IN BRIEF - Application for Tuvalu Fisheries Observers
TUVALU
Wednesday, June 07, 2023
The Tuvalu Fisheries Department will be conducting a 5 weeks Fisheries Observer Basic Training Course from the 02nd October to 03rd November this year, 2023.
Fisheries Observers work aboard commercial fishing vessels, where they are the eyes and ears of our Tuvalu Government. They collect biological and compliance data that assists scientists, fisheries enforcement officers and economists to provide the advice and support that managers need to make wise decisions on the future use of this important resource.
The work is rewarding and challenging, requiring dedicated, honest and tough individuals, who can work long hours, can be away from home long periods and often in very difficult conditions at sea and can communicate and interact well with different people while at the same time, be considerate and conscious of the sensitivity of the environment they are working in.
Tuvalu Fisheries Department now invites applications from both gender (both Male and Female) Tuvaluan citizens for this up-coming training.
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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
Source: iPac.acuculture l Read the full article here
The General Secretariat of Fisheries has summoned the Mediterranean fleet to explain its plan to recover at least 6% of days of fishing activity in the Mediterranean compared to the cut adopted by the Council of Minister of Fisheries last December, within the application of the Multiannual Plan for the Mediterranean. Based on the flexibility measures agreed by the ministers, and after the approval of the European Commission, the General Secretariat for Fisheries proposes mandatory measures, which will allow 5% of fishing days to be recovered for the entire sector, and voluntary measures, which open the door to scratching off an additional 1%.
Source: Industrias Pesqueras l Read the full article here
Australian seafood companies are increasingly targeting the U.K. market following the free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries, which entered into effect 31 May 2023.
The FTA brought an immediate end to tariffs on many Australian seafood exports, resulting in a “significant, positive impact” on most product categories, with savings realized on both importer and supplier sides, according to Ana Nishnianidze, the Australian Trade and Investment Commission’s (Austrade) trade and investment commissioner for the U.K. and Ireland.
Author: Jason Holland / SeafoodSource l Read the full article here
The Norwegian group Mowi closed the 2023 financial year with a turnover of just over €5,505.7 M (4,940.8 M the previous year) and the farming of 474,664 t of salmon (463,579 t in 2022), growth of 11.4 % and 2.4% that position it as the world's largest producer of salmon, both in turnover and volume. In this last chapter, its global market share reaches 20%. Mowi markets its seafood products in more than 70 countries around the world and has a direct operational presence in 26 of them, employing more than 11,000 people.
The company, in a statement, explains that it has an integrated value chain as a differentiating factor.
All-Russian catch of fish and seafood maintains positive growth dynamics - more than 1.7 million tons were produced
Russian fishermen continue to increase their total catch of fish and seafood. According to the industry monitoring system of Rosrybolovstvo (TSMS), by April 16, production volume amounted to 1.7 million tons, which is 2.6% more than last year.
The growth of the all-Russian catch is provided mainly by fishermen of the Far East: the figure amounted to almost 1.4 million tons (+7.5% compared to the 2023 level). Good performance in the fishery for pollock (+8%), flounder (+5%), and herring (+13.5%).
Fisheries in the Northern Basin continue to increase their catch dynamics: production volume increased by almost 11.5% – to 165 thousand tons. The catch of capelin exceeded the level of last year by more than 2 times, crab by 10%, and flounder by 2.6 times.
Positive dynamics are also observed in the Azov-Black Sea basin: more than 10.7 thousand tons were produced, which is 5.5% higher than the 2023 level. In particular, the catch of anchovy increased by 8%, and sprat by 3.5 times.
In addition, the increase continues with the development of freshwater fish species in the internal objects of the East Siberian and Baikal basins.
Rosrybolovstvo regularly monitors the volume of production and supply of fish products to domestic and foreign markets in order to prioritize providing the country's population with fish products in the required volume.
Source: Federal Agency of Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo)
In the coming weeks, research will begin at the University of Maryland facilities where the use of Bioled photoperiod systems and remote control technologies is being considered.
The Chilean company Bioled has R&D as a fundamental pillar of its work. This is how, throughout its 18 years of life, it has led 18 research projects (practically one per year) and of which eight have been fully financed by the company and ten have been co-financed by Corfo instruments.
As part of its international expansion plan and analyzing the characteristics of soil cultivation systems, Bioled has started a research project with the University of Maryland (United States) to study how irradiance interferes in the control of growth and maturity . early in the culture of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in full-cycle RAS systems.
“We are very pleased and proud to conduct this research together with the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) at the University of Maryland, which is located in the city of Baltimore. “We are sure that this project, which is co-financed by the Corfo “Consolidation and Expansion” instrument for validation and international scaling of products, will be a milestone at a national and international level,” stated the Bioled R&D&I manager. , Ximena Navarro (in the photo above).
Fishing with mobile bottom contact gear in European waters is spatially limited to “basic fishing grounds” that concentrate 90% of the catch value and cover 50% of European marine areas (Baltic Sea, the Great North Sea, the Celtic Sea and the Bay of Biscay and the Iberian coastal areas), taking into account data from the period 2017-2022. However, the spatial location of these fishing grounds – starting from a grid cell definition of 0.05º latitude × 0.05º longitude, from 25 km2 to 36ºN to less than 13 km2 to 66. ºN–, varies from year to year, has concluded the ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) in a new advisory carried out on behalf of the European Commission.
Source: Industrias Pesqueras l Read the full article here
The anchovy and white anchovy fishing season for Peru, which contributes significantly to global fishmeal production, has been opened, with the catch quota fixed at 2.475 million tonnes.
Announced by the Peruvian authorities, the commercial fishing season for anchovy and white anchovy is set to open today, 16 April 2024, with a fixed quota of 2.475 million tonnes, according to IFFO - an aquafeed ingredients organisation.
Source: The Fish SIte l Read the full article here
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