IN BRIEF - ‘Export quality’ fresh seafood delivered direct from sea to supermarket
NEW ZEALAND
Friday, October 11, 2024
As more Kiwis explore ways to prepare and eat whole fish, Foodstuffs North Island is making fresh whole fish more accessible in its supermarkets, reports FMCG Business.
Customers at PAK’nSAVE, New World, and Four Square stores across the North Island are enjoying export quality fish, delivered straight from sea to store, thanks to co-op owned Leigh Fish, a New Zealand fishery based north of Auckland, and key suppliers including Moana New Zealand and local small-scale fishers.
Traditionally, fish fillets have been a popular go-to among customers, but the growing demand for whole fish has led Foodstuffs to boost its availability.
Brett Sellers, Seafood Operations Manager for Foodstuffs North Island, says that while most New Zealand seafood is exported, premium export quality fish has typically been difficult for Kiwis to access, except through high-end restaurants or local direct-to-consumer sources – until now.
STELLENDAM/DEN HELDER – The squid also swims across the northern head. A dozen Eurokotters (EU trawlers) were there this week in the zone off the North Holland coast, trawling.
The same goes for the OD 3, which fished with boards for the first time last week after the shrimp season. On Friday 18 October, the switch was made in front of the door in the home port of Stellendam near Westvoorn. Last spring, the Eurokotter got a net roller on the back again and skipper Jan Pieter Luime fished for squid for the first time for a few weeks.
"We just steamed over to the fleet of colleagues. For us this is unknown fishing territory. Previous"It was a bit difficult to get into it last week, but now it's going well," said Luime from the sea.
Source:VisserijNieuws (translated from original in Dutch)
The Chubut Fisheries Secretariat, led by Andrés Pedro Arbeletche, informed the Argentine Naval Prefecture (PNA) of Rawson on Saturday that as of 00:00 hours on Sunday, November 3, 2024, the entry of the fishing fleet would be allowed to the so-called Northern Zone, delimited between the parallels 43 ° 00 'LS and 44 ° 00' LS, thus marking the official start of the shrimp fishing season in provincial waters.
This decision was made after meeting the criteria established in the resolution of the Fisheries Secretariat that regulates the conditions for the opening of areas destined for commercial fishing, as reported by Nelson Saldivia in his news outlet 'Parte de Pesca'.
The survey carried out in the area showed the presence of commercial-sized shrimp, with a predominance of the L2 class, absence of hake bycatch and, as a determining factor, a catch per unit of shrimp effort (measured in kilograms per hour of effective trawling) within the stipulated values.
It should be noted that Resolution No. 118/2024 SP establishes the necessary requirements to authorize the opening of each shrimp fishing season, applicable to vessels with valid provincial fishing permits that are authorized to operate in the ZEPR.
Muscat: The Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones (Opaz) has announced a tender for the complementary works project at the fishing port in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm (Sezad), which includes infrastructure and utility networks.
The tender, funded by the Saudi Development Fund, involves the establishment of utility services, such as road networks, traffic signals, power supply for road lighting, rainwater drainage systems, sewage systems, drinking water networks, fire-fighting systems, and communications at the fishing port in Sezad.
Opaz has invited experienced Omani and Saudi corporate coalitions to participate in the tender through the electronic tender platform “Isnad,” with the deadline for submission of tender documents set for 18 November 2024.
The existing port, covering an area of approximately 7.5 square kilometres, consists of 3.3 kilometres of breakwaters, a fixed quay of 1.3 kilometres, six floating berths with a draft depth of up to 10 metres, and a dedicated berth for Coast Guard boats.
The location of the fishing port in Duqm, part of which is already operational, is strategically close to the planned fisheries and food industries area, designed to meet the basic investment needs for targeted food industries, which currently hosts six factories.
Russian imports of shrimp from China in the first 9 months of 2024 doubled compared to the same period last year and amounted to 2.7 thousand tons, according to calculations by the Analytical Center of the Fish Union.
Experts note that the bulk of the growth was provided by the Vannamei shrimp, while supplies of northern shrimp decreased by 3 times compared to the same period in 2023, to 0.2 thousand tons.
“This dynamic is observed against the backdrop of an increase in the volume of Russian northern shrimp catch by 18%, to 23.4 thousand tons (as of October 22),” the union’s statement says .
Infographics: Analytical Center of the Fish Union
In monetary terms, shrimp supplies for January-September this year were 75% higher than last year and reached $12.5 million.
Among the main destinations for Chinese shrimp exports, analysts named Malaysia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Spain. Russia's share is only 2% by weight and less than 1% by value.
DHAKA (BSS) – Country’s fishermen are set to resume hilsa fishing across the country as the 22-day ban on catching, selling, and transporting the national fish will ended last midnight.
According to the reports reached here from different coastal areas of the country, the fishermen are now busy preparing nets and boats to go to rivers to catch hilsa ((Tenualosa ilisha).
Earlier from October 12 to November 2, the interim government imposed a ban on the catching, selling, hoarding, and transporting of hilsa, one of the most delicious fishes of country’s people.
The authorities concerned imposed the ban in the Padma-Meghna sanctuary to ensure the safe spawning of the national fish of Bangladesh during its peak breeding period.
As of 2023, 97% of the world's total ilish supply originates in Bangladesh. The fish contributes about 12% of the total fish production and about 1.15% of GDP in Bangladesh
To «improve the efficiency, transparency and sustainability of the value chain», as well as to «protect fishery resources and promote responsible practices in the industry», a project promoted by Galicia is developing «smart labels that allow determining the expiration time and best consumption» of fish and seafood. How much do consumers care? According to the latest special Eurobarometer report on fishery and aquaculture products, they consider it to be a priority information, to the point that 69% of those surveyed place it in first place.
Source: La Voz de Galicia l Read the full article here
The Normandy Regional Committee for Fisheries and Marine Farming (CRPMEM) and Normandie Fraîcheur Mer (NFM) jointly announced on October 28 the suspension of MSC certification for the whelk fishery in Granville Bay. "This suspension is not a questioning of the sustainable management practices implemented by fishing companies operating in Granville Bay," Marc Delahaye, director of the CRPMEM of Normandy, which is leading the initiative, is keen to point out. "Rather, it highlights the need to recognize the impacts of climate change on marine resources."
A cold-water species, the whelk is taking the full brunt of the rise in summer temperatures: mortality, loss of feeding and reduced reproductive capacity. The resource is in sharp decline and the climate is "more than moribund" for the 63 whelk trappers from Granville Bay. Because inflation is not helping. " Consumers have turned away from whelk a little,"says Arnauld Manner, director of NFM. The drop in catches has led to a sharp increase in auction prices (+51% between 2010 and 2020, +90% between 2020 and 2023), even if the phenomenon has reversed this year (-45% between 2023 and 2024).
The Marine Stewardship Council certification was obtained in 2017 and renewed in 2023, rewarding the “ considerable ” management efforts of fishermen since 1983.
Tropo Farms – one of the leading producers of tilapia in Sub-Saharan Africa – has secured $10 million in funding to expand its operations in Ghana.
The funding, which comes from the specialist agriculture investor AgDevCo, will be used to finance the construction of a modern processing facility and other production equipment, with the goal of increasing the company’s production capacity to 30,000 tonnes within five years, contributing to improved nutrition and food security in Ghana.
Source: The Fish Site l Read the full article here
The Scottish government has published the statistics on Scottish fish aquaculture production for 2023, offering the latest available data on employment and production.
Among the main figures is the decline in Atlantic salmon production, which fell by 11%, reaching a total of 150,949 tonnes. These figures were a consequence of the environmental challenges that production faced last year. However, and as Salmon Scotland reported a few days ago, in the first half of 2024 production increased by 15 percent compared to the same period last year. In the first half of 2023, salmon production reached 75,000 tonnes, and for the same period in 2024 that same value reaches 86,600 tonnes.
Source: iPac.acuicultura l Read the full article here
Production of farmed salmon is projected to increase by 27% by 2030, seafood analyst Kontali said today.
And expanding land-based production is expected to be the largest contributor to increased growth by 2033, when growth is expected to reach 40% above current levels.
Kontali's long-term analysis indicates that the industry’s turnaround after several years of stagnant growth will depend on continued innovation to address regulatory constraints and health challenges. Europe is expected to lead this growth, with production increasing by approximately 25%, while the Americas will experience more modest gains at around 11%.
Source: fishfarmingexpert l Read the full article here
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