Fresh salmon prices hit an all time record in Norway last week, although there are signs the surge could be over.

They soared to NOK 123.28 per kilo during week 15, an increase of NOK 3.34 per kilo or 2.2% on the previous week.

The official figures from Statistics Norway are generally an average so some fish could be higher while other smaller salmon may be below that level.

The trend continued upward, but later reports indicate prices are starting to come back down.

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Andfjord Salmon, which is building the first phase of a 40,000-tonnes-per-year land-based fish farm in Norway, is to commence concrete works for four large pools ahead of schedule, the company said in an operational update today.

The salmon farmer already has one completed pool at Kvalnes on the island of Andøya that it has used as proof of concept and to produce a generation of fish that had a 97.5% survival rate.

For the current build-out phase, Andfjord Salmon will complete four pools, bringing the total to five

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Foss has previously served as Director General at the Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries.

Management consulting and executive search firm Seafood People has appointed Torben Foss, former Deputy Director General of Fisheries and partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to the company’s Global Executive Advisor Network (GEAN).

The GEAN is comprised of senior seafood executives with subject matter expertise who partner with Seafood People to execute global projects and client initiatives.

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After 19 months, the process of setting the price of 30% of the shares of Camanchaca Pesca Sur S.A., belonging to the Biobío Group, was concluded, which in September 2022 exercised its option to sell them.

After a process that took 19 months since the option to sell 30% of Camanchaca Pesca Sur S.A. It was exercised by Grupo Bio Bio, belonging to the Stengel family; Camanchaca S.A. announced that the price setting had been completed, and the signing of the contracts and transfer of the shares was completed, leaving it as the sole owner of this subsidiary.

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Once again alarms are going off among bottom trawlers due to a new offensive that aims to expel them from marine protected areas (MPA). On the one hand, the NGOs Oceana, Seas at Risk and the Marine Conservation Society are once again demanding that at the end of this year it be banned in those areas "with ecologically important characteristics of the seabed" and in 2030, in all. Without deadlines, the lawsuit is signed for France by the NGO Bloom. On the other hand, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) relativizes the consequences for trawlers. 

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STEFANESTI/URK – Fish wholesaler Dayseaday Group from the Van Veen family has opened its new branch in Romania.

The Van Veen family flew to Bucharest on Friday morning together with a delegation of Flynth accountants, a total of 42 people from Urk. We flew back again on Saturday.

At the opening, CEO Jelle van Veen said he was proud of his team and thanked manager Bogdan Manoliu, who is also a co-shareholder of Dayseaday Romania. “We have been able to realize a beautiful factory. The most modern in Romania, with a storage capacity of 2,500 pallets for freezing in two cells and several cold rooms. We also have a freezer for meat storage.”

In 2012, Dayseaday took over the (Dutch) fishing company Oceanis Seafood on the south side of Bucharest. Last year, work began on a new building measuring 100 by 30 meters on the northern ring road. What is new is that fresh packaging (MAP) is now also available for the retail market. The number of employees has grown to thirty. The production area measures 450 square meters. 

Most of the fish at Dayseaday Romania is imported and concerns farmed fish. Runners are sea bass, sea bream, salmon and farmed shrimps. Hake is the most important wild-caught species.

Source: Visserijnieuws (translated from original in Dutch)

OSTEND - The rising squid has replaced the more traditional fish species as the most landed fish species in Belgium.

The Flanders Statistics network reports this based on figures from the Agriculture & Sea Fisheries Agency. The total fish supply by Flemish sea fisheries fell by 6 percent to 15,921 tons.

Last year, 2,620 tons of squid were landed, 16 percent more than in 2022. Plaice (2,314 tons) and sole (2,260 tons) occupied places two and three. Rays and tub gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna) complete the top five supply. Shrimp and langoustines disappeared from the top ten of supply quantities.

Incidentally, for convenience, squid and cuttlefish appear to have been added together in the Belgian statistics. The leading role is reserved for the cheaper cuttlefish.

Sole is and remains by far the most important fish species for the Belgian trawl fleet, worth 39.4 million euros (44 percent of the total landing value). Last year, squid totaled 10.6 million euros, plaice for 7.3 million euros and monkfish for 5.7 million euros.

Last year, 3,700 tons of squid and 1,100 tons of cuttlefish were landed at the Dutch fish auctions. The plaice supply at the Dutch fish auctions was 12,000 tons.

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The Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo) will hold an auction on May 23, 2024 for the sale of a share of the quota for the production of aquatic biological resources in the Western and Far Eastern fishery basins.(In the areas of international treaties of the Russian Federation)

Lots with quotas have been put up for auction again:

• Cod in the Baltic Sea (subarea 26)
• Atlantic red flounder in Subarea 3NO of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) Regulatory Area
• Stingrays in subdistricts 3 LNO NAFO
• Squid-illex in subdistricts 3+4 of the NAFO region
• White burbot in subdistricts 3NO NAFO
• Wea ??bass in the Northeast Atlantic Fisheries Convention (NEAFC) regulatory area
• Lemonemas in a 200-mile zone adjacent to the coast of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

        According to these lots for participation in auctions in 2023-2024. no applications were received. The auction was declared invalid; when repeated, the starting price of the lots was reduced by 10%.

Source: Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo)

On Tuesday, April 16, at the “Our Ocean 2024” Conference held in Greece, the European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevicius, announced the launch of 40 action commitments for 2024, “thus confirming the EU's firm commitment to international ocean governance.” Commitments that will be financed with 3.5 billion euros from various EU funds. This amount is the largest ever announced by the EU since the start of the “Our Ocean” Conferences.

These commitments to action by the EU for a safe, protected, clean, healthy and sustainably managed ocean cover, among other topics, sustainable fishing and aquaculture, marine protected areas, oceans and climate change, sustainable blue economies, marine pollution or maritime safety

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