According to a recent survey by the Norwegian Seafood Council, 60% of consumers prefer not to buy seafood in plastic packaging. This is clear from an interesting study carried out by the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC), which surveyed 15,000 consumers from 15 different countries.

70% of those surveyed affirm that they prefer fish products packaged in recyclable materials, while a good 60% affirm that they avoid buying fish in plastic containers.

Specifically, in Thailand, 77% of consumers stated that they avoid buying fish products in plastic packaging, 76% in China, 70% in Germany, 58% in the United Kingdom, 35% in Sweden, 31% in Norway and 17% in Japan.

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Scallop aquaculture in Maine has been developing for the past 20 years – giving former and existing commercial fishermen new job prospects in the blue economy.

Maine’s fishermen are facing numerous threats from climate change and changing ecosystems, and aquaculture offers a solution. The state’s wild fisheries have become very focused on the lobster industry, but farming sea scallops gives an opportunity to diversify the seafood harvesting business and increase resiliency for coastal communities built around seafood production.

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has launched their report on the ‘OECD Review of Fisheries 2022’.

The Review of Fisheries is the OECD Committee for Fisheries’ flagship report. It aims to support policy makers and sector stakeholders in their efforts to deliver sustainable and resilient fisheries. Based on data reported by governments, the Review analyses major policy developments in OECD countries and emerging economies with large fisheries and suggests priorities for action at national and international levels.

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Japan and Russia have agreed to reduce the total allowable catch in each other’s fishing areas by 33 percent after the 39th meeting of the Japan-Russia Fisheries Committee.

Japan and Russia have a longstanding agreement to allow reciprocal fishing access to areas of each other’s exclusive economic zones (EEZs). The Japan-Russia Fisheries Committee was established based on the Soviet-Japanese Agreement on Offshore Fisheries, which came into effect in 1984.

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SEAFOOD was one of the key drivers behind a strong Christmas sales lift for the Hilton Food group.

In a 2022 trading update yesterday and without giving firm figures , the company said that sales were in line with the board’s expectations and were up on 2021. It also said it was carrying out a major review of this sector.

In a few short years Hilton has grown from a regional Huntingdon meat food producer to one of Britain’s most important food companies, expanding into fish and across the globe in Australia and New Zealand. It recently moved into Singapore.

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The Redes de América program, which brings together six countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, has as a three-year goal until 2024, to collect 4,500 tons of disused fishing nets.

A new milestone for sustainable fishing and a breakthrough for the Redes de América program was carried out at the premises of the Comberplast and Atando Cabos plant during this day, in which the agreement between the Latin American Alliance for Sustainable Fishing and Security was signed Alimentaria (Alpescas) and the Professional Certification company Certpro.

This alliance seeks to establish plans and procedures to implement and formalize waste management, establishing compliance parameters for the alliance's recycling program, in order to promote the circular economy with traceability

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The recent energy price crisis has brought with it great challenges for European aquaculture. The price of energy is a critical element for the aquaculture industry in general, although its impact, as recalled by FutureEUAqua, does not affect all aquaculture farmers equally. In fact, his analysis shows that those fish farmers who had high energy consumption and lower profitability before the impact were the most vulnerable to the potential effects of the current price crisis.

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The Frenchmen denounce that they find 20-kilometre nets deployed that prevent them from fishing

When the EU published the implementing act prohibiting bottom gear between 400 and 800 meters in 87 areas, those affected advanced the economic damages that this decision would cause them. But they also advanced that there would be problems at sea. You fight for physical space. Because when flyers and pincheiros were expelled from their areas, they would have to move to others where there was already activity.

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Around 80% of marine debris is plastic, collects the European Union Agency for the Space Program (EUSPA, for its acronym in English). To address the global plastic pollution crisis, the European Commission has launched the EIC Horizon and Cassini Award for Digital Space Applications with the aim of developing space-based solutions to track and remove marine plastic pollution.

In this way, EUSPA and Mercator Ocean are jointly organizing a webinar, next Wednesday, January 18 at 3:30 p.m., in which the bases of the award will be explained, which is aimed at marine or digital applications that solve problems or satisfy needs related to the detection and monitoring of plastic pollution in rivers, lakes, coasts and coastal areas with the aim of preventing it.

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Shrimp farming can be a driver for mangrove protection and restoration, and in turn, help combat climate change and protect coastal communities and wildlife, finds new research undertaken by the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP).

According to the marine conservation organisation, its study provides a roadmap for the shrimp farming industry to restore mangrove habitat and return the full range of ecosystem services they provide.

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