World Fishing February 2019

FEBRUARY 2019 ❘ VOL. 68

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INFORMING THE GLOBAL FISHING INDUSTRY SINCE 1952 Industry News 4 | Insight 12 | Trawl Gear 14 | Processing & Quality 18 | Newbuilds 26

NEW HORIZONS

WORLD’S BIGGEST WELLBOAT

Fish skin leather rocks Nairobi’s catwalks page 10

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INSIGHT

The largest vessel of its kind anywhere in the world, Ronja Storm has been built at the Cemre Shipyard in Turkey and is being taken to Havyard in Norway for internal outfitting and completion.

Towards the end of this year the 116 metre LOA, 23 metre beam Ronja Storm will be making the long delivery trip to Tasmania where Huon Aquaculture is due to take over the vessel on a ten-year lease from Norwegian specialist wellboat operator Sølvtrans.

“We are pleased to confirm that the Ronja Storm has been launched and is now on its way to Norway. We expect that it will be delivered to Tasmania by November this year,” said Huon Aquaculture CEO Peter Bender.

8 Ronja Storm has been launched at the Cemre yard and will be fitted out in Norway

“The Ronja Storm is our biggest vessel yet and it will be an asset that will ensure Huon’s long-term success.”

Its role will be to transport and bathe salmon using a system designed to combat amoebic gill disease. This bathes the salmon in fresh water, which causes the amoeba to drop off the gills of the fish.

“The amount of technology that is going into the vessel is truly astounding. We are thrilled to be on the cutting edge of salmon farming and I believe that the Ronja Storm will enable us to be even better farmers,” he said.

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Too soon to be bullish on European Aquaculture page 12

AQUACULTURE

Promoting Aquaculture in Mozambique page 24

SAUPIQUET PLACES TUNA SEINER ORDER WITH PIRIOU French operator Saupiquet has placed an order with Piriou for a new 67 metre tuna purse seiner. The new Via Alizé is to be built at Piriou’s yard in Vietnam with a 2020 delivery date.

The order is part of Saupiquet’s policy change in recent years, with a stringent requirement for sustainably sourced raw material, and with its production sold under the Pêche Française label that guarantees that 100% of the company’s canned tuna is sourced from French vessels, as well as guaranteeing responsible fishing, quality, traceability and a support for French jobs.

Between the yard in Concarneau and its shipyard in Vietnam, Piriou has built eight tuna seiners in the 8090 metre size bracket since 2010, and the company’s

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Purse Seine Nets Trawl Netting Rigged Cages Pred & Bird Nets

8 Via Alizé is due to be delivered to Saupiquet by Piriou’s Vietnam yard in 2020

orderbook is showing a significant fishing industry element, as in addition to Saupiquet’s Via Alizé, three longliners and two trawlers are scheduled to be delivered by the company during 2019.

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Dockside legend

There are hardly any fishery officers over there and they get to do whatever they want without anyone doing a thing about it.

It’s a disgrace

There was absolutely no doubting the strength and depth of the big guy’s convictions. Let’s leave aside for a moment which side of the Channel this gentleman lives, but his opinion of his neighbours on the other side could hardly have fallen much lower.

“They’re animals. They’ve no respect. Don’t follow any rules. They do whatever they like and nobody ever stops them.”

No, he hadn’t ever set foot on the other side of the Channel, hadn’t actually spoken to any of the animals over there face-to-face, but his deeply-held convictions were set in stone.

A few weeks later, on the opposite side of the Channel, another gentlemen, just as big, just as angry.

“They get to catch six times as much fish as us and they do what they want. Nobody ever checks them. There are hardly any fishery officers over there and they get to do whatever they want without anyone doing a thing about it. It’s a disgrace.”

Like his counterpart, this man had also never been further than just about within sight of land on the far side of the Channel, had never had a exchanged a single word directly with any of his opposite numbers over there, but remained firmly convinced that the beasts on the other side of the water needed to be reined in.

It’s astonishing how much these two encounters have in common, quite apart from the mutual loathing and the sheer scale of the misinformation each had gathered about the other. Both were convinced that the other remains the reason for his own dire circumstances, each one convinced that if the “animals” on the other side of the water were to be banned from going to sea, then the sun would shine again and everyone would be happy.

In fact, I’ve long lost count of the times a conversation has gone this way, becoming a bitter tirade against some other country’s fishermen, another gear type, or even the people living just across the bay who are supposedly devils in human form.

This isn’t to say that there aren’t absolutely genuine disputes, serious issues that cry out to be addressed.

But frequently there’s not much more than a grain of truth somewhere to be found there, a genuine grievance or injustice somewhere back in the distant past. Often enough that particular element has long been addressed, but the backlog of bitterness remains, fuelled by years of carefully nurtured misinformation and hearsay.

It’s one thing to wonder how these myths come about, but sometimes you have to wonder how these tales that are so universal, so similar in practically every part of the world, manage to become so firmly enshrined in dockside legend.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

BRIEFS Search for UK young seafood chef begins The search is on for the UK Young Seafood Chef of the Year 2019 as The Grimsby Institute-run competition opens.

Now in its 17th year, the annual Seafish-sponsored competition seeks out aspiring chefs under the age of 25 and encourages them to cook with seafood.

KnipBio single cell protein scales up Aquaculture feed producer, KnipBio, has completed a critical development step with the production of a single cell protein in a 20,000 litre fermentation vessel.

Europêche cautiously welcomes EC plans

PIRIOU TO BUILD VIA ALIZÉ IN VIETNAM At 67 metres overall and with a 12.40 metre beam, Saupiquet’s new Via Alizé will be on a smaller scale than that of previous tuna purse seiners, reflecting the company’s requirements and the proven design by Piriou Ingenierie takes into account regulatory changes, contributing to improved working conditions, rest periods and security for crew on board in accordance with the 2006 Maritime Labour Convention requirements.

“Deciding to partner with Piriou shipyard to build a modern series vessel has the significant advantage of complying with the rules and regulations of the French flag,” said Saupiquet general manager Patrick Furic.

“This type of vessel is an important asset for the future of Saupiquet. We are reducing the average age of our fleet, composed of four vessels, with a smaller tuna seiner concept which we consider

to be the right tool for voluntary sustainable fishing.”

Via Alizé’s design is for a carrying capacity of 1400m3 in fourteen wells and a 350m3 fuel capacity providing a 55-day endurance, with accommodation for a crew of 23. It will have a 3000kW main engine, with two 800kVa gensets and a 1500kVa shaft generator coupled to the reduction gearbox.

Piriou will also supply a speed boat and the 10 metre skiff used for deploying the purse seine as part of the package.

Overfishing in the Mediterranean and Black Sea has decreased by 10% raising hopes of a recovery in fish stocks, according to a new report.

Hercules to distribute TMA winches Devon-based Hercules Hydraulics has been appointed as a UK distributor

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“We are delighted and proud that our customers now include Saupiquet and the Bolton Group,” said Piriou CEO Vincent Faujour.

“This new tuna seiner is a part of a responsible and sustainable approach to fisheries management and also contributes to environmental compliance and crew wellbeing. This is how we continue to support vessel owners in the necessary renewal of their fishing capacity.”

JULIE OF LADRAM JOINS WATERDANCE FLEET

Europêche has welcomed news that the European Parliament Committee on Fisheries has adopted a European Commission proposal to establish a multiannual management plan for demersal fisheries in the western Mediterranean.

Raised hopes for med and Black Sea fishing

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South-West fishing company Waterdance has made an addition to its fleet, and the beam trawler joining the Brixham fleet takes its name after parent company Greendale’s much-missed and respected administrator Julie Jones who passed away last year after many years with the company, during which she saw it grow significantly.

The Julie of Ladram E-271 is a 38.33 metre LOA, 8,02 metre breadth beam trawler, built at the Haak Shipyard in Zaandam in 1983, originally as the Cornelis Maria TX-49.

Following a serious fire on

8 Waterdance’s Julie of Ladram E-271 alongside in Brixham with scalloper Emily J E-123

board ten years ago, the trawler was extensively refitted, with its accommodation and wheelhouse replaced.

“This is a very exciting development for the Waterdance fleet. What we are getting is a beamer with a 1983 hull in excellent condition, and with superstructure that’s ten years old,” said Waterdance managing director Nigel Blazeby as Julie of Ladram docked in Brixham for the first time.

He added that Julie of Ladram has been UK registered in the past as Quo Vadis BCK-43, but has most recently been pulse beaming under the German flag for its Dutch owners as Jacob Grietje ST-27.

‘All the pulse gear has been removed and she will be fishing from Brixham with traditional large beam trawl gear – with Steve Rogers sailing as skipper,’ he said.

Julie of Ladram was brought to Brixham where its registration and survey were being carried out, and Steve Rogers planned to be able to start fishing at the end of January, landing traditional groundfish species to Brixham.

‘Julie of Ladram is a bit longer than the boats I’m used to, but the principles are the same as any other beam trawler I’ve worked on.

The capacity is much the same, but with a boat this size we should have a bit more comfort,’ Steve said, commenting that Julie of Ladram has been well maintained, is in generally excellent condition and the nine-cylinder StorkWärtsilä main engine was overhauled and rebuilt in 2016.

‘She shows her age in places, but the heart of the ship is what’s important.’ he said.

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“Niels has been one of the most important people forming not only BioMar but also the industry. His dedication to developing a sustainable and professional aquaculture has led to industry standards and the high-end feed ranges we see in the market.

Furthermore, he has been one of the most important people forming the culture in BioMar: A culture built upon trust, relationships, professionalism and a desire to pioneer the future of the industry,” said BioMar Group CEO Carlos Diaz.

There are not many in the aquaculture industry who can claim 45 years of service. Niels Alsted’s career started in 1974 on a small trout farm in Denmark before beginning his studies in aquaculture research at the University of Tromsø, Institute of Fisheries in 1977 in Norway.

He stayed in academic research for several years and was an associate professor at Aalborg University when he accepted to undertake his commercial PhD with BioMar in 1987.

Over the last 32 years Niels has held various positions in BioMar from R&D, sourcing, food safety and business relations and has been part of the executive management team in BioMar Group where he contributed to opening new markets such as Chile and China. Niels is valued for his broad and deep technical knowledge and while at BioMar has published several papers on nutrition and sustainability.

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8 Niels Alsted with a delegation at the Dae-Han feed factory in South Korean 1989

He was instrumental in the creation of the first ever environmentally friendly aquaculture feed product, Ecoline and is known for his scholarly approach to feed product development.

Niels has represented the aquaculture industry and BioMar at numerous NGO events and been a member of various industry committees most recently chairing the Board of FEFAC and as a valued member of both the GSI feed task force and IFFO RS. “I am very grateful to BioMar, I have seen most of the world meeting fantastic people and really enjoying my work in the aquaculture industry. I simply could not ask for more,” commented Niels Alsted, who now looks forward to spending more time with the family, but has not closed the door on potentially doing more aquaculture related projects.

8 Niels Alsted, about to retire after 45 years in the aquaculture industry

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This will be the third time that this conference has been held, and the last occasion was a very well-received event that was held alongside the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition in September 2017. The success of the Fish Waste for Profit event in 2017 was such that this time it is held as an independent conference, taking place for the first time separately from the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition, which returns to Iceland 23-25th September 2020.

In recent decades it has become increasingly apparent that the reutilisation of fish processing by-products is an effective method of increasing revenue from regular fish processing, serving the cosmetic, pharmaceutical and agricultural industries. Estimates reveal that 43% of fish and shellfish resources end up as wastage, which represents a significant amount of potential profit that could be generated from otherwise discarded material.

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FISH SKIN LEATHER ROCKS NAIROBI’S CATWALKS Necks craned as the lithe Kenyan models displayed their stylish dresses, purses and shoes at the Blue Fashion show held as part of Kenya’s Blue Economy Conference

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Since the fish is sold in fillets, the skin was largely wasted.

With fish of these sizes – mature Nile perch can reach 1.85 metres in length – that’s a lot of fish skin. He and his wife came up with a plan to make better use of that wasted fish skin, which had been mostly buried as a fertiliser, a decision that could also add value to the Turkana fisherfolk communities who could earn more for their product.

“The idea started off with my wife exploring the possibilities of making fish leather out of it. Honestly, it sounded like a crazy idea to me at first,” he said.

“But we started out in phases. We received some training from a friend who knew a little bit about it. From there, we tried to process the leather with our slight knowledge. At first, it really didn’t turn out very well. But later on, we managed to get it right and to understand the formulas. My wife undertook some training in Singapore, learning how to perfect the fish leather production. And here we are.”

8 These fish skin purses are produced by the wives of fishermen

All photos: FAO/Luis Tato

New fashion designs always attracts attention from fashion show attendees, and when that couture is crafted from fish skin leather, fish scales and seaweed fabric, audience engagement reaches new levels.

Even seasoned fashion designers needed time to get their head around it. Kenyan fashion designer Jamil Waliji, head designer at JW Couture, whose Blue Fashion designs were unveiled on the catwalk of Nairobi, was a complete newcomer to ocean- and lake-sourced fashion.

“I knew nothing about Blue Fashion until I was approached to take part in this fashion challenge,” Jamil Waliji admitted.

“I was told that the Commonwealth Fashion Council and FAO were involved, and that it would focus on sustainable fashion and saving the oceans, so I wanted to learn more … The more I learned, the more it surprised me that so few of my colleagues knew anything about it either, and they were intrigued when I began sharing my experiences working with fish skin.”

Prior to the Blue Fashion event, he travelled to Kitale in western Kenya to visit Victorian Foods – the site where the fish skin leather he was using for his designs was created. Back in 2007 the company’s CEO James Ambani first began buying Nile perch from Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake on the border with Kenya and Ethiopia. Its remoteness makes it hard for the fishermen to get their fish to market and Kitale, the nearest large market town, is about 36 hours away over rough, dirt roads.

When James Ambani started working with the fishing communities, he paid them for their catch and arranged to transport the perch via cold-storage trucks to Kitale, where it could be processed as fillets and shipped out to be sold both in Kenya and abroad.

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NEW HORIZONS

Today the factory produces fish leather that is shipped all over the world to be used in the design of shoes, purses, clothes – there’s even interest from the automobile industry to begin producing luxury interiors in fish leather. Fish leather can appear like snake or crocodile skin. But unlike those species, there are no restrictions in trading fish leather, which is generally a byproduct of food products, and therefore not endangered.

Importantly, fish leather and Blue Fashion can offer additional opportunities to add value and provide employment and bolster livelihoods for fisheries communities. This is one of the tenets of FAO’s Blue Growth Initiative, which seeks to balance the sustainable management of aquatic resources with economic and social benefits for local communities.

“Our Blue Growth Initiative has begun to look at Blue Fashion as an alternative income-generating activity for fisheries communities, especially for women and youth,” said Jackie Alder, FAO FishCode Manager.

“This is something we consider carefully when we have communities that do a lot of fish processing, and we have fish skins and other parts of the fish left over. By having the opportunity to produce fashion products, such as fish skin leather, we have a real opportunity to generate new employment opportunities for those communities, and also to provide the fashion industry with alternatives for more sustainable material.”

“We believe that the fashion industry must look at responsibility within the industry, and to build responsible value chains,” said Sheena Frida Chiteri, Founder of the Strategic Fashion Development Consortium, speaking at the Blue Fashion event.

‘In the fashion sector, when we work with fish skin leather and Blue Fashion, we see tremendous gains for fisheries communities.

There are significant opportunities for adding value to their fisheries harvest through expanding Blue Fashion activities.”

And how can designers not be inspired by this new, sustainable material?

“I was inspired to create garments with fish skin leather, to infuse the local fabric, the leso, with the fish skin and European materials,” Jamil Walji enthused.

“I wanted to bring out a combination that has never been done before … Just by sitting and feeling, it inspires you, the idea of joining them together to form a huge surface area to work on gives you ideas and motivates you to make something that’s totally different, because you would be looking at the edges and grain lines of the fish in order to make your design, and at the 8 The mature Nile perch bought from the Lake Turkana fishermen can reach lengths of up to 6 feet, and skin had mostly been used for fertiliser before Victorian Foods began experimenting with leather production

end of the day, these lines create your design lines, and enhance your look.”

Designer Deepa Dosaja, another Kenyan fashion designer whose works were unveiled at the Blue Fashion show, spoke about the creativity the material inspired. Her stunning, elegant dresses alternate fish skin leather with playful, eye-catching ruffles created with fish scales.

“With the dresses we’re showing today, we dried and dyed fish scales and made use of those to embellish the dresses,” she said.

“I learned that sequins actually have detrimental effects on the environment, so I was interested to experiment with this sustainable, decorative option of fish scales and worked to make them look like decorative petals. Working with the fish leather was also a creative process. For these dresses, we mixed different colours and textures of fish leather, to provide a unique look to these creations.”

An advantage of the fish skin pattern is that the look is governed by the grain of the fish skin, meaning that no two purses or dresses will ever be entirely the same – a uniqueness that is fully appreciated by fashion designers, and their clients.

As the fashion industry is the second most polluting sector in the world, there are real questions over making room for improvement. Could a sustainable Blue Fashion industry, one that prioritises fish skin leather – much lighter and more resilient than cow leather – serve as a viable alternative to high-end fashion?

The success of the Nairobi fashion show illustrated that there’s a very real interest in sustainable, lake and oceansourced fashion. Can Milan, Paris and New York be far behind on the Blue Fashion bandwagon?

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8 Various Nile perch fish leather colours and finishing, at the Victorian Foods factory in Kitale

8 James Ambani of Victorian Foods with designer Jamil Waliji checking products and fish leather samples

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INSIGHT The Future of Fishing

TOO SOON TO BE BULLISH ON EUROPEAN AQUACULTURE While a new study claims that EU aquaculture has ‘fully recovered’ from a recent downturn, any celebratory popping of corks will be premature, writes Jason Holland

8 While European aquaculture is seen to be healthy and growing, output lags far behind that of other parts of the world

Aquaculture has a lot going for it. Without the rapid rise of aquatic species production, the global seafood economy wouldn’t have seen the five-decade-and-counting increases in both consumption and production, nor would it be in a position to meet the future dietary demands of our fastgrowing world population.

Today, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the two important markers of consumption and production have increased to 20.50kg per capita and an all-time high of 171 million tonnes, respectively.

But the FAO also recognises that the growth rates of both are slowing down. It projects that world fish consumption will reach 21.50kg per capita in 2030, while production will climb to around 200 million tonnes. Crucially, of this, capture fisheries output is expected to reach about 91 million tonnes, only 1% more than at present.

With most fishery stocks expected to remain maximally sustainably fished or overfished for at least the next decade, the onus is very much on aquaculture to bridge the gap between the supply of aquatic food and the demand from a growing, wealthier global population. And yet the aquaculture landscape is extremely diverse when it comes to supply and demand.

decade or so, during which time its production has been increasingly dwarfed by the rapid growth of Asian output, which today covers about 92% of the global production volume. China alone produces 58% of all the world’s farmed aquatic species.

Nevertheless, in the European Commission’s eyes, EU aquaculture has significant growth potential. There are also some signs that the sector’s stagnation may be drawing to a close.

Among these, the Commission’s newly-published ‘2018 Economic Report of the EU Aquaculture Sector’, finds that the overall performance of the region’s aquaculture sector is “improving”.

Compiled by the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF), the Commission’s report – the sixth study of its kind – confirms that in 2016 (the most recent year reported on), the sector reached 1.4 million tonnes in sales volume, generating a value of €4.9 billion, and that production had increased by 2.2% annually between 2014 and 2016 in volume and 3.1% in value. Profit over the same period almost doubled to reach €800 million, which it says marked “a strong recovery from the bad year of 2013” in most of the large producing countries, particularly for shellfish harvests.

While these are positive figures, the report acknowledges that the financial upturns were largely due to increased prices.

EARLY SHOOTS OF CHANGE The European Union (EU) is the planet’s No. 1 consumer of seafood, followed by the United States and Japan, with Europeans’ per capita consumption having steadily trended upwards over several years to the current level of 24kg.

However, the EU-28’s contribution as a global seafood producer is a much more modest fifth-place, which sees it account for 5.6% of the world’s wild-capture fisheries output and just 1.2% of the total aquaculture harvest. Seafood consumption in member states is therefore mostly met by imported products.

Factoring in a capture fisheries sector that pretty much plateaued 20 years ago, increasing the EU’s own supply of farmed seafood seems the obvious solution to reducing its heavy reliance on imports and meeting the huge domestic demand, while also creating valuable, skilled employment. But the bloc’s aquaculture industry has also stagnated over the last

REGIONAL SPECIALISATION As a whole, the EU aquaculture sector comprises three distinguishable sub-sectors: marine, shellfish and freshwater production. With more than €2.7 billion turnover, marine aquaculture is the largest, followed by shellfish with €1.1 billion and freshwater production with €1 billion. The main species produced in terms of value are Atlantic salmon (€1 billion, 25% of the total), rainbow trout (€615 million, 15%) and European seabass (€502 million, 12%), based on volumes of 181,000 tonnes, 185,000 tonnes and 81,000 tonnes respectively.

Meanwhile, production is dominated by five countries: The United Kingdom, France, Greece, Italy and Spain. These countries, each with turnovers between €550 million and €1.1 billion, account for around 75% of the total production volume, although each has its own area of specialisation. In the marine sector, the United Kingdom is the EU’s main producer of salmon (91% of the total value), whereas Greece is the main

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producer of seabass and seabream (47% of the total value). In the shellfish sector, France produces 86% of the oysters, Spain leads on mussels with 45% of the volume, and Italy is the main producer of clams (80%).

In total, the EU member states are home to some 12,500 aquaculture enterprises, mostly micro-businesses employing less than 10 people.

GROWTH PLATFORM The report highlights that the reform of the Common Fishery Policy (CFP) encourages the promotion of aquaculture through a cooperation process based on national Multiannual Strategic Plans to be developed by member states. Essentially, the primary goal of this endeavour is to contribute to decreasing the EU’s dependence on seafood imports while satisfying market demand. This strategy is based on four key pillars: 5 Simplify administrative procedures 5 Secure the sustainable development and growth of aquaculture through coordinated spatial planning 5 Enhance the competitiveness of EU aquaculture 5 Promote a level playing field for EU operators Using the growth expectations and current achievements presented in the strategic plans, EU aquaculture production is forecast to exceed 1.7 million tonnes by 2020. And while this would mean it’s moving in the right direction, it would still be a considerable way off the 56 million tonnes that China is expected to provide in the same year.

Meanwhile, in its evaluation of these plans, an STECF expert working group felt that most couldn’t be directly connected to the measures and actions that had been implemented.

Fortunately, they still deemed them to be beneficial to their respective aquaculture sectors.

These experts also tried to establish if the objectives for growth in the national plans were likely to be achieved by the ending of the current funding period (2020-2023), with the report stating that using production from the base year of 2013 as a starting point, “many countries seem to be on track concerning their production goals”. But it also says that it’s difficult to assess whether this is just a catching-up effect from the weak performance in 2013 or an actual improvement in the overall EU production.

While member states have ongoing actions in one or all of the strategic pillars, only a few countries had overcome or were close to achieving the production goals stated in their strategic plans, says the report. “In many cases the evolution in production can be better explained by factors outside the strategic plan actions, such as adverse environmental conditions”.

It adds that the projections included in the plans might have been “overoptimistic” or even “unrealistic”, which would lead to the conclusion that the production goals will not be reached.

Despite these reservations, the report maintains that the design and implementation of the Multiannual Strategic Plans are both “a step forward in the lifetime of modern EU aquaculture” and “a success in coordination of the different stakeholders across countries towards a common goal and strategy”.

From a basic, consumer perspective, with Chinese aquaculture production growth expected to slow and stimulate much higher prices over the next decade, any resurgence in European aquaculture would undoubtedly prove timely for the bloc’s seafood supply chains.

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GEARINGUP GETS READY FOR GROWTH The GearingUp project, set up as an online tool capable of being used to share technical fishing gear information in anticipation of the Landing Obligation, is now heading for a version 2.0

8 With the Landing Obligation now fully in place, GearingUp is set to grow further in providing an online database of fishing gear knowledge and expertise

Online at gearingup.eu, the project has brought together an online database of more than a hundred gear selectivity and catch comparison trials that have taken place in Northern European waters since 2002. The aim behind it has been to make fishing gear trials more readily available and provide detailed results of how different selective gears performed in practice. The GearingUp interactive tool can be used by anyone searching for practical guidance on how to modify their fishing gear to meet the Landing Obligation – and now that it’s here, the GearingUp team are working on extending its life and expanding its scope beyond exclusively towed gears and to take it beyond the North Atlantic region that has so far been its focus.

“We have loved bringing GearingUp to life since we first heard the concept two years ago. In that time, we've stayed focused on the purpose of the tool, our key audience, the fishing industry,” said Harriet Yates-Smith, one of the team behind GearingUp, along with Thomas Catchpole at CEFAS. “When the first phase of the project wrapped up in October 2018, the Gearing Up team immediately started to look at the next incremental improvement we could make. With the Landing Obligation now in place, it’s vital this isn't just another project to sit on a shelf and stagnate, but one that will get more useful with time,” she said.

“This is the opportunity to continue and keep it evolving, and to help the tool expand. We still have a list of things that we are looking to do to enhance the tool further, including the option to share non-published trials, by supporting the addition of gear experiments trialled independently by fishermen.”

She commented that while the primary interest in GearingUp has been from Europe – the top countries where traffic comes from are the UK, Ireland, Spain, Belgium and Denmark – GearingUp has recorded traffic from more than 36 countries “We know we have a core of users who are not only visiting the tool, but coming back, checking for new trials or re-visiting information that's interested them. We also have a huge range of geographies accessing GearingUp and 30% of our users have

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returned for more information. It’s also noticeable that there’s a spike in traffic when new trials are added to the database of information that’s already there,’ she said.

“We're constantly on the lookout for feedback from fishermen and scientists, and we're currently in a focused phase of outreach to those audiences to learn more about how we can improve, adapt and grow. We're also actively businessdeveloping to ensure a long-term future for the tool.”

Since the initial launch, GearingUp has already been built on and improved, including with the addition last year of a new online form making it easier for users to add their own gear trial results, as well as an improved results section and gear graphics.

“We've also presented the tool to the UN, consulting on a similar tool in a different area that the FAO is developing. We've taken part in conferences, working groups and advisory councils, and recently presented to an audience of DG MARE officials, where a senior scientist from the Landing Obligation unit, said the GearingUp tool was the one of the best things he’s seen in fisheries for a long time,” Harriet Yates-Smith said.

“So with the LO in full force, now is not the time for us to get complacent. We're hugely ambitious about what the tool could further evolve into, and we're optimistic, ambitious and actively seeking funding to continue this work.”

8 The option of sharing nonpublished trials by supporting the addition of gear experiments trialled independently by fishermen is being added to the GearingUp tool

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The NOAA Fisheries Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program, supporting the development of technological solutions and changes in fishing practices designed to minimise bycatches, is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

“Our mission is to find creative approaches and strategies for reducing bycatch, seabird interactions, and post-release mortality in federally managed fisheries,” said National Bycatch Coordinator Erin Wilkinson.

Now NOAA Fisheries is announcing the availability of approximately $2.5 million for projects that increase collaborative research and partnerships for innovation in bycatch reduction.

There are a number of high-priority areas for the 2019 fiscal year, including developing innovative and effective technologies, gear modifications, avoidance programmes and techniques, and/or improved fishing practices in commercial and recreational fisheries and aquaculture to reduce bycatch impacts.

Improving understanding and reduction of post-release and other indirect mortality, including barotrauma, predation, and unaccounted mortality in commercial and recreational fisheries and aquaculture are also seen as key priroties. This includes both target and non-target species of fish or protected species.

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projects that specifically test descending devices or identify high-priority release and discard mortality needs and provide baseline information for important discarded species; in particular, but not limited to red snapper, Atlantic cod, striped marlin, and others.

The Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program is also looking at developing techniques to reduce interactions between fishing gears and corals, sponges, and other structure-forming

8 NOAA Fisheries is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program

invertebrates. Proposals that specifically reduce impacts to essential fish habitats, deep-sea coral sites, and endangered tropical corals.

The focus is also on conducting comprehensive international bycatch analyses or research that will inform conservation engineering in US commercial, recreational, and aquaculture fisheries.

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TRAWL GEAR

There was plenty to see during the recent trip to Hirtshals organised by Hampiðjan which took a group of guests to the North Sea Centre’s flume tank. The highlights included a quad-rig trawl setup for shrimp developed by Hirtshals company Cosmos Trawl, which is part of the Hampiðjan Group. Due to the gear’s spread, only one side of the new quad-rig setup was demonstrated, but it didn’t escape notice that this is something new.

Cosmos Trawl has been at the forefront of shrimp trawl development and production for decades. Initially the focus was on developing conventional trawls. Later this was extended to designs with two trawls towed side-by-side. Then the number of trawls was increased to three and now Cosmos Trawl has come up with an arrangement that makes it possible to tow four trawls with two sets of doors and a centre weight, and to increase catching potential without adversely affecting the trawler’s efficiency.

According to Cosmos Trawl’s sales manager Thorleif Grønkjær, the thinking behind this is to increase the gear spread by as much as 33% compared to a triple-rig layout. A three-trawl setup uses three 3300 mesh trawls, each with a 132 metre fishing circle. By using four 2600 trawls, each with a 104 metre fishing circle, it is possible to increase the gear spread

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from 210 metres with three trawls to 280 metres with four.

‘The headline height of the 2600 mesh trawl is 7.5 metres, which is fine for the Barents Sea where the shrimp are fairly close to the bottom all year round. By using this size of trawl we calculate the the towing resistance is the same

8 Cosmos Trawl’s quad rig design envisages towing two sets of doors and a clump on five warps

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8 The spread of the quad-rig model is such that only one side of the setup was demonstrated in the flume tank

We’re looking to the future and we expect that it won’t be long before trawlers capable of towing four trawls are designed and built. These are going to be the fishing vessels of the future 8 Cosmos Trawl is looking to the future with its quad-rig shrimp trawl design

doors and replacing them with weights, the spread drops by a total of 30 metres.

The new system is ready to be taken into use, although no shrimp fishing companies have yet gone for this option. Thorleif Grønkjær said that there are good reasons for this; that no fishing vessel has yet been fitted out for towing four trawls.

‘We’re looking to the future and we expect that it won’t be long before trawlers capable of towing four trawls are designed and built. These are going to be the fishing vessels of the future,’ he said.

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NEW AQUACULTURE TECHNOLOGICAL CO-OPERATION A fast-growing industry in Brazil, aquaculture is expected to create multiple business opportunities in the next few years, reports Eduardo Campos Lima

8 The search for increased efficiency is a major issue for Brazilian fish producers

Norwegian companies plan to get involved in every field of tilapia production. In 2018, Innovation Norway, the government agency for innovation and development of Norwegian enterprises and industry, and the Brazilian Association of Pisciculture (Peixe BR) established a co-operation agreement and started to build partnerships based around technology and operating systems between companies from both countries.

The main focus of the Brazilian tilapia producers is to increase the efficiency of their plants with technological solutions offered by the Norwegian companies, said Francisco Medeiros, head of Peixe BR. “We need their technological contribution in order to improve our competitiveness. If we just wait for the development of technology in Brazil, we will miss the boat,” he said.

The contact between Norwegians and Brazilians was first established in 2017, when Stein-Gunnar Bondevik from Innovation Norway sought out Peixe BR. “We already had a very strong co-operation with Brazil in oil and gas. Having worked in this industry for several years, I knew the aquaculture sector very well and saw several possibilities there,” he recalled. A highly prominent industry sector in Norway, fish production is a highly automated industry, with numerous companies offering intelligent solutions for production, processing, and filleting, whereas in Brazil all these production phases depend on having a large workforce available.

After a few meetings and seminars, delegations from both countries visited their counterparts and learned about the particularities and specifics of each other’s industries, expressing their willingness to work together. At the end of 2018, the first agreement was signed between Brazilian Grupo Ambar Amaral, a company with operations in tilapia production, feeding, and

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freezing and Norwegian seafood processing solutions company Bjørdal. Other contracts are still being negotiated.

Stein-Gunnar Bondevik explained that the innovation contract is entirely mediated by Innovation Norway.

“A Brazilian company identifies a problem that it needs to solve and a high-tech company develops a solution that it can apply. The costs are partially funded by the company and up to 50% by Innovation Norway. The condition is that it is a scalable solution,” he said. The Brazilian company is not obliged to buy the solution at the end of the agreement. The Innovation Norway funds are provided as a grant, so the Norwegian entrepreneur does not have to pay it back after the contract is concluded.

“I am working in both countries to make people aware of these possibilities,” Stein-Gunnar Bondevik said.

“We asked them that all agreements should be signed on a business-to-business basis, without the participation of the government,” said Peixe BR’s Francisco Medeiros, commenting that his concern was that red tape could become an obstacle to co-operation.

“On our side, we had to see what we could immediately bring to Brazil and what would need more studies,” said Stein-Gunnar

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Bondevik, adding that Norway is a world leading producer of salmon, and not every technology can be directly applied to the production of other fish varieties. He pointed out that water treatment solutions and processing technologies are some of the elements that can be more easily adapted.

According to Antonio Ramon Amaral, one of the owners of Grupo Ambar Amaral, the critical process in his company is filleting.

“Nowadays, we produce about 30 tonnes of tilapia each day, employing 250 staff. In one Norwegian company I visited, a hundred employees process 600 tonnes of fish daily,” he said.

His company has recently acquired a filleting machine from a Brazilian manufacturer and intends to analyse its capabilities over the 18-month collaboration with Bjørdal. By June, 2020, the new system provided by the Norwegian company will be fully operational.

“They hired two engineers who will study our operations in depth,” he said. “We plan to cut at least 20% of our costs by the conclusion of this co-operation.”

The search for efficiency is not a minor issue for Brazilian companies right now. Although their potential growth is substantial, they face competition from countries such Ecuador, where productivity is much higher.

“Our company currently does not export its production Ecuador, Colombia and Costa Rica have very aggressive prices on the US market,” Antonio Ramon Amaral said.

Brazilian aquaculture grew by 8% in 2017, with a production of 700,000 tonnes of fish. According to Francisco Medeiros, companies requested government licenses and are waiting for permission to produce another 3 million tonnes per year.

“Each tonne of fish requires the investment of £740 in freezing equipment and of £950 in other equipment. So we are talking of at least £5 billion when these licenses are issued,” he stated, adding that Peixe BR also estimates that Brazilian aquaculture will have a two-digit growth each year over the next decade.

“Per capita fish consumption in South America is the lowest in the world, with 9.8kg/year. In Brazil alone, per capita chicken consumption corresponds to 40kg/year. We want to grow at least to that level,” he said.

The co-operation with Norwegian companies has attracted the attention of other countries, according to Francisco Medeiros. But the Norwegians got in with a head start.

“I think Brazil is going to be an aquaculture superpower in a few years, given that not many countries have the water resources Brazil has,” concluded Stein-Gunnar Bondevik.

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SKAGINN 3X SUB-CHILLING ORDER FOR SOTRA Norwegian salmon producer Sotra Fiskeindustri has invested in a Sub-Chilling system from Icelandic company Skaginn 3X. With Skaginn 3X’s trademarked Sub-Chilling system, fish can be cooled down to -1.5°C. This process provides many advantages, including extended product shelf-life and better processing yield, not to mention significantly reducing the carbon footprint.

"If we can get the fish below 0°C, we will see several benefits," Sotra’s general manager Kjell Inge Eide said. "We can almost eliminate the use of ice in our boxes. Proper cooling methods play a key role in maintaining the quality and durability of the fish.“ “Today’s requirements state that the temperature of fish should be kept below 4°C when transported. These requirements will not be any less stringent in the future,” he added, commenting that road authorities have also had to tackle icy road conditions due to water drainage from lorries.

“This problem is eliminated with Sub-Chilling as this cooling method requires no ice during transport,” he commented.

Sub-Chilling uses patented technology to cool the fish to below 0°C without freezing it.

The method eliminates the need for ice,

reducing transport weight by 15-25%. This considerably cuts down on fuel and labour costs. The fish itself becomes the cooling refrigerant and the temperature is maintained below 0°C for several days and in most cases all the way to the buyer.

"Today's method of packing salmon in EPS boxes requires a lot of ice to keep the temperature down during transport. With SubChilling, you will reduce and even eliminate the

8 The Skaginn 3X sub-chilling system will soon be running at the Sotra Fiskeindustri factory

need for ice, while receiving all the benefits it provides,” said Magni Veturlidason, managing director of Skaginn 3X’s Norwegian subsidiary.

"We are proud to have Sotra as a customer and are convinced that the new system will give the company good results in the future," he added.

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IMPROVING GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY THROUGH AQUACULTURE Aquaculture faces a crisis with more than US$ ten billion worth of aquaculture stocks lost annually as a result of disease

8 Jeremiah Gilmore and Dr Kwang Chul discuss the development of algalbased oral delivery platforms for vaccine administration in aquaculture

Biotech company MicroSynbiotiX is using genetically modified microalgae to develop novel, cost-effective oral delivery platforms for vaccine administration, helping to protect aquaculture populations against common bacterial infections and reduce antibiotic use.

MicroSynbiotiX is an aquaculture biotechnology company established in 2016 in Cork, with a further location in San Diego.

Founders Simon Porphy, CEO, and Antonio Lamb, COO, recognised the global interest in algal synthetic biology.

“Coming from a bioprocess engineering background, I had previously worked with microalgae as a platform for the production of biofuels and omega three fatty acids, and recognised their untapped potential and scalability,” Simon Porphy explained.

“Although algal synthetic biology is in its infancy, it’s a very fast-moving branch of science, and many companies from diverse fields are interested in its potential. Using my cofounder Antonio’s expertise in genetic engineering, we investigated the challenges of algal modification. Initially, we conducted a pilot project where we attempted to express insulin in microalgae, so that diabetic patients could take oral tablets as opposed to having injections. The future aim would be to modify algae to express a proinsulin that would stimulate the pancreas to produce insulin naturally. However, developing an oral delivery platform for human therapeutics can be challenging, as the capital required to get regulatory approval between US$ 500 million and US$ 1 billion, with a timeframe of 10 to 15 years. We therefore decided to focus on the development of veterinary vaccines.”

commercial fish farms,” he said and commented that previously, farmers have used antibiotics to treat bacterial infections, but there is significant concern around antimicrobial resistance being linked to one million deaths per year.

“With aquaculture growing rapidly as a sustainable food source, we wanted to look at ways of improving global food security and reduce annual stock losses valued at US$ ten billion USD, enough to feed 90 million people. Vaccination is a better alternative, as it uses the natural immune system of the fish to prevent disease in the first place. Fish populations can be vaccinated, but the current process uses hand-held injection techniques which are expensive and labour intensive; imagine a country like Norway with about 300 million fish – you would have to individually vaccinate each and every one of them.

He added that there is also no way of vaccinating shrimps using current methods, and so they wanted to make costeffective vaccinations that would be applicable across a wide range of species.

“Oral vaccines are promising; however, you need a delivery system that can resist the low pH in the stomach and the enzymes in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract of the fish. It needs to 8 MicroSynbiotiX was co-founded by Simon Porphy and Antonio Lamb in 2016

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be able to reach the hindgut to be available for absorption, without being destroyed,” he said.

“I came across Algenuity while I was exploring algal technology,” Simon Porphy explained.

This algae technology development and licensing company has world-class expertise in algal biotechnology. UK-based Algenuity’s multidisciplinary team develops proprietary and integrated solutions that increase productivity and performance of algal strains, reduce time to market for algal bioproducts, and boost overall profitability.

These enabling technologies include the Algem labscale photobioreactor, a non-GM directed evolution platform, GM strain engineering platforms, and novel bioprocess development and optimisation tools.

UNDERSTANDING CHALLENGES “The company had consistently published papers and articles, and had been at numerous conferences. There was a clear gap in the tools available for algal genetic modification, and Algenuity was making significant progress in this field. We wanted to engage with the team there, as they had shared values and held a lot of expertise in the area. They helped us modify microalgae to express specific therapeutic proteins to better understand the challenges we would face, and how to proceed with our own modification work. Working with Algenuity was a good validation process for us; it helped us to confirm that our methods were suitable before we continued our research.”

According to Simn Porphy, MicroSynbiotiX is now at the point where it has engineered microalgae to express a vaccine, and successfully demonstrated activation of the immune

system in both zebrafish and seabass after feeding them the modified algae.

“We showed that some vaccines survived the GI tract and were absorbed in the hindgut, and ELISA blood testing data verified that an immune response was caused. Our next step is to confirm that a protective immune response is stimulated after re-infection, demonstrating that the fish can survive a disease after vaccination. Algenuity has been brilliant for expert advice, as well as in helping with our validation studies. We were extremely satisfied with the research work that we collaborated on, and look forward to engaging with them on future joint ventures,” Simon Porphy concluded.

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PROMOTING AQUACULTURE IN MOZAMBIQUE In southern Africa’s Mozambique, overall aquaculture production experienced a decline in the last decade, mainly due to high production costs and poor production techniques 8 FAO and the Government of Mozambique are working to bolster aquaculture

However, some promising FAO initiatives promoting fish farming as a source of employment and livelihoods are underway in the country to promote sustainable aquaculture in Mozambique as a means to increase fish productivity and production, and income and employment along the aquaculture value chain.

Traditionally, the Mozambican aquaculture sector is comprised of many small-scale extensive fish farms. Production is mainly destined for consumption by the fish farmers and their families, although some surpluses are sold, generally close to the village. Inland aquaculture production in Mozambique is currently low, estimated to total some 200 tonnes of fish per year.

Production comes from about 9000 predominantly subsistence level ponds, mainly in Manica, Sofala, Zambezia, Niassa and Tete Provinces. Production also falls well short of demand, which has been growing rapidly in recent years, especially in towns but also in rural areas. The supplies of marine fish such as mackerel have been expanding, but they are not able to meet demand and provide relatively limited quantities in inland areas.

In Mozambique, the main farmed species at a subsistence level is Oerochromis mosambicus, which is suitable and well adapted to the biophysical conditions in the country, including those in the Manica and Sofala provinces.

For eight years, Jeremias Agapito has been developing his farm that includes a fish farming unit. This unit breeds and grows freshwater fish (Oerochromis mosambicus). With a Masters degree in Mechanised Agriculture and Livestock, he is one of the fish farmers with commercial aspirations in the south Mozambican province of Inhambane.

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He has twelve fish ponds and produces an average of approximately 300,000 fingerlings annually. At the request of the government of Mozambique, this initiative received FAO support aimed at improving technical equipment to increase production under a technical co-operation project between the Government of Mozambique and FAO, entitled Development support to commercial aquaculture in Inhambane Province of Mozambique.

Jeremias Agapito began fish farming by chance. When he inherited some land from his parents, he decided to use it for farming.

"I started fish farming in an experimental tank, only to fatten the fish. Later, I began to reproduce the fish," he explained.

Already possessing experience in agriculture, he wanted to attempt an integrated approach to fish farming. Integrated approaches combine fish farming, while integrating the feeding of fish with the production of agricultural products.

That experiment transformed into a company, called Piagropecus, and is already generating income. Piagropecus currently employs ten people.

8 Current aquaculture production in Mozambique comes from about 9000 predominantly subsistence level ponds, mainly in Manica, Sofala, Zambezia, Niassa and Tete Provinces

EXPERIENCE EXCHANGE He was invited to an international conference in Zambia to represent the fish farmers of Mozambique where he benefited from an exchange of experiences with other fish farmers from more than twenty countries.

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I have attended to various training courses through FAO and improved my knowledge, and this training, combined with on-farm support, really helped me a lot in improving my farm on various technical aspects and also in operational procedure visited his fish farm several times to provide more support, both through training and practical on-farm support.

"I have attended to various training courses through FAO and improved my knowledge, and this training, combined with onfarm support, really helped me a lot in improving my farm on various technical aspects and also in operational procedures," he said.

“With this support from the government of Mozambique assisted by the FAO, I was able to start fish farming as a business.”

In addition to his efforts in fish farming, Jeremias Agapito is also a teacher at the Higher Polytechnic Institute of Gaza, where he teaches Agricultural Engineering, Zoo Technological Engineering, Forestry Engineering, and Aquaculture Engineering, among other subjects.

Piagropecus receives students from several schools who come to the fish farm to gain practical experience and to undertake endof-course work on aquaculture. From this initiative, thirty engineering students have obtained their diplomas.

Arsénia David is one student who has just finished the course, and she is currently carrying out her professional internship at Piagropecus.

"It is interesting to work with fish and I like this area. I already know how to manage the feeding of the fish and to identify their sex,” she said, adding that following her internship, Arsénia would welcome an opportunity to continue working as a fish farmer in a company such as Piagropecus.

Jeremias Agapito is only one of several beneficiaries of the FAO project for Development Support to Commercial Aquaculture in Inhambane Province.

Through FAO's aquaculture project, Piagropecus technicians had the opportunity to learn and improve their aquaculture techniques and business skills; breeding, grow-out, green water culture, feed management, and farm management.

In addition to Piagropecus technicians, the same project also trained approximately a hundred small-scale fish farmers in the districts of Zavala, Panda and Inhambane, and 35 extension workers from the Ministry of the Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries.

Vasco Schmidt, Fisheries and Aquaculture Officer in the FAO Subregional Office for Southern Africa.

“The country has an excellent bio-physical conditions in certain areas and sites. Fish farming in Mozambique, particularly in Inhambane Province, is constrained by a number of reasons, including limited availability or access to input resources, human capacity and its institutional weaknesses, and also weak existing links between the various sector players, from small to medium scale producers, investors, feed and seed producers, traders and buyers,” he explained.

“However, there are significant opportunities to enable the development of the aquaculture sector at provincial and also national levels and therefore, aquaculture in Mozambique could benefit from a continued support to developing human capacity at all levels and across the value-chain, support to adequate technological approaches, support to aquaculture as a business approach, Such efforts could lead to a country and province-specific enabling environment for the sector to develop in a financially, economically and environmentally sustainable manner,” Vasco Schmidt said.

8 The project objective is to promote sustainable aquaculture in Mozambique as a means to increase fish productivity and production, and income and employment along the aquaculture value chain

8 Training sessions are carried out by FAO staff to teach methods for sustainable aquaculture

BUILDING CAPACITY The aim of the project is essentially to implement a thorough capacity-building programme for select producers with the potential to develop commercially viable aquaculture enterprises. This was undertaken to equip technical personnel and farmers with adequate practical skills and knowledge about aquaculture. Ultimately, the objective is to promote sustainable aquaculture in Mozambique as a means to increase fish productivity and production, value addition, income and employment along the aquaculture value chain.

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HUON INVESTS IN AQUACULTURE TONNAGE Tasmanian fish farmer Huon Aquaculture continues to invest in technology for its Storm Bay salmon production, with a new feed barge and a groundbreaking wellboat due to be delivered

CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY On the other side of the world, the Cemre Shipyard in Turkey has launched the 116 metre LOA, 23 metre breadth Ronja Storm, which will be making the long delivery trip to Huon Aquaculture in Tasmania towards the end of this year.

With its 12,000m3 capacity, it is more than double the size of any other wellboat in operation, and when it arrives in Tasmania, it is expected to take over the role of the company’s current wellboat, Ronja Huon, which will be used as dedicated harvest vessel as well as being available as a backup.

“Dedicating Ronja Huon to harvest translates to better biosecurity outcomes. We will achieve this as all of the water

Photo: Havyard

Seen as the southern hemisphere’s most sophisticated feed barge and designed for one of the most exposed sites in the world, Hogan was launched at the end of last year by Crisp Bros. and Haywards Margate. The 39.20 metre overall by 12 metre breadth vessel has been designed by Huon Aquaculture in collaboration with AKVA and builder Crisp Bros. and Haywards.

The first of two 600-tonne feed barges that will service Huon’s Storm Bay leases, Hogan is fully autonomous, with every system on the barge capable of being remotely operated from Huon’s Feed Control Room in Hobart.

“Some people can be intimidated by the idea of autonomous technology so I’d like to reassure them that this vessel isn’t coming at the expense of people’s jobs rather it will safeguard them. Hogan sets a new benchmark for innovation in aquaculture not only in Tasmania, but on the world stage,” said Huon Aquaculture co-founder and executive director Frances Bender.

“I believe that our new barge will make the international industry sit up and take even more notice of the groundbreaking work that is being done in our State. Everyone knows that Storm Bay can get rough which is why we have invested A$10.5 million in our new purpose-built barge. Offshore is where Huon’s future expansion lies and technological innovations such as the Hogan will help us safely achieve our long-term vision.”

brought to shore with the harvest fish will be returned to the vessel for disinfection before it is returned to the ocean, minimising the risk of pathogen transfer,” Peter Bender said.

“The amount of technology that is going into the vessel is truly astounding. It really is the cutting edge of salmon farming.

Ronja Storm will have its own desalination plant which can produce 700 tonnes of fresh water in an hour. This will allow us to operate more efficiently and reduce pressure on Tasmania’s water supply. We are thrilled to be on the cutting-edge of salmon farming and I believe that the Ronja Storm will enable us to be even better farmers.”

8 Following completion, Ronja Storm will go to Huon Aquaculture in Tasmania for a ten-year contract

8 Peter and Frances Bender of Huon Aquaculture

Photo: Huon Aquaculture

8 Feed barge Hogan has been built in Tasmania and a sister vessel is under construction

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IRISH PELAGIC VESSEL GIRL STEPHANIE The 51.90 metre Girl Stephanie was delivered by the yard at the end of last year to its owners Stephanie Flaherty, Patricia, Tomás and Pauric Conneely, and it shares a design and much of its equipment with pair partner Western Chieftain, also delivered by the yard last year.

Girl Stephanie’s hull was built in Gdansk and towed to Skagen for fitting out. Delivery took place at the end of last year, in time for the new trawler to arrive in Killybegs before Christmas and to start fishing on mackerel in the New Year.

The previous Girl Stephanie, also built at the same yard, has been sold to Norway.

The Conneely family opted for a Rapp deck equipment package, with 60.50-tonne trawl winches controlled via a Rapp autotrawl, a 59.80-tonne topline winch and a 37.70-tonne tailend winch. The two net drums have a 60.50-tonne pull. As well as the Rapp equipment, the owners also went for Irish-made equipment, with Sea Quest supplying the 5t/12m netstacker crane and the 4t/12m foredeck crane, as well as the 16-inch fish pump, reels for hydraulic and fish hoses, and the complete drive systems for the winches, cranes and associated equipment.

Catches are pumped to the eight RSW tanks that have a combined 851m3 capacity, chilled by a double Johnson Controls 375.000 kCal/hour RSW system with two 450m3/hour circulation pumps and two 160m3/hour condenser pumps. The RSW circulation system is fitted with remote operated RSWvalves with Lyng actuators. Iras supplied the vacuum system with two 2800 litre tanks and three 55kW compressor units.

Girl Stephanie’s main engine is a MAN 6L27/381 turning a Brunvoll 3600mm propeller via a Brunvoll gearbox with a 6.4:1 reduction and with a 1000kWe PTO-mounted shaft alternator.

Photo: Terje Engø

Karstensens Skibsværft have delivered the second of a pair of almost identical pelagic vessels for Irish owners that have the capacity to work either singly or as a pair team

While towing, the alternator can be clutched out, with power supplied by one of the two Caterpillar C18s auxiliaries that can be connected to the main switchboard, controlled by the vessel’s DEIF Power-Management-System.

With the winches in use during hauling and shooting, the PTO can be clutched in to supply electric power, as while the winches are in use there is not expected to be the usual demand on the main engine, so it can be used as the primary power source for both propulsion and deck equipment.

8 Girl Stephanie’s delivery follows that of its sister vessel and pair partner Western Chieftain

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This new ST-156 L design, specially developed for fishing Patagonian toothfish under severe weather conditions in the open ocean around Antarctica, focuses on Australian Longline’s requirements for the best possible levels of crew safety and comfort. In addition, the company’s criteria for the design of their new vessel include a stable working platform and an endurance of up to 150 days at sea.

The new vessel will be equipped with a hybrid propulsion system, with the skipper able to switch between diesel-mechanical and diesel-electric modes from the wheelhouse. The requirement for a low carbon footprint and zero spillages of plastic

Illustration: Skipsteknisk

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8 Australian Longline’s new autoliner will be built at Vard Vung Tau to a Skipsteknisk design

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CATCHWELL CATAMARAN DESIGN TARGETS FISHING MARKET Chartwell Marine has announced the launch of the Catchwell, a brand-new vessel design for the small-scale private and commercial fishing sector

Illustration: Chartwell Marine

8 The first of the new Catchwell catamarans designed by Chartwell Marine is under construction

by Diverse Marine

The catamaran design responds to extensive feedback from fishermen, alongside operational lessons learned from advanced maritime industries, such as the offshore wind sector.

Available in 10 metre and 12 metre models, the Catchwell, is optimised for carrying high loads, with a semi-modular catamaran hull form that can be adapted to the needs of the fisherman or operator. The first vessel is currently under construction on the Isle of Wight by experienced vessel construction, refit, repair and maintenance specialist, Diverse Marine, who have provided extensive input during the design process.

As many of the existing vessels at the smaller end of the market start to reach the end of their lifetime, and as opportunities emerge for small-scale fishing in Europe and further afield, demand for new, more capable fishing boats is growing.

Vessel owners who invested in catamarans 10 to 15 years ago and are now looking to replace their boats, alongside new entrants, now have an opportunity to take advantage of a new generation of vessels with significantly enhanced performance and efficiency.

In particular, many existing small catamaran designs are not well optimised for high cargo volumes. With limited reserve buoyancy, a large catch may cause wet deck slamming, the results of which are an uncomfortable ride in rough waters, potential damage to the structural integrity of the vessel, and also more fuel consumed.

The new Catchwell design benefits from significant research and development carried out in the development of crew transfer and support vessels for the offshore wind energy sector.

The vessel has been designed with a higher freeboard, meaning

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that the wet deck between the twin hulls of the catamaran doesn’t come into contact with the water, even under heavy loading. This avoids aggressive vertical accelerations, leading to a smoother, safer and more fuel-efficient ride.

Alongside this new hull form, the Catchwell brings in a number of tried and tested innovations from larger catamarans that enhance the long-term reliability of the vessel, faced with long operational hours in rough waters. These include commonality of components across the vessel, which makes conducting repairs on board as simple as possible and reduces time spent out of action.

“In the light of market conditions over the past few years, the design of smaller fishing vessels hasn’t really moved on, leaving private and commercial operators with a shortage of high-quality options,” said Chartwell Marine’s managing director Andy Page.

“Now, with prospects looking a little better, and many older vessels going out of service, we have an opportunity to address this by taking lessons learned from other sectors and applying them in the development of a new breed of modern, safe and efficient workboats.”

“Having worked extensively with fishing vessel operators, and taken years of feedback into the development process with Chartwell, we are confident that the Catchwell is the small fishing boat that the market is looking for,” added Diverse Marine’s director Ben Colman.

“With the first vessel in build, we’re applying the same rigour and principles that go into the construction of larger catamarans, to ensure that quality of design is matched by quality of build.”

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Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine has signed a contract to deliver ship design and an extensive range of equipment to a stern trawler to be built for Engenes Fiskeriselskap, based in Troms county in northern Norway.

The 70-metre fishing vessel is of type NVC 370 and will be built by the Astilleros Gondán shipyard in Spain. Shipowners Johannes Arne and Børge Arvesen of Engenes Fiskeriselskap, said: “This is a milestone for our company and carries on the proud traditions of trawl fishing in our part of Norway.”

Engenes has truly made an investment for today and the future. Our designers are also impressed with the owner’s keen attention to the future working conditions of the crew

Illustration: Rolls-Royce

ROLLS-ROYCE TO DESIGN STERN TRAWLER FOR ENGENES

The equipment to be delivered from Rolls-Royce includes a hybrid propulsion system consisting of the B33:45 diesel engine, Promas integrated propeller system and HSG drive system. Rolls-Royce will also deliver its latest electric winch technology, including trawl winches driven by permanent magnet motors.

“Engenes has truly made an investment for today and the future. Our designers are also impressed with the owner’s keen attention to the future working conditions of the crew, both

8 Engenes Fiskeriselskap went to Rolls-Royce for the design and equipment package for the company’s new factory trawler

related to comfort and safety,” said Monrad Hide, vice president of sales at Rolls-Royce.

Engenes Fiskeriselskap’s new vessel is designed for bottom trawling as well as pelagic trawling. It will have a factory deck arrangement to handle and freeze both white fish and shrimps. Delivery is expected in early 2021.

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AUDACIOUS DELIVERY FROM MACDUFF Macduff Shipyards have delivered the new Audacious BF-83, to Whitehills owners David Gatt and Barry Reid Audacious represents new developments in the yard’s fishing vessel design, and the new trawler is arranged for both single and pair trawl and is expected work mainly in Scottish waters targeting white fish. Work began on this new model in early 2016 with close collaboration between the owners and the yard to design a suitable layout of trawler to combine a spacious working deck, streamlined catch management system, good hold capacity and also be economical to run.

With the design finalised, the first steel for the hull was cut in the spring of 2017 in Szczecin and the hull was completed five months later to be towed to Scotland for fitting out, a process that took place over the subsequent year as systems from a long list of suppliers were installed. Audacious was then taken to Fraserburgh in October last year for the final coats of paint and for the fishing gear to be taken on board.

Fishing trials took place out of Fraserburgh at the beginning of November with both single trawl and pair trawl arrangements put to the test.

Audacious measures 27.80 metres overall, with a beam of 8.60 metres and a 6.40 metre depth to the trawl deck. Tank capacities are for 48,000 litres of fuel and 32,000 litres of fresh water, plus Audacious has a fishroom with space for 55 tonnes of boxed fish.

As with all Macduff newbuilds, the hull was developed in cooperation with Macduff Ship Design and CFD technology was used to optimise the hull form for fuel efficiency. Macduff Ship Design then created a full set of hull construction plans which were approved by DNV classification and produced the vessel’s stability booklet upon completion. Audacious has a hull with typical modern construction, built in steel and with the wheelhouse finished in aluminium to DNV approval.

The arrangement has a main deck, trawl deck and partial shelter deck. At shelter deck level the prominent feature is the wheelhouse which immediately forward of midships. At deck level, aft of the wheelhouse most of the deck is open to the trawl deck below, although a passage is provided at the starboard side giving access from the wheelhouse to the aft area where two bagging drums and the gilson winch are fitted along with a heavy gantry supporting three fixed trawl blocks.

On the port side a continuous slew EKM624 12t/10m knuckle boom crane is fitted for landing and general duties. Forward of the wheelhouse there is a spacious fore deck where the windlass and also mooring equipment are located.

At trawl deck level, the deck is open from midships to the stern with two large split net drums fitted as far forward as practical, leaving a large working deck area. At the transom the hopper hatch is fitted on the centreline and flanking this is a pair of hydraulically operated stern gates that can be lowered during hauling and shooting. Two hydraulically operated shooting poles are recessed into the deck, and these are used to guide trawl gear onto the main drums. Immediately forward of the working deck is an accommodation casing which houses a skipper’s cabin with en suite, a two-man cabin, switchboard room and a deck store where various gear spares and trawl sensors are kept. Forward of this accommodation casing is the winch room occupied by three separate split trawl winches.

The extensive hydraulics package on board Audacious was

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supplied by Bopp and installed by the yard, with JC Hydraulics assisting in the commissioning and setup.

The heavy-duty trawl winch located on the centreline for pair trawling operations has a 24 tonne core pull and is designed to hold a combination of 1000 metres of 24mm wire, 380 metres of 28mm wire and 880 metres of 50mm rope. The two trawl winches intended for single rig trawling have an 18 tonne pull and capacity for 1650 metres of 24mm warp.

Also part of the package are a pair of 16.70m3 split net drums with a 15 tonne pull, two 6.50 tonne bagging winches, a 10

8 Audacious represents new developments in Macduff’s fishing vessel design

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tonne gilson and a hold winch. Bopp also supplied the anchor windlass and mooring winch, the 150kW bow thruster and the 2000 litre hydraulic tank, as well as all of the hydraulic pumps Below the trawl deck the main deck is split into three different areas. Aft there is a large refrigerated hopper on the centreline which is flanked by an engineer’s workshop to port and a dry locker to starboard. Forward of this is the processing deck where a sophisticated fish handling system including elevator, conveyor bins, main washer, gutting machine washers, chutes, hold bin system, scales and catch management system was designed, supplied and installed by VCU. The fish handling setup includes a pair of KM Fish Machinery KM5 electrically operated gutting machines.

Also within this area is a dedicated ice room where two ice machines, each with a 4.50t/day capacity are fitted. Forward of the processing area is the main accommodation where a large galley/mess is fitted to port and four two-man cabins and a WC are fitted to starboard.

Below the deck working from the transom forward there is an aft peak store followed by the engine room and then a large refrigerated hold which is arranged with a hopper and scales system fitted close to the aft bulkhead and fish box storage forward of this. In the bow are three large fresh water storage tanks for domestic and ice making duty and a bow thruster access compartment. The hopper and hold cooling systems, ice machines and plant were supplied by Norkoel.

Finning Power Systems supplied the 775hp CAT 3508C main engine fitted by a flexible coupling to a Heimdal HGH595F gearbox with reduction of 9.438:1, which in turn drives a 2800mm diameter controllable pitch propeller inside a modern

profile nozzle to provide maximum thrust. Main hydraulic power is driven from a PTO fitted to the gearbox.

Also supplied by Finning Power Systems were a pair of CAT C7.1 generator sets, each rated at 150 ekW. As is becoming fairly standard on Macduff’s newbuilds, a triple rudder system is fitted with the vessel being easily manoeuvrable in port during trials and is expected to keep the required helm to a minimum during trawling. The steering gear system was supplied in full by Scan Steering.

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Unit 3 Murcar Trading Estate, Denmore Road, Bridge of Don Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom Tel: 01224 707560 Fax: 01224 707561 Email: aberdeen@sicor-int.com Contact: Gary Mitchell

SEE YOU THERE!

Manufacturers of all types of fishing ropes, netting and twines including poly steel ropes and compact netting.

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1-2 Shing Nung Road, Tungkang, Pingtung,Taiwan Tel: 886-8-8331100~9 Fax: 886-8-8327022 E-mail: export@chingfa.com.tw Website: www.chingfa.com.tw Contact: Mrs. Sandy Chen – General Manager Specialized manufacturer & exporter of: Hi-tech 7 tuna purse seine nets, Super 20 aquaculture knotless nets (Raschel type), nylon longline & its spare parts, nylon fishing line, nylon mono & multi-mono nets, nylon twisted and braided nets, PE trawl nets, ropes, twines, floats and etc.

www.icefish.is

SICOR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

Icelandic Fisheries

Exhibition

Smárinn Kópavogur Iceland

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Fishing Gear

Fish Processing

PRODUCTS & SERVICES DIRECTORY

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Fornandergatan 1, 392 33 Kalmar, SWEDEN +46 (0) 480 945 00 vmk@arenco.com Ç Ç Ç Í&#x2DC;Ç&#x20AC;žŏĎĆ?Ĺ&#x161;Í&#x2DC;Ä?Žž

Gentsesteenweg 77a 9900 Eeklo â&#x20AC;˘ Belgium Tel: +32 9 376 95 95 Fax: +32 9 376 95 96 info@cretel.com â&#x20AC;˘ www.cretel.com Cretel is manufacturing in Belgium FISH SKINNERS FISH SCALERS VACUUM PACKAGING MACHINES INDUSTRIAL WASHING AND DRYING EQUIPMENT Consult us and take advantage of our worldwide experience and expertise.

Engineering, procurement, project and construction management for the seafood processing industry. > Cold storage > Fish meal plants & storage > Fish processing plants > Environmental management > Automation & control Urdarhvarf 6, 203 Kopavogur Iceland - Tel: +354 422 3000 mannvit@mannvit.is - mannvit.com

Fishmeal plants ŕ Ž Complete plants ŕ Ž Installation included ŕ Ž Single components also available: driers, presses, hammer mills etc. ŕ Ž Norwegian technology, made in Thailand

Flottweg SE, IndustriestraĂ&#x;e 6-8 84137 Vilsbiburg, Deutschland (Germany) Tel.: + 49 8741 301-313 Fax: + 49 8741 301-303 wim@flottweg.com / www.flottweg.com Contact Name: Mr. Michael Wimmer

FLOTTWEG CENTRIFUGES for most efficient industrial fish processing â&#x20AC;˘ Production of fish oil, fish meal and surimi â&#x20AC;˘ Waste water treatment â&#x20AC;˘ Processing of fish by-products â&#x20AC;˘ Hydrolysis

www.asthaiworks.com

FLOTTWEG SERVICE WORLDWIDE â&#x20AC;˘ quick and reliable

MAREL Sales & service offices in 30 countries Tel: +354 563 8000 Fax: +354 563 8001 E-mail: info@marel.com www.marel.com/fish The leading global provider of advanced equipment and integrated systems for onboard and onshore fish processing.

Our cutting-edge equipment and groundbreaking Innova production software enable fish processors of all sizes to operate at peak efficiency.

Know-how in food processing!

Thai Industry Company 295 Moo 11 Suksawad Soi 92 Road Samutprakarn, Thailand 10290 Tel +6628154501 Fax +6624258532 Email roongtiwapat@gmail.com www.thaiindustry.co.th Established in 1973, our key products include polyethylene fishing nets, PE Ropes, twine and agricultural nets. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Triangleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; brand is our pride label.

We offer clients a tailor made to their specific requirementsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; solution.

Our products are under constant QC testing and upgrading.

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Kroma A/S RĂ&#x2020;VEVEJ 22 - DK-7800 SKIVE Phone: +45 9752 2099 Fax: +45 9752 0572 Web: www.kroma.dk E-mail: kroma@kroma.dk Kroma A/S is a supplier of high quality de-scaling, gutting and filleting machines for all kind of fish species. Specialist in handling of roe, and filleting of soft fish species like mackerel.

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Fish skinning machines Fish skinning defatting systems

Made in Germany

NOCK Maschinenbau GmbH Industriestrasse 14 ¡ 77948 Friesenheim E-mail: info@nock-gmbh.com www.nock-gmbh.com

www.icefish.is -we make fishing more profitable

Manufacturer of pelagic trawls, VĂłnin 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 VĂłnin manufactures pelagic trawls, pelagic grids.

VĂłnin is abottom major supplier togrids, trawl, shrimp trawls, trawls, sorting the North Atlantic/Arctic fishingand fleet. crab pots, net cages, mooring systems net We have all accessories in stock. washing systems.

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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 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 44.000 lbs/hr).

LIMA S.A.S. 456 Route de Rosporden Z.I. du GuĂŠlen â&#x20AC;˘ 29000 QUIMPER Tel. : 02 98 94 89 68 â&#x20AC;˘ Fax : 02 98 94 89 69 E-Mail : lima@lima-france.com www.lima-france.com

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VĂ&#x201C;NIN LTD

P.O. 19 FO-530 Fuglafjørþur 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

Icelandic Fisheries

Exhibition

SmĂĄrinn KĂłpavogur Iceland

September 23-25 SEE YOU THERE!

For the latest news and analysis go to www.worldfishing.net/news101

TRAUST

for small and very small fish

Know­how

SEA SEAC AC FPM-200 F PM-200 nobb bing machine b bin machine nobbing with h in creas cr e ed yield increased

Examples off processed processed fish

Trusted solutions for 40 years Advanced raw material usage

Fish Pumps

Fish Processing Machines

NETZSCH Pumpen & Systeme GmbH Geretsrieder StraĂ&#x;e 1 84478 Waldkraiburg Germany Tel.: +49 8638 63-0 Fax: +49 8638 67981 info.nps@netzsch.com www.netzsch.com

SEA SEAC AC FPM-400 F PM-400 nobbin bing and filleting nobbing machine for small ma pelagic fish

Sardine nobbing

Baltic herring

Anchovy A h nobbing bbing nobbing

belly cleaning

www.seac.se

filleting

SEAC A AB SlĂĽnbärsvägen 4, SE-386 90 Ă&#x2013;land, SWEDEN Phone: +46 485 35 200 Mobile: +46 720 168 758 +46 707 505 230 E-mail: info@seac.se

Injectors and Protein-Tec ĚŁ ĚŁ ĚŁ ĚŁ ĚŁ ĚŁ ĚŁ ĚŁ ĚŁ Optimar AS (+47) 70 10 80 00 optimar.no

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

Sale: +354 516 3000 traust@traust.is www.traust.is

Ice & Refrigeration

A/S Dybvad StĂĽl Industri Parkvej 5. DK-9352 Dybvad Tel +45 98 86 42 99 Fax +45 98 86 46 60 Email dsi@dsi-as.com Web www.dsi-as.com Vertical plate freezers for manual block unloading Vertical plate freezers with automatic block unloading Horizontal plate freezers for manual and automatic loading & unloading Horizontal self-contained plate freezers Horizontal plate freezers with Blast All freezers approved for R22/R717/Co2/R404/R410 etc.

Freezing trays/pans

The engine behind

Some call it proces automation - we call it PENKO

PENKO Engineering B.V V. Schutterweg 35 6718 XC Ede The Netherlands Te el: +31 (0)318 525630 email: info@penko.com www.penko.com TURN MEASUREMENT INTO KNOWLEDGE FOR YOUR DIFFERENTIAL ADV VA ANTAGE Next to other diagnostic functions, Penkoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s TP DataReporter allows the user to collect data, present it graphically, run batch- and recipe analysis as well as analyze down times.

GEA Westfalia Separator Group GmbH Product Group Separation Decanters, Separators and Process Lines for the recovery of fish meal, fish oil and protein hydrolyZate.

Werner-Habig-StraĂ&#x;e 1 59302 Oelde (Germany) Phone: +49 2522 77-0 www.gea.com CONTACT

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

Maximize your product quality

skaginn3x.com

210 Gardabaer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Iceland Tel 00 354 587 1300 Email: freyr@optimar.is Contact: Freyr Fridriksson

Sales and service of liquid ice machines Type OPTIM-ICE, pre-coolers and tanks, Manual or automatic horizontal and Vertical plate freezers, RSW systems, Vacuum pumps and processing equipment for both onshore and onboard installations.

Refrigeration system and services

Cooling & Freezing Facilities Service & Spares

www.icefish.is

Fishing Fleets Fishing Industry Gas & Processing Industry

PROGRESSIVE SOLUTIONS for White fish & Salmon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Grading â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pin bone removal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Icedosing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Labelling â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Production software

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Trimming â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Portion Cutting â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Packing to boxes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Empty box handle â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Order handling

VesturvĂśr 29 201 KĂłpavogur Iceland Tel: +354 4300 600 sales@valka.is www.valka.is

For the latest news and analysis go to www.worldfishing.net/news101

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Fish Processing

PRODUCTS & SERVICES DIRECTORY

â&#x20AC;˘ Fishing Fleet â&#x20AC;˘ Well Boats â&#x20AC;˘ Onshore Facilties â&#x20AC;˘ Fish Farms â&#x20AC;˘ Petrochemicals

Icelandic Fisheries

Exhibition

SmĂĄrinn KĂłpavogur Iceland

September 23-25 SEE YOU THERE!

Freezing Equipment â&#x20AC;˘ Cooling Equipment RSW â&#x20AC;˘ Plate Freezers â&#x20AC;˘ Tunnel Freezing Provision Storage â&#x20AC;˘ Ice Machines Heat Pump Installations

www.oyangen.no Tel: +47 70 10 06 90 email: office@oyangen.no

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Ice & Refrigeration

PRODUCTS & SERVICES DIRECTORY

YM Fishing Corporation #586-10, Choryang-Dong, Dong-Ku, Busan 601-830 • Korea Tel: +82 51 469 2411 Fax: +82 51 469 2412 Email: longline@ympesca.com www.ympesca.com Contact: Hak Sam, Yoon (Mr) Nylon Monofilament longline and synthetic polyester longline. SS Tuna hook with ring, swordfish hook & tuna circle hook. Longline snap, branch hanger and all kind of longline swivel. YM PrimeLight chemical light, fishing luring light & strobe light. Tuna and swordfish longline fishing related all accessories.

BJ 5000Ex

C/Parroquia de Guísamo, B-13.

Pol. Industrial Bergondo 15165 Bergondo - La Coruña (SPAIN) Tel: +34 981 795722 Fax: +34 981 795724 Email: tucal@tucal.es www.tucal.es

BELITRONIC SWEDEN AB

Use durable Sæplast containers to protect your catch

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PART PART OF RPC GROUP

Purse Seine Nets Trawl Netting Rigged Cages Pred & Bird Nets

3rd Generation HDPE

Longlining & Jigging

www.fisa.com.pe sales@fisanet.com.pe

NSM AB (North Sea Machinery) Vintergatan 25 S-561 32 Huskvarna, Sweden Phone: +46 36 144 653 Fax: +46 36 143 841 E-mail: info@nsm-fish.com www.nsm-fish.com/en

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Web: www.garwareropes.com Tel: (+91)2030780361 Fax: (+91)2030780341 Additional contact information: Contact for Global Market: Vivek Kumar Email: vkumar@garwareropes.com Mobile: +917767802806

KING CHOU MARINE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

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

DESIGNER AND MANUFACTURER OF NYLON ET POLYETHYLENE TWINE AND NETTING Manufacturer of bottom trawls, twin trawls and mid water trawls for tuna, sea bass, hake, anchavy, sea bream and other species. Worldwide leader in the production of specialised purse seine nets for tuna, sardine, pilchard, etc. Le Drezen uses its own unique digital purse seine simulation program and Dynamit© Trawls in order to optimise gear design and keep customers’ costs down.

29730 LE GUILVINEC - FRANCE

Tel: +33 (0) 2 98 58 10 54 info@ledrezen.com www.ledrezen.com www.ledrezen-tuna-net.com

Technology for Sustainable Fisheries Developing and supplying technology to the world’s line fishing fleet.

We increase the profitability, safety and sustainability of longlining by using our knowledge and new technology to automate the fishing process.

Autolining is a passive and sustainable fishing method. The seabed is not damaged and the impact on the ecosystem is minimal.

Mustad Autoline – a better way to fish!

Over 30 years of experience producing quality Crate and Fish Tubs for the European market

Garware-Wall Ropes Ltd: Plot No 11, Block D-1, MDC, Chinchwad, Pune, India

Netting

www.saeplast.com www.saeplast.com www.saeplast.com

Longline Equipment

Insulated Containers

Design, manufacture and installation of marine and industrial refrigeration equipment: – Plate freezers: vertical, horizontal, compact horizontal and IQF type.

– Ice machines and ice storage silos – Blast freezers – Turnkey refrigeration installations

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!

World’s leading supplier of Trawls, Purse Seine Nets , Fishnets, Aquaculture cages, Anti-Predator nets and ropes for the fishing and aquaculture industry. Our products are exported to over 60 countries globally.

Tel: +47 70107580 Email: mail@mustadautoline.com Web: www.mustadautoline.com

Fortune Net Group of Companies No. 42 Sto. Domingo St • Quezon City Metro Manila • The Philippines Tel: 00632 7119238, 00632 7125362 Fax: 00632 7110169 www.fortunenetgrp.com fortunenetgrp@pldtdsl.net.

Braided knotted nets; Twisted knotted nets; Raschel knotless nets; Monofilaments double knot nets; PE shade nets. All types of twines and ropes, Specialising in: Tuna & Sardine, Purse Seiners; Mono and Multi gill nets; Nylon & HDPE trawl nets; Aquaculture fence & cage nets; Safety and sports nets; Ornamental nets.

For the latest news and analysis go to www.worldfishing.net/news101

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ISO9001:2015 accreditation Foundry approvals: ABS, GL, DNV, RINA & LRS Advanced C-Foil propeller design

+44(0) 1626 333377 teignbridge.co.uk

Specialists in the design and manufacture of gearboxes and controllable pitch propellers Full range of CP Propulsion systems: • Reduction Gearboxes: 150 - 12000kW • CP Propellers: 3-4 and 5 bladed, Ø1-6 m dia.

• Electronic remote controls • Nozzles: NACA 19A - FINNØY High Speed • Gearboxes with PTO - PTI and 2-speed solutions All design, production and testing are done at our factory on the west coast of Norway.

Service is available all over the world from Finnøy’s experienced service engineers.

www.finnoygear.no

Tel: +47 71 27 60 00 Email: post@finnoygear.no

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.

Ropes & Net Coatings

RICH FISHING NETS CO., LTD. RICHAN NETTING MFG CO., LTD. Office: 9FI, Sealight BLVG, No.33 Shuixian Rd, Xiamen 361001, China Factory: Tangtou Industry Zone, Longhai, Zhangzhou 363105, China Tel: 0086-592-2106588 Fax: 0086-592-2106288 Email: sales@richan.cn xmnrich@china.com www.richan.cn Contact Michael Chen Professional netting manufacturer for Gill, Trammel, Purse Seine, Trawling by monofilament, multifilament, multi-mono, High Performance PE, Polyester, PE and PP, in knotted, knotless or braided. Our netting serves commercial fishing, fish farming, industry net, safety net and sports net. Our product range also include fishing line in copolymer, synthetic Rope & Twine, hardware, float and etc fishing accessories.

Leaders in Innovation, Design and Manufacturing of Propellers, Rudders and Shaftline Systems.

Purse Seine Nets

Netting

Propulsion

PRODUCTS & SERVICES DIRECTORY

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

Leading manufacturers & Suppliers of Synthetic ropes in NYLON, POLYPROPYLENE,HDPE, POLYESTER, MIXED NYLON-POLYESTER, POLYPROPYLENE – POLYESTER in 3,4,8 & 12 strands in various lengths.

Esperanca Building, 7th Floor, Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, Colaba,Mumbai – 400 001,India Tel: +91 22 66562724/25 Fax: +91 22 66562798/99 Email: Sophia@foraxiom.com inquiry@foraxiom.com Web: www.axiomcordages.com

Van Beelen N E T TING ROPES T WINES

DESIGNER AND MANUFACTURER OF NYLON ET POLYETHYLENE TWINE AND NETTING

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.

SIMPLICITY IS THE ULTIMATE SOPHISTICATION - LEONARDO DA VINCI

29730 LE GUILVINEC - FRANCE

Tel: +33 (0) 2 98 58 10 54 info@ledrezen.com www.ledrezen.com www.ledrezen-tuna-net.com

We make what works for you.

Other Engine Room Equipment

Manufacturer of bottom trawls, twin trawls and mid water trawls for tuna, sea bass, hake, anchavy, sea bream and other species. Worldwide leader in the production of specialised purse seine nets for tuna, sardine, pilchard, etc. Le Drezen uses its own unique digital purse seine simulation program and Dynamit© Trawls in order to optimise gear design and keep customers’ costs down.

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.

REACH PREREGISTERED

Fishing & Aquaculture Ropes

PUMP SPARES & COMPLETE PUMPS – ITALY – Rexnavi have supplied complete pumps and pump spares to trading and shipping companies for 20 years. We have our warehouse and workshop, and work together with local foundries/workshops.

LEAN BRINGS YOU + SAFETY & RELIABILITY + VERY LONG LIFETIME + COST EFFICIENCY + STEALTH & HSE + MORE CARGO CAPACITY + LESS EMISSION AND FUEL

commercial@rexnavi.it t: +39 0187 768139

www.rexnavi.it

Exporplas manufactures a wide range of ropes for intensive use in the fishing and aquaculture activities, providing innovative solutions worldwide.

Tel.: +351 256 790 340 Fax.: +351 256 791 825 E-Mail: exporplas@exporplas.pt

WWW. EXPORPLAS.PT WWW.STADT.NO

For the latest news and analysis go to www.worldfishing.net/news101

EXPORPLÁS Indústria de Exportação de Plásticos, S.A. PO BOX 63 - 3886-908 Cortegaça OVR - Portugal

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

The Exocet An incredibly versatile trawl

Stability Durability Efficiency

Founded in Denmark in 1840, steel wire rope manufacturer.

The assortment includes steel wire rope, as well as rope works made of both synthetic and natural fibres. We offer a versatile range of products with programmes especially suited for all segments of the fishing industry.

Contact : Tel. : +33 (0)2 99 56 14 36 Fax : +33 (0)2 99 40 03 43 trawldoor.morgere@morgere.fr www.morgere.com

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 RapideÂŽ 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

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.

Trawl Makers

COMPETITIVE PRICES WITHOUT COMPROMISE IN QUALITY

Complete range of high efficient trawl doors for demersal fishing, â&#x20AC;&#x153;off the seabedâ&#x20AC;? semi-pelagic fishing and pelagic fishing.

ReykjavĂ­k, Iceland

Ship Design

atlimarj@polardoors.com www.polardoors.com

Av. Ricardo Mella, 95 36213 Vigo, Spain Tel: +34 986 20 33 12 Fax: +34 986 20 60 05 E-mail: euroredvigo@euroredvigo.com Website: www.euroredvigo.com Contact: Jorge Lores Eurored Vigo represents high efficiency all around the world, in the commercialisation of pelagic trawls, semi-pelagic trawls, bottom trawls, twintrawls etc. Equipped with P.E., Redline, Moveline and nylon twines. Excellent quality materials with a high resistance like trawl doors.

Naval hardware (steel and stainless steel), twines, ropes, longline and hardware in general.

Specialist in New Builds, Repairs & Conversions

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

All doors are â&#x20AC;&#x153;Made in Denmarkâ&#x20AC;? according to customer demands and wishes.

8, Sydhalevej, DK-7680 Thyborøn, Denmark

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Trawl Makers

Engelsholmvej 28 8940 Randers SV Denmark Tel.: +45 89 11 12 13 Fax: +45 89 11 12 12 info@randers-reb.dk www.randers-reb.dk Contact name: Bent Herold

Trawl Doors

Randers Reb International A/S

Trawl Doors

Ship Design

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.

Steel Wire Ropes & Trawl Wire

Ytterland, N-6050 Valderoy, Norway Tel: +47 7018 9494 Fax: +47 7018 9495 Email: sales@otsas.no www.otsas.no Contact: Olav Støylen or Einar Kjerstad Manufacturer of high quality ropes made with Dyneema, nylon, polyester, and many more

Steel Wire Ropes & Trawl Wire

OFFSHORE & TRAWL SUPPLY AS

Safety

Ropes & Net Coatings

PRODUCTS & SERVICES DIRECTORY

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GETTING AHEAD WITH PELAGIC AND COMBINATION TRAWL DOORS

Jupiter 2,7r

Mercury 2,0r

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WITH POLAR TRAWL DOORS YOU WILL EXPERIENCE

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“WHEN IT COMES TO YIELD AND LIFETIME PERFORMANCE”

Fish processing equipment

Versatile table top skinners

Free standing versatile skinners

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Range of semi to fully auto skinners

ying equipment

Tunnel washers

Container, bin & vessel washers

Cretel is also manufacturer of rack & trolley washers, pallet washers & drying systems.

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07 to 09 May 2019 Hall 4 Booth 6143

04 to 09 May 2019 Hall 9.1 Booth B11

Gentsesteenweg 77a - 9900 Eeklo – Belgium Phone +32 (0)9 376 95 95 - Fax +32 (0)9 376 95 96 info@cretel.com - www.cretel.com