salmon specialist JCS Fish celebrated its achievement last month of certification to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) A Grade – the international ‘gold standard’ for safety and quality standards.

BRC Global Standards is an independently audited safety and quality certification programme used by more than 22,000 certificated food suppliers in 123 countries.

JCS director Louise Coulbeck said: ‘Achieving BRC A Grade is a particularly big achievement for a smaller business like ours.

‘It means we can prove to our customers that we are maintaining the very highest standards of safety, quality and legal compliance.’

JCS Fish is a family seafood company which was founded in Grimsby in 2000 by Andrew and Louise Coulbeck. It produces added value salmon products for retailers under its own BigFish brand and is also a major supplier of salmon to the catering trade. The company has a turnover of around £6 million a year and employs 40 people at its site in Grimsby Fish Docks.

GRIMSBY’S award winning brand the Saucy Fish Co will be popping up in Austria this month.

In the six years since its launch, the Saucy Fish Co has changed the way millions of consumers think about fish and is now emulating this success overseas.

Winning packager

Above: Some of the team at JCS Fish celebrating their BRC A Grade

THE international packaging company DS Smith has won Young’s Supplier of the Year for Packaging award, for its work on Young’s Virtual Integration strategy. DS Smith has worked with Young’s for more than 20 years.

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Before someone jumps in and corrects me, it has occurred to them that the use of by products from processing of fish would be a good

thing.

However, there is a division on how the environmental cost of using trimmings should be evaluated.

Lifecycle analysis, a new and, in my view, very subjective science, which evaluates the overall impact of a product, sees it two ways.

The most logical is that trimmings should have zero environmental cost, as this is attached to the food element of the fishery. So this encourages the use of such materials for the further production of food.

The other view is that, by using it, we encourage fisheries which are marginally for human consumption. In other words, trimmings should carry a significant proportion of the environmental cost because its value should be balanced between its two uses.

Sorry for the heavy start but this is a complex subject in philosophy but also technically.

What both miss is that we need to look at food and the derivation of its feed in a new way but before I dive in, let’s take a look at some of the stats around on food waste to give this some context.

The below are for the UK (2007) but will give a flavour of what we face: Household waste: 6,700,000 tonnes Avoidable household waste: 4,100,000 tonnes Retailer waste: 1,600,000 tonnes The details of agricultural and processing waste are not easily available but having been involved in a business in this area, I can tell you they are substantial. Also, restaurant and food service figures are not easy to access.

As the food supply chain accounts for 20 per cent of carbon emissions, it is more shocking to think that we waste so much.

And if that doesn’t get under your skin then this waste level costs us at least £250-400 per annum each. So hopefully this has got your attention.

If not, let’s evaluate what this sort of volume might do if we could reprocess it for fish food. It may not be practically possible yet but it is theoretically.

There are marine worm species that can digest almost all of the stuff in food waste.They convert it well at close to 1:1 and yield a high omega 3 level with a decent protein level.

When dried this will yield about 20 per cent of the total biomass, which means converting that waste level would yield up to 1.6 tonnes of feed material.

When you look at that figure and realise what it would do to worldwide feed supply it is easy to see why this matters.

Please understand that I am not arguing that aquaculture should not use fishmeal and oil. I am afraid that the ENGOs have got this wrong, as in many other things.

As long as the fisheries are monitored and found sustainable then they must be used for aquaculture and the use for chicken, pigs and so on should stop.

But we need to look at all of the waste to see how it can be used in aquaculture.Whether it be insect, worm or algal protein, we need to find alternative sources for our feeds which give us the same quality of fish when all is said and done.

What this means is that we need high levels of omega 3 and all

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of the other health benefits of eating fish. As an industry we need to commit more to researching ways forward to develop this area.

Meanwhile, we now hear that Verlasso has failed.

Another example of a farming policy designed to satisfy ENGOs which wasted the investors’ money.

When will people understand that ENGOs do not understand the market, the way to farm or the best way forward for the industry? If they had personnel within their organisations who had actually farmed, or even understood the basis of setting up a business, then it might be easier to accept their view but they never seem to.

Verlasso was the blue-eyed boy of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and was approved of by others.

It is time to understand that these organisations will not underpin any company’s market.

Furthermore, we need to look at the remainder of the criticisms of aquaculture emanating from these organisations, not least of which is the ludicrous suggestion that fish farming should not occur in the sea.

The sea is two thirds of this planet and the land is already very full.To suggest that the answer is to farm onshore and leave the sea alone is irresponsible as well as idiotic. FF

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