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Friday, November 19, 2021
Optimar has launched a range of sustainable solutions aimed at ensuring fish welfare and keeping produce as fresh as possible.
The Norwegian company, which has branches in Romania, Spain and north-west US, has unveiled a new blast freezer, new ‘stun and bleed’ solution and a monitor that uses sonar to analyse fish health and optimise conditions.
The Optiblast freezer was developed in response to increasing volumes of air-freighted produce. Its automated feeding system gives fast loading/unloading, meaning fish is frozen as quickly as possible whilst multiple trays and a lift system ensures each product is in the correct place.
Author: Rebecca Strong / Worldfishing | Read the full articlehere
Seafish, the public body that supports the UK seafood industry to thrive, has started formal consultation with its levy payers and the wider seafood industry on proposals for a new levy model.
Levy is due on the first sale of seafood, both domestically landed and imported, in the UK. It is not charged on farmed salmon, trout, and freshwater fish species because these species are excluded by primary legislation. Nor is it currently charged on canned, bottled and pouched seafood products.
Author: Oliver McBride / The Fishing Daily l Read the full article here
Despite a series of challenges this winter, the Lerøy Seafood Group has announced better than expected 2024 first quarter results.
Lerøy, which also owns one of Norway’s largest white fish trawler fleets, produced an operational EBIT or operational profit of NOK 842 million (£62m).
This is down from NOK 989 million (£73m) in Q1 last year, but the outcome is far better than what was being predicted by analysts.
Author: Vince McDonagh / Fish Farmer l Read the full article here
We attach the program for the conference organized by Opmega that will take place today, Thursday, May 16, at the Mexillón Building in Galicia. The event will feature interventions by the mayor of Vilargarcía (10:00 a.m.) and the Sea Councilor (1:15 p.m.).
OPMEGA is an OP with a national scope of action recognized by Order of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, dated December 30, 1986 (Official State Gazette No. 23, dated 01/27/1987) as the OPP-18.
Since its foundation, OPMEGA brings together producers from all the Galician estuaries, where they join forces and work to improve and defend the interests of their producers and their Galician mussels.
According to a summary by the Hokkaido Fisheries Federation, the number of scallops landed in Hokkaido in fiscal 2023 (April 2023 to March 2024) was approximately 406,700 tons, down 3% from the previous year.
Trends in scallop landings in Hokkaido (from April to March)
Although it was lower than the previous year for the second consecutive year, it maintained the high level of 400,000 tons that has continued since fiscal 2020. The average unit price fell 20% to 211 yen per kilogram, falling below the previous year's level for the first time in three years, due to a reaction to the previous year's rise in product prices and the impact of the release of ALPS-treated water into the ocean.
Looking at the quantity by region, in the main Okhotsk region, Kitami in the south has increased by 5% to 204,900 tons, the highest in recent years, while Wakkanai in the north has decreased by 11% to 119,500 tons, for a total of 2. % decrease to 324,400 tons, which was below the level of the previous year.
In the Funkawan area, although Muroran decreased, Hakodate increased, and the total decreased by 1% to 61,000 tons, about the same as the previous year.[continues...]
China overtook Korea in overall competitiveness in the shipbuilding industry in 2023, according to the report titled “Comprehensive Competitiveness of the Shipbuilding Value Chain and New Directions for Korea’s Maritime Strategy” released by the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET) on May 13. This marked the first time that China has beaten Korea in the shipbuilding sector since 2020 when the institute began to release related reports, according to BusinessKorea.
According to the report, China’s overall competitiveness stood at 90.6 in 2023, 1.7 points ahead of Korea’s 88.9, amid the world’s growing shipbuilding dependence on China and China’s, Japan’s, and Korea’s growing shares of the world’s shipbuilding market. Korea had an advantage over China in research and development (R&D), design, and procurement, but its gap with China narrowed and it lost ground to China in production. Korea was also overtaken by China in the aftermarket (AM) for ship maintenance and repairs and in the service and demand sectors, the institute analyzed.
Among single shipyards, Samsung Heavy Industries, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, Hanwha Ocean, and HD Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries ranked first through fourth in terms of order backlogs in March. However, when looking at shipbuilding groups, CSSC, the largest state-owned shipbuilding group of China, topped the list by a wide margin. Other Chinese state-run enterprises such as COSCO and China Merchant were also in the top 10 club.
A delegation from the Port of Vigo, led by its president, Carlos Botana, traveled to Brussels this week to present a road plan on potential energy sources and the necessary prototypes to the EU Energy Transition Association (DG Mare). to facilitate the energy transition of the different maritime fleets.
This strategy for the decarbonization of the fleet tries to respond to the objective set by the European Commission within the framework of the European Green Deal, which seeks to promote the transition towards a sustainable and carbon-free economy.
Pescapuerta began its adventure almost 70 years ago and it is said that "experience is a degree." So much so that, given the news that has been emerging in the sector in recent months, the Galician group maintains a very clear strategy, in which organic and prudent growth prevails over large operations and investments.
In this context, we give the keys and figures of its last year, in which, in addition, it has started a new line of business with its entry into the cultivation of vannamei shrimp.
A new non-profit has been launched to promote sustainable and economically viable fishing in Namibia.
Launched on 26 April 2024, the Namibia Ocean Cluster brings together nine founders dedicated to promoting innovation, identifying markets for by-products and enhancing the socio-economic benefits of the country’s fisheries.
Supported by the World Economic Forum’s Ocean Action Agenda, the cluster is made up of Marine Stewardship Council-certified hake fishing companies Embwinda, Hangana, Merlus, Novanam, Pereira and Seawork, together with three non-fishing associate members, the Fisheries Observers Agency, Namibia Nature Foundation, and Sam Nujoma Campus - University of Namibia.
The China-baseed company is scaling up its production capabilities, with construction of the second stage at the Gaotang facility underway, adding 4,000 tons capacity, and preparations for the third stage are in progress.
Land-based salmon farmer Nordic Aqua has achieved significant milestones in the first quarter of 2024, marking a successful transition from the project phase to full operational status.
The company produced 967 tons of biomass during the quarter, bringing the total biomass to 2,046 tons by the end of the quarter.
Source: SalmonBusiness l Read the full article here
Thai Union is nearly halfway through a share-repurchasing program it initiated in January 2024 that has seen it spend nearly THB 1.3 billion (USD 35.7 million, EUR 32.9 million).
The Samut Sakhon, Thailand-based seafood giant, which owns the Chicken of the Sea and John West canned tuna brands, announced its third share-buyback program on 16 January 2024, saying it would reward shareholders by returning excess capital to them and boost the company’s earnings per share.
Author: Cliff White / SeafoodSource l Read the full article here
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In the first quarter of 2024, Vietnamese shrimp exports to Japan reached 103 million USD, down 2% over the same period. After increasing by 30% in January, shrimp exports to Japan decreased by 21% and...
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