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WASHINGTON ENDS FISH FARMING The US state of Washington’s public aquatic lands will no longer be home to commercial finfish net pen aquaculture after Commissioner Hilary Franz announced an executive order prohibiting such activities in areas managed by her agency, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

“As we’ve seen too clearly here in Washington, there is no way to safely farm finfish in open sea net pens without jeopardising our struggling native salmon…We, as a state, are going to do better by our salmon, by our fishermen, and by our tribes,” Franz said. “Commercial finfish farming is detrimental to salmon, orcas and marine habitat. I’m proud to stand with the rest of the west coast today by saying our waters are far too important to risk for fish farming profits.”

Commissioner Franz’s order will align Washington’s net pen salmon aquaculture policy with policies already in place in Alaska, California and Oregon.

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necessary changes to agency rules, policies, and procedures to prohibit commercial finfish aquaculture on state-owned aquatic lands. The order only applies to commercial net pen finfish aquaculture and does not apply to hatcheries that restorative or boost native stocks.

Commercial finfish farming has operated in marine net pens in Puget Sound for more than 40 years, operating on aquatic lands leased from DNR.

ICCAT PROTECTS BLUEFIN The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has agreed new sustainable management procedures for bluefin tuna and shortfin mako sharks and better protection for sea turtles.

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8 The new bluefin tuna management plan has been developed with active engagement of EU scientists and with EU funding

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contracting parties of ICCAT at this year’s annual meeting will see key measures put in place to ensure improved management of its fisheries.

After years of research, analysis, modelling and testing, ICCAT said that the newly adopted management procedure for the iconic bluefin tuna will be “more transparent, inclusive and robust”.

Based on the recent scientific knowledge of the stock’s reproduction and migration patterns, the new management procedure has been developed with active engagement of EU scientists and with EU funding. It will provide the basis for total allowable catches (TACs) totalling 40,570 tonnes for the eastern stock, with a share of 21,503 tonnes for the EU. The EU also tabled an ambitious proposal for the conservation of South Atlantic shortfin mako to prevent the southern stock from following the same downwards trajectory as the northern stock.

A new recommendation for the conservation of sea turtles was also agreed.

But no agreement was reached on a recommendation for a new multi-annual conservation and management programme for tropical tunas.

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QUESTION: WHEN IS A FISH NOT A FISH?

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It’s clear this attention to value is opening up more opportunities all the time

Answer: When it’s a face cream, a bandage, a dog treat, a pair of shoes, a drink…(you get the gist).

Apologies to anyone hoping for some semblance of a joke, but as our new Special Report: By-Product Solutions – Cutting Waste and Maximising Value shows, there’s literally no end to the practical, problem-solving uses of the seafood materials that we – as humans – don’t directly consume.

Fish is an incredible resource. It’s abundantly available in a rich diversity of delicious proteins and is accepted as being among the healthiest foods on our planet. What isn’t acceptable, though, is to just focus on the fillets and discard or dramatically downcycle the remaining 60% of the fish. It’s fair to say that’s neither sustainable nor good business.

Fortunately, we live in a time when most creative thinking extends well beyond the boundaries of “the box”. And it’s thanks to the increasingly common zero-waste mindset that so many commercial ventures today – new and old – not only consider what can be done with the remaining raw materials so that they don’t enter landfill, they’re seeking ways to establish more lucrative revenue streams from them.

It’s clear this attention to value is opening up more opportunities all the time. Our hope at WF is that more of you in this space share your stories and your plans with us. We want this to be the first of many such reports focused on the utilisation of rest raw materials, because we recognise just how important it is that more people understand and appreciate these endeavours. It also further evidences that the seafood economy, with all of its component sectors, is moving in the right direction – prioritising sustainability, environmental and ethical responsibility and best-practice.

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BRIEFS SalMar-NRS merger done The merger between salmon farming companies SalMar ASA and Norway Royal Salmon ASA (NRS) has been finalised. Frøya, Norwayheadquartered SalMar has acquired all the outstanding shares in NTS ASA, which owns NRS.

Cooke acquires Australia’s Tassal Cooke Inc, parent company of Cooke Aquaculture Inc of New Brunswick, Canada, has completed its acquisition of Australian Atlantic salmon and black tiger shrimp producer Tassal Group Limited. The purchase is Cooke’s first investment in Australia and the largestever for the family-owned seafood and nutritional products company since its establishment in 1985.

Faroes-Russia fisheries deal The Faroe Islands and Russia have concluded consultations on their fisheries cooperation for 2023. The arrangement includes necessary adjustments given the reduction of the total allowable catch for cod in the Barents Sea, resulting in a reduction in the quotas on both sides.

Cargill appoints new chief American global food corporation Cargill has announced that Brian Sikes has been elected President and CEO, effective 1 January 2023. Dave MacLennan assumes the role of Executive Chair of Cargill’s Board of Directors.

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MAINE LOBSTERS LOSE ECO-LABEL The Gulf of Maine lobster fishery’s Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification is being suspended amid concerns of endangered North Atlantic right whales becoming entangled in fishing gear.

MRAG Americas, a thirdparty assessor responsible for monitoring fisheries’ conformance with the MSC Fishery Standard confirmed the suspension is effective from 15 December 2022, at which point Gulf of Maine lobster will not be eligible to be sold as MSCcertified sustainable or carry the eco-label on products.

The Gulf of Maine lobster fishery was first certified in December 2016.

Explaining the move, MRAG Americas stated that over the last decade, climatedriven shifts in habitats and food sources have impacted right whale migration patterns, contributing to more interactions between right whales, fishing gear and shipping vessels.

This serious and tragic situation is of grave concern to all those involved in the fishing industry, and to the MSC, MRAG Americas said.

US federal law, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA), provide for the conservation of marine mammals, including right whales. Implementation falls under the jurisdiction of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries.

In July 2022, a federal court ruling found that regulations intended to reduce the risk of the Maine lobster fishery to right whales do not meet the legal requirements of the MMPA and ESA for fixed-gear fisheries.

Then in September, based on the new information from the court decision, MRAG Americas initiated an expedited audit of the Maine lobster fishery certification to determine if the fishery still meets the requirements of the standard.

The audit concluded with the

8 The Gulf of Maine lobster fishery first became MSC certified in December 2016

finding that as a result of the court ruling, the fishery is no longer in compliance with all relevant laws, does not meet the MSC Fisheries Standard, and therefore the certification of the Maine lobster fishery is suspended.

In the most recent assessment by the assessor, no evidence was found that the Maine lobster fishery is responsible for entanglements or interactions with right whales.

The Maine lobster fishery was previously suspended in August 2020 for similar reasons, with the suspension lifted in September 2021 when new rules were put in place to improve management of right whales, however these regulatory measures were subject to legal challenge.

Leaders react The decision has not gone down well with leaders in the US state, with Maine Senators and Governor Janet Mills have voiced their deep disappointment, saying that environmental activists have engineered the move.

In a statement, Maine Senators Susan Collins and Angus King, Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden, and Governor Mills said MSC’s temporary suspension of Maine’s lobster fishery is the result of a “yearslong campaign from misguided

environmentalist groups who seem to be hellbent on putting a proud, sustainable industry out of business without regard to the consequences of their actions”.

The leaders highlight that in MSC’s decision on the fishery there is the acknowledgment that the Maine fishery meets standards for sustainability and environmental impact and is unlikely to cause harm to right whales.

“To be clear, this decision is not a reflection on the Maine lobster industry. As the MSC clearly states, ‘there is no recent evidence that the Maine lobster fishery is responsible for entanglements or interactions with right whales.’

The temporary suspension is purely because activists with an axe to grind have weaponised the court system and the Endangered Species Act to target the livelihoods of thousands of Maine lobstermen, their families, and the communities who work responsibly to maintain the delicate balance in Maine’s waters.

Concluding, the senators expressed the hope that the MSC will reconsider the decision in light of the ongoing litigation. Additionally, they ask that any companies or people purchasing Maine lobster should view MSC’s decision purely as a result of a continuing legal process that is no fault of the fishery or lobstermen.

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Peru sets anchovy quota Peru’s Ministry of Production has authorised the start of the second season of industrial fishing for anchovy (Engraulis ringens) and white anchovy (Anchoa nasus), destined for indirect human consumption. The total maximum permissible catch limit in the north-central zone of Peru is 2,283,000 tonnes.

Kingfish makes CEO change Land-based yellowtail kingfish farming business The Kingfish Company has announced that founder Ohad Maiman is to step down from his role as CEO and will take up an advisory position with the company.

Andfjord’s fish reach 1kg Norwegian land-based salmon farmer Andfjord Salmon AS has confirmed the average weight of the salmon in its first pool at its Kvalnes site, on the island of Andøya, has now reached 1kg. Thanks to strong biological performance the fish reached the milestone well ahead of the late December 2022 forecast.

Japan secures seaweed first Jusanhama Gyokyo Youth Association – a group of 19 producers – has gained Aquaculture Stewardship Council-Marine Stewardship Council (ASC-MSC) seaweed certification for responsible and sustainable wakame and kelp production, making it the first group of farms to achieve the certification in Japan.

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NEW US SEAFOOD REGULATIONS The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule on food traceability designed to facilitate faster identification and rapid removal of potentially contaminated food from the market, resulting in fewer foodborne illnesses and/or deaths.

Foods subject to the final rule requirements appear on the Food Traceability List (FTL).

This includes certain seafood products as well as fresh cut fruits and vegetables, shell eggs and cheeses.

At the core of the final rule is a requirement that persons who manufacture, process, pack or hold food on the FTL maintain records including key data elements (KDEs) related to critical tracking events (CTEs).

Covered firms and farms, retail food establishments and restaurants will be required to provide information to the FDA within 24 hours, or some reasonable time to which the FDA agrees.

The final rule provides full and partial exemptions for some entities and foods, such as certain small producers, small retail food establishments and restaurants, farms that sell food directly to consumers, and foods that receive certain types of processing, among others.

It aligns with current industry best practices and covers domestic firms, retail food establishments, restaurants and farms, as well as foreign firms

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and farms producing food for US consumption.

According to the San Francisco-based Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST), the publication of the rule marks the most significant change in US food traceability requirements since 2010, and also creates a new regulatory regime that will have global impact.

All foreign and domestic companies participating in supply chains that sell food into the US market will have until 20 January 2026 to come into compliance with the new rules, it explained.

It further advises that the new Section 204 regulations are especially relevant for companies that are GDST members or are considering implementing the GDST’s global standards for interoperable seafood traceability, with the new rule putting a premium on digital traceability, requiring all actors in covered food

8 All foreign and domestic companies participating in supply chains that sell food into the US market will have until 20 January 2026 to comply with the new rules

supply chains to provide an electronic sortable spreadsheet containing relevant traceability information to the FDA within 24 hours of a request.

GDST said the regulations take an approach to eventbased traceability that is closely aligned with its own standards, including an emphasis on key data elements and critical tracking events.

“The release of the new Section 204 traceability regulations is a game-changer for anyone selling seafood into the US market,” GDST Executive Director Greg Brown said. “Given how closely the new rules align with the GDST approach, it is clear that implementing the GDST standards offers a businesssmart path towards the future of seafood traceability.”

MOWI BUYS INTO ICELAND Norway-headquartered Mowi has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire 51.28% of the shares in Icelandic salmon farmer Arctic Fish with the anticipated acquisition price amounting to NOK 1.88 billion.

Situated in the West Fjords, Arctic Fish has licenses for 10 ASC-approved sites in total, providing a maximum allowed biomass (MAB) of 27,100 tonnes and a further 4,800 tonnes pending approval. It expects to harvest 10,600 GWT in 2022.

Confirming the move, Mowi CEO Ivan Vindheim said, “The Icelandic salmon farming industry is set for extensive development and growth in the coming years and we take great pleasure in this opportunity to play a part. Icelandic waters provide excellent growth and living conditions for the salmon.”

He added, “Arctic Fish’s geographical footprint and competent organization fit unusually well with Mowi’s current operations and strategy.

With Mowi on board, Arctic

Fish and its other owners will be positioned for an attractive growth journey with Mowi’s extensive toolbox and strong financial position on hand, to the benefit of local communities.”

The transaction is subject to consent by the European Commission and other closing conditions.

Mowi is the largest producer of farm-raised salmon in the world, with 466,000 GWT harvest -ed in the six farming countries of Norway, Scotland, Ireland, Faroes, Canada and Chile in 2021.

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ALASKA SALMON VALUE RISES

Indonesia-MSC sustainability MOU

The Indonesian government and the Marine Stewardship Council have signed an agreement aimed at moving the country towards a sustainable blue economy. Indonesia is the world’s second biggest fish producer, with an industry worth around $27 billion.

SalMar lays off 851 staff

Norwegian-headquartered farmed salmon group SalMar ASA has sent notice of layoffs to 851 employees at its processing facilities in Frøya and Senja, with the government’s proposed new salmon tax cited as the main reason for the “deeply regrettable” job cuts.

UK government is investing a further £30 million in projects to modernise the country’s seafood processing sector. As part of the £100 million UK Seafood Fund, £20 million has already been made available for infrastructure projects.

EC develops algae sector

The European Commission has proposed 23 actions to harness the potential of algae for healthier diets, lower CO2 emissions, and to address water pollution.

The EU algae sector is expected to be worth €9 billion by 2030.

3D printed fish patent

UK government is investing Steakholder Foods Ltd (formerly MeaTech 3D) has filed a provisional US patent application based on the formation of layers of crosslinked tissue, with the deep-tech food company stating the “breakthrough methodology achieves the characteristic tender flakiness of cooked fish”.

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UK seafood sector boost

The total value of Alaska’s 2022 commercial salmon catch increased by US$77 million on 2021 to $720.4 million, according to preliminary figures published by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G).

While 2022’s value has climbed from $643.9 million, the harvest size has fallen 31% to 160.7 million fish. This decrease is explained by relatively low pink salmon run size, which is a consistent trend for even-numbered years over the last decade.

Sockeye salmon accounted for approximately 66% of the total value at $473.8 million and 47% of the harvest at 74.8 million fish. Pinks comprised 14% of the value at $102.2 million, and 43% of the harvest with 69.1 million fish, and chum contributed 15% of the value at $110.6 million and approximately 9% of the harvest at 14.9 million fish.

Coho made up approximately 2% of the value at $15 million and 1% of the harvest at 1.6 million fish, while the Chinook harvest is estimated to be just under 310,000 fish with an estimated preliminary ex-vessel value of $18.8 million.

A total of 6,126 individual permit holders made commercial salmon landings in 2022, a slight decrease from 2021 (6,362 permits).

When compared to the long-term time-series 1985– 2021, the 2022 all-species commercial salmon harvest of approximately 160.7 million fish is close to the long-term average of 167 million fish and is the largest even-year harvest since 2010.

In terms of pounds harvested, the 2022 harvest of 734.2 million pounds is slightly below the long-term average of 762 million pounds and is the third largest even year volume in the new millennium.

8 Sockeye salmon accounted for approximately 66% of 2022’s total value at $473.8 million and 47% of the harvest at 74.8 million fish

Adjusted for inflation (CPI, 2022 prices), the 2022 ex-vessel value estimate of $720.4 million is the twentyfourth lowest ex-vessel value reported since 1975.

The 2022 state-wide sockeye salmon harvest of 74.8 million fish is the largest on record, mostly due to significant harvests in the Bristol Bay Area.

These preliminary harvest and value estimates will change as fish tickets are processed and finalised, while dollar values provided by ADF&G are based on estimated ex-vessel prices and do not include post-season price adjustments.

The final value of the 2022 salmon fishery will be determined in 2023 after seafood processors, buyers, and direct marketers report total value paid to fishermen in 2022.

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NEWS

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IUU WAR – A NEW MILESTONE

Global action to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing has intensified, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), with the United Nations body noting that 100 states have now signed on to the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA).

PSMA is the first internationally binding instrument specifically designed to prevent, deter, and eliminate IUU fishing by denying port access to foreign vessels that engage in or support such practices.

“Rising consumer demand and transforming agrifood

systems in fisheries and aquaculture have driven global fish production to its highest levels and there is broad recognition of the need to step up the fight against IUU fishing,” FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said.

It’s now estimated that one in every five fish caught around the world each year originates from IUU fishing. However, with Angola, Eritrea, Morocco, and Nigeria being the latest countries to back the agreement, 60% of port states globally are now committed to the agreement to combat IUU fishing.

According to FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division

Director Manuel Barange countries have a responsibility to manage and use all aquatic resources sustainably, which necessitates working together to step up port controls and an adequate information exchange through implementation of the PSMA. FAO recently launched the PSMA Global Information Exchange System (GIES), which collects and shares official compliance-related information with a focus on port inspection results, actions taken and port entry or denials.

Along with the FAO Global Record of Fishing Vessels, Refrigerated Transport Vessels

8 Fishing boats docked in General Santos City Port Complex in the Philippines

and Supply Vessels, the platform supports PSMA nations, and complementary instruments aim to combat IUU fishing.

To-date, FAO has assisted more than 50 countries in reviewing their legislation; strengthening their institutional capacity; and improving their monitoring, control and surveillance systems and operations, to effectively implement the agreement, and fulfil their international responsibilities.

NEW ZEALAND OCEAN FARMING FIRST New Zealand King Salmon (NZKS) has been given the green light to begin farming the first open ocean finfish site in New Zealand.

Following a hearing in Blenheim last year, commissioners have just announced their decision to approve NZKS’s Blue Endeavour fish farm application.

“We’re pleased our plans to farm in the open ocean have been given the go ahead. This

is a first for New Zealand and is a significant decision for the aquaculture industry,” said Graeme Tregidga, Acting Chief Executive of NZKS. “I want to thank all who have been part of this extensive process which has taken six years to get to this point.”

Tregidga said that open ocean farming is part of the company’s long-term strategy, but the current focus remains on the company’s inshore

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farming production. He said that the next step is to study the decision and associated conditions before coming up with an implementation plan and investment options.

Blue Endeavour is an application for a 35-year consent for a site which is 7km north of Cape Lambert, Marlborough, where NZKS intends to commission an initial farm with the potential to grow 4,000 tonnes of king salmon.

During the long application process, the farm garnered widespread support through Marlborough District Council, not least because of the significant boost to the economy and green job opportunities that the farm would bring.

Grant Lovell, general manager of aquaculture at NZKS, said that open ocean farming makes ”logical sense” for both the environment and for the species in the long-term.

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BRIEFS Canada’s IUU detection success Fishery officers in Canada uncovered 25 serious violations of fisheries management measures as part of their work to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the North Pacific. Overall, 42 violations were detected, 25 of them serious, including the use of prohibited gear, failure to maintain catch records, improper vessel markings and illegal retention of salmon. Shark finning and waste dumping was also spotted by Canadian aircraft.

Lerøy to lay off processors Bergen, Norwayheadquartered fish farming and fishing company Lerøy Seafood Group ASA has sent redundancy notices to 339 employees at four of its processing operations.

The affected companies are Lerøy Aurora AS (Skjervøy), Lerøy Midt AS (two plants at Hitra) and Lerøy Fossen AS (Osterøy).

King Oscar buys Aegir Thai Union Group’s wholly-owned Norwegian subsidiary King Oscar AS has acquired halfownership of Icelandic cod liver producer Aegir Seafood Company, with the parent company saying the investment has been made to “strengthen and enhance cod liver business of King Oscar and Rugen Fisch brands including OEM business.”

Grieg halts offshore project Grieg Seafood Group has put its offshore project Blu Farm on hold amid concerns over the Norwegian government’s proposed rent resource tax for salmon farming. With an investment framework of NOK 750 million, Grieg was planning to build the farm in the Rogaland area.

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ARCTIC SCALLOP PROJECT UNDERWAY Low-impact precision seabed harvester Arctic Pearl is ready to set course for the Barents Sea and the reopening of the Arctic scallop fishery for the first time in 30 years.

As a result of the technology that Ava Ocean has developed in collaboration with independent research organisation SINTEF, Norwegian regulators granted the company a five-year research quota of the species of up to 15,000 tonnes per year.

“Harvesting with minimal impact on the seabed and ecosystems is an important step towards developing sustainable fisheries. Ava Ocean is contributing to revolutionising an entire industry through developing technology for harvesting climate-friendly foods, where research and sustainability has been central throughout,” said Alexandra Bech Gjørv, President and CEO of SINTEF. She christened the ship Arctic Pearl at Fiskerstrand wharf outside Aalesund, Norway. The ship is a former oil service vessel now reinvented as a fishing vessel.

“We are delighted so many of our most important partners and supporters could be her The UK’s fishing industry will benefit from increased fishing opportunities worth nearly £5 million next year after reaching an agreement with Norway to secure access to key stocks.

According to the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), the bilateral deal secures quota of North Sea whitefish stocks worth nearly £3 million and Arctic stocks worth almost £2 million for 2023, and also gives UK vessels have access to Norwegian waters to fish their own demersal and pelagic quota.

The agreement extends arrangements agreed in 2021 on mutual access, with the UK fishing industry having access to 30,000 tonnes of whitefish stocks, including cod, haddock and hake in the North Sea. It also

today and mark the occasion with us. This is the start of the next phase in this project, and a historic day for Norwegian fisheries,” said Øystein Tvedt, CEO of Ava Ocean.

Arctic Pearl will not only commence a fishery on a seafood delicacy that has been absent from the Norwegian seafood portfolio for decades, but also perform a thorough research project documenting development and impact on flora and fauna in collaboration with the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research.

“The goal is to prove not only that we have developed a gear able to efficiently pick shells from the seabed, but also that it is possible to harvest without harming the ecosystems on the seabed or the recruitment of new shells over time. It is

8 Alexandra Bech Gjørv, President and CEO of SINTEF, christened Arctic Pearl at Fiskerstrand wharf outside Aalesund, Norway

the only way we will be able to establish a truly sustainable long-term fishery, both from an environmental and economic perspective,” Tvedt said.

During the five-year research quota, Ava Ocean wants to show the world that it is possible to enjoy more of the many food resources abundant on the seabed, without negatively impacting their fragile ecosystems.

It highlighted that there are few or no real alternatives to dredging, which is illegal in Norway, but still the most widely used method to fish bottom-dwelling seafoods internationally.

BRITS BOOSTED BY 2023 NORWAY DEAL grants each party access to fish up to 20,000 tonnes of herring in respective waters and allows 1,100 tonnes of quota transfers from Norway of key UK stocks.

Additionally, the UK is provided with 750 tonnes of cod quota in Norway’s Arctic waters.

“I’m delighted to reach a deal with Norway for 2023 which gives UK fishing vessels access to key fish stocks and quota in the North Sea and Arctic and look forward to continuing to work collaboratively with Norway and other coastal states to manage fishing sustainably,” said Fisheries Minister Mark Spencer.

The UK also has a separate arrangement with Norway under which it’s expected that more than 5,200 tonnes of additional Arctic opportunities will be transferred in 2023.

In total, this should provide the UK fleet with over 6,000 tonnes of fishing opportunities in Arctic waters.

As WF went to press, trilateral negotiations between the United Kingdom, Norway, and the EU were still on-going. In these annual negotiations, the UK agrees catch limits for the following year for six jointly managed fish stocks in the North Sea with Norway and the EU.

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GERMANY TALLIES ITS LOSSES Supported by fast-growing demand, the seafood category in Germany has experienced steady development. But domestic production continues to stagnate, reports Eugene Gerden

As has been the case for the majority of EU countries, Germany has seen significant increases in energy costs this past year. This situation has generated additional problems for local fishermen who were already having to contend with decreasing North Sea and Baltic Sea stocks, while the idling catch level has deepened the country’s dependence on imported fish.

The Federal Office for Agriculture and Food’s (BLE) estimates that Germany’s self-sufficiency in terms of fish and fish products this year is just 19%. As such, it’s one of the largest importers of fishery products in the world.

Furthermore, despite the declining catch, it has achieved a significant increase in fish consumption in recent years.

Analysts suggest the waning catch and declining stocks are the result of a number of things. Alongside overfishing, which has led to lower catch quotas, Germany has fallen foul of certain key environmental challenges, including increased water pollution and climate change, which have in turn affected the natural habitats and reproductivity of its fish.

At the same time, the domestic aquaculture sector finds itself unable to compensate for the missing wild catch volume.

The analysts’ take on Germany’s position is shared by environmentalists, who fear that the limited fish stocks in the North and Baltic Seas at present may lead to their almost complete exhaustion in the short-term. Among these, the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), one of the oldest and largest environment

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associations in Germany, asserts that a complex situation exists in the Baltic Sea, whereby despite strict catch quotas, herring and cod stocks are at historic lows, and this has led to the regular reduction of quotas for German fishers by EU authorities.

8 Salmon is Germany’s favourite seafood, accounting for 18% of the country’s total consumption in 2021

Falling quotas Germany’s catch quotas had already been drastically reduced leading up to 2022, at which point EU ministers reduced the country’s quota for western herring and cod by a further 50% and 88% respectively. Not surprisingly, with herring fishers already having seen their quota reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, the move generated considerable criticism from the fishing sector.

According to recent statements made by authorities in some of Germany’s main fishing regions, the number of commercial fishermen in their territories is steady decline, and those that remain are being hard hit by the quota cuts. For example, representatives of both the Baltics Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein regions have declared that just over 400 commercial fishermen continue to catch fish in the Baltic Sea today, whereas in 2010, there were 650 fishers earning a living, and in the early 1990s more than 1,300.

Both of these territories already offer scrapping premiums for fishing boats. They have also seen the end of established fishing cooperatives.

The situation has also been complicated by Brexit.

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INSIGHT Prior to the UK’s departure from the EU, many trawlers in Germany’s then fleet of 1,300 vessels conducted operations in UK waters. This is not the case today.

As an interim, and amid the fleet’s ever-growing losses, the German federal government and the European Commission plan to provide support to German fishermen.

It’s hoped these subsidies will allow them to stay afloat.

Healthy consumption Despite the clear problems faced by local fish producers, there are those that believe it’s not all doom and gloom as far as Germany’s seafood category is concerned. Indeed, Dr Matthias Keller, head of the Federal Association of German Fish Industry and Fish Wholesalers (Bundesverband der Deutschen Fischindustrie), maintains that the declining volume of fish production is not critical for the industry.

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To meet the demand, we need far more fish than we can produce Bernhard Feneis, German Aquaculture Association “With respect to the first six months of [2022], the production of the fish processing sector is down from 203,250 tonnes to 194,339 tonnes. This is a reduction of 4.4%. At the same time, the average value per kg of production increased by 14.4%. In total, the value of production increased by 9.3% from €979 million to €1.07 billion. This is quite a good result because 2020 and 2021 were extraordinary years for the industry,” he said.

Keller added that the federation further expects that in the fourth-quarter, production will stabilise as these months traditionally show positive growth rates.

Meanwhile, additional Bundesverband data finds that the consumption of fish in Germany has declined this year compared with 2020 and 2021, but compared to pre-Covid 2019, the decline is only 2.2%. In terms of species, salmon continues to be Germany’s most consumed fish, followed

by Alaska pollock and tuna.

As for actual fish sales, Bundesverband determines that for the first eight months of 2022, there was a 4.7% growth compared to the same period of 2019, with fresh fish sales and canned fish products being the main positive drivers for the market at present.

However, it should be noted that the high energy prices

have not only led to increased costs for German fishermen and processors, they have also pushed up prices in German retail, although fish remains at a lower premium than meat products.

Regulatory redtape Looking ahead from a seafood production perspective, analysts believe the only segment that could see growth is aquaculture.

Germany has always had a generally strong aquaculture sector, although in recent months many local fish farmers (mostly small-sized and/or family-run) have faced bankruptcy, brought by the current economic volatility.

Additionally, the industry remains highly dependent on imports. Bernhard Feneis, President Chairman of the German Aquaculture Association, explained to WF that fingerlings tend to come from Denmark or France, while market-size trout is mainly sourced from Italy.

Feneis also highlighted that while the current demand for farmed fish in Germany, particularly for trout and carp, remains strong, any further growth of production is prevented by legislation and administrative barriers.

“To meet the demand, we need far more fish than we can produce. And because consumers are now also trying to save money, high-priced segments are suffering more than the cheap producers.”

According to the Federal Statistical Office, there were around 2,300 aquaculture farms in Germany in 2020, which produced around 18,600 tonnes of fish. Of these farms, only three are recirculation-based systems, with the rest mainly comprising freshwater facilities ­– mainly ponds and flow channels.

Meanwhile, and despite the complex economic backdrop, the leading German processors have endeavoured to supply and expand the domestic market this year.

For example, Andreas Kremer, an official spokesman of Bremerhaven-based Deutsche See, one of the leading German manufacturers of fish and seafood, confirmed that the company has achieved generally good results this year.

“We have come through 2022 well overall, measured against the multitude of challenges such as Corona, energy prices and inflation. Our restaurant and foodservice channels have stabilised. This year we also completed the expansion of our self-service range under our Deutsche See brand in food retail.”

Kremer also explained that the company has compensated for the increased energy costs by implementing internal efficiency measures and increasing prices.

8 The current economic situation has many of Germany’s fish farmers under considerable pressure

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NEWHORIZONS

Focusing on Fisheries Development

ARTIFICIAL REEFS FOR BETTER BIODIVERSITY

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One UK firm is creating vibrant multitrophic communities around aquaculture sites that could significantly benefit the sector, writes Bonnie Waycott

Today, the importance and benefits of marine conservation are more well-known than ever. But although the ocean covers around 70% of the planet, less than 8% is currently protected. Meanwhile, concerns remain over commercial fishing methods, overfishing and the impact of aquaculture on the ocean through the spread of disease between wild and farmed fish or nutrient and chemical effluent discharge from farms and their knock-on effects on biodiversity. With ocean conservation high on global and regional agendas, creating a sustainable marine habitat is a key priority.

Now, one UK firm is working to protect ocean biodiversity by installing a solution that could potentially be used around the world. Founded in 2015, ARC Marine came up with reef cubes, a substrate for marine species that can help support and protect life on the seafloor and along coastlines. They are made from a low carbon alternative to Portland cement called “Marine Crete”.

Reef cubes are the flagship product of ARC Marine, which was formed originally with a plan to create an artificial reef by sinking a ship, ARC Marine’s in-house marine biologist and Business Development Manager Max Morgan-Kay told WF. “Over time this evolved, as although sinking ships creates habitats, it has associated risks and an environmental toll, including a risk of pollution from fragmentation in rough

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8 Reef cubes have been designed to be nature-inclusive

seas. ARC Marine is now host to a dedicated team of scientific and industry-leading professionals, all committed to improving the state of the oceans. The team developed the patented reef cube design, a modular concrete unit that incorporates nature-inclusive design into standard and bespoke marine infrastructure,” said Morgan-Kay. The reef cubes have been designed for marine industries to increase biodiversity and habitat value while developing clients’ infrastructure needs, allowing developers to navigate red tape surrounding construction impacts on local habitats.

Co-locating sectors As part of ARC Marine’s ongoing research, the reef cubes are currently installed near a scallop farm in Devon as part of a project called the Reef Enhancement of Fisheries & Aquaculture Sites (REFAS).

The project can be categorised under two different phases – REFAS 1 and REFAS 2 – both of which were funded by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) Seafood Innovation Fund.

REFAS 1 focuses on bringing aquaculture managers and static gear fishermen together to co-locate activities and build working relationships.

Manufacturing and deployment methods were also trialled. REFAS 2 focuses on whether biodiversity and the

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NEW HORIZONS

Species integration The modular shape of the reef cubes makes them stackable and transportable, while they can also form walls or other structures required in coastal settings. In sub-sea sectors such as aquaculture, the reef cubes can act as mooring blocks, in compliment with ARC Marine’s service offerings of mooring stability analysis/modelling and marine surveys as required for clients’ needs.

Deployment methods have been designed to utilise available ships technology so they can be forklifted, lifted, dropped or carefully placed like any other mooring solution.

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We have developed a tool that can be implemented by farmers as part of their biodiversity strategy Max Morgan-Kay, ARC Marine “The reef cubes have been designed with an internal spherical chamber, which acts as a place of refuge for fish and crustaceans, while the complex surface texture facilitates recruitment of bivalve and other settling marine species,” said Morgan-Kay. “Additionally, the circular entrance point on each face of the reef cubes minimises smothering of the sediment layer, which is important for integrating current inhabiting species. It also means that species such as European lobster can form burrows within and underneath the reef cubes.” eDNA and observational studies have revealed over 1,100 species at the REFAS 2 site, including poor cod, bib, cuttlefish (adults, juveniles and eggs), small-spotted catshark (adults and eggs), brown crab, European lobster, squat lobsters, common prawns, blue mussels, kelp, ling, multiple species of squid (and their eggs) and seabass. For the farm, this brings a host of benefits.

“Aquaculture worldwide is subject to ever-increasing regulations to minimise the effects of associated negative outputs on the ecosystem,” said Morgan-Kay. “Often, administrative bodies monitor or require reports on ecosystem damage or are choosing not to renew marine licenses due to the damage caused during a farm’s lifespan. These reports are often formed around biodiversity metrics, which act as an indicator for overall ecosystem health.”

“By increasing biodiversity around aquaculture farms, we have developed a tool that can be implemented by farmers as part of their biodiversity strategy,” MorganKay continued. “Additionally, whilst improving biodiversity values, we are attracting keystone species and ecosystem engineering species. These help regulate ecosystems and provide services that regulate biological and physical properties, which may have beneficial effects, not only on the ecosystem but also on the productivity and welfare of a farms’ livestock.”

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Rising demand The reef cubes went through many iterations of design and materials until they were perfected. As it’s not easy to innovate with cement when aiming to be as eco-systemfriendly as possible, thorough investigations were required into supply chains, the source and locality of materials and end-of-life recyclability.

Independent third-party testing was also done to demonstrate that no toxic leaching occurs in the marine environment. As a result, the team can now confidently offer reef cubes that leave a positive environmental impact, with a 91% reduction in carbon emissions, 98% recycled materials and zero plastics.

Alongside this, work is underway with the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) on the application of kelp to the reef cubes to better understand the interaction between the materials and marine plant species.

The short-term trial has shown that kelp grows well, and this was further studied by electron microscopic analysis of the attachment of the holdfast to the reef cubes. There is also some adjacent work with the Marine Biological Association to transplant native oysters onto the reef cubes, and potential for the development of IMTA models by harvesting benthic species through static gear fisheries equipment.

“We’re seeing a dramatic increase in demand for our products, as policy swings to regulate environmental degradation, and as measures to improve biodiversity increase, farm developers will look to get on top and not be left playing catch up,” said Morgan-Kay. “The more we engage with both start-ups and established players in the field, the greater our reach will become. Our research continues based on feedback from farmers, quantifying the most important metrics to them and looking at how we can distribute and demonstrate the positive effects.”

Having already received multiple orders from aquaculture for different sites in 2023, the team is now in touch with fish farms that are keen to make the reef cubes a key part of their sites.

8 Work is underway on the application of kelp to reef cubes

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abundance of commercially important crustacean species, namely brown crab and European lobster, increased within an introduced artificial reef system.

“We have seen positive early results on the focus of the study across different seasons,” said Morgan-Kay. “Additionally, eggs have been noted from cephalopod and shark species, showing the rapid integration of reef cubes into critical species lifecycles, forming nurseries, feeding grounds and refuge from predators. From this, we have a much clearer picture of which formations maximise the increase in biodiversity. In practice, this means that we can deliver the greatest positive impact while minimising resources.”

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OFF THE PLATE European seafood spend continues to increase but consumption has been heading the other way, writes Jason Holland

8 Europeans are each eating an average 23.28 kg of seafood, according to EUMOFA

The EU has consolidated its position as the world’s leading market for fishery and aquaculture products, with 2021’s total household spend on the products reaching €58.5 billion, up 7% from the previous year, and representing a decade’s increase of more than 25% in real terms when compared with 2012, confirms the latest edition of an annual study compiled by the European Market Observatory for Fisheries and Aquaculture Products (EUMOFA). However, the same analysis finds that the volume consumed has been following a declining trend.

EUMOFA’s “The EU Fish Market – 2022 Edition” finds that the bloc’s consumption of fishery and aquaculture products fell by 720,000 tonnes from 2019 to just over 10.4 million tonnes in 2020. It advises that the decline was mainly driven by a decrease in both wild and farmed production, as well as by a decrease in supplies of fishery and aquaculture products from third-countries.

These reductions are related to consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, it states, citing adverse impacts on logistics at several stages of the supply chain and the international flows of goods, as well as on production activities.

Consequently, EU per capita consumption is estimated to have dropped by 1.7 kg from 2019, reaching 23.28 kg last year. This is the lowest level in a decade. EUMOFA notes this consumption includes 16,79 kg of wild-caught products, which was down 9% from 2019, and 6.49 kg of farmed seafood, which was 1% more.

Portugal stands out as the major EU consumer at 57.67 kg per capita, although this was 4% less than the year before. Tuna was by far the most consumed species in the EU, averaging 3.1 kg per capita in 2020, versus a decade peak of 3.17 kg reached in 2019.

Fish versus meat The report notes that in all EU countries, fishery and aquaculture product expenditure is historically lower than for meat. This is also the case when it comes to volumes consumed. One reason behind the lower consumption of fish could be that consumer prices of fish have grown much more than meat prices during the last 10 years, EUMOFA suggests.

On average, EU households spend around a quarter of the amount spent on meat for purchasing fishery and

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aquaculture products. In 2021, EU households spent €231 billion on meat.

During the 2012-2021-decade, consumer prices of fishery and aquaculture products increased an average of 2.1% per year, a higher growth rate than the 1.5% recorded for the prices of meat and of all food commodities in general. This means fish prices grew 30% more than meat prices and prices of food in general over the same period.

The report explains that average fish prices began to grow significantly in 2016, and by 2021 were 20% higher than in 2012 in real terms. This was in line with increased prices of imported products, as the EU demand for fishery and aquaculture products is primarily met through imports.

The prices of meat and food also grew during the same period, but at much lower rates.

More recent data shows that in the first five months of 2022, seafood prices increased 5.9% year-on-year. This is linked to the steep rise of energy prices and of operating costs in general, which impacted most operators of these sectors.

Currently, though, EU per capita consumption is expected to have increased 0.5% in 2021 to a level of 24.16 kg, and is forecast to have increased a further 1.3% in 2022.

A close second In terms of seafood trade, the EU relinquished its position as the world’s largest market to China last year. In 2020, the EU had been top-of-the-pile, due in part to the temporary decline of Chinese trade which had been particularly affected by the pandemic. But China rose to the top again in 2021, while the EU flows recorded a 1% decrease, reaching 8.6 million tonnes, while the value reached €32.6 billion, which was 4% higher than 2020.

EU imports amounted to €25.8 billion and 6.2 million tonnes in 2021, an increase of 6% in value and 1% in volume from 2020. This represented a recovery from the significant drop recorded in 2020 due to the severe impact of Covid-19 on high-value species mainly destined for the hotel, restaurant and catering (HoReCa) market. Exports, on the other hand, saw a continuation of the 2020 downward trend, with volume decreasing 6% from 2020, reaching 2.4 million tonnes, and the value decreasing 3% to €6.8 billion.

In 2021, China recorded total import-export flows of 9.4 million tonnes, a 12% drop from 2020, while at the same time, it showed a 7% increase in value, reaching €33 billion.

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NEWBUILDS

ARTEMIS DELIVERED TO SCOTLAND The partnership that has just taken delivery of pelagic vessel Artemis started out fishing in 2020 with the former Resolute – the 64-metre pelagic trawler renamed Artemis – while its new vessel was under construction by Karstensens Skibsværft in Skagen Behind the partnership are Interfish subsidiary Northbay Fishing Company and the Wiseman Fishing Company, headed by Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association (SPFA) chairman Alex Wiseman, whose son Adam is skipper of the new vessel.

The design, specifications and arrangements finalised in co-operation with the yard’s designers to achieve optimum standards for the crew, the best possible catchhandling and storage, and optimised performance and fuel consumption. To achieve these aims, there’s nothing but the best to be found in the range of systems and equipment onboard Artemis.

Artemis’ hull was built at the Karstensen Shipyard, Poland, and arrived in Skagen in February 2022 for outfitting. It headed straight for fishing grounds following delivery to make a start on herring.

The 75.7-metre LOA, 15.6-metre beam vessel has an energy and propulsion arrangement designed on similar lines to other recent Karstensen newbuilds, with a twostep gearbox and options for diesel-mechanical and diesel-electric operation, which on sea trials returned a 16.8-knot top speed at step one and 15.4 knots at step two, and 12.1 knots in diesel-electric mode.

Tried and tested Its layout has a Wärtsilä package of a 6100kW 10V31 main engine driving a 4,200mm diameter 4G1095 propeller via a SCV 100/2-PDC68 gearbox coupled to a Marelli MJRM 710 2800kW/3500kVA shaft generator. The 866kW, W12V14

8 Karmøy Winch supplied the deck hardware for Artemis

auxiliaries are also Wärtsilä units and the harbour set is a 200kWe Scania DI09.

This tried-and-tested configuration works on the basis of when the winches demand full power, there’s less demand from propulsion. The gearbox PTO is clutched in while the winch system is in use, with power routed from the shaft alternator to give the deck all the power it needs.

Once the gear is back in the water and Artemis is towing, the PTO can be clutched out, power routed to the shaft from the main engine and electrical power to the systems on board comes from one of the two gensets.

The gensets are able to connect into main switchboard, controlled by the vessel’s DEIF power management system. Its electrical power system is designed for sliding frequency (60-50Hz), by means of frequency converters for 400/440V and rotating frequency converter for 230V.

8 The freshly completed Artemis alongside at the yard in Skagen

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NEWBUILDS This allows main engine and propeller revs to be 17% lower than would otherwise be possible.

An additional feature is a clutch between main engine and gearbox. In the event of a main engine failure, a separate pony motor allows the shaft generator to start up as an electric motor, being fed off the auxiliary engines and providing a take-me-home option. Up to 1,500kW can be used for this diesel-electrical propulsion drive.

Artemis has a Kongsberg high lift flap rudder and Tenfjord SR 622 steering gear, and the thrusters are 950kW Brunvoll FU-63 units.

Crew comfort Keeping the crew comfortable was high on the owners’ list of priorities and accommodation onboard is located as far as is practical from the propeller to minimise noise levels, with six single cabins for crew and engineers at main deck level, and four single cabins, sick bay, steam bath, oilskins and changing rooms, and coffee bar in the superstructure.

One deck up is the day room, mess room, coffee bar, galley and provision room, plus separate fridge and freezer spaces, and there are three single officer’s cabins on the next deck, along with the trim room and instrument room.

All cabins are outfitted with en-suite facilities.

Artemis has a 2,313-cubic metre capacity in its 12 RSW tanks. A pair of 20-inch SeaQuest fish pumps are deployed from the fish pump deck and catches are routed to the separator and from there to the selected tanks. The owners opted for a twin Johnson Controls 1400kW/1.204.000kCal/h RSW system with a C-Flow vacuum system for discharging.

The trawl deck layout has a Karmøy Winch package, with a pair of 91-tonne trawl winches controlled by a Karmøy Winch management system. There are 110-tonne net drums in a waterfall configuration, aligned to the stern gates equipped with hydraulic closers and guiding pics, a 71-tonne topline winch and a 57-tonne tail-end winch, as well as mooring winches, an anchor windlass, a netsounder winch on the aft gallows and two sets each of hydraulic and fish hose reels for the SeaQuest fish pumps. A net bin on the starboard side is recessed into the shelterdeck.

The deck cranes are from MacGregor Triplex, with a KN60 fore deck crane, an NK-6000 net crane aft and a KNR75 fish pump/general purpose crane mounted on the aft gantry with a deployment area over the trawl deck and aft of the stern.

Onboard tech The wheelhouse on board Artemis is fitted out with a heavyweight package of electronics, supplied by Echomaster Marine and Furuno and installed by KS Elektro.

The Furuno Smart Bridge puts a row of five 55-inch Olorin monitors facing the skipper’s control position and there are a further 15 27-inch Hatteland monitors placed around the wheelhouse.

The echo sounders are a Furuno FSS-3 BB and a pair of Simrad ES80 sets, and the key fishfinding sonars are all from Simrad, with a low frequency 14-19-24kHz ST94 set, a medium frequency 70-85-90kHz CS-94 and an FS-70 trawl sonar. The bow scanner is a Simrad SN90 and the net monitoring system is a Marport package of gear-mounted sensors from doors to codend.

Plotters are an Olex 3D set and a pair of MaxSea Time Zeros, in addition to a Furuno FMD-3200 ECDIS unit. The CI68 current indicator are from Furuno, as are the 3210 and 3230 radars. The A3 GMDSS setup, V-Sat, SatTV and VHF sets are all from Sailor.

8 The owners of new pelagic vessel Artemis BF-60 at the handover ceremony in Skagen

8 The ship’s energy usage and stability can all be monitored and managed via the customisable wheelhouse displays

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NEWBUILDS

BJÖRN AGAIN Sigurður and Jóhannes Henningsson, who fish from the island of Grímsey off the north coast of Iceland, have taken delivery of a new Cleopatra netter built by Trefjar The 12.99-metre Björn has a beam of 3.8 metres and measures 20 GT and is a Cleopatra 44 which replaces the smaller vessel of the same name – also a Trefjar build – that has served the brothers well for 17 years. Sigurður Henningsson sails as Björn’s skipper.

The deck is laid out with a semi-shelterdeck, open on the starboard side, and the Beitir net hauler and sorting table on board have been lifted from the old boat. The setup is as good as new, despite having been in use since 2005.

The hydraulic installation has been fitted by Danfoss and Stálorka supplied the rails and other metalwork onboard.

The fishroom is amidships and has capacity for fifteen 660-litre tubs, and the engine room is aft, with a 700hp Yanmar 6HYM driving a ZF 325IV gear, both supplied by Marás. Ásafl supplied the propeller, cutter and pump systems on board. The steering gear is from Trefjar and KN Vélsmiðja.

Björn has a heated oilskin store, accessible from the deck. Accommodation is forward, and the wheelhouse is laid out with the mess and galley area on the port side.

There are three berths below.

The skipper’s control position is on the starboard side, facing the array of a 3kW JFC-180 BB echo sounder and a JLR-21 GPS compass, both from JRC. The GPS/GLONASS navigator is a Koden KGP-915. The 1kW, 3D integrated navigator is a Raymarine AXIOM 12 Pro-RVX and the radar

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is a Raymarine Quantum set, and the plotter is a MaxSea Time Zero unit.

Björn’s autopilot is a ComNav P4 Color, linked to the hydraulic Quick aft and bow thrusters to activate automatically as required.

The communications setup is a 6150 Mini-C and a 6215 VHF DSC from Sailor, plus a Thrane LT-3100S Iridium GMDSS system and an Em-Trak A200 Class A AIS, as well as a 3G/4G phone with integral router.

8 Sigurður and Jóhannes Henningsson went back to Trefjar after 17 years to replace their Cleopatra netter with a newbuild

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SPECIALREPORT BY-PRODUCT SOLUTIONS CUTTING WASTE AND MAXIMISING VALUE

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WHAT’S LANDFILL MATERIAL IN OTHER COUNTRIES IS CREATING $110M IN ICELAND

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Domestic production of by-products has increased by over 3,000% in the last 30 years

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The significant cuts in the allowable catch in the Icelandic economic zone in the 1980s led to a stronger movement in Iceland towards the attitude “more for less”; less catch but make as much of it as possible!

As a result of these catch limitations, Icelanders have created a business culture of making use of the whole fish. In fact, due to the depletion of fish stocks and this attitude of more utilisation, Icelanders have been particularly active in developing technologies and markets for by-products – goods made from the parts of the fish typically not considered for production.

Up until a few years ago, the number of products made from whitefish was relatively meager. In the past years, however, the Icelandic industry has undergone significant modernisation in the form of vastly improved product diversification. Domestic production of by-products has increased by over 3,000% in the last 30 years.

With a strong blue start-up movement in Iceland, this mindset of more for less has become much more evident. Let’s take an example from fish skin, which often goes to landfill in other countries. The value of products made only from cod skin in Iceland is estimated to be around US$110 million in 2021, up from $1 million in 2011.

The significant increase in the value of fish skin is due to the huge success of the company Kerecis, which has pioneered the use of fish skin and fatty acids in the globally expanding cellular therapy and infection control markets. But there are number of other Icelandic companies breaking waves in this field, including Marine Collagen which is owned by four of the largest fisheries in Iceland. Also, companies like Feel Iceland, Nordic Fish Leather and various other smaller companies have become important players in this field in Iceland.

Atlantic cod is a swimming health store/pharmacy. Cod skin that heals wounds and supports joints and skin health, liver that benefits heart health and dry eye relief, effective enzymes that benefit skin health, eyes that may stimulate brain cells, bones that are rich in calcium suitable for functional foods and super nutritional blood?

The best part of this story is of course the fact that we can take similar pathways with various other species globally. The Iceland Ocean Cluster has been working with companies and groups in various countries to find ways to utilise more of the by-products currently sent to landfills.

With new partnerships and the sharing of best practices, we may be on the cusp of a new utilisation movement.

From Pacific tuna, Maine lobster, Louisiana shrimp, Great Lakes whitefish, Norwegian cod and salmon and Alaska pollock, seafood countries all around could benefit economically and environmentally by applying the Icelandic model.

The Iceland Ocean Cluster has worked closely with research companies such as the Icelandic R&D company Matis and tech processing companies such as Marel and Baader on various solutions for more utilisation. This broad network of skills and experience is crucial if we are to see the idea of 100% fish utilisation realised on a global scale.

But even though we will continue to work with various regions and companies to help with developing less waste, I strongly believe that to further the movement of more utilisation of seafood, we need to build an innovative start-up environment in individual regions. The processing of seafood by-products should be done locally, and with entrepreneurs eager to profit from various innovative ideas in utilising some of the amazing proteins and nutrients found in seafood by-products.

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Transforming the Blue Economy to 100% Green

SKIN DEEP

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Pro-circular economy ventures are finding value and opportunity in fish skins and scales, writes Jason Holland

8 Feel Iceland is using marine collagen in some of its leading skin cleansing products

It’s estimated that the equivalent of 10 million tonnes of fish is wasted annually. And accounting for between 3 and 8% of every fish, the skin is a structural material that’s full of protein and lipids that offers plenty of untapped potential, said Alexandra Leeper, Head of Research and Innovation at the Iceland Ocean Cluster.

Setting the scene at the latest Fish Waste for Profit live webinar, Leeper disclosed that a growing number of companies around the world are looking at ways to generate greater value and circularity with fish skins.

Among those leading the way within the Iceland cluster, Codland is one such business entity that has – through the strong connections that exist between the country’s entrepreneurial and research communities – established that collagen and gelatin can be extracted from the skin of its iconic Atlantic cod.

Collagen is a structural protein used in many products sold over the counter. When ingested, it not only provides dietary protein, it’s also very beneficial to human joints, Leeper said.

“This idea of collagen really captured the imagination of the fisheries sector in Iceland and was invested in by four of the country’s biggest fisheries companies. They have built a company called Marine Collagen Iceland, which is taking fish skins from species like Atlantic cod and haddock and extracting collagen from them.

“The powder has a value of US$20 per kg and can be used in lots of different things. For example, one of its applications is in high-end nutraceuticals, whereby it’s purified and mixed with such things as amino acids. Not only is this pushing up the revenue from this material, the products also have high functional and social values.”

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Another company, Feel Iceland, is using marine collagen in some of its skin cleansing products, with some products achieving a price point of $120 per kg. It’s also being increasingly used in soft and energy drinks.

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This idea of collagen really captured the imagination of the fisheries sector in Iceland and was invested in by four of the country’s biggest fisheries companies Alexandra Leeper, Iceland Ocean Cluster Big bucks Collagen is far from the extent of fish skin’s usefulness and current application. With Iceland’s Nordic Fish Leather, the biggest fish skin tannery in the world, skins from many different fish species are being used to make leather goods, which in just tannin form are raising about $50 per kg.

“This is creating a very useful, functional textile that’s used in many different fashion products. The fish skin tannery even has a contract with Gucci,” Leeper said.

Then at the very extreme, there are ventures like Kerecis – one of two so-called “unicorn” companies in Iceland – that’s taking the skin of specially selected Atlantic cod and processing them to make medical dressings.

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8 Kerecis is pioneering the use of fish skin and fatty acids in the cellular therapy and regenerative medicine market

When grafted onto damaged human tissue, such as a wound, these products recruit the body’s own cells, which are in turn converted into living tissue. Particularly targeted at burns and diabetic sores, they help the healing process through the structure of the fish skin and the presence of omega- 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids.

These are, Leeper highlighted, United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -approved products that are sold and used in the US and Iceland – mainly by hospitals and the military, with the value of just one skin estimated at around $2,000.

“This is a really good example of how you can go from something that was once thrown out and wasted to something that has huge amounts of value,” she said.

Beyond cod While much of the focus in Iceland has been on cod skin utilisation because of the country’s rich fishing history, there’s also now a fast-growing domestic Atlantic salmon farming industry. Consequently, there’s a rising number of products being made available to the market that are using the fatty acids from salmon skins, as well as leather goods.

“This is teaching us a lot about what can be done with other species and how fish skins can have huge amounts of value,” said Leeper, who highlighted that the cluster is now also working with the Great Lakes St Lawrence Governors and Premiers group to explore the same potential with the Great Lakes whitefish.

“This is one of the most commercially important freshwater fish in North America. Some have been sent to Iceland and, with the research community here and important fish processing equipment companies like Marel and Curio, we’re looking at the fish’s skin to see what its potential is.

“Already, we’ve seen that the fish can be used to produce collagen – from both the scales and the skin – and we see lots of potential values in that. Likewise, we’re working with Nordic Fish Leather to see how this species works in terms of tanning and leather production.”

manufacture of these single-ingredient products.

Erickson, who grew up in a commercial fishing family, explained that Americans spend approximately $5.6 billion per year on dog treats, while a further $5 billion is spent on vitamins that naturally occur in the company’s products.

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We are throwing away so much; an almost endless supply that we could use to make something great Sara Erickson, AlaSkins “The zero-waste culture started for me as a young girl, and realising the amount that we throw away – something that could be very nutritious. My thought was always to use it for pets, and at AlaSkins I think we’ve done a very good job in figuring out how to turn fish skins into dog treats.

“Our mission is to use all of the fish skins and find other ways to make dogs happy.”

In this regard, Erickson also pointed out that Alaska’s seafood export trade totals around 3 billion pounds (1.36 million tonnes) of seafood per year and this in turn entails a lot of waste or by-products.

“We are throwing away so much; an almost endless supply that we could use to make something great.

8 AlaSkins makes single ingredient dog treats from wild Alaskan fish skins

Canine commerce Sara Erickson, Owner of AlaSkins, informed the webinar about the market opportunities that her company has tapped into through the delivery of a variety of natural dog treats – created through the simple processing of wild Alaska salmon, halibut and cod skins.

Since 2016, the Kenai Peninsula-based company has been collecting fish skins from processing plants for the

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8 7 League’s leather is created from waste in the fishing industry, tanned with waste from the forestry sector

“As long as we have a commercial fishing industry and as long as we are catching fish, we have materials that are being thrown away. I want to capture that waste. There’s so much more that I want to do; so much that I’m excited about,” she said.

Green leather In Canada, meanwhile, Tasha Nathanson, Founder and CEO of start-up 7 Leagues Leather, is aiming to soon launch the country’s first fish leather tanner. The business will utilise the skins of wild Pacific fish species, while its tanning process will be vegetable-based.

Providing context, Nathanson said that with a fish fillet only accounting for around half of any whole fish, the remaining half is often wasted material.

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In 2015, humans globally consumed around 150 million tonnes of filleted fish, which equates to 6 million tonnes of wasted skins Tasha Nathanson, 7 Leagues Leather

As such, it represents lost economic value. Also lost is the potential positive impact on the people and communities that can use these materials, she said.

“In 2015, humans globally consumed around 150 million tonnes of filleted fish, which equates to 6 million tonnes of wasted skins. This could be made into fish leather to

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supply the sustainable fashion market – to people and companies that are buying such textiles and bio-materials.”

Nathanson explained that while traditional leather is “a beautiful, high-value use” for waste skins from many animals in the food chain, it also has inherent problems.

Over 90% of leather produced today is made using chromium tanning, which is regarded as a non-renewable, toxic and environmentally-damaging process, she said, adding also that vegan leather “is not a solution” as it largely uses fossil-based compounds as binders and the end-product is not as durable.

Conversely, because of the “criss-cross” structure of fish skin, resultant leathers have approximately nine times the tensile strength of mammal leather.

7 League’s solution, therefore, is to make high-quality, high-value ecological leather and leather goods from fish skins, Nathanson said. To do this, it has adopted a proprietary tanning process that doesn’t use toxic chemicals. This was done in partnership with another Icelandic fish tanner. It has also entered into partnerships with First Nations in fisheries and forestry for the supply of its skins and its bark tannins.

She added that 7 League’s production model is based on having micro-production located close to where the fish waste is being generated and then replicating that elsewhere.

“One of the things we say is wherever there is fish processing and the right kind of market we will be looking to have another 7 Leagues Leather. Our goal is definitely replication. We don’t want to have one huge facility where people are flying fish skins to us – that just isn’t environmentally-responsible.

“We’re looking at a model like micro-breweries, where we make it public, urban and exciting. That’s part of our model – to make it really public and get it out there.”

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HEALING POWERS

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Seafood by-products are making huge contributions to sectors such as food, feed and even medicine, writes Bonnie Waycott

With the global population steadily rising, the consumption of seafood is likely to double by 2050.

However, over a third of fish stocks are overfished and 60% are fished to their maximum potential, while the rapid expansion of aquaculture has led to concerns such as pressure on feed resources, in particular fishmeal and fish oil from forage fish. With the global supply from fisheries reaching its sustainable limit, using all possible sources of fishmeal and oil, including by-products from aquaculture, is critical.

One innovation that could prevent seafood by-products from going to waste lies in Brazil, where researchers at the Federal University of Ceará are treating severe burns using the skin of tilapia.

Tilapia is one of the most consumed and produced fish in Brazil. However, it generates a large number of byproducts such as the skin and viscera, which are routinely discarded. The treatment for burns was spearheaded by a group of researchers including Dr Edmar Maciel at the Federal University of Ceará, who began to investigate whether tilapia skin could be used as a biological dressing.

Maciel and his team say that the skin could ease the pain of victims and cut medical costs, while it also contains optimum levels of collagen.

Local resource The traditional treatment for burns in Brazil is dressings, silver sulfadiazine ointment and bandages. But silver sulfadiazine must be applied periodically, which is painful for the patient. In the meantime, using biomaterials such as biosynthetic dressings, or artificial and xenogeneic skins is becoming increasingly unfeasible due to high costs.

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Brazil also has only four banks of human skin, which don’t readily provide enough skin to attend to the vast demand of burn patients across the country. There are also no supplies of animal skin, leaving silver sulfadiazine ointment the only curative treatment available.

But with moisture, collagen and mechanical resistance at levels comparable to human skin, tilapia skin has huge promise.

“Not only is it a physical barrier or occlusive material, but it also interacts biochemically with the burn. It’s an effective form of pain control and has better control over inflammation,” said Maciel and his colleagues Carlos Roberto Koscky Paier and Gustavo Manfredi.

“The tilapia we use comes from family breeders and cooperatives of small producers from the Castanhão reservoir, the largest reservoir in Ceará and one of the largest in Brazil,” they continued. “We also formed an agreement with a company that raises tilapia and produces fillets. Skin analyses from this company show superior microbiological quality, so their tilapia is more favourable as a medical product compared to other small producers.”

First step in the process is to select and prepare batches of tilapia skin with the maximum amount of collagen. Lab technicians wash them in running water, place them in sterile containers and send them to a laboratory on ice for cleaning and scraping. A chemical treatment is carried out for decontamination, detoxification and preparation before the skin is vacuum-packed and sent for gamma ray application.

After this, it is kept in a cold environment. Alternatively, it can be freeze-dried before being vacuum-packed and irradiated, so it can be stored at room temperature.

8 A single tilapia skin heals this burn in 10 days

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Less pain Inpatients with superficial second-degree burns that heal in around 10 to 12 days, tilapia skin is applied and left until the end of treatment, with no need to remove or change the skin.

After healing, the skin detaches with running water and liquid Vaseline. For deep second-degree and thirddegree burns, the skin must be changed a few times over several weeks. For example, deep second-degree burns heal in around 20 days and the skin must be changed three or four times, as opposed to ointment, which must be reapplied every one or two days, resulting in greater pain for the patient, more working hours for staff and more anaesthetics and analgesics.

The skin is also changed between five and seven days in third-degree burns. Studies have shown that the patient feels less pain during healing and skin changes compared to conventional treatment, said Maciel, Paier and Manfredi.

“From a medical point of view, it is much easier to use tilapia skin,” they said. “Cost and production are not a problem because tilapia is the most produced fish in Brazil and the most sold in the entire Brazilian market, while using it for medical purposes reduces the disposal of by-products and any negative environmental impact.

However, there is a challenge in transferring this from research labs to other sectors due to Brazilian legislation.”

But hopes are high that the skin may become a boon to others elsewhere.

“Research is already worldwide, with work in Germany, Austria, El Salvador, Guatemala, Argentine and Colombia,” explained Maciel, Paier and Manfredi.

“There has also been talk of large clinical trials to treat eye wounds in dogs, involving the US, Europe and Japan.

As for marketing tilapia skin as a product, we are still a long way off due to the difficulty of transferring technology to enable large-scale production. But work is ongoing in other applications such as dentistry and ophthalmology.

Tilapia skin is very abundant here, with several advantages and benefits, and many studies are underway.”

Aquaculture application Wesley Malcorps at the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture has been researching the potential uses of aquaculture by-products. As part of the Green Aquaculture Intensification in Europe (GAIN) project, he has determined that a large proportion of commonly farmed species like Atlantic salmon, European seabass, gilthead seabream, turbot and common carp are routinely wasted, despite the potential to get value from them.

“By-products such as fish heads, frames, trimmings, skin and organs represent a large proportion of the whole fish, around 50% or so,” he said. “They could be better used, but instead they are poorly utilised and discarded at the processing or household level. They don’t sound appetising but extracting more flesh from by-products and using it in soup, for example, increases food supply, while feed production could also be explored – feeding by-products back to fish or livestock or incorporating them in pet food. There is also the option to process by-products into collagen supplements or leather made from fish skin.”

Norway is an example where full processing takes place and most aquaculture by-products are utilised, but there is still potential to increase volumes and value addition, said Malcorps.

Elsewhere, mixing by-products is still a common practice, most of it directed to animal feed. But the absence of sorting and grading them can dilute nutritional value, consequently limiting potential (high-value) applications, while there are other infrastructure challenges, such as the scale and accessibility of processing facilities, which limits the economic incentives to use by-products.

Obtaining certain ingredients from by-products can also be cost-intensive, while some may contain (chemical)

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contaminants and require investments in decontamination and/or HACCP to meet food grade requirements.

“The strategic utilisation of fish by-products also requires traceability and transparency along the supply chain to identify any inefficient use, and verify the origin, quality and treatments used,” said Malcorps. “This is crucial to verify by-product status in relation to (EU) laws on category contamination and hygiene risks.

“We have briefly explored the role of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to inform stakeholders on a shared network throughout value chains. This allows secure, transparent transactions, in which information is nearly impossible to change or hack. It also enables trust between stakeholders that facilitates increased supply chain efficiency and transparency, supporting circular economy principles and meeting consumer demands for sustainable products.”

8 Wesley Malcorps working with byproducts

Societal contribution Back in Brazil, Maciel, Paier and Manfredi have received positive feedback from fisheries and aquaculture. They say that using a by-product like tilapia skin means a great deal to both industries.

“They are happy to contribute to research and the advancement of science,” they said. “Our work aims to improve people’s quality of life and for many companies this is a significant contribution to society that they can make. Food production firms also have a great role to play in supplying by-products and showing that they are part of something that is making a difference.”

“There are issues to address in terms of technology and infrastructure, but seafood by-products show promising characteristics, and can be directed into food, feed and industrial applications,” said Malcorps. “This is an opportunity for aquaculture to diversify its products while using marine resources more efficiently.”

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POTENTIAL APLENTY There are endless opportunities for seafood by-product utilisation, Matís’ Jónas Viðarsson tells Jason Holland Established in 2007 as a public limited company in a move that united three of Iceland’s government agencies specialising in research and development in the food industry, Matís has helped the country’s seafood sector become a leading light in fish by-product utilisation and side stream creation.

The implementation of Iceland’s individual transferable quota (ITQ) system for fisheries management almost four decades ago and the ban on discarding fish have probably been the most important contributing factors to this status and provided the platform from which the industry has flourished, Matís’ Director of Value Creation Jónas Viðarsson told WF. “This journey started in the 1980s when the seafood sector realised that we cannot take much more out of the ocean, but we can make better use of what we get.”

As a consequence of these important steps, the industry became a lot more consolidated, with most of the quotas held by a small number of large, vertically-integrated companies that span the entire supply chain. What’s followed is a lot of close collaboration between industry, government, academia and research to scale up endproduct volumes and quality, Viðarsson explained.

A key part of this work is creating new, innovative ways to utilise more of the raw materials that the seafood sector has at its disposal whilst also increasing their value.

“Matís assists companies and start-ups to take more circular approaches. There is a vast knowledge on the subject within Matís, which we are happy to share. There is no need to reinvent the wheel,” Viðarsson said.

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The more technologically advanced, the more emphasis there is on the utilisation of by-products and maximising value Jónas Viðarsson, Matís Broad horizons It’s now estimated that close to 90% of Iceland’s cod is being utilised, with an increased focus on finding the most valuable applications for the fish’s by-products rather than sending all surplus materials down the traditional route of fishmeal and fish oil production.

But the opportunity for product utilisation and value generation certainly don’t end with the iconic whitefish, insists Viðarsson.

“The emerging opportunities are endless, e.g., seaweed, aquaculture, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, feed, pet food etc.”

There are also opportunities to be had from Iceland’s fast-growing salmon farming industry, which totalled 53,000 tonnes in 2021 and now accounts for 90% of all farmed fish production in the country.

“Again, with salmon there is potential utilisation in textiles, feeds, biofuels, fertilisers, nutraceuticals etc. I believe we will soon see a similar utilisation for the salmon that is processed in Iceland as there is for cod. Currently though, most of the salmon is exported gutted with the head on, and there are few by-products coming from that.”

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Sufficient scale Beyond Iceland’s shores, there are positive signs that the wider seafood economy is getting more onboard with maximising raw material use and value, and Viðarsson suggests that the uptake partly depends on the technical readiness of the production sector.

“The more technologically advanced, the more emphasis there is on the utilisation of by-products and maximising value,” he said.

“There are many cascading opportunities. They can be used to make collagen, gelatine, food supplements, textiles and leather, pharmaceuticals, food, pet food and so on.”

Indeed, with the correct technology and scale-up, he believes that it is possible to utilise and generate value from 100% of every fish so that nothing goes to landfill.

“The problem is that you often need certain economics of scale to make things economically viable. Currently, there are too many small operators with too small production to make it profitable to invest heavily in improving utilisation.”

It’s also the case that in many parts of the world not enough is being done from a government policy or decision-making perspective to take a zero waste/ maximum value approach with fish resources, Viðarsson said.

“Too many accept that utilisation is maybe 50% and there are wastes all along the value chain. Authorities should put much more emphasis on this.

This waste of resources is becoming more important, particularly now when considering food security.

It is stupid to talk about food security without addressing waste in food systems.”

8 Almost 90% of Iceland’s cod resource is being utilised

8 Jónas Viðarsson, Director of Value Creation at Matís

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‘THE WORLD NEEDS PROTEIN’

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Protein is valuable. Generally, the world has a lot of carbs, but it needs these proteins Chad Gauger, Scoular “Previously, that material was getting hauled off a good distance – to a meal plant in Canada. So we said let’s build one that’s just three miles away, which in itself gives a low carbon footprint, and let’s each have a share in it,” Gauger said. “The agreement was to create a fishmeal solution alongside the frozen product that makes sure every bit of fish waste is used locally.

“Protein is valuable. Generally, the world has a lot of carbs, but it needs these proteins, whether in frozen forms or meal forms, whether they are upcycled from human consumption or not. Fortunately, there are lots of ways to capture the protein that the world needs.”

Green-focused The move is a good fit for Scoular’s sustainability strategy, which includes pillars focused on reducing the company’s carbon footprint and responsible product sourcing, with the latter incorporating a new marine sustainability programme that incentivises fishmeal producers to implement long-term sustainability practices that exceed standard certification requirements.

In recent years, the 130-year-old company has traded between 250,000 and 300,000 tonnes of fishmeal per year into and out of about 30 countries around the world.

The partners are also on the same page when it comes to environmental commitments.

“We’ve set this plant up so that nothing is wasted, and nothing is going back into the environment. It’s a zerowaste facility that’s capturing every single bit of protein and discharging nothing. As such, we can all say that we’re doing everything from a regulatory perspective and we’re also we’re dealing with our waste.”

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Responsible partner Once it’s up and running, the Warrenton facility will run two separate processing lines. One will predominantly work with hake (or Pacific whiting), while the second will deal with the by-products of wild-caught shrimp. Materials will be processed the moment they arrive at the plant, negating the need for cold-storage.

According to Gauger, the fishmeal and fish oil element of the plant is “pretty standard” in terms of its set up, but the water treatment capabilities set it apart.

“We’re investing extra resources so the plant can fully treat the water. It’s this zero-waste/zero-discharge approach that’s definitely different from a typical fishmeal plant.”

At the same time, the new plant houses a large biofiltration system (approximately the size of three large shipping containers). This has been installed to ensure the cleanliness of all the air leaving the plant post-processing.

“We’re going to continue to invest in assets that support our customers in petfood and aquaculture,” Gauger said.

“We’re excited about this. We want to make sure trimmings don’t go to waste, whether we provide it in frozen formats or in protein meals. We’ll continue to work with customers to make sure we’re serving their needs.”

8 Chad Gauger in front of the new plant’s cooker – the start of the fishmeal line, where heat begins to break down raw materials

8 The new plant is on course to start operations in early 2023

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Billed as the first plant of its kind to open in North America in at least 25 years, the new fishmeal processing facility in Warrenton, Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest, that’s jointly-owned by Scoular, Da Yang Seafood and Bornstein Seafoods is set to come onstream in early 2023 and will focus on the upcycling of fish trimmings.

Utilising Da Yang and Bornstein trimmings generated by the two companies’ nearby processing plants, the new US$17.5 million plant will produce high protein-content ingredients for use in the pet food and aquaculture markets. The project will be operated by Omaha, Nebraskabased Scoular, a $9 billion-plus agribusiness that ranks among the world’s largest fishmeal and fish oil suppliers, with the facility’s products marketed under Scoular’s Encompass brand.

Located at the Port of Astoria’s Airport Industrial Park, the plant provides the opportunity for the three companies to extend their business relationship (Scoular has sourced by-products from both Da Yang and Bornstein for many years) with a venture that both boosts the local economy and reduces the need to ship these resources to faraway markets, Chad Gauger, Vice President/General Manager of High Nutritional Value Proteins at Scoular told WF.

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Oregon’s new zero-waste fishmeal plant has been built to fully-utilise local fishery resources, writes Jason Holland

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FROM PROBLEM TO SOLUTION

Today’s market presents both obstacles and opportunities for the small-scale fisheries (SSF) sector, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, with the body identifying that current structures and value chains tend to favour large-scale production at the expense of local quality and sustainability, leaving little room for the addedvalue that SSF produces.

The FAO describes the Mediterranean and Black Sea seafood market as “surprisingly one-dimensional”, where the tendency is for fish to be seen as a homogenous product, differentiated as much by its preparation – fresh, frozen, canned or smoked – as anything else. It suggests that often SSFs aren’t geared to fit into this buyer’s market and have little control over prices. As a result, many struggle to reach their true potential.

This is despite small-scale fisheries making up 83% of the fleet in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, employing an estimated 127,000 people and generating over US$1 billion in revenues.

However, innovation changes this landscape, and through the Regional Plan of Action for Small-Scale Fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea (RPOASSF), the FAO believes there’s scope for the market to transform from problem to solution.

Providing a roadmap for the 10 years from 20182028, RPOA-SSF was signed in September 2018 as a Ministerial Declaration by high-level representatives from 18 Mediterranean and Black Sea countries, as well as the European Union. It prescribes measures to address

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Increasing small-scale fisheries incomes is not a question of catching more fish, it’s about increasing the value fishers can take from their work, says the FAO

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8 Many small-scale fisheries have struggled to reach their true potential

It’s hard work, but if you process it the way we do, you can earn far more with the same fish Rocco Cazzato, Tricase fisherman challenges and reinforce opportunities for small-scale fisheries, including giving fishers a voice in the decisions that affect their livelihoods, safeguarding environmentally sustainable fishing practices and providing economic, social and employment benefits.

RPOA-SSF pinpoints key areas for innovation, bringing all parts of the SSF value chain into the spotlight – from nets to plates. It aims to increase recognition of what people doing these jobs bring to the table. This includes offering consumers fresh high-quality products, local and seasonal specialities, in many cases greater environmental sustainability than industrial fisheries and adding more direct socio-economic value to their local communities for each kilo landed.

It also aims to improve the rewards that small-scale fishers get for the work that they do.

Local specialities The FAO maintains that it’s important for the region to maximise the value of local and seasonal specialities through product diversification, and also that generating

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new markets for unfamiliar species, including the growing numbers of invasive species that are affecting native biodiversity can bring benefits.

It highlights that fishers from Tricase, in southern Italy, have taken a really innovative approach to increasing the value of their catches of musky octopus (Eledone moschata), working with local chefs to turn the raw material into gourmet “octopus balls”, a traditional delicacy.

“In the past, if you overfished, you’d have to throw it out,” said Rocco Cazzato, who fishes out of the small harbour of Tricase like his father and grandfather before him. “Today, it’s different. It’s hard work, but if you process it the way we do, you can earn far more with the same fish. The personal satisfaction means a lot too.”

Italian company MareVivo approached the Tricase fishers to help them market the product, which is sold ready-to-cook to local restaurants and retail markets.

Thanks to this extra level of processing, revenues are improved for Cazzato and everyone else along the value chain.

Working with his wife and sons, he also runs a restaurant, where the catch of the day is sold direct to diners. He comments, “If you skip going to market and sell straight to the customer, you can earn 300% more.”

Fish invaders Meanwhile, with the expansion of non-indigenous species affecting marine ecosystems in the Mediterranean and Black Sea and impacting both the productivity of fisheries and the incomes of fishers, RPOA-SSF also recognises that small-scale fishers have a central role to play in adapting to the ever-evolving conditions.

It reports that climate change has been severely impacting the Mediterranean Sea and that it’s warming 20% faster than the global average – making the water more saline and bringing a dramatic rise in the number of new species establishing themselves across the basin.

Fishers in southwest Turkey have been hit particularly hard by the increasing numbers of non-native species, which now make up 80% of the catch in certain areas of the warming waters of the eastern Mediterranean. But for the last 10 years, the Turkish conservation NGO Mediterranean Conservation Society (AKD) has been working with more than 500 fishers along 600km of coastline from Gökova Bay to Kaş to turn this threat into a commercial opportunity, by creating new consumer markets for key non-indigenous species and utilising them accordingly.

As well as replacing lost incomes and creating sustainable livelihoods in marginalised small-scale fishing communities, the project provides an incentive for fishers to remove these non-indigenous species from high-value ecosystems.

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8 MareVivo has stepped in to help the Tricase fishers market their octopus balls

“We accept that we’ll never catch as many local fish as we did before. Non-indigenous species can be a new normal and an opportunity for us,” explained one Kaş fisher.

Rising demand AKD has introduced the exploitation of non-indigenous species to the public through food festivals, cookery demonstrations, new recipes and a film; and they now appear on the menu of 68 of Turkey’s fine dining restaurants, bought at stable prices from the fishers and supplied directly through an online order system.

In 2021, communities supplied almost 1.4 tonnes of non-indigenous fish in this way, starting up a strong market despite the disruption of Covid-19.

FAO said the project is now well-funded, and thanks to high market demand, it’s being scaled up to include Iskenderun Bay in eastern Turkey.

AKD has also been helping to improve the market infrastructure, supplying freezers and packaging materials, and a cold chain truck for deliveries.

Invasive lionfish, rabbitfish, urchins, Randall’s seabream and soldierfish all have potential markets and can be bought in large numbers in Turkey, advises the FAO.

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SATLINK SYSTEMS TO MONITOR COMPLIANCE Spanish electronics specialist Satlink has been chosen by both Swedish and Maltese authorities to supply systems to monitor compliance with fishing regulations

8 The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM) is trialling a Satlink system to monitor and manage compliance with the landing obligation

The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM) chose Satlink to develop a trial project that will evaluate the potential of electronic monitoring (EM) systems to digitally monitor and manage compliance with the landing obligation.

The project involves the design and implementation of Satlink’s SeaTube system on two trawlers, plus a third system for land-based trials.

According to a SwAM representative, the aim of this project is to “answer questions about how future fisheries control could work once EM has been fully introduced and how work using EM needs to function in order to provide the desired benefits in terms of compliance with the landing obligation. EM could also be a way for the fishing industry to demonstrate to the world at large how fishing is conducted.”

One of the expected results of the project is to improve SwAM’s understanding of the needs for the introduction of electronic monitoring, such as by developing procedures and methods for both operational fisheries control activities and for SwAM’s own digital department.

Advanced tech Satlink will equip the vessels with one of the most advanced systems on the market for monitoring fishing activity and certifying good practices, which also complies with the fisheries control regulations of both the Swedish Government and the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA).

Each vessel gets two high-definition cameras and hydraulic and proximity sensors that will record fishing activity. The equipment will transmit data recorded by sensors and cameras to SwAM in real time via a 4G link.

The Satlink system also includes an advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that will automatically detect and blur the faces of crew in order to respect their privacy, a technology pioneered by Satlink in its use in real-time onboard vessels.

SwAM will use Satlink View Manager (SVM) software to analyse the obtained data and generate reports that may include information such as catch composition, catch size, by-catch destination and fishing areas.

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Malta onboard Maltese authorities have also gone to Satlink for a vessel monitoring system (VMS) to be fitted on the 119 vessels that make up Malta’s commercial fishing fleet.

This five-year contract, part-financed by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund 2014-2020, will also equip the vessels with satellite transmission services, and Satlink will be responsible for the support and maintenance of the systems, as well as the training of 15 technicians in the Malta Fisheries Monitoring Centre.

Malta’s DFA (Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture) opted for Satlink’s VMS offering due to its ability to integrate activity data recorded by skippers in the electronic logbook and transmit it in real time to any national or foreign fisheries authority, including the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA). To make this possible, the system offers connection to other devices via USB, Bluetooth, or WiFi technology.

The Maltese government is underpinning the management and monitoring of its fleet in line with the current revision of the EU Fisheries Control Regulation, bringing in a tool that will also improve insight into its activity and measures for a more sustainable management of the stocks it catches.

8 Malta is equipping its 119-strong fishing fleet with a Satlink VMS system

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UK FUNDS GEAR DEVELOPMENT The UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF) has earmarked a further £1.29 million for 28 new projects in its latest round of funding

8 SIF has already supported 94 projects relating to UK fisheries, and is now putting an additional £1.29 million into 28 new projects

Since its inception, the fund has supported a total of 94 projects designed to advance resilience and sustainability in the UK seafood sector, and this latest round is divided across 28 feasibility studies with awards ranging from £13,600 and £50,000 to support new thinking in improving the sustainability and resilience of the UK fishing, aquaculture and seafood sectors.

“SIF has enabled all sorts of innovations from right across Great Britain, looking to boost the UK’s blue foods, from prawns to trout, seaweed to salmon” said SIF Steering Group member Heather Jones.

“The fund supports sustainable food production, with projects ranging from proving novel feed ingredients for farmed fish, to repurposing waste from shellfish production, to using renewable energy to run fish farms. I am excited to see what benefits are realised from the feasibility projects we have funded.”

The successful projects include five focused on sustainability, while others relate to aquaculture, seafood processing and the supply chain. Further projects explore innovative approaches to humane slaughter, challenges in the underdeveloped seaweed market, and improvements in vessel stability.

“We were really pleased to receive such high-quality applications to our third funding call. It is great to be able to support a range of innovative projects through this fund,

aiming to improve the sustainability and future resilience of the UK fishing, aquaculture and seafood sectors,” said Fiona Lettice, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation, University of East Anglia (UEA) and Chair of the SIF Steering Group.

One of the recently funded projects, Recycling Ocean Resources, aims to use chitin to create carbon for battery storage technology. The Cornish Seaweed Company is developing a land-based cultivation system which could enable the expansion of the sustainable seaweed market, while a project led by Mimica Lab is adapting existing technology used to reduce waste in the meat industry for the seafood sector.

“The SIF funding we have received has allowed us to further develop our Humane Stunner Universal (A-HSUTM) technology,” said Katie Patullo, Product Coordinator at Ace Aquatec.

“The impact that this new product will have on welfare in smaller scale farms is immeasurable, and is the right step for a future of sustaining and growing aquaculture humanely and ethically.”

Collectively, the SIF-funded projects will explore the potential to use new and emerging technology to improve the sustainability, profitability, and efficiency of the UK’s £987 million fishing industry.

Recycling fishing equipment from Iceland Norwegian recycler Nofir and Icelandic industry body Samtök fyrirtækja í sjávarútvegi (SFS) have struck an agreement for the recycling and further utilisation of fishing and aquaculture gear that has reached the end of its useful life.

According to SFS sustainability officer Hildur Hauksdóttir, the permits required to ship mixed materials to Nofir have been received, and there is no barrier to increasing the volumes of material for recycling.

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providing reception facilities for worn-out gear. Users can deliver gear at no cost to Hampiðjan, Ísfell, Egersund, Veiðarfæragerð Skinneyar-Thinganess, Netaverkstæði G.Run or Veiðarfæraþjónustan, all of which will pack the gear into containers for shipping to Nofir.

“We’re very pleased to have reached an agreement with SFS and to be assisting the Icelandic fishing industry, aquaculture sector and fishing gear suppliers in meeting their obligations concerning fishing gears made from plastic,” said Øistein Aleksandersen,

Managing Director of Nofir which is a leader in recycling fishing gear and already has a longstanding co-operation with Egersund to dispose of end-of-life fishing gear.

“A similar arrangement will be in place in Norway in 2025. We have already received some containers from Iceland and look forward to ongoing co-operation.”

Nofir has taken delivery of around 56,000 tonnes of worn-out fishing and aquaculture equipment from around the world since 2011.

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SNTECH LAUNCHES CATCHCAM AT SEATTLE EXPO UK tech company SafetyNet Technologies has expanded from its long background in the use of lights and other smart systems for minimising by-catches, launching its gear-mounted camera system at this year’s Pacific Marine Expo

8 The SNTech CatchCam rigged onto the headline of a trawl

The CatchCam gives fishermen an affordable and straightforward way to monitor the performance of a range of gear types, and this has been through a long phase of testing on trawl gears, scallop dredges and static gears such as crab creels.

“Now we have the opportunity to see how our nets are performing in the water,” said Ian Wightman, skipper of Scottish trawler Eilidh Anne, one of the variety of vessels that has be part of the CatchCam trials.

“It means we can catch as much as we’re allowed, but in a shorter period of time.”

The aim is to provide a way to record and review footage of the gear, making it possible to easily fix problems with the gear’s catching performance, but also to maximise the efficiency of selectivity devices to filter out by-catch species. This combination of camera and lights, mounted side-by-side in a single frame, provides opportunities to gain insights into gear performance that improve efficiency, consequently saving time and costs.

CatchCam is also a tool that allows researchers to monitor the effect of fishing on the marine environment, as habitat monitoring is becoming an ever-increasing feature of fisheries management. CatchCam offers the capability of gathering valuable, direct evidence on the true impact of fishing on marine habitats.

SNTech’s CatchCam comes as a kit – a camera and LED lamp unit that are small enough to be rigged to wherever a

view of the gear is needed. Both the camera and LED lamp are controlled wirelessly via remote control. Retrieved footage can be reviewed on the CatchCam app without needing to take it off the fishing gear and the completely wireless links for both downloading and lock-and-load charging eradicate the need to swap out memory cards or batteries. The system allows users to record 24 hours of footage between charges.

The camera has configurable settings allowing it to be tuned to fishing conditions, including variable frame rate, a delay timer and gain settings for low light conditions.

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Italy’s Castoldi ventures stateside Marine waterjet propulsion system manufacturer Castoldi Srl is setting up a permanent presence in the United States, with a new office in Seattle.

Named Castoldi USA Inc, the US division is being headed up by James Langner.

“The US office gives us a firm presence in America and will reassure our customers that we have a truly global presence. It will give

them the confidence to invest in our proven waterjet technology knowing that they will also receive the top quality after sales service our customers have come to expect,” Langner said.

The new office will handle all American sales across all markets, including fishing, workboats, fast ferries, high speed craft, military and shallow draft applications.

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Castoldi’s waterjet drive is very light due to the aluminium alloy construction of its principal parts. It operates well in shallow waters and critical conditions due to its unique design, including all oil lubricated bearings, and because the impeller shaft rotates in a housing, and is not in contact with water.

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RUSSIA PUTS ON A BRAVE FACE

Photo Credit: Russian Salmon

As Russian leaders switch the national economy to a “besieged fortress” regime, relying more on internal resources, aquaculture has an increasingly important role to play in bolstering the country’s food security

There are big doubts that the industry, which tends to suffer from systemic problems, is ready to cope with this task, however. Over the years, Russian government officials have voiced their satisfaction with aquaculture’s development and continue to give optimistic forecasts when speaking about future prospects. During a recent industry conference, Ilya Shestakov, head of the Russian federal agency for fisheries Rosrybolovstvo, for example, said that “aquaculture currently drives the demand in the Russian fish market”.

Shestakov also outlined the progress being made in developing domestic fish farming science, and cited several new prototype technologies, some of which are advanced enough “to allow Russian citizens to grow seafood in their apartments”.

Russia has nearly doubled its aquaculture production over the past decade, estimates Rosrybolovstvo. And it seems that ongoing crises haven’t derailed this growth trend, as in the first-half of 2022, Russian farms produced 215,600 tonnes of fish, 2.2% more than in the same period of 2021. Overall, seafood production climbed 8.5% in the first-half of this year, with Russian government officials also maintaining that neither the Covid-19 pandemic nor the Russian invasion of Ukraine have hindered the growth of the country’s fish farming industry.

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8 Russian Salmon farm in Murmansk Oblast

Ilya Shestakov, Rosrybolovstvo Historical pretence However, closer scrutiny of Russian fish farming indicates that this probably isn’t the actual state of play. There are suspicions that some of the declared production growth of the past few years has been faked by fish farmers who have taken advantage of an imperfect counting system.

Indeed, the Russian newspaper Kommersant recently pointed out that the production and sales dynamics in the Russian fish market simply don’t add up.

Last year, Russian fish farmers reported the production of 130,000 tonnes of salmon, while actual sales ranged between 50,000 to 60,000 tonnes, said Herman Zverev, president of the Russian union of fishermen Varpe. To some extent, this could be attributed to “conscious exaggerations”, which are thought to be a fairly common phenomenon in Russia in all fields that are subject to government regulations but which also lack control.

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This problem of exaggerations – known as “pripiski” in Russia – traces its roots back to Soviet times when state managers had to beat targets set by their superiors under the command economy system. Quite often, the targets were unrealistic, and managers used pripiski to avoid the consequences of letting the nation down by not fulfilling the state plan.

In the later stages of the Soviet Union’s existence, pripiski created a paradoxical situation in several sectors of the economy. In the 1980s, the union was hit by a shortage of consumer goods, resulting in empty shelves of groceries and trade from under the floor, while statistical data indicated there were sufficient supplies in most areas.

State expectations Modern Russia is a market economy, but the rationale for exaggerations is similar to before. Rosrybolovstvo allocates a water plot to a farmer under a contract, usually for 25 years, putting forward several conditions. One of the key objectives the farmer must achieve is to gradually ramp up production. In this scenario, all farmers have to report a rise in output in order to keep the water plot under their management.

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We face a big problem: fish feed. All imported fish feed is banned; there are no supplies at all Leonid Mikhalchik, Rosrybolovstvo

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8 Russian aquaculture suffers from a lack of broodstock

Rosrybolovtsvo is aware of the problem of exaggerations and is working on a new digital traceability system that will make fish farming more transparent. For the Russian government, this issue has another dimension, as every year, the regional budgets distribute state subsidies between fish farmers, depending on their production performance. The existence of the exaggerations means that farmers may get more subsidies than they deserve.

“Now additional state support for aquaculture investment projects, including subsidies and compensation for part of the costs of building fish farms, has become even more relevant,” said aquaculture expert Inna Golfand.

Golfand explained that Russian fish farmers could replace some products supplies of which to the Russian market are narrowed or halted due to the sanctions.

However, there is no clarity as to when the traceability system is likely to be introduced.

Facing the storm In the meantime, as Russian businesses are ostracised in the west, fish farmers are learning to live in a new reality, relying only on the domestic market and battling unusual challenges.

In 2022, the lack of imported fish feeds forced Russian fish farmers who have historically relied on imports to scale back their operations, said Elena Moiseeva, head of the Russian consulting firm Fishlab. She estimates that a group of European companies, including BioMar, Skretting and Raisio, all of which pulled out from the country, jointly accounted for nearly 80% of the Russian feed market for valuable fish species.

Photo Credit: Rosrybolovstvo

Some Russian fish farmers have warned that the real production dynamics might be largely unknown – both to government agencies and industry organisations.

As the practice of exaggerations lasts for years, the difference between declared and actual production could be vast. For instance, Roman Vityazev, Chairman of the Far Eastern Union of Mariculture Organisations, said seafood production by local farms officially expanded from 6,900 tonnes in 2016 to 57,000 tonnes in 2021. Meanwhile, sales increased from 1,300 to 2,100 tonnes during this period, with Vityazev conceding that counting is a big problem for the industry.

The Russian market needs order, among other things, because fish caught by poachers could end up on the shelves under the guise of farmed fish, Zverev said.

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AQUACULTURE Russian farmers also reportedly experience problems with sourcing broodstock. The lack of fish feed further worsens this challenge.

“We face a big problem: fish feed. All imported fish feed is banned; there are no supplies at all. We used Danish and Finnish feeds and now have to search for alternative options.” said Leonid Mikhalchik, director of the Baikal branch of Gravrybvod, a state-owned company managing most hatcheries in the country.

Mikhalchik disclosed that Gravrybvod managed to collect fish feed from all available sources in Russia.

However, the current stocks would only be enough to maintain production until the end of the year. After that, Russian hatcheries could see their operations disrupted.

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The first problem Russian aquaculture producers faced after the beginning of the special military operation was the inability to service their farms due to a ban on going out to the sea Sergey Grishchenko, Crimean Aquaculture Association

On the brink Still, the physical damage to some production assets is seen only as a slight inconvenience when compared to the financial difficulties Crimean fish farmers have had to face.

Currently, 90% of oyster farms in the peninsula are in a dire financial shape.

Many of them are underdeveloped and financially exhausted, Grishchenko said, who added that urgent state aid is required so that the Crimean oysters don’t disappear completely.

Since the beginning of the Ukraine war, Russian authorities have shut down all Crimean airports, depriving local oyster farmers of their main sales channel. For the past few years, restaurants in wealthy Moscow and St Petersburg have remained the primary buyers of Crimean shellfish, but as supplies of fresh seafood by air have become impossible, supplies were put on a halt.

As the end of the conflict in Ukraine is nowhere in sight, the future of the Russian fish farming industry remains extremely vague. Additionally, the long-term outlook for the Russian economy remains grim; the population’s purchasing power is nosediving, and some of the most painful Western sanctions have not come into effect.

Collectively, these factors present nothing positive for Russian aquaculture.

Photo Credit: Russian Salmon

Lost revenues Although things remain challenging for fish farmers across the board, some find themselves in somewhat worse predicaments. Among these, fish businesses in the AzovBlack Sea basin, the key Russian mariculture production area, has felt the most severe impact of the Ukraine war.

In the first-half of 2022, wild fish catches in the region dropped by 36.8% as the Russian authorities closed the key fishing areas to civil vessels. The cost of the lack of catches for Crimea fishing companies has run into the millions, said Valery Sivochub, president of the fish business association of Crimea and Sevastopol, who warned that some operations might now be bracing for bankruptcy.

Both fishermen and fish farmers scrambled to source the necessary equipment and raw materials they used to import from Western countries.

“Some items are no longer available, so we are forced to look for replacements. The delivery time of imported spare parts and raw materials has increased [dramatically],” Sivochub said.

Over the past few years, the southern basin experienced a steady growth in mariculture production, primarily oysters and mussels. The current crisis, however, could ruin this.

“The first problem Russian aquaculture producers faced after the beginning of the special military operation was the inability to service their farms due to a ban on going out to the sea,” said Sergey Grishchenko, head of the Crimean Aquaculture Association, who also complained that the rising military activity in the region impacted some farms.

Russian warships entered the territory of two Crimean farms growing shellfish and damaged the lines of hydrobiotechnical structures, causing losses close to 80 million rubles (US$1.3 million), Grishchenko disclosed.

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Rua da Cerfil (Cap. Gramaxo) P.O. Box 1029, 4471-909 Maia PORTUGAL Tel: +351 22 961 9200 Fax: +351 22 960 5757 Email: sales@lankhorsteuronete.com www.euronete.com Contact: Mafalda Gramaxo Salvador Castro Producer of the recognized brands: Netting: Euroline®, Premium®, Premium Plus, Lankoforce , Anza®.

Wire Ropes: Eurowire® and Europact®.

Fibre Ropes: Lankoforce, Eurosteel®, Tipto®.

Super 12 net twines.

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Since 1958, FAIVRE Group designs, manufactures and commercializes high quality machines for the aquaculture industry.

Today, Faivre goes further and offers its know-how to the fishing industry! www.faivregroup.com

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Increases yield natural way Low pressure injection Adjustable injection levels Packing yield increase Increases yield natural way Protein in Protein Reduced drip Lower cook and chill loss No chemicals

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LIMA S.A.S.

456 Route de Rosporden Z.I. du Guélen • 29000 QUIMPER Tel. : 02 98 94 89 68 • Fax : 02 98 94 89 69 E-Mail : lima@lima-france.com www.lima-france.com

IRAS A/S Gammelby Mollevej 3 DK-6700 Esbjerg, Denmark Tel: +45 7611 4949 Email: iras@iras.dk Web: www.iras.dk IRAS is supplying the modern fishing and aquaculture industry with innovative solutions within: Pumping, Classification, Weighing, Ice handling, Storage, Transport and Distribution systems. IRAS offers single products or complete systems for raw material handling.

Based on decades of experience, IRAS KNOW HOW to handle fish

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Netting

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LIMA are specialists in the manufacture of meat-bone separators, deboning and desinewing machines for poultry, pork, fish, lamb and beef industries. 70 different models are available from 100 to 20.000 kg/hr.

(220 – 44.000 lbs/hr).

Ice & Refrigeration

Fish Processing

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Serious Fishing Gear for Serious Fisherman Fishing Net, Rope, Float, Crab Trap, Long Line Fishing.

Tel:++86 631 5306208 Fax:++86 631 5306209 Cell/Whatsapp:++86 138 0631 1778

Ice Plants for Fish and Seafood

E-mail: ericdu@dnsnetting.com

www.fishingnetchina.com

Flake Ice & Plate Ice up to 100t / 24h Ice Storage with Automatic Rake System Systems for Ice Conveying and Weighing Built in a Container or on a Frame www.kti-plersch.com | info@kti-plersch.com

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BELITRONIC SWEDEN AB

Rattarevagen 7, S-872 63 Lunde, Sweden Tel: +46 6123 2000 mailbox@belitronic.se www.belitronic.se Top of the line Jig fishing machine – BJ 5000Ex. Friendly, Flexible and Intelligent!

Reliable, effective and recently improved Jig Fishing Machine, special programs on request. The BJ 5000Ex can reach fishing depth fast!

Fishing nets, aquaculture nets, agriculture nets, sports nets, all types of ropes and twines.

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Braided knotted nets; Twisted knotted nets; Raschel knotless nets; Monofilament double knots net; PE Shade nets. All types of twines and ropes, Specializing in: Tuna & Sandrine Nets; Purse Seiners; Mono and Multi gill nets; Nylon & HDPE Trawl nets; Aquaculture Fence & Cage nets; Safety and Sports nets; Ornamental nets.

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Van Beelen N E T TING ROPES

World’s leading supplier of Fishing nets (our globally trusted brands are SNG, Sapphire and Olivene), assembled trawls, Purse Seines, Aquaculture cages and anti-predator nets for aquaculture industry, ropes for the fishing, aquaculture and shipping industry. Our products are exported to over 60 countries globally.

Garware Technical Fibres Plot No 11, Block D-1, MIDC, Chinchwad, Pune, India

Web: www.garwarefibres.com Tel: (+91)2027990381 Contact: Vivek Kumar Email: vkumar@garwarefibres.com Mobile: +917767802806

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Van Beelen Group bv P +31(0)255 560 560 E info@vanbeelengroup.nl IJmuiden, Netherlands vanbeelengroup.nl vb-ropes.com D12 ropes and D3/D16 nets with Dyneema®.

Enkalon® nylon netting and ropes with the highest strength in the industry.

High tenacity Supercatch polyester products, and HDPE in Powerblue and Powergreen.

Caterpillar Marine provides premier power solutions in the medium and high-speed segments with outputs from 93 to 16,800 kW in main propulsion and 10 to 16, 100 ekW in marine generator sets.

FISKENETT A/S

N-5936 Manger Norway Tel:+47 56 34 98 60 Fax: +47 56 34 98 70 Email: ulvatn@fiskenett.no www.fiskenett.no Contact: Hugo Ulvatn Norwegian producer of twisted, braided and knotless netting for purse-seining and trawling.

Netloft for mounting and repairs of purse-seines.

www.cat.com/marine Tel:+491719629676

We make what works for you.

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NET MANUFACTURERS We are a professional fish net maker and provide assembly & design service for various nets.

We use Nylon, HDPE, PP, PE to make purse seine net, fish farming cage net for smolt, grower, growout, predator & anti-bird, trawl net, trap net, safety net, sports net, twine, float and steel wire.

The making of fish nets can be twisted, braided, super-knot knotless or raschell knotless, mono or multi-mono filaments.

Website: www.king-net.com.tw Email: sales@mail.king-net.com.tw Main phone No. +886 7 535 2939 Fax No. +886 7 535 2938 23F-2, No.2 Chung Shang 2nd Road Kaohsiung City, Taiwan , Zip code: #806

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Reach a larger audience than ever before Reserve now for 2023 and make the most of year round marketing support from Marine Civils, Seawork and our leading commercial marine magazines. In print, online, eNews and social media channels.

Marine Civils attracts representatives from: • Civil engineering • UK port authorities • Energy companies • Conservation organisations, amongst others With a big overlap in content and business for companies involved in marine construction, the event is uniquely positioned to provide invaluable opportunities to access wider relevant audiences via Seawork and Maritime Journal.

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Purse Seine Nets

Propulsion

Netting

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REDES SALINAS S.A. Carretera de Catral, no 30 03360 Callosa de Segura, Alicante, Spain Tel: 0034 965 310 408 Fax: 0034 965 31 2166 Email: redessalinas@redessalinas.com www.redessalinas.com Contact: Srta. Carmen Salinas Manufacturer of special purse seining nets for tuna and horse mackerel, also trawl gear, ropes and twines

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PEGUET & Cie 12 Rue Des Buchillons 74105 Annemasse, France Tel: +33 450 95 54 54 Fax: +33 450 92 22 06 E-mail: info@peguet.fr Website: www.peguet.fr Manufacture of Maillon Rapide® quick links for permanent connection in aeronautics, architecture, rigging equipment, industrial supplies, sailing, parachuting & paragliding, professional fishing, tramways facilities, climbing.

All product range self-certified.

YOUR PARTNER SINCE 1941

Ytawl Makers

SINCE 1952

Steel Wire Ropes & Trawl Wire

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Ship Design

Ropes & Net Coatings

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AKVASERVIS TRAWLS Email: office@akvaservis.lt www.akvaservis-trawl.com Tel: +370 46 365 363 Las Palmas - Baltic - Murmansk Designer & manufacturer of Pelagic, Semi-Pelagic & Bottom trawls since 1992 with active trawls in North Atlantic, Far-Eastern & Western-African fisheries.

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I-COATS N.V.

K. Mercierlei 29 • B-2600 Berchem • Belgium Tel: +32 32 81 73 03 • Fax: +32 32 81 73 04 info@i-coats.be • www.i-coats.be Contact: Koen Van Goethem We offer environmentally friendly, waterbased coatings for ropes and nets made out of all types of synthetic fibers.

(ARAMIDS, HMPE, LCP, …) Tailor-made products developed to the needs of the market.

Waxes, acrylics, polyurethanes, pigments and specialty coatings (LAGO 45, LAGO BF 10A, ICO-LUBE 10, ICO-THANE 10, ICO-THANE 32, ICO – THANE 96, ICO-THANE 98) All coatings are compatible, allowing development for individual solutions.

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Estrada de Fortons 23 36812 Redondela (Pontevedra) Spain Tel: +34 986 20 33 12 E-mail: info@grupoeurored.com Website: www.grupoeurored.com

Complete range of high efficient trawl doors for demersal fishing, “off the seabed” semi-pelagic fishing and pelagic fishing.

Reykjavík, Iceland

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P.O. 19 FO-530 Fuglafjørõur P.O.Box Box 19 FO-530 Fuglafjørður Faroe Islands Faroe Islands Tel: +298 474 200 Tel: +298 +298 474 Fax: 474200 201 Fax: +298 474 201 Email: info@vonin.com E-mail: info@vonin.com Web: Web:www.vonin.com www.vonin.com Contact: Non Contact:Bogi Eystein Elttør

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ICELAND FAROE ISLANDS

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Manufacturer of pelagic trawls, Vónin is a major supplier to the fishing fleet and semi-pelagic shrimpin trawls, aquaculture industrytrawls, with branches the Faroe various bottom trawls, purse and seine Islands, Greenland, Canada, Denmark Norway. nets, fish farming nets andsemi sorting Vónin manufactures pelagic trawls, pelagic grids.

Vónin is a major supplier to trawl, shrimp trawls, bottom trawls, sorting grids, the North Atlantic/Arctic fishingand fleet. crab pots, net cages, mooring systems net We have all accessories in stock. washing systems.

WORLDFISHING & AQUACULTURE

GREENLAND

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We specialise in the development and manufacture of man overboard recovery systems suitable for all types of fishing vessels, such as the Markusnet and the Markus MOB Scramble-net/Cradle.

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Breidvangur 30 IS-220 Hafnarfjordur, Iceland Tel.Iceland: +354 5651375 Tel. UK: 01525 851234 Email: sales@markusnet.com Contact: Petur Th. Petursson

MORGERE trawl doors, COTESI nets, ropes, mooring, BRIDON cable, flotation, CROSBY GROUP naval hardware, longline material, etc.

Aquaculture integral supplies and installation of fish farming and Long Line production systems, OFFSHORE facilities.

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Hi tech design and production of pelagic and bottom fishing trawl systems. Nets and deck material for tuna purse seiners, inshore fishing and longliners. Everything necessary for fishing activities:

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SWEDEN

IRELAND DENMARK

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SERVICE POINT FOR THE NORTH SEA

Centrally located in the North Sea basin

Available 24/7 SHIPYARD SERVICES FISHING GEAR TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT & SERVICES DESIGN & ENGINEERING GENERAL SUPPLIES PORT & FISH LANDING FACILITIES

Thyborøn & Poly-Ice Trawldoors for all kinds of pelagic, semi-pelagic and demersal trawling with single, twin- and multipurpose rigging.

All doors are “Made in Denmark” according to customer demands and wishes.

8, Sydhalevej, DK-7680 Thyborøn, Denmark

mail@thyboron-trawldoor.dk www.trawldoor.dk

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Self-spreading

self-spreading technology

Spreading force

Longer flow route over the rope More speed = lower pressure

Shorter flow route under the rope Less speed = more pressure

HELIX Opens quickly when shooting away More opening during a tow Maintains gear shape in a turn Sound waves are directed inwards

Self-spreading technology is patent protected