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EU AND NORWAY STRENGTHEN FISHERIES COLLABORATION A new political understanding has been agreed by the EU and Norway with regards to fisheries in the Northeast Arctic, in ICES subareas 1 and 2.

The European Commission confirmed the area concerned includes the waters around the archipelago of Svalbard and the international waters of the Barents Sea, with the agreement ensuring sustainable fishing in the region while also providing certainty for EU fleets fishing in that area.

“The understanding with Norway reflects our joint commitment to sustainable fishing and highlights what can be achieved when addressing matters of common interest together. We look forward to continuing and further strengthening our joint efforts in the area of fisheries,” said Virginijus Sinkevičius, EU Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries.

Through the understanding, EU fleets are allowed to fish for cod in the waters around the archipelago of Svalbard in line with historic fishing rights. Norway and the EU will also continue to set catch limits applying to EU vessels fishing in Svalbard waters in their legislation.

The fisheries covered are fisheries with catches of cod, redfish, haddock and Greenland halibut.

According to the Commission, both parties will now engage to determine the next steps that they will take to implement the actions.

The reaching of this agreement also provides the opportunity for Norway and the EU to focus on other issues of common interest in the area of fisheries, it said.

The understanding has allowed the EU to set a definitive total allowable catch (TAC) figure of 19,636 tonnes for Arctic cod in an amendment of the Fishing

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NEW HORIZONS 8 The new understanding has allowed the EU to set a definitive TAC of 19,636 tonnes for Arctic cod

Opportunities Regulation for 2022, replacing the provisional TAC of 4,500 tonnes, which expired on 30 April.

Meanwhile, Norway has banned Russian ships and trucks from entering the country as part of a fifth wave of sanctions against the Russian Federation in response to its invasion and military aggression in Ukraine. However, fishing vessels are exempt from the move, and will still be permitted to go to shipyards, as will rescue and research vessels.

According to the Norway’s Fisheries Ministry, the reason that fishing vessels are not banned is that the country wants to protect its fisheries cooperation in the Barents Sea and also bilateral collaboration on search and rescue.

Historically, many Russian fishing vessels have landed their catches at ports in northern Norway.

DEUTSCHE FISCHFANG-UNION ORDERS HIGH-TECH FACTORY TRAWLER Samherji’s Bremerhaven-based subsidiary Deutsche Fischfang-Union (DFFU) has placed an order worth over NOK500 million with VARD for an 84-metre factory trawler to be delivered in the second-half of 2024.

Designed by Vard Design in Ålesund, being built at Vard Braila in Romania and outfitted at Vard Brattvaag in Norway, the new vessel will feature a wealth of technology, including a factory deck laid out for 100% utilisation of catches.

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8 VARD will deliver DFFU’s new trawler in late 2024

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The international fishing & aquaculture industry magazine EDITORIAL & CONTENT Editor: Jason Holland jholland@worldfishing.net

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STILL IN A GOOD PLACE

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The demand for products should remain robust for the next year or so at least

To say we are in the midst of a turbulent period would be something of an understatement. Regardless of our whereabouts, and our own personal and professional circumstances, we’re all being affected to varying degrees by the ongoing hostilities on Ukrainian soil.

Sadly, there’s little sign of the conflict abating any time soon; quite the contrary, in fact. At the time of penning these words, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had just proposed a complete 27-nation ban on oil imports from Russia as part of a potential sixth package of EU sanctions aimed at debilitating Moscow.

I have written recently about how concerned certain elements of our industry are about the fuel crisis and the related soaring raw material and energy prices – largely but not entirely triggered by Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. Even if an approved oil ban is phased in “in an orderly fashion” for full implementation by the end of this year – as Von der Leyen is calling for – we can expect to see even more volatility and supply chain issues in the many months ahead. Unfortunately for some operations, these pressures will become too much. And inevitably, some businesses will be lost.

Delivering the keynote address at last month’s Seafood Expo Global 2022 exhibition and conference in Barcelona, Megan Greene, a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business at the Harvard Kennedy School, confirmed just how “disproportionately reliant” the EU is on Russia for its energy – obtaining around 30% of its oil, 40% of its natural gas and 50% of its coal.

That’s much higher than the US, for example, and so the implications for Europe are much more severe than they are for anywhere else in the world, she said.

On behalf of World Fishing & Aquaculture, I asked Greene how she expects the global seafood landscape to fare with so much disruption going on behind the scenes. She told me that while all the indications are that global supply chain costs will continue to be an issue, the demand for products should remain robust for the next year or so at least.

This will be the case in the most advanced economies but not just exclusively there, she said, acknowledging that amid considerable consumer reconnection with the category, the seafood economy enjoyed a particularly strong 2021.

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BRIEFS Wärtsilä writes off millions

Finland-headquartered technology group Wärtsilä has written-off approximately €200 million related to assets and business operations in Russia, in the wake of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Following Russia’s invasion, Wärtsilä immediately suspended all deliveries, sales, orders and bidding to Russia, advising that it will comply with all trade sanctions applicable to its operations.

Interim CEO change at NRS

Norway Royal Salmon ASA’s appointment of interim CEO Klaus Hatlebrekke has expired, and he has returned to his previous position of COO of Business Development. Charles Høstlund, who was CEO of NRS from 2014 until September 2021, has been appointed new interim CEO.

Ohio salmon farm underway AquaBounty has broken ground on the construction of its first 10,000-tonne Atlantic salmon farm in Pioneer, Ohio. The project is estimated to cost between US$290 and 320 million, with the company anticipating that the commercial stocking of salmon eggs will commence in late 2023.

Co-op undergoes bycatch audit UK retailer the Co-op has been audited on the quality of its seafood sourcing by an independent partnership of charities. While the primary purpose of the audit was to identify fisheries where there are bycatch risks, it revealed broad and proactive actions

by Co-op to promote healthy fisheries and protect marine biodiversity.

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RECORD FIRST-QUARTER FOR NORWEGIAN SEAFOOD Despite the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and new COVID-19 outbreaks affecting the Chinese market, Norway exported NOK 34 billion worth of seafood in the first quarter of this year – its highest ever total for the first three months of a year.

Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) outgoing CEO, Renate Larsen, highlighted that although the industry had set a new record value in the quarter, it has been a demanding time for those engaged in global trade.

“A month of war has resulted in complicated flows of goods and more expensive logistics.

Nevertheless, the Norwegian exporters have in an impressive way managed to supply the world with sustainable seafood from Norway.

“Complicated logistics due to closed airspace over Russia and new shutdowns due to increasing corona infection rates in China have changed the flow of goods,” Larsen said, adding that from March, the EU has accounted for an even greater share of the Norwegian export market.

She also pointed out that the country saw its lowest first-quarter export volume in six years, meaning that high prices were underpinning much of the value growth.

According to the NSC, Norway exported 283,200 tonnes of farmed Atlantic salmon worth a record NOK 23.2 billion in the last quarter, with the export volume

falling 5% but the value increasing 33% percent compared with Q1 2021.

Norway also sold 26,100 tonnes of fresh cod in the quarter for a record NOK 1.3 billion. Its 29,600 tonnes of frozen cod exports achieved the same total value.

In terms of pelagic species, Norway exported 89,400 tonnes of herring, valued at NOK 1.1 billion, and 61,500 tonnes of mackerel worth NOK 1.2 billion, while its shellfish sector shipped 399 tonnes of king crab worth NOK 248 million, 1,300 tonnes of snow crab worth NOK 264 million, and 2,800 tonnes of coldwater prawns,

8 Norway exported NOK 34 billion worth of fisheries and aquaculture products in the first quarter of 2022

valued at NOK 207 million.

Meanwhile, Børge Grønbech has been named interim CEO of NSC, while a permanent appointment is found. He is replacing Larsen, who resigned from the position earlier this year.

“I am both proud and grateful to have this opportunity. I look forward to taking on a new role in the seafood council and promise that we will continue to deliver on our most important vision, namely, to win the world for Norwegian seafood,” Grønbech said.

ALASKA FORECASTS LOWER SALMON HARVEST Alaska’s all-species salmon harvest for 2021 totalled nearly 235 million fish, with more than half of the harvest comprising pink salmon (161.4 million fish), finds the latest annual statewide salmon run forecast and commercial harvest projection report published by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G).

Last year’s sockeye catch amounted to 57.1 million fish, while 13.2 million chum, 2.8

million coho and 275,000 Chinook were also caught by commercial fishers.

Most of the 2021 pink salmon harvest occurred in Central and Westward regions, and Bristol Bay continued to be the largest sockeye salmon producing region in Alaska.

ADF&G has also forecast that Alaska will catch a record 74 million sockeye this year, mostly from Bristol Bay, but that the 2022 pink salmon harvest will be

substantially smaller than in 2021 at 67.2 million fish.

Commercial harvests of coho and chum salmon are projected to be average at 3.6 million and 15.4 million respectively. The department also estimates this year’s chinook salmon catch at 310,000 fish.

If realised, the forecasted 2022 total Alaska commercial harvest will be approximately 160.6 million salmon.

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BRIEFS Irish seafood grows 15% Despite the challenges of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, the Irish seafood economy grew by 15.3% to a value of €1.26 billion in 2021, with strong exports to the EU and Asia. The government continues to invest in the sector, with an increase of 11% to €232 million. Support also comes from the EU along with €221 million from private industry.

Salmon Evolution lands funds Norwegian land-based salmon farming company Salmon Evolution ASA has confirmed that a private placement raised gross proceeds of approximately NOK 300 million. Proceeds will be used to partlyfund the second phase construction of its salmon farming facility at Indre Harøy and to expand capacity at the smolt facility Kraft Laks AS.

Oman aqua certification first Seabream producer Blue Waters LLC Oman has achieved Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification.

The farm off the coast of Qurayyat is Oman’s first facility to attain BAP certification. It has been in operation since 2016 and is expected to produce 2,350 tonnes of fish this year.

Vietnam seafood exports surge Despite heavily interrupted trade with Russia and increased costs, Vietnam exported around $920 million worth of seafood to overseas markets in March, thereby achieving a 25% growth rate compared with the corresponding month of 2021.

With the country’s seafood exports increasing by 44% in January and 62% in February, the first-quarter trade was worth an estimated $2.4 billion, up 40% compared to Q1 2021.

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WORLD FISHMEAL PRODUCTION OFF TO A SLOW START The total cumulative production of fishmeal in the first two months of this year was down 11% compared to corresponding period of 2021, while the overall production of fish oil was 12% higher, according to the latest update on marine ingredients’ market trends from IFFO – The Marine Ingredients Organisation.

“This is mainly due to fewer catches in the North-Centre of Peru in quarter 1 2022, while the higher capelin catches in Iceland have pushed up fish oil output,” explained Dr Enrico Bachis, IFFO Market Research Director.

This countries sample, based on the IFFO membership, covers approximately 50% of the world production.

In terms of fishmeal, the northern European countries, the United States and India are the

The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the government of Haiti have signed a financing agreement to implement the Inclusive Blue Economy Project (I-BE).

The project will help preserve the Three Bay Protected Area by providing economic opportunities to smallholder farmers and artisanal fishermen living in the country’s north-eastern region.

IFAD is providing US$14 million of the total investment of US$26.6 million for the project which will benefit 40,000 people in the region, primarily focusing on women and young people.

“We believe the best way to help Haitian smallholder famers and artisanal fisher folk to progress and contribute to the country’s food security is by enabling them to run their economic activities in a sustainable manner, so that they are not forced to deplete natural resources to survive,” said Paolo Silveri, IFAD’s country director for Haiti.

The area is one of the poorest in the country and current fishing and agricultural practices are exhausting natural resources. The I-BE project aims to encourage legislation to ensure practices are sustainable, reducing the pressure on resources such as

only countries in the report that increased their cumulative production during the first two months of this year. Similarly, only north European countries, the US and Spain report a higher cumulative production of fish oil so far in 2022 with respect to the same period in 2021.

The update also highlights that in China, there has been a decrease in fishmeal imports and an expected long-term increase in fish by-products.

IFFO said that amid severe disruptions due to Covid, domestic fishmeal and fish oil production remains subdued.

“In May, the new fishing moratorium will be imposed across the Chinese coastline.

Only in September will the fishing fleet be allowed to target wild fisheries again.

“This year, fishmeal and fish oil output from by-products may ramp up as ready-to-eat meals are becoming more popular in China. Moreover, China is increasing domestic processing of snakehead and channel catfish, which generally provide good sources of by-products,” it said.

With regards to international trade, China’s fishmeal imports in January and February 2022 decreased year-on-year, with Peru, Russia and Vietnam as the top three providers.

China’s aquaculture season traditionally starts in April, but this year it has faced severe disruptions both in terms of logistics and consumption, said IFFO. However, aquafeed production increased in the first two months of this year.

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mangrove forest and coral reefs.

It will also promote more sustainable methods of food production, including salting, drying and smoking fish to make it more portable and marketable. In parallel, better small animal breeding and vegetable production will allow participating families to improve their diets and

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According to IFAD, lessons learned from I-BE could potentially be used as a basis for sustainable management of the other 24 Haitian protected areas.

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BRIEFS First FISH crew audits NovaNam (Pty) Ltd, a Namibian-based subsidiary of the Nueva Pescanova Group, the At-Sea Processors Association (APA), representing US-flagged Alaskan pollock catcherprocessors, and the Fishing Industry Association – Papua New Guinea (FIA-PNG) have become the first organisations to complete FISH Standard for Crew audits, a voluntary third-party certification programme for labour practices on vessels in wild-capture fisheries.

GSA unveils consumer campaign Coinciding with US National Seafood Month in October, the Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) has launched its first consumer marketing campaign. Called “Healthy Fish, Healthy Planet, Healthy You!”, the initiative will look to capitalise on the consumer shift to more seafood consumption and preference for responsibly sourced fish.

Woolworths joins GSSI partnership The Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI) has confirmed that South Africaheadquartered Woolworths has joined as a Funding Partner and is the first African retailer to become a member of the publicprivate partnership.

Avramar names new chief Despite heavily interrupted The Board of Avramar Seafood Group has confirmed that the seabass and seabream company’s Thor Talseth, has been appointed group CEO. Talseth has vacated the Chair’s role and been replaced by Craig Tashjian, Managing Partner at AMERRA Capital, Avramar’s majority shareholder. up 40% compared to Q1 2021.

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PARTNERSHIP SEEKS TO BOOST PROSPECTS OF EUROPEAN AQUACULTURE To improve the aquaculture sector in Europe, raise its profile and ensure that it is better recognised at a political level, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) and the Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP) have joined forces.

The two organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding at last month’s Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, pledging to work together towards their shared vision of a responsible aquaculture sector providing a solution to growing food demand.

According to the pair, the collaboration comes at a time of growing recognition in Europe as elsewhere of the importance of sustainable food systems.

These issues are being looked at by the EU, and both ASC and FEAP have built up valuable knowledge and experience over many years that can help with these developments.

FEAP members will also benefit from greater access to ASC’s guidance on improving farm practices, which brings economic as well as environmental benefits.

“Aquaculture’s importance to Europe can’t be overstated: homegrown seafood like salmon, shellfish and seabass are vital to economies across the continent

and provide food security. A more effective, and better represented, industry is better for all Europeans,” ASC CEO, Chris Ninnes, said.

“From its inception the ASC programme has been about collaboration between diverse stakeholders, so we know how effective this can be at driving change across the industry.”

FEAP’s President, Lara Barazi-Geroulanou, added, “European aquaculture is frontrunner on environmental and social sustainability, but is a small player in the market. The European Union’s legal framework is in need of clear and sound technical screening criteria

8 EU aquaculture employs around 70,000 people across the continent, most of which are small businesses or micro-enterprises in coastal and rural areas.

for sustainable aquaculture. Our working experience as fish farmers, teaming up with the expertise of the ASC on responsible aquaculture standards, will assure reaching valuable results.”

The new collaboration will be driven by a steering group co-chaired by Ninnes and FEAP General Secretary, Javier Ojeda, which will identify opportunities and manage projects in line with the organisations’ shared objectives.

ASC SHRIMP, RAS PRODUCTION UPDATES The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has published a revised Shrimp Standard together with new requirements governing recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) farms.

The changes mean that the ASC’s programme now covers freshwater crayfish and freshwater shrimp and takes into account the unique impacts of RAS farming which is growing in popularity around the world.

Four new freshwater species – Cherax, Procambarus, Astacus and Macrobrachium – have been added to the ASC Shrimp Standard

meaning that 99% of globally farmed shrimp are now covered.

“This revision spreads the potential positive impact of ASC by enabling more farmers to apply for certification, which requires both environmental and social responsibility,” ASC Director of Standards and Science, Michiel Fransen, said.

At the same time, to reflect the increasing use of RAS, ASC has developed a specific module stipulating such requirements as energy monitoring and developing strategies to reduce emissions and minimise negative

effect on water resources. Any RAS farm will have to meet these requirements, in addition to all of the requirements in the specific ASC standard covering the species they are farming.

“RAS farming, like all farming, has particular impacts,” Fransen said. “At ASC we don’t believe one method of farming is inherently superior – we think what matters is the specific impacts are properly addressed and minimised.”

A six-month period will take place before both new updates are live and mandatory.

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SALMON FIRM PLEDGES FAIR WAGES Salmon producer Scottish Sea Farms has voluntarily committed to paying above the UK’s real living wage to help support its employees and their families that are being hit by the rising cost of living.

Higher than UK government’s National Living Wage, the real living wage is independently calculated each year based on how much people need to live on, which in turn helps accredited employers ensure that they pay a fair wage that meets the cost of living. It is also recalculated annually to keep up with rising costs, and is currently set at £9.90 per hour, compared with the National Living Wage of £9.50 for over 23s.

Scottish Sea Farms has committed to paying a minimum £10.40 per hour, representing a 9% increase year-on-year for its lower income employees. This raises the company’s entry level salary to £21,632 before overtime, weekend payments, employer pension contributions and annual bonuses.

Scottish Sea Farms Managing Director, Jim Gallagher, explained that costs are rising at a rate and to a level never seen before across each area of the company’s business. In the first four months of 2022, the cost of fish feed has risen by 29%, with further increases expected throughout the year. It has also seen the price of oxygen rise 32%, oil and diesel increase 48% and electricity jump 53%.

“Of course, household incomes are under increasing pressure too due to the rising price of food, fuel, and energy,

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8 Processing operatives at Scottish Sea Farms’ South Shian packing facility

among other essentials. As an employer, it presents a very real challenge: how best to help employees withstand the worst of the hopefully short-lived inflationary hikes, whilst also ensuring any increases in pay rates are affordable longer-term.

“By paying the higher rate of £10.40 per hour, we hope to help those on lower incomes and their families who are being hardest hit by the deepening cost of living crisis,” Gallagher said.

Scottish Sea Farms Head of HR, Tracy Bryant-Shaw, added, “We’ve long recognised that safeguarding the long-term viability of our business starts with looking after our people, and these latest enhancements are all part and parcel of our work to become the employer of choice in our communities.”

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TUNA FISHERS URGED TO ADOPT VESSEL STANDARD It said the potential for workers in the fishing industry to be exposed to exploitation, due to the challenging environment of working at sea, is a reality, and also acknowledged that in some instances, there could be inadequate living facilities onboard the veåssels, physically dangerous working conditions, lack of safety equipment, excessive working hours and low wages.

Pacifical partners, including Simplot Australia, producers of John West Tuna products, are backing the move to have vessels adopt RFVS in the Western Pacific region. Simplot sources 100% MSC-certified skipjack tuna from the waters of the PNA Pacifical Island nations.

Graham Dugdale, Managing Director Simplot Australia, said, “Ensuring that our John West tuna products are responsibly sourced is of paramount importance to our business. This extends beyond the way fish are caught, it runs through the entire supply chain and includes protecting the human rights of the people working on fishing vessels.

“Knowing that fair working and living conditions are undertaken on board these vessels is vital and integral to our business values. We are committed to increasing our visibility of human rights, enhancing practices, and remediating any issues that we may find.”

Offered by the Global Seafood Alliance (GSA), RFVS specifically focuses on ensuring the crew’s rights, their welfare and safety on board and provides comprehensive assurances of vessel best management practices from catch to shore. The standard was developed to be in alignment with International Labour Organisation (ILO) C188, the fundamental ILO labour conventions, as well as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the UN International Marine Organisation (IMO).

Pacifical also highlighted that the PNA nation’s observers

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Global tuna marketing company Pacifical has called on those fishing companies in its partners’ Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) supply chain to adopt the Responsible Fishing Vessel Standard (RFVS).

bring an extra dimension to social accountability on board as the “eyes and ears” onboard purse-seiner vessels. Daily, they monitor and report on everything that happens on the boat, including living and working conditions. As such, they will assist in continuously monitoring compliance with the RFVS programme.

“Without these crews’ and observers’ hard work we would not have any sustainable tuna. So, ensuring their daily wellbeing is fundamental to us all. The RFVS governance is a further evolution of the already robust practices that we have in place across our Pacifical supply chain. With our fishing partners we will work closely together to further improve on-board practices and conditions,” Pacifical CEO, Henk Brus, said.

8 RFVS provides assurances of vessel best management practices from catch to shore

EUROPÊCHE LOOKS TO ADVANCE ADVOCACY IN EU TUNA SECTOR European fishing industry body Europêche has founded a new group to support sustainable tuna fishing and promote the sector in EU and international decision making.

The Europêche Tuna Group, headed up by Anne-France Mattlet, comprises the tuna freezer purse-seine organisations OPAGAC-AGAC and ORTHONGEL and aims to enhance competitiveness, improve the sector’s image, foster sustainable ocean governance and support the fight against IUU fishing and labour abuses.

Mattlet has more than five years’ experience working on international ocean governance and tuna-related polices within the French administration.

“The EU purse-seine tuna fleet provides a vital source of food, employment, trade and economic welfare not only in Europe but also worldwide, including in developing

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countries,” she said.

“Our vessels comply with the highest standards of sustainability including working conditions, health, safety and hygiene. On top of that, our fleet has voluntarily adopted measures and invested in technology, at their own expense, to ensure optimal data collection.”

Mattlet is worried that unworkable rules are penalising the tuna sector.

“At present, low standard fish products unfairly compete with our own production in our own market,” she said.

“It is therefore paramount to address policy gaps and ensure an international level playing field, to protect our standards but also to ensure developing countries achieve the same ones, especially through the sustainable fisheries partnership agreements concluded with non-EU countries.”

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MAINE’S AQUACULTURE ROADMAP Aquaculture in Maine has grown steadily over the years.

With a number of farmed species including oysters, mussels, scallops and seaweed, a land-based eel farm and salmon farming operations, it has also become a significant contributor to the state’s economy. Its importance continues to increase today – providing jobs and local food security to many areas. And, with a strong, working waterfront heritage, 3,500 miles of coastline with cold water resources and solid research infrastructure, it makes sense for Maine to embrace this growing industry.

“Maine is a maritime state and we have very strong ties to the ocean, so aquaculture is an industry that can help us to continue that heritage,” said Heather Sadusky, Maine Aquaculture Hub Coordinator at Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine.

“It has been very exciting to see the impact of aquaculture in maintaining working waterfronts that had been shrinking and keeping people working on the water. Most people tend to associate aquaculture with sustainable seafood but we are also starting to recognise it as a nature-based solution or environmental tool. Shellfish and seaweed farming, in particular, can really capture nutrients and be used in that blue-green infrastructure. As opportunity expands in the larger blue economy, aquaculture has a role to play there and in Maine we are just starting to scratch that surface.”

Although there is increased consumption of seafood harvested from Maine’s waters, the state’s fisheries and aquaculture have faced some hurdles. In the US, fish from overseas origins are consumed regularly, while many wildcaught populations are declining and in danger of collapse.

Amidst this, much attention has been focused on ways to strengthen aquaculture and support its growth.

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We have very strong ties to the sea and aquaculture is a way to continue Maine’s history, heritage and character Heather Sadusky, Maine Aquaculture Hub Overcoming obstacles In January 2022, Maine Sea Grant and the Maine Aquaculture Association, on behalf of the Maine Aquaculture Hub, released the Maine Aquaculture Roadmap 2022-2032. This is a 10-year plan that proposes four major goals and identifies the estimated necessary resources to implement each goal.

Its aim is to help tackle the challenges aquaculture faces and identify resources to support it.

“In 2010, the Maine Aquaculture Association released a development plan and the roadmap was intended to be an update to that,” said Sadusky. “We began by looking at the goals of that plan and identifying how far we had come in

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With four major goals in place, Maine’s new 10-year plan for aquaculture shows how the industry will continue to support livelihoods and bolster the state’s blue economy. Bonnie Waycott reports

reaching them, what progress was still required, whether the goals were still relevant and whether new ones were needed.

As aquaculture has developed considerably since 2010, we decided to work together to plan for a sustainable future for the next decade. We have a lot of small- and medium-scale farms as well as a couple of larger ones, so aquaculture is really happening here.”

“We were able to look at different situations from various viewpoints and consider how we could go about doing things and making sure they would work from different perspectives,” said Dr Gayle Zydlewski of the University of Maine. “We have a very strong aquaculture research infrastructure, which has enabled us to hold meaningful discussions and really explore the diversity that we see in the industry here.”

8 Cooke Aquaculture’s Atlantic salmon

Collaborative progress The roadmap outlines four goals: to develop a streamlined licensing and permitting process that balances the rights of the applicant and the public, to increase integration and understanding of aquaculture in Maine’s coastal communities, to expand and promote the Maine seafood brand, and make Maine a leader in triple bottom line sustainable aquaculture: social, economic and environmental.

Under each goal are specific action items and the estimated funds required to accomplish them.

Together, the action items require over US$15 million and support from 24 full-time employees over the next 10 years.

The idea is that all individuals and organisations involved take on something related to their area of expertise as part of a collaborative implementation process.

With various stakeholders involved, approaches will look different depending on the expertise of each individual and organisation, and where those approaches will be

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INSIGHT

Community engagement Maine’s aquaculture may be taking off, but misinformation, knowledge gaps and some opposition towards the industry still remain, said Sadusky.

With changing demographics and more people relocating to Maine, further efforts will be required to educate and work with local communities so that people can better understand aquaculture and take pride in quality, local seafood. But hopes are high that with the relaunch of the Maine Oyster Trail – visits to oyster farms, product sampling, kayak tours and boat cruises – people will become increasingly engaged.

At the same time, research is underway into land-based operations, fish genetics, feed, and aquaculture as an ecosystem service and restoration tool, all of which are likely to draw attention in the coming years.

“I see aquaculture becoming a really integral part of our coastal communities,” said Sadusky. “Maine is a maritime state. We have very strong ties to the sea and aquaculture is a way to continue Maine’s history, heritage and character.

“It’s already contributing to jobs, engineering, construction and food, and is very much a part of Maine’s identity. We are in a great spot here to start working on new projects related

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to feed or land-based operations. We would also like to share information with local communities in a fun and engaging way, for example, by letting farmers give talks or providing opportunities for people to ask questions on aquaculture.”

The key, she said, will be to make things personal and establish connections so that people know exactly what is being grown in their local waters, the names of farmers and what the farmers do every day.

“There is a lot of initiative around engaging different people and aquaculture here, in other words diversifying opportunities for those in indigenous and under-represented communities,” said Zydlewski.

She added, “There is some work underway involving initiatives with tribal communities, which is very exciting to see. In general, many people are simply interested and engaged in all aspects of aquaculture and our role is to work together in that space with industry leaders, farmers, the business community and other non-profits to identify and pursue opportunities that will secure a healthy future for aquaculture.”

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implemented. Approximately 191 stakeholders representing nearly 100 different organisations and companies operating in Maine’s marine economy gave feedback for the roadmap’s development. A diverse set of people coming together to think about the industry’s future, looking at how it is changing over time and working to develop new opportunities is an efficient way to produce guidelines and gather feedback, said Zydlewski.

“The roadmap involved reaching out to individuals and stakeholders, asking them to invite their networks and following a format that was structured in order to gather feedback in the most efficient way,” said Sadusky. “We followed up with people afterwards to get their opinions on the process, format and whether there was anyone else that we could have reached out to. The process was key to producing a useful document.”

8 Marshall Cove Mussel farm harvest, Islesboro, Maine

8 Bangs Island Mussels crew harvesting kelp, Portland, Maine

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NEW HORIZONS

THE NEW FRONTIER

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Genetics in aquaculture and fisheries offers new approaches to tackling key challenges and improving our understanding of the interactions between genes and the environment, writes Bonnie Waycott

The advent of the genome era and the demand for global food safety have resulted in significant breakthroughs in fish biology and biotechnology. For fisheries and aquaculture, these discoveries have provided solid technical support. Genetics can play a fundamental role in the resilience, response and recovery of species to environmental change and provide fish breeding and management with key insights.

Amongst other things, genetics is today shedding light on how Atlantic cod are evolving in response to overfishing and environmental change. In a paper published in the journal PNAS, researchers from the Institute of Marine Research and the University of Agder (Centre for Coastal Research) in Norway show that three so-called supergenes are making cod better equipped for changes at sea.

Supergenes are combinations of genetic material that are strongly linked. They are responsible for a set of traits in an organism such as linking growth rates with reproduction capacity. They are the result of chromosomal inversions, which happen when a segment of the chromosome is inverted through a mutation. They are also described as units of several hundred different genes that combine to form a package. These packages contain a great deal of genetic variation, which makes a species robust and determines whether it will be able to adapt to environmental conditions.

“Cod have a very high economic value and there is a lot of interest in understanding their dynamics,” said Marte Sodeland, a researcher at the University of Agder and lead author of the study. “Populations have also been declining for

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8 Genetic technologies have led to major breakthroughs in combatting disease in aquaculture

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In the case of disease, genetic resistance is more effective than antibiotics or vaccinatino Tim Regan, Roslin Institute some time and a lot of research efforts are underway into why that is. Our study is just one example of such efforts.”

Sodeland and her team found three supergenes in cod off Norwegian shores. The three were also found in different relative abundance in two distinct cod populations: inshore and offshore. The supergenes make the cod more diverse, adaptive and better equipped to cope with annual fluctuations at sea such as different temperatures and salinity levels. Changes such as these impact the entire ecosystem and cod’s access to food, but the supergenes help the cod adapt.

Past, present and future insights The study, meanwhile, also showed that cod may have been overexploited since as long ago as the Viking period, and that the signature of overexploitation is etched in their genome.

Sodeland said that the supergenes could reveal more about why cod have survived long periods of high fishing pressure.

“Genetic diversity in cod has been declining for a very long time, possibly up to a thousand years, and we know that the Vikings relied heavily on fisheries and exported their catches,”

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NEW HORIZONS she said. “Intuitively, we think that back then, we couldn’t possibly have affected fish populations. But it seems that cod were popular very early on, which suggests that we have been impacting them for a long time. And yet they have developed the genes to withstand that pressure. The supergenes that we found are probably up to several million years old. With further research it’s likely that we will learn more about how cod have survived intense overfishing.”

The work of Sodeland and her team may also shed light on the future of cod stocks, which will have significant implications for fisheries management.

“If we know the genetic structure of a harvested stock, we can implement surveillance tools and inform fisheries management to make sure that we are conserving more of the species’ genetic variation, which is directly linked to, or determines, other measures of biological variation,” said Sodeland. “We need to further study the species that we are targeting through fisheries, to see what kind of genetic architecture they have and what this shows about our impact on them. This will enable us to detect genetics patterns in particularly vulnerable species and adjust our activities accordingly.”

Elevating disease resistance Fin-fish and shellfish production can also be greatly enhanced through genetics. Aquaculture today faces many challenges. Animals have to cope with climate breakdown leading to warmer seas associated with less oxygen, and increased disease risk. Disease is the single biggest challenge facing aquaculture globally but genetic technologies have been a major breakthrough in combatting this, said Tim Regan of the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh.

“One example is a discovery by Professor Ross Houston of the Roslin Institute on genetic resistance to infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) in Atlantic salmon,” he said.

“This has allowed breeding strategies to overcome this once-devastating disease. Improved genetics also addresses other constraints related to sustainability, such as genetic selection for improving FCR or improved compatibility with alternative protein sources like plants or insects to reduce reliance on fishmeal and fish oil.”

In the UK, the rearing of species such as Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout relies entirely on genetic improvement technologies to safeguard high quality stocks. Examples include Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) where a population’s DNA is analysed to identify regions of the genome associated with a particular trait. The results can be incorporated into Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) to ensure better breeding programmes.

“Genetic technology has huge advantages,” said Regan. “In the case of disease, genetic resistance is more effective than antibiotics or vaccination, which require treatments throughout an animal’s lifetime, potentially increasing stress.

There is also growing interest in land-based aquaculture systems for juvenile salmon. These have advantages and disadvantages, but genetics can help select animals that are better adapted to a given system.”

Still early days There are some things to consider when genetic technology is applied. Although costs decrease rapidly year-on-year for these technologies, there are some challenges such as a lack of resources (e.g., reference genomes) and accurately matching genotype (genetic differences) to phenotype (traits associated with these genetic differences).

Broodstock for many salmon and trout breeding

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8 Genetic diversity in cod has been declining for a very long time

companies is generated outside the UK but there can be a mismatch between genotype and phenotype in different environments. Broodstock will have been selected for optimal performance in one environment, e.g., Norway, which might not manifest when the species is reared in different environments such as Scottish sea lochs.

However, better reference genome assemblies are being produced for Pacific oyster, flat oyster, lobster and the blue mussel. Larger companies can also afford the cost of genetic technology and conduct family-based breeding programmes where the effects of genetic variation can be studied with more accuracy and detail.

Compared with terrestrial livestock, selective breeding in aquaculture is in its infancy. Applying genetic technologies has huge potential to transform sustainable seafood production, says Regan.

“Improvements in FCR and disease resistance lead to less food used and fewer treatments needed, which in turn reduces environmental impacts,” he said. “Animals can also be adapted for breeding environments and improved husbandry, for example in hatchery settings, and this improves welfare.”

As genetics continues drawing attention, further work is still required. Many basic scientific resources are crucial and have not yet been generated for several species, for example reference genome assemblies. Basic lab model systems such as tissue culture techniques are also yet to be developed for almost every aquaculture species except salmon and tilapia. These models are crucial to a better understanding of diseases and allowing scientists to study particular tissues or genes in detail. They also enable adapting more powerful tools e.g., CRISPR to bridge the genotype-phenotype gap.

But the rate at which genetic technologies are being newly translated is astonishing, Regan said.

“This dramatically transforms our ability to answer bigger questions and generate more useful and impactful science, which improves sustainability and can really make a difference.”

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ICEFISH PREVIEW

THE ICELANDIC FISHERIES EXHIBITION IS BACK! The largest commercial fishing show in the global north makes its much-awaited return to Kopavogur next month

Providing the ideal forum to showcase the latest innovations in locating, catching, processing and packaging, through to the marketing and distribution of end-products, the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition is a world-leading event for the commercial fisheries, processing, aquaculture, seafood by-products sectors. Following the easing of nearly two years of pandemic restrictions, on 8-10 June 2022, Icefish will again provide exhibitors and visitors with the long overdue opportunity to meet.

A packed exhibition halls will feature long-term exhibitors as well as an abundance of new companies. Large national pavilions will be present from Denmark, Norway, Faroe Islands and new this year – Spain. The event will also welcome new initiatives including a dedicated area for processing/valueadded/fish farming and by-products. This introduction recognises recent industry developments and aligns with the

4th edition of the Fish Waste for Profit Conference, taking place on days two and three of the exhibition.

Meanwhile, following the success of 90-plus meetings involving 24 countries in 2017; the matchmaking facility that brings buyers and sellers together, and which is run in conjunction with Innovation Centre Iceland, will return, as will the virtual community Icefish Connect which was introduced for the first time in 2021.

Another highlight will be the 8th Icelandic Fisheries Awards, which will take place on the first night of the exhibition. Hosted by the City of Kopavogur, the awards have been recognising outstanding achievement in the International and Icelandic fishing, processing and seafood sectors since 1999.

The following pages feature news from some more of the companies exhibiting at Icefish 2022.

GREENLAND MARINE RESEARCH WELCOMES TARAJOQ The latest vessel to leave the yard of Spanish boatbuilder Astilloros Balenciaga is the new fully ice-strengthened fishery research vessel Tarajoq, constructed for the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources.

The 61.4-metre, 16.3-metre breadth vessel, designed by Norwegian firm Skipsteknisk, is to focus much of its activities on commercially valuable demersal species, such as shrimp, cod and Greenland halibut, as well as conducting research into pelagic species including herring, mackerel and capelin.

Tarajoq is regarded as one of the best outfitted vessels of its kind anywhere in the world, and can tow research trawl gear down to 2,300 metres. Fitted out for both demersal and pelagic trawl operations, it is also able to carry out acoustic research with electronics deployed using a drop keel to keep clear of surface noise, as well as environmental research and sampling duties. Accommodation is for up to 32 crew and scientists.

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8 New Greenlandic research vessel Tarajoq has been fitted out for both demersal and pelagic trawl operations

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NEW FACTORY VESSEL JOINS ROYAL GREENLAND FLEET Built at the Astilleros de Murueta yard and recently delivered to Royal Greenland, the 82.3-metre Nataarnaq is already successfully fishing for shrimp in Greenland waters.

The new factory trawler also has options for fishing for halibut.

Built at the Astilleros de Murueta yard and recently delivered to Royal Greenland, the 82.3-metre Nataarnaq is already successfully fishing for shrimp in Greenland waters. The new factory trawler also has options for fishing for halibut.

The Spanish boatbuilding company highlights that Nataarnaq is the third vessel that it has constructed for Royal Greenland. It joins the filleter Sisimiut and shrimp trawler Avataq, while another trawler in the same Skipstekniskdesigned series, Tuugaalik, has recently been launched for outfitting. It is expected that Tuugaalik will be delivered in the

first-quarter of 2023.

Nataarnaq has a factory deck with processing lines for grading, cooking and weighing shrimp, a line for processing Greenland halibut, freezing and palletising systems, and elevators to take frozen production to the refrigerated fishroom.

The deck is laid out with four 45-tonne permanent magnet winches, enabling Nataarnaq to operate with three trawls.

With the vessels that it has delivered breaking catch records at Royal Greenland, Astilleros de Murueta said that it is hopeful of securing contracts to build more soon.

8 Nataarnaq is the third factory trawler that Astilleros de Murueta has built for Royal Greenland

Cool onboard solutions from Frost Icelandic freezing and refrigeration specialist Kælismiðjan Frost ehf. continues to see high demand for its onboard fishing vessel solutions.

In recent times, alongside contracts for the design, development and installation of freezing capacity for the giant, 121-metre Lenin Super Trawler and 81-metre Norebo 10 Vessel Series, Akureyri-headquartered Frost secured a contract from Rammi in Siglufjörður, Iceland, for the design and

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delivery of all refrigeration equipment for a newbuild designed by Nautic ehf in Iceland.

Frost is designing a new sea cooling system, sludge system and train cooling for the fishing vessel, which will be built at the Celiktrans Shipyard in Turkey.

8 Among its most recent contracts is one for all of the onboard refrigeration equipment for a new vessel being built for Rammi

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ICEFISH PREVIEW Gutmaster X, Kroma A/S’s long-awaited equipment for processing farmed Atlantic salmon and trout has been launched by the Danish-headquartered company following extensive trials and will be on show at Icefish in June.

According to Kroma CEO, Ivan Kristensen, the company “revolutionised” the Gutmaster X design to ensure that it can perform multiple tasks “impeccably” and requiring no more than the press of a button on the machine’s display unit.

First and foremost, Gutmaster X detects individual fish sizes the moment that they arrive at the machine. It then conducts all of its cuts accordingly. A specially-designed fish cutting technique ensures the fish are portioned while leaving the heads and tails untouched. Afterwards, a gentle suction unit removes the waste and blood from the fish.

Kroma’s suction function also conducts a double-cleaning of the fish, which is intended to ensure superior product quality.

“Gutmaster X is the only gutting machine with an integrated water hose attached to the suction unit, that removes both guts and the whole bloodline from the fish within a second of work, providing excellent result,” Kristensen said.

With Kroma’s strong focus on hygiene, Gutmaster X has been designed in such a way that all the inside components can be easily washed from all the angles or demounted with a quick-release system for disinfection purposes. Some of the tools can be even washed in a dishwasher.

Moreover, Gutmaster X can be upgraded with multiple accessories. These optional additions include Visiomaster, which inspects each processed fish and determines whether it requires manual inspection or can further continue to to the next step of the processing line.

Other options, such as CIP and cleaning mode systems make sure that a Gutmaster X machine can be cleaned several times in between the gutting process.

PRECISE SALMONID PROCESSING FROM KROMA However, Kroma believes the most exciting accessory is the Remote Access Supervision, which gives one of its service technicians direct access to the gutting machine – no matter where in the world that machine is stationed. The only condition required is the availability of the internet connection.

Through this innovation, Kroma is able check and control all electrical functions of the gutting machine at a customer’s fish processing site.

8 Gutmaster X has been specifically designed by Kroma for processing farmed Atlantic salmon and trout

BRINGING THE BENEFIT OF INDUSTRIAL MEASUREMENTS TO FISHERIES Specialising in industrial measurement technologies, Oslo, Norway-headquartered MLT Maskin & Laserteknikk is looking to further extend its provision to the fisheries and aquaculture sectors.

Making its Icefish debut at this year’s exhibition, MLT Maskin & Laserteknikk AS imports and markets products from many reputable equipment suppliers in order to offer some of the most innovative solutions available anywhere for surveying and reverse engineering, including the latest 3D scanners and camera techniques.

According to the company’s Tony Melkild, these measurement systems and services could be of great value to the fisheries sector and could be applied and offer value in multiple scenarios. These could include but not be limited to such endeavours as verification of as-built infrastructure and facilities.

On behalf of its clients, MLT Maskin & Laserteknikk could, for example, conduct 3D scanning of purchased components to ensure quality control, or of a factory to assist a rebuild or equipment upgrade, suggested Melkild.

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8 Tools could be used to conduct 3D scans of boats or fish farms ahead of any rebuild projects

Similarly, it could conduct 3D scans of boats or fish farms ahead of any rebuild projects, he said.

The company also delivers and sell these instruments to customers and provides any necessary training should they want their own personnel to conduct such activities themselves.

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NEW MOBILE MAINTENANCE APP Reykjavik, Iceland-based MaintSoft Ltd has developed a new a new mobile-friendly app called Maintx Express, designed to work with its Maintx maintenance management software.

8 Icefresh utilises the Maintx maintenance management software in its modern fish factory in Frankfurt

Maintx is today used by a wide range of customers across different industries, including transport, shipping, services, public utilities and food processing. Within the seafood space, amongst others, it is used by Icefresh GmbH in its modern fish factory in Frankfurt, Germany, and by its parent company Samherji Ltd for its fleet of fishing vessels and factories.

The app enables maintenance technicians and others to submit work requests from a mobile device and for maintenance technicians to close work orders from a mobile device. It is available both for Android and IOS and is a fully integrated part of the Maintx Desktop Solution.

Authorised employees and others with access to a mobile device can raise a work request where and when they see the

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issue and submit it directly into the Maintx maintenance management system. The person submitting the request can capture data, images and videos to describe the problem in full detail.

Once the mobile work request has been submitted into the Maintx maintenance system it can be automatically assigned to the right person to either solve the problem or to choose a technician to work on it.

Furthermore, with the mobile app, technicians have easy access to assigned work orders, enabling them to manage their work more efficiently. The technician can also register all the cost information during and upon completion of the work.

Once a work order is closed in the mobile app, the information is automatically available in the Maintx maintenance system.

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BAADER JOINS ICELAND CLUSTER With the aim of further strengthening zero waste commitments in the global fish processing industry, Baader has joined the Iceland Ocean Cluster (IOC).

“Baader is one of the biggest and oldest players in the fish processing industry and as such we have a responsibility to treat livestock with care as well as provide the necessary solutions to our customers to make the most of it – ideally using all of it,” said Petra Baader, Executive Chairwoman Baader.

Baader Managing Director, Robert Focke, and Dr Thor Sigfússon, Founder and Owner of the Iceland Ocean Cluster, signed the membership at Baader’s booth during Seafood Processing Global (SPG) in Barcelona.

“Being a member of the Iceland Ocean Cluster, we intend to enhance our cross-industry collaborations with an integrative exchange of expertise as well as close networking with relevant institutes, institutions and organisations,” Focke said.

According to Baader, new processing technologies, including green technology solutions, are crucial for reducing food waste and carbon footprints. Moreover, they can improve production quality, hygiene, energy, and water efficiency and thus bring added value to the customer even beyond sustainability.

Co-products can range from relatively low value, such as those used primarily as feed for livestock, to extremely high-value products found in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and functional foods, the processing solutions company highlighted.

“In the seafood world, millions of tonnes of fish co-products are discarded in landfill, which is both costly and a source of greenhouse gas emissions,” Sigfússon said. “The Iceland Ocean Cluster and Baader have agreed to collaborate on enhancing the utilisation of seafood co-products. We aim to collaborate on assisting seafood companies that have the ambition to create value from side streams.”

At SPG 2022, Baader showcased its commitment to the IOC zero-waste mission with dedicated content in its brand rooms developed in cooperation with Sigfússon. The company also exhibited the industry’s first advanced line solution for co-product handling and value-adding –

consisting of a Skaginn 3X mince line combined with the Baader Refiner and third-party further processing equipment.

Reykjavík-based IOC started as a project at the University of Iceland but is now a full-running company that facilitates networking opportunities for ocean-related industries in and outside Iceland.

8 The agreement was signed at the 2022 Barcelona Seafood Expo by Dr Thor Sigfusson, Founder and CEO of the Iceland Ocean Cluster, and Robert Focke, Managing Director of Baader

Cortækni showcases new greener all-purpose lubricant Young Icelandic company Cortækni ehf will make its Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition debut this June, with a new product that it has high hopes for in the local market..

Developed by the Cortec Corporation, EcoLine ELP (Extreme Lubricant Penetrant) is a high-performance biodegradable soy-based lubricant and penetrant for general purpose use. It is formulated from natural seed oils and select additives that offer lubricity and performance superior to conventional lubricants.

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8 EcoLine ELP is a high-performance biodegradable soy-based lubricant and penetrant

It can be used on all types of metal for multiple purposes, it can lubricate moving parts, loosen rusty bolts or cool/lubricate basic metal cutting operations.

Cortækni believes that EcoLine ELP’s strong performance, biobased nature, and low environmental impact make it an excellent option for environmentally conscious industries, including the commercial fishing sector.

The company will also demonstrate other Cortec products at this year’s show.

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ICEFISH PREVIEW Food processing equipment firm Marel has entered an agreement to acquire Wenger Manufacturing LLC, a US-headquartered processing solutions provider to the petfood, plant-based protein and aquafeed sectors for US$ 540 million.

Marel said the acquisition is a platform investment into new, complementary and attractive growth markets, and will also form its fourth business segment, alongside poultry, meat and fish. This new segment is expected to contribute 10% percent of its total revenues and 12 percent of its EBITDA. “We are thrilled to join forces with the great team in Wenger with whom we have a strong strategic and cultural fit,” Marel CEO, Arni Oddur Thordarson, said.

“Marel has a strong financial position to pursue future growth avenues and a proven track record in driving longterm value creation. I am confident Marel will be a good steward for the Wenger business, its talented team and continued local community engagement, and we remain committed to our continued future success.”

Wenger Chairman, Trevor Angell, said that the familyowned firm’s long-standing worldwide customers are looking for a trusted partner and local support to keep their operations running at optimal performance.

“Marel has invested significantly in its global reach and digital platform, which will improve Wenger’s ability to be the partner of choice for our clients throughout the long lifecycle of our equipment. Further, our dedicated team will be joining a large, healthy, international organisation where they can grow and see increased opportunities.”

Angell said that during negotiations it was apparent that

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MAREL TO BUY $540M WENGER

there is “great strategic and cultural alignment” between the two companies.

“Our shared values and vision, our care for customers and employees, and the combined technical strengths of the two companies will create tremendous value in global food production.”

Marel estimated that the addressable market for the two companies in solutions and services within the pet foods, plant-based proteins and aquafeed sectors is around €2 billion, with expected annual growth of 4-6%.

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AQUAFACTS – ONE-STOPSHOP FOR BIOLOGICAL AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Recently launched digital platform Aquafacts is a robust, one-stop-shop for the latest insights into fish farming activities taking place in Norway, Iceland, Scotland and the Faroe Islands.

Offering comprehensive data and business intelligence about aquaculture operations in the aforementioned countries, Aquafacts gives subscribers instant access not only to the location, production species and owners of all fish farms, they can see the biomass for each site (excluding Norway), the latest sea lice information and the treatments introduced to each.

It gives users the latest wellboat vessel information via satellite AIS (automatic identification system), including location and technical data, plus weather forecasts for those locations. The Analytics service offers up-to-date financial analysis, thereby providing invaluable insights for farm owners, stakeholders and supply chains, as well as investors, banks and insurance companies.

For information on the go, it’s also available as an app.

The company is owned by father and son, Hanus and Óli Samró, who are from the Faroe Islands.

Co-founder & Director of Sales Hanus Samró explained that while the information delivered by Aquafacts is based on public data, finding such analysis is highly complex due to language, cultural and national barriers.

Aquafacts follows on the heels of the platform Fishfacts, At this year’s Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition ALVAR will be showcasing the latest version of its disinfection delivery system designed to leave processing areas bacteria-free.

ALVAR’s systems generate a thick fog of disinfectant mist that penetrates to every corner of a processing plant and this is programmable to activate automatically when a shift has ended and the processing areas is unmanned. The company’s systems for food processing at sea and ashore are in widespread use in the Icelandic and Norwegian seafood sectors – and the company is now seeking to widen its customer base, while also introducing new delivery methods.

ALVAR has now developed a new version of the system, ALVAR Mist Focus, designed specifically for smaller, enclosed spaces, making it possible for these to be mounted inside processing machinery, and will be demonstrating this for the first time at IceFish this year.

“Equipment is becoming more complex and with these larger and increasingly sophisticated systems in widespread use, we have been aware of concerns about disinfecting these effectively,” Daniel Fontané said.

“To meet these requirements, we have adapted the ALVAR technology into spray clusters that can be fitted inside machines, ensuring that every corner of these complex, enclosed areas are disinfected as effectively as the rest of the processing area.”

He commented that there is no doubt about the effectiveness of the ALVAR system, which is used by major seafood producers across the North Atlantic region, including Samherji and Royal Greenland.

“We’ll be demonstrating this system at IceFish this year, and

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launched a few years ago to provide business intelligence about fishing vessels, shipping companies, catches, quotas, satellite AIS and financial analysis.

Today, Fishfacts has more than 700 fishing vessels as customers in 25 countries and on four continents.

8 Aquafact’s Cofounder & Director of Sales Hanus Samró

ZERO BACTERIA WITH ALVAR MIST

8 ALVAR’s cleaning systems for food processing at sea and ashore are in widespread use in the Icelandic and Norwegian seafood sectors

we see this exhibition as an ideal platform to draw attention to what we are able to do. It’s not something that’s easily shown in a picture, as you can’t take a picture of fog. But with a cabinet that we can fill, we can let people feel the mist.”

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You’re never far DOORS NEW GENERATION TRAWL from our worldwide FROM VÓNIN In engineering its new Twister pelagic doors, Vónin started from the same principles as the highly successful Tornado design. In addition to that, it has incorporated shutters that allow the lift force Quality from the flow to be altered on theand lower Service and upper part of the trawl door.

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The new Twisters have already surpassed previous designs in terms of spreading force, and are prepared for an active control system that will make these the first ever smart doors.

They were put through a tough testing process to ensure that they did everything the calculations had predicted – and they did, generating even better spreading force than the Tornado doors, reports Vónin.

These highly effective new doors are designed for low drag, high efficiency, and high spreading force using and improving on the same flow booster principle that has worked so well before.

Vónin believes that the CL of the Twister doors at 4.39 is the highest of any trawl doors on the market, and the CL/CD value varies between 3.16 and 3.60, depending on the shutter settings and the angle of attack. Shutter settings have very little effect on the CL/CD values of the doors, meaning the Twisters will be lighter to tow when lift (CL) is decreased.

Skippers who put the Twister doors through their paces during the long testing process were particularly impressed with the doors’ stability, allowing them to take turns during a tow.

The stability of the Twister doors goes with a high flexibility range. These have been used across several pelagic fisheries, from working on highly dispersed fish at depth, to chasing elusive marks of fast-moving mackerel just a few metres beneath the surface.

Flexibility is due to the versatile shutters that alter the flow of water passing between two of the sets of foils, with each door fitted with upper and lower shutters. This offers settings for greater or lesser spreading force, while also providing options for the doors to be set to seek up or down in the water column.

A straightforward crank arrangement allows the shutters to be adjusted easily by a single crewman with the doors at the stern. This patent-pending arrangement means that there are no shackles that need to be moved to adjust the doors.

The shutters are a key element of Vónin’s smart doors concept.

Vónin has its own approach to controllable trawl doors with the Smart concept. Twister doors are already prepared for the installation of this Smart system in which the doors poll each other for spread. Combined with depth sensors, the doors have a situational awareness that enables them to respond according to their programming, with setting options for various fisheries.

Skippers can manage door settings from a smartphone or tablet app, and by making the doors capable of responding to changing circumstances autonomously, there is no need for a hull-mounted transducer and no ship-to-gear communication challenges.

8 In trials, the Twister pelagic doors generated better spreading force than Tornado doors

Smart, connected solutions for fish processing Recognising that like many industries which are already well into their digitalisation journey, it is smart solutions that will offer the biggest gains for the fisheries and seafood sectors moving forward, Iceland’s Ískraft will demonstrate some of the latest innovations from Rockwell Automation at this year’s show. Ískraft has been a distributor of Rockwell supplies since 1994 and is today the only authorised distributor of these products in the country.

According to Ískraft, Rockwell has much to offer the fishing industry. Its variety of

software can help processors fully design their plant with digital twins before any materials have been purchased, allowing them to see their plant in action and greatly reduce the risk of design flaws.

Rockwell’s industrial computers have won a variety of awards and are well known for their durability and reliability, while its Variable Frequency Drives have become very popular due to their easy setup and adaptability to a vast variety of motors and applications.

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everything from stainless-steel, highperformance monitors and panel PCs to safety equipment and sensors.

Together with Rockwell certified System Integrators (Mannvit, Lota and Efla), Ískraft has installed Rockwell equipment in a variety of high yielding fish processing plants all over Iceland, with customers including Skinney-Þinganes, Vinnslustöðin, Loðnuvinnslan, Síldarvinnslan and Eskja.

The company will also demonstrate other Cortec products at this year’s show.

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ROCKHOPPERS MADE TO LAST According to Thórður Áskell Magnússon, one of the owners of Vélsmiðja Grundarfjarðar, conventional discs are cut from tyres that have been used on heavy earth movers, and there are several problems with these. Firstly, rubber sourced from tyres has steel threads running through it that makes recycling difficult as well as generating other hazards – plus the supply of this material is starting to run short.

Looking for a suitable alternative, he went to many producers in mainland Europe to find something that could be a better option, and found what he was looking for in Poland.

The result is a range of rockhopper discs that have performed outstandingly well in trials on the hardest fishing grounds.

“This is what we’ll be using in future,” said Snorri Snorrason, skipper of trawler Pálína Thórunn, who has been trying out the new footrope rubber discs.

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8 Vélsmiðja Grundarfjarðar’s new bobbins performed favourably compared to conventional rockhopper rubbers made from tyres

“The skipper is very satisfied with their performance and reports that after trying them out on hard grounds they met all his requirements,” he said, adding that while this performance also comes at a price, it’s something that pays off in the longer term.

Outperforming the norm Vélsmiðja Grundarfjarðar has its range of rubber bobbins available in A and B grades. The A grade rubbers showed virtually no abrasion at all after five weeks of hard use, while a similar trial with the lower-cost B grade rubbers showed 2030% less abrasion than the conventional rubbers used in the same footrope for comparison.

“These aren’t cheap, but there’s no comparison in terms of how long these last compared to conventional rockhopper discs,” he said and commented that the company has the option of getting a significant discount from the producer on large orders, and any such discount would go wholly to their customers.

“Different thicknesses can also be available, and there are plenty of options available, as we can have these made in whatever size, weight or thickness the customer requires,

Credit: Vélsmiðja Grundarfjarðar

Filling the void Magnússon explained that the search for something new began in response to enquiries from customers as tyre rubber becomes increasingly scarce, with even tyres that had been used in landfill having been dug up and retrieved for use.

“The stocks of these are getting low, so it was becoming urgent to find ways to produce rockhopper discs without the steel content that more modern tyres have. We went to suppliers in Ukraine, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and China before we made contact with a company in Poland which is a respected producer of materials that are used for military hardware, including compressed rubber that’s used for tank wheels and aircraft tyres,” he said.

“This is a state-run enterprise producing high-quality rubber which is compressed with an exceptionally high 70-tonne pressure. We went ahead with test production of rockhopper discs, and the result is that we have a licence to sell these in Europe.”

The discs were tried out in Pálína Thórunn’s footrope.

Credit: Vélsmiðja Grundarfjarðar

An Icelandic supplier went to manufacturers in Europe to locate raw material for rockhopper footropes that have a longer working lifetime – and the military-grade rubber they found has outperformed traditional hopper discs

8 Made from military-grade compressed rubber, the bobbins from Vélsmiðja Grundarfjarðar can be supplied in any size required

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CHAMPIONING ICELAND’S SMALL-SCALE FISHING “I can’t seem to lose the passion for all this,” said Arthur Bogason, back as Chairman of the Icelandic National Association of Small Boat Owners (NASBO) after a seven-year break

8 NASBO Chairman Arthur Bogason by the dock in Reykjavík where he moors his own boat

A lot has changed in the almost 40 years since he was instrumental in establishing NASBO to represent the interests of Iceland’s inshore fleet in the years immediately following the introduction of the quota system in the early 1980s. Back then, this fleet rapidly mushroomed in size as the inshore boats fishing mostly with jigging gear didn’t come under the new regulations. That didn’t last long, and he has argued with practically every Minister of Fisheries for four decades over successive measures designed to curtail the activities of the small boat fleet, until stepping down as NASBO’s chairman.

“I stood for re-election late in 2020 in the middle of Covid,” he said.

“All meetings were over Zoom – which is cheaper as nobody has to travel, but for some reason the meetings were longer.

We were finally able to hold a normal AGM last October, and the guys decided to elect me again as chairman.”

Much has changed for the small-scale fleet over recent decades, not least the lifting of the sector’s threshold to 30gt/15 metres LOA, ushering in a new generation of larger, more sophisticated, high-capacity fishing vessels designed to slip in just under the limitations to take part in the hook regime – which ties these vessels to fishing exclusively with hook and line gear, which in practice means longline systems.

“The future of this fleet segment is a concern. It has gone from 733 boats in 2004 when the hook and line system was introduced. Today, these boats are around 200, thanks to the change to the 30gt/15 metres. This was exactly what we had predicted and warned the authorities would happen,” he said.

“A lot of the larger fishing companies saw opportunities, and they moved into this sector, accumulating quotas onto fewer boats and operating them like factory trawlers. That’s not likely to change, and I would go so far as to say that by

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The coastal fishery is the last bastion, the Last of the Mohicans in maintaining freedoms that have been whittled away over the years Arthur Bogason, NASBO doing this, the authorities wrecked what had been a successful system. I have said again and again that the ITQ system is the most successful tool ever created to destroy a small-scale sector.”

Going coastal An alternative appeared in 2009, in the wake of the 2008 financial crash when Iceland’s first centre-oriented government for a generation came to power and took the opportunity to set up a new coastal fishery regime, limited to four months each summer and a shared quota pot, and providing a way into fishing for those without access to the quota market, as well as others.

“The coastal fishery is exciting. It’s now in its 14th summer, with more participation than ever. For the most part, it has been a real success, although it’s not without glitches that we’re working to get fixed,” he said, commenting that a key issue is achieving a guarantee of 48 days’ fishing for each season, and an opportunity to extend activity beyond the present 31 August cut-off date.

“The response is always that there’s a danger of overshooting the size of the quota pot available, and we always point out that this can go down as well as up, as has

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“But if it does overshoot, by maybe 1,000 tonnes, it’s ridiculous to imagine that this makes any kind of a difference.

It’s one thousandth of the estimated size of the cod stock.

Guaranteeing days would also give fishermen the chance to choose the best fishing days over a longer period, as there are variations around the country. In waters close to Reykjavík, for example, the fishery can begin months ahead of the rest of the country, and in the north and east there can be good inshore fishing well into September.”

This year hasn’t started all too well for the boats within the coastal fishery scheme.

“One summer is never the same as another and the weather wasn’t great when the season opened on 2 May and not so many went to sea,” he said.

“But there were good prices for those who landed fish, although we can expect those to drop as the season progresses. Product prices are also very high, and that supports a high price at the quayside. We’ve seen one record after another broken across the fleet as a whole as high values result in record trips.”

Fishing gear doesn’t lie He commented that fishing for groundfish has been extremely good recently in Icelandic waters, with one modestly-sized netter landing 1180 tonnes of cod in February alone, and its owner declaring that “there must be a million tonnes of cod in Breiðafjörður.”

“This demonstrates the complete lack of correlation between what fishermen’s catches and what the Marine Research Institute tells us are the results of its stock assessments,” he said.

“Plus, it doesn’t help that they continually tinker with the model, and always come to the same conclusion – that we’re always fishing too much and endangering the stocks. But that’s not the way it is. Fishing gear doesn’t lie. The catch results reflect the volumes of fish in the sea. Even though the researchers seem to struggle to find fish, fishermen don’t have a problem.”

He commented that one of the core fisheries for NASBO’s membership is the lumpfish roe fishery that begins during the spring, with static nets used to catch this species, but as so often, the cod by-catch is a recurring problem.

“Nobody wants this by-catch. It rolls up the nets and this cod catch eats up quota with low-value landings. One of our

members has been leasing quota at ISK350 per kg, and the cod by-catch during the lumpfish fishery fetches only ISK150, so he’s losing ISK200 per kg. NASBO has been asking the Ministry and the Institute to come up with a regulatory solution, but the only response is to treat fishermen like criminals for putting their gear where there are fish,” he said.

“When the “best fishery management system in the world” was invented, this aspect of it was forgotten. The lumpfish fishery has been going since the 60s. It was a known problem then, and more than half a century on, nothing has been done and it’s still a problem today.”

8 Landing roe from a coastal fishing boat

Last of the Mohicans With close to half a century of fishing experience, both at sea in his own boat and behind at desk at NASBO’s office, Bogason is still fighting many of the same battles with authority, but he’s still remarkably optimistic.

“The coastal fishery is the last bastion, the Last of the Mohicans in maintaining freedoms that have been whittled away over the years,” he said.

“It’s noticeable that among politicians it’s often the younger generation in parliament that is most conscious of the issues at stake for small-scale fishermen, much more so than the older generation, stuck in their ways and bogged down in the system. The younger ones are more sympathetic to small-scale fishing. For example, the Pirate party shares many of our viewpoints and support us,” he said.

“This is where we see hope for the future, with changes in attitude among younger politicians who have a different outlook to that of the old guard of apparatchiks.”

8 An inshore netter heading in to land a day’s catch

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VARD TO BUILD ADVANCED FACTORY TRAWLER FOR DFFU German fishing company Deutsche Fischfang-Union, the Bremerhaven-based subsidiary of Icelandic operator Samherji, has placed an order worth over NOK500 million with VARD for a factory trawler to be delivered in the second-half of 2024

8 DFFU’s new trawler is scheduled to be delivered by VARD in late 2024

Vard Design in Ålesund is responsible for the 84-metre LOA, 16.7-metre breadth trawler’s VARD 8 03 design. The hull of the triple-rigger is to be built at Vard Braila in Romania and is scheduled to be delivered to Vard Brattvaag in Norway in early 2024 for outfitting.

“We are very pleased to have reached an agreement with VARD to design and construct a new trawler for DFFU. We strive to produce fish products of the highest quality, and sustainability is at the core of our operations,” stated DFFU Directors Baldvin Thorsteinsson and Samuel Ortega.

“The new vessel will have exceptional crew facilities and will be equipped with the most advanced technology available in our industry. DFFU and affiliated companies have a long-standing relationship with Norwegian shipbuilders and suppliers. We want to build on that foundation and thereby further strengthen our ties with the Norwegian shipbuilding industry.”

Whitefish focus The new trawler will feature a wealth of technology, including a factory deck laid out for 100% utilisation of catches. This starts with a system of live holding tanks to keep fish in prime condition prior to processing, packing and storage in the 2,200-cubic metre refrigerated fishroom on two deck levels.

In addition, the new vessel will have 540 cubic metres of ensilage tank capacity, enabling factory waste to be offloaded for further processing ashore.

Primary target species are expected to be cod and saithe, processed and packed onboard – mainly for European

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markets, as well as redfish and Greenland halibut, which are in demand on Asia.

VARD’s SVP Sales & Marketing, Torgeir D Folland, has been central to the commercial process behind this vessel order.

“We appreciate that Deutsche Fischfang-Union has selected VARD to design and build their highly technological and sustainable trawler,” he said.

Optimised performance Designed to be able to operate with single, twin or triple rig trawl gear, DFFU’s new vessel will have Seaonics cranes and deck machinery, with the high dynamic performance trawl winches routing energy while shooting away back to the ship’s SeaQ Energy Storage System.

Vard Electro is contracted to deliver a complete SeaQ package that incorporates highly intuitive bridge, power and automation systems. The SeaQ Integrated Bridge integrates the maritime systems easily and perceptively, focusing on optimisation of the operator’s workstation, and allowing storage of preferred setups.

The SeaQ package will also include SeaQ Micro Grid, SeaQ Energy Storage System, SeaQ Power Management System, SeaQ Integrated Automation System, and SeaQ Green Pilot.

The combination of all of these provides the vessel operator with a comprehensive performance overview and options for managing operations to optimise power and emissions.

Accommodation is arranged for 34 people onboard.

“We welcome Deutche Fischfang-Union and their team to VARD and look forward to developing and building this vessel,” said Fredrik Mordal Hessen, VARD’s general manager for the offshore and specialised business sectors.

It is the first trawler of VARD’s own design to be supplied to a company in Germany, he added.

“This is an advanced trawler with tailor-made technological solutions to meet the customers requirement for sustainable operations and healthy fish. We look forward to co-operating throughout the building process.”

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NEWBUILDS Stadyard has completed the new pelagic vessel Skår Senior, which has been delivered to owner Roy Skår and his family Skår Senior sailed from Måløy for its home port of Fosnavåg for its christening ceremony to take place, ahead of the midMay opening of the herring season.

Designed by Marin Teknikk to replace the older Jøkul, the 48.3-metre overall length, 12-metre beam Skår Senior has a carrying capacity of around 420 tonnes in its 500-cubic metre refrigerated sea water (RSW) tanks. Accommodation on board is for a crew of 10.

“The work Stadyard has done is impressive. Great collaboration throughout the construction period has made this a fantastic process,” said Roy Skår, who was at the yard throughout the outfitting process, “This is the second newbuild delivered to us from Raudeberg. The previous vessel with the name Skår Senior was delivered from Båtbygg AS at Raudeberg back in 2002.

We also bought Sildaskjær here, so we almost consider ourselves as locals.”

Skår Senior is a combination purse seiner and pelagic trawler, and will fish for capelin, herring and mackerel. The hull and propulsion systems are optimised for low fuel consumption and low emissions.

The new vessel has been completed with input from numerous subcontractors and suppliers in the Måløy locality, many of which are part of the Måløy Maritime Group.

“This is the first vessel we deliver to Herøy municipality, and as usual with our newbuilds, we have used as many local suppliers as possible,” said Stadyard project manager Trond

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Kongshaug, commenting that this is a vessel they are proud to deliver.

“Many of the members of Måløy Maritime Group have been involved, such as Ulvesund Elektro as the overall supplier for the electrical and all electronic systems, Verlo delivered the Yanmar main engine, and Isovent, Sentronik and Båtbygg have also been closely involved.”

8 New Skår Senior has been built at Stadyard for Roy Skår and his family

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ABU DHABI RESEARCHER TAKES TO THE WATER Construcciones Navales P Freire shipyard in Vigo has floated a new marine research vessel under construction for the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD) This advanced oceanographic vessel, designed entirely by Freire, is intended to carry out advanced research work in both offshore and coastal waters. It incorporates sustainable technologies optimising fuel consumption and minimising pollutant emissions, as well as enabling silent operation at low speed.

This vessel is intended to make a significant contribution to the development and preservation of Abu Dhabi’s natural resources and economy.

The new research vessel will be able to accommodate 18 crew members and 11 scientists, and is being fitted out with fishing, chemical, biophysical, dry and wet laboratories, as well as a facilities for the diving team.

Jesús, Guillermo and Marcos Freire were present for the new vessel’s launch, accompanied by a delegation from the owner and supervision teams.

“We are very pleased to proceed with a milestone in the construction of such an innovative ship,” Freire Commercial Director, Santiago Sío, said.

He added that the yard has become something of a leader

8 The new marine research vessel for Abu Dhabi has been floated off at the Freire shipyard in Vigo

in the construction of oceanographic research vessels.

“We have first-line clients and references for a variety of vessels constructed, from multipurpose compact craft to specific research units,” he said.

The build contract was signed in December 2020 and the work started six months later.

NEW QUARTET FOR EUROPEAN AQUACULTURE Four new landing utility vessels (LUVs) are under construction for Damen Shipyards with the group convinced that these particular boats are ideal for servicing Europe’s sea-based aquaculture sector and that buyers will be best served with vessels that can be delivered quickly.

Twenty-two metres in length and with a beam of 8 metres, the versatile LUV2208s are being built by Coastal Workboats from Exeter, UK. The collaboration between the two yards began with the construction of the first three LUV 2208s, all three from stock. Two of these vessels are now in operation, with the last one at the Kames ecological fish farm off the Scottish west coast.

Damen took the decision to build another four on stock following positive feedback from its clients.

The shipyard explained that the LUV 2208 has been specifically developed for the demanding conditions of sea farming, factoring in that large nets and cables need to be handled and that big harvests need to be loaded and offloaded. At the same time, the design allows for vehicles roll on and off a ramp that also enables beaching.

The vessels’ steel plating is extra thick Bulwarks and boarding ladders are large and heavily built for ease of operation at aquaculture farms. Heavy rubber fenders are fixed to the hull sides to provide better, lasting protection.

A wide hull provides sufficient stability to allow large cranes to be operated from the deck, with the ability to lift 2.5 tonnes at a range of 15.5 metres from the crane base or 15 tonnes from 3.5 metres.

Standard propulsion power is delivered through diesel

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8 Damen’s versatile LUV2208s are being built by Coastal Workboats from Exeter, UK

direct Volvo Penta engines, including standard SCR and particles after treatment installation that also reduces noise and vibration.

The helm station accommodation comprises a day shelter and small galley, which can be extended to provide one or two cabins for overnight stays.

In a joint operation, Damen and Coastal Workboats also intend to open a service and maintenance yard on the west coast of Scotland, serving aquaculture clients close to their operations.

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RIGHT BEHIND THE TWIN-RIGGERS TO COMPLETE RECORD TRIP Factory trawler Blængur, operated by Icelandic company Síldarvinnslan, has recently completed a trip in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea, landing a catch worth a record ISK 635 million

8 Síldarvinnslan’s freezer trawler Blængur completed a record Barents Sea trip using a versatile H-Toppur trawl from Hampiðjan

According to this trip’s skipper Sigurður Hörður Kristjánsson, the catch was a green weight of 1,175 tonnes, and this is the highest grossing single trip for a Síldarvinnslan fishing vessel.

“The weather was changeable, and we spent two days sheltering in the lee of Bear Island,” he said.

“The fishing was nothing special compared to what we are used to seeing, but fish prices are high, and that makes for a high catch value.”

What attracted interest was that Blængur’s catch rates with its single trawl were not far behind those of the twin-rig trawlers on the same fishing grounds. The trawl used this trip was a new H-Toppur 127, and according to Hampiðjan Akureyri’s manager, fishing gear technologist Hermann Guðmundsson, the new trawl performed well.

“The H-Toppur trawl is designed for all the ground-hugging species that are fished around Iceland. The headline height is a maximum of 6.1 metres and it’s rigged onto a 40.8-metre rockhopper footrope. It measures around 100 metres all the way back to the codend,” Hermann Guðmundsson said.

Guðmundsson further commented that the thinking behind the design was to develop an all-round trawl with both spread and height. Going by the reports from Blængur’s crew, this has been achieved.

Kristjánsson reports that the H-Toppur did well in enabling them to keep up with the twin-riggers. He also remarked that there is

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It’s not enough to just sell a trawl. The after-sales service Hermann provides is outstanding, and customers appreciate that Sigurður Hörður Kristjánsson, Blængur noticeably less cod to be seen in Norwegian waters than in previous years, while species such as golden redfish, haddock and shrimp are flourishing.

“We’re completely satisfied with the trawl and with the co-operation with Hermann and his team. It’s not enough to just sell a trawl. The after-sales service Hermann provides is outstanding, and customers appreciate that,” he said.

According to co-skipper Bjarni Ólafur Hjálmarsson, the new trawl designed by Guðmundsson is on the same lines as the gear Blængur has been towing for the last two or three years.

“We have been using a H-Topper 127 and also a H-Toppur 115. This trawl has performed exceptionally well. We normally have the headline at around 3.5 fathoms and a spread of 90 to 100 fathoms between the doors,” he said.

Hjálmarsson added that the trawls are always rigged on rockhoppers to keep damage to a minimum, and the gear is towed with a pair of 11-square metre, 5,200kg Sparrow doors.

8 The trawl’s designer, fishing gear technologist Hermann Guðmundsson, manages Hampiðjan’s Akureyri branch

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PRECISION FISHING PIONEER SECURES FUNDING £1.8 million in new funding to boost the development of precision fishing technology for the commercial fishing industry has been secured by SafetyNet Technologies, which has already developed a number of innovative selectivity tools The investment round was led by Mirova’s Althelia Sustainable Ocean Fund and joined by Builders Vision, The Schmidt Family Foundation, and a US family office with an interest in ocean health.

“SafetyNet has proved that low-cost technology can benefit fisheries around the world, improving the accuracy of their target catch, while increasing profits. The Schmidt Family Foundation has been proud to support SafetyNet since 2016 with grant funding,” said Joe Sciortino, Executive Director at the Schmidt Family Foundation.

“We’re now excited to invest in this round as SafetyNet expands its work in the US and continues to develop new technologies that will benefit ocean health.”

The primary goal of SafetyNet Technologies is to design and build precision fishing devices to increase the selectivity of commercial fishing operations, contributing to a more sustainable fishing industry.

SafetyNet Technologies’ flagship product, Pisces, which uses coloured LED lights to attract target species while simultaneously deterring unwanted by-catch from entering fishing gear, has already been shown to improve the selectivity of fishing gear.

The result is that crews spend less time sorting catches and reducing the impact of fishing on marine ecosystems.

Joe Sciortino, Schmidt Family Foundation Pisces is already commercially available – but this investment round is expected to be instrumental in enabling SafetyNet Technologies to expand into new markets such as the North American fishing industry.

In addition to entering new markets, this round of funding will support the introduction of a robust and affordable underwater camera that can attach to most fishing gear. This is predicted to provide fishing crews with previously unseen views of their fishing gear in action and valuable insights into the effectiveness of fishing gear and fish behaviour.

Development of the underwater camera began in early 2021. However, with this latest investment, SafetyNet Technologies can accelerate the process and bring the underwater camera to market sooner than planned.

This investment round will also enable the development of a sensor node that collects essential marine environmental data. The sensor node will attach to most types of fishing

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SafetyNet has proved that low-cost technology can benefit fisheries around the world, improving the accuracy of their target catch, while increasing profits

gear enabling crews to collect data on temperature, salinity, turbidity, and depth.

“Builders Vision is proud to support SNTech and their work to eliminate seafood waste in our oceans,” Builders Vision Senior Programme Officer, Peter Bryant, commented.

“It’s precision fishing devices offer promising and scalable solutions for fishers that help address the widespread issue of discarded catch, which has been recognised as a significant threat to the long-term sustainability of fisheries, marine ecosystems, and food security.”

“Mirova is thrilled to continue its support for SNTech and their growing technology toolkit to improve the sustainability of fishing worldwide,’ Mirova UK Investment Director, David Barley, said.

“We view well managed fisheries as a key source of food and for many countries, employment and economic gain.

However, to date, most fisheries have lacked the tools and data to operate effectively. SNTech’s low-cost technology is helping fishers be at the heart of building sustainable and scalable practices. We are very proud to support them and to be a small part of this story.”

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SATLINK APPROVED FOR UK IVMS Spanish technology group Satlink is the only foreign firm that has been certified and authorised by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to supply systems for the UK’s inshore vessel monitoring scheme which is expected to be fully operational at the end of 2022

8 The Satlink system approved for the UK iVMS follows the company’s certification earlier this year to supply electronic monitoring to the US fleet

VMS has already been in place for some years for larger vessels, and the new iVMS will make it mandatory for fishing vessels under 12 metres to also be outfitted with systems that transmit course, position, speed and other data to the MMO. Of the four approved suppliers, Satlink is the only non-UK company to be certified to supply the UK inshore fleet.

Satlink’s system has been developed, based on the company’s extensive experience in the installation of such systems on board more than 4,000 vessels of all sizes around the world. The Satlink device satisfies a range of requirements in terms of dimensions, power options and costs, among the MMO’s specifications that aim to tailor iVMS installations to the the limitations and budgets of the UK inshore fleet.

A particular requirement is the capability to transmit data via mobile phone signal (2G/3G/4G) instead of via satellite.

This reduces costs to user. The MMO has also voiced its appreciation of the capacity to store historic position data, recorded at one-minute intervals, for up to a year. This functionality makes it possible to hold a continuous location record in areas without mobile coverage and subsequently transmit the stored information to the MMO, as soon as the vessel is within signal range.

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FIRST ‘PLASTIC NEUTRAL’ FISHERY The Azores pole-and-line fishery has become the world’s first ‘plastic neutral’ fishery.

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produces 0.5 kg of fishing gear related litter on an annual basis. Based on this, IPNLF anticipated that the competition would result in at least 100kg of ghost gear being retrieved, and that the Azores fleet would attain “plastic neutral” status.

Throughout the 2021 competition, a total of 452.1 kg of marine plastic litter was retrieved. 437.6 kg of this was ghost gear in the form of buoys, nylon cables and multifilament nets. This means that, overall, these vessels retrieved 875 times more ghost gear in weight than they lost annually in their own fishing operations.

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A SHOT IN THE ARM FOR NIGERIAN AQUACULTURE It’s hoped the transfer of genetically improved farmed tilapia (GIFT) fry will kickstart a new domestic industry, leading to improved livelihoods and food and nutrition security, writes Jason Holland A new agreement between WorldFish and leading Nigerian tilapia producer Premium Aquaculture Limited (PAL) is to see genetically improved farmed tilapia (GIFT) transferred to Nigeria with the aim of supporting the growth of the country’s fish farming industry.

As well as enabling a new domestic sector through WorldFish’s fastest growing Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) to-date, this first private sector partnership between the international, non-profit research and innovation institution and a hatchery operator is expected to increase smallholder income and employment, deliver significant quantities of a new low-carbon footprint food to narrow the fish supply-demand gap and lead to better nutrition and health among the Nigerian population.

With GIFT fry being transferred this month from WorldFish’s headquarters in Malaysia to PAL’s secured quarantine facility in Nigeria’s Ogun State under a robust environmental risk management programme and strategy, the project which

has the support of both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), aims to have WorldFish/PAL GIFT tilapia available in Nigerian markets by late 2023.

The agreement also involves the establishment of a parental broodstock as well as to breed, propagate and disseminate fry and fingerlings across Nigeria.

According to WorldFish Project Leader for the BMGF, Dr Colin

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Fish is critically important to Nigeria for food and nutritional security, foreign exchange, employment and livelihoods Dr Rohana Subasinghe, WorldFish

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Global importance WorldFish’s GIFT has been distributed to many developing nations, and several studies have identified the socioeconomic benefits arising from farming this tilapia, including improved rural income and employment. According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), for example, the economic internal rate of return on investments in GIFT development and dissemination was more than 70% over a period from 1988 to 2010, with a present estimated net value of US$368 million in constant 2001 prices.

It has also been estimated that nearly 50% of global Nile tilapia aquaculture production is now GIFT or GIFT-derived and that about 75% of tilapia consumed in developing countries is GIFT. The GIFT project was launched in 1988 by WorldFish (formerly ICLARM) and partners in Norway and the Philippines using the same selective breeding method used in the 1970s in Norway for salmon and trout. The result was the world’s first genetically-improved tropical aquaculture fish species.

After the GIFT project ended, fish were transferred to WorldFish for a further pedigree-based selective breeding programme that continues to this day. The base population selected for the GIFT Nile tilapia strain comprised four wild African strains (Egypt, Ghana, Kenya and Senegal) and four farmed Asian strains.

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Overcoming hindrances The project highlights that while tilapia is one of the most important groups of aquaculture species in the world, accounting for 5.5 million tonnes of the 82.1 million tonnes of aquaculture food-fish produced in 2018, the main bottleneck to expanding tilapia aquaculture and production is the lack of a systematically managed and maintained breeding population to produce high-quality seed in required quantities that are accessible to farmers year-round.

At the same time, WorldFish Project Advisor, Dr Rohana Subasinghe, explained, “Fish is critically important to Nigeria for food and nutritional security, foreign exchange, employment and livelihoods. Yet, a steep change in supplies and distribution is necessary over the next 20 years to realise its full potential.”

In partnership with BMGF and USAID, WorldFish is investing in a research and development programme that is designed to prepare and bio-securely transfer GIFT from Malaysia to Nigeria, establish a GIFT breeding population for diseasefree broodstock/seed dissemination, and establish a healthy GIFT seed industry/business and GIFT-seed-based smallholder out-grower business/industry in Nigeria, said WorldFish Country Manager Dr Sunil Siriwardena.

PAL Senior Manager, Govinda Raju, commented, “This technical collaboration is poised to propagate and disseminate WorldFish’s 17th generation fast-growing strain of GIFT tilapia in Nigeria. We are highly confident that it will boost tilapia production in the country as well as farmers’ income.”

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Shelley, the agreement reflects WorldFish’s ambitions for future growth and investment in the African continent and its confidence to impact at scale to support small-scale aquaculture producers as they “charter their pathway out of poverty”.

Shelley told World Fishing & Aquaculture that as well as Ogun, the project will also be conducted in the state of Delta.

It will work with two or three SME hatcheries and 100 growout farmers in both states.

“Once we transfer the fry (F0), they will be under quarantine for six months until they reach maturity. Then they will breed to give F1 fry. Then it will take another 5-6 months for F1 fry to reach maturity to breed and produce F2 fry. These will be available for pilot testing among SME hatcheries and growout farmers, so the first fingerlings won’t be available in Nigeria for at least 12 months once they have been delivered,” he said.

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CENTRAL ASIA WANTS MORE FARMED FISH

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Struggling to bolster food security, countries in the region have set their sights on aquaculture growth. But while ambitious plans are being laid out, fish farmers still find themselves undermined by weak infrastructure and low domestic demand, writes Vladislav Vorotnikov

Stretching from the Caspian Sea in the west to China and Mongolia in the east and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north, for many years Central Asia was considered one of the world’s poorest regions, twinned with a turbulent political landscape. However, things are slowly changing – thanks to steady economic growth, underpinned by US$378.2 billion worth of direct foreign investment that was pumped into these countries between 2007 and 2019.

Kazakhstan has set the most ambitious goals among the Central Asian states in terms of fish farming development. A government programme originally rolled out in 2019 envisaged ramping up domestic fish production from 9,000 tonnes to 270,000 tonnes per year by 2030.

The country already has the first results to show, said Nariman Zhurusov, Chairman of the Fish Department at the Kazakh Ecology Ministry. In 2021, the country’s total fish export value was $7 million, with fishermen and fish farmers shipping around 30,000 tonnes of fish to overseas markets, he estimated.

There are 300 fish farms currently in operation in the country, he told World Fishing & Aquaculture.

Compared with 2019, the farmed production is expected to more than double this year – reaching 22,000 tonnes, forecasts the Ecology Ministry.

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In recent years, 10 fish species have been acclimatised and their commercial cultivation has been introduced Uzbek Agricultural Ministry Meanwhile, the largest barramundi farm is under construction in the Kapshagai. With an investment cost of $157 million, this farm is expected to produce 1,000 tonnes of fish per year at its first stage. This volume is then expected to rise to 10,000 tonnes per year once the full designed production performance is reached, Zhunussov said.

Kazakhstan also has access to the Caspian Sea, although local environmentalists have long complained that the territory along the coast is not a good fit for fish farming due to harsh weather conditions such as frequent storms and high waves.

It was not surprising therefore when Kazakh Ecology Minister Magzum Mirzagaliyev stressed at a press conference in August 2021 that the future development of Kazakhstan fish farming is tightly linked to the land-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) farms.

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Family farm concepts While Kazakhstan has primarily focused on industrial farming, Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s second-largest economy, has opted to make its own way, mainly relying on the family farm production.

The country’s population is 34 million, twice that of Kazakhstan’s. Of these, nearly 17.2 million people live in rural territories where they largely rely on backyard food production. In these circumstances, the family farm segment appears to have tremendous potential.

In 2021, Uzbek fish farms produced some 173,900 tonnes of fish – a figure that was near triple that of 2015, according to the Agricultural Ministry’s estimates. Last year, the country also managed to attract record-breaking investments in aquaculture totalling $340 million, of which $29 million came from overseas sources.

In total, 1,330 new projects in the industry were launched in 2021, the ministry said. Although, it highlighted that industrial projects accounted for less than 10%.

As of early April 2022, 4,000 fish farms were operating in Uzbekistan, more than in all other countries of Central Asia combined.

“In recent years, 10 fish species have been acclimatised and their commercial cultivation has been introduced, including Hungarian and Vietnamese carp, Japanese koya, trout, salmon, smelt, sturgeon, tilapia, pike perch and African catfish,” offered the Uzbek Agricultural Ministry.

Moreover, the number of fish farms in Uzbekistan is set to grow rapidly in accordance with the family farm programme that was personally greenlit last year by President Shavkat

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AQUACULTURE have also been made in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. Of these, only Turkmenistan has access to the Caspian Sea, including the Gerabogazkoi basin, where the prospects of growing fish are believed to be among the best in the region. And yet it is strongly believed that all of these countries have a rather high potential in terms of fish farming industry growth.

In 2021, Kirgizstan produced 10,344 tonnes of fish, half of which was exported to Russia, Kazakhstan and other countries, said Edil Niyazov, chairman of the Kyrgyz fish industry department.

Vladimir Eliseev, Director of the Sumi Salmon Hatchery, said that Kyrgyzstan has every opportunity to bypass both the Russian leading redfish producing region, Leningrad Oblast, and the Karelia Republic in terms of trout production.

“It has excellent conditions for trout farming, which are not found either in the northwest or anywhere else in Russia from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka. [It’s] as if God and Allah came together and created such perfect conditions for aquaculture,” Eliseev said, explaining that the country has unique environmental conditions.

“In Kyrgyzstan, a lot of warm water comes out of the ground at temperatures of 14 to 16 to 18℃. This water contains a high amount of dissolved oxygen ranging between 12 and

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Perhaps there will be some difficulties with the imposed sanctions, but we are looking for new routes Yerzhan Kazanbayev, Kazakh Trade Ministry

Disrupted supplies Fish farms in Central Asia are currently enduring some quite turbulent times, associated with the Western sanctions against the Russian economy. One of the biggest challenges in this regard is that aquaculture companies across the region have historically imported aquafeeds from Russian distributors.

In this respect, Yerzhan Kazanbayev, spokesperson for the Kazakh Trade Ministry admitted that the country must brace for further supply disruptions, including in the feed segment.

“Perhaps there will be some difficulties with the imposed sanctions, but we are looking for new routes. It is clear that some supply chains are breaking,” Kazanbayev said during a press conference in April.

“Of course, it will be very difficult to find new ways and channels – some ports are closed, and the logistics is a little interrupted,” he explained.

In 2021, Kazakh company Virgil Soil Kz announced plans to launch a major feed mill in Central Europe with a designed production performance of 1,000 tonnes of feed for fish and livestock per year. It’s hoped the new plant will partly mitigate the problem of imported fish feed in Central Asia.

Still, there are fears that the Ukraine crisis will bring more than just supply disruptions to Central Asia. In 2020, money transfers from citizens working in Russia comprised 31.3% of Kyrgyz GDP and 26.7% of Tajik GDP. Western sanctions introduced against Russia are expected to present the biggest shock that Central Asian economies have seen since the fall of the Soviet Union, and fish farming is likely to suffer like all other industries.

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14 mg, and for trout, this is a very important argument,” he added.

However, the small Soviet splinters continue to experience difficulties with increasing farmed fish production.

For instance, despite the availability of extensive water resources, fish production in Tajikistan dropped from 4,000 tonnes in 1991 to just 214 tonnes in 2006, according to FAO figures. As a consequence, the fish consumption per capita has decreased to a level of less than 0.5 kg, compared with 3 kg at the end of the 1980s.

Fish production and consumption are both yet to recover at least to the Soviet level.

Currently, fish production in Tajikistan is estimated at 2,300 tonnes per year.

Meanwhile, Turkmenistan is trying to ramp-up its fish production in another way. Since 2019, the government has put some effort into increasing its broodstock production in order to rebuild fish populations in the Caspian Sea. To this end, several major fish hatcheries, including Daşoguzbalyk and Marybalyk, have been restored in the country over the past few years and have been releasing fish fry.

During Soviet times, the country’s fisheries used to catch at least 5,000 tonnes of fish per year in the Caspian Sea. Today, though, this figure ranges between just 100 and 150 tonnes per year – largely as fish reserves in the Caspian Sea have depleted due to environmental factors and poaching.

At the same time, only a few land-based fish farms currently operate in the country.

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PEGUET & Cie 12 Rue Des Buchillons 74105 Annemasse, France Tel: +33 450 95 54 54 Fax: +33 450 92 22 06 E-mail: info@peguet.fr Website: www.peguet.fr Manufacture of Maillon Rapide® Complete range of high efficient quick forfor permanent connection trawl links doors demersal fishing, in aeronautics, architecture, rigging “off the seabed” semi-pelagic equipment, industrial supplies, fishing and pelagic fishing. sailing, parachuting & paragliding, professional fishing, tramways Reykjavík,climbing.

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