April 2018 Issue 303

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2 ¦ IFFO UPDATE ¦ APRIL 2018

IFFO NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

3 Editorial

New videos and content on the IFFO website

4 IFFO/JCI forum on fishmeal and fish oil

5 International Aquafeed Magazine—March column

6 Libby Woodhatch announced as New Chair of IFFO RS Governing Body

Insights from China food industry sharing session

8 Report on SCI Event on Antioxidants in Food

9 New IFFO applicant members

20 Calendar

10 Ecuador execs launch ‘Sustainable Shrimp Partnership’

11 Fishmeal solubles - Do they influence nursery pig performance?

Value of Irish seafood sector exceeds EUR 1 billion for the first time

12 Ray Hilborn: New study provides no new information on global fishing footprint

13 Sintef Ocean spearheads project to find new methods for gaining an improved overview pelagic catches

Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles may shape future ocean investment

15 How sustainable is the krill meal supply chain?

16 Future availability of raw materials for salmon feeds and supply chain implications

Alternatives & Innovation

18 News in Brief

CONTENTS

One of the reasons IFFO is a successful

organisation is our tradition of sharing

information – everyone benefits by

contributing the single pixel view from

their window and allowing IFFO to

stitch them together to show the

wider picture (although still fuzzy in

places). Most of the time, this works

well and I was hugely impressed by a

Chinese feed company member

whose policy was to make research

and development information public,

knowing that if they gave away their

older secrets, they were forced to

discover some new ones.

Occasionally, some companies want to get a free ride and see the big

picture without contributing their part. Obviously if everyone did that

there would be no big picture, which is why every Producer and

Premium Non Producer member that joins IFFO agrees to the Rights

and Duties of members, including a responsibility to provide information

on their business. In the run up to our Members Meeting in Miami, we

are again seeing large companies struck with an outbreak of stage-fright

and declining to share information. This puts us in a difficult position –

bar them from the Market Forum or risk others who do contribute

seeing some people staying silent and deciding to do the same

themselves. No-one is expecting intellectual property to be put at risk, or

stock markets to be upset but if you are a Producer or Premium Non

Producer, and choose not to “share information and participate actively

in the Market Forums” (from IFFO Members Rights and Duties), IFFO

supports those members who do take the time to participate and there

may be fewer free rides available in future.

On a more cheerful note, registrations for Miami are already setting a

new record, with every indication that this will be our largest ever

Members Meeting. With the resignation of their President, Peruvian

politics will certainly be a talking point and there are a lot of expectations

for the next season after some of the high juvenile counts (now

hopefully fully grown) seen a few months ago. My last IFFO event

promises to be a good one!

Andrew Mallison

Director General

EDITORIAL

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New videos and content on the IFFO website

Following the redesign of IFFO’s

website, the team has been busy

updating and adding new content.

Our new Knowledge Centre is

growing each month, taking readers

step by step through our supply

chain and providing all the essential

information on our industry. New

content has been added to the Raw

Materials section, most notably

exploring the growth of by-products.

Secondly, we have new video

interviews available, covering recent

projects and events with the IFFO

team. Our new President Eduardo

Goycoolea visited the IFFO London

office in March to meet the staff and catch up on IFFO’s on-

going work. We recorded a short video with Eduardo

discussing his vision for the next two years as IFFO’s President,

watch the video here.

Other videos include an introduction to IFFO RS and interview

with Duncan Leadbitter on our South East Asia fishmeal

project. Please contact us if you have any comments or

recommendations about this new content as we are always

looking at ways to improve our online materials.

IFFO NEWS

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The 5th IFFO/JCI Fishmeal and Fish Oil Forum took place in

Guangzhou City (China) on 23th March 2018, with over 500

delegates, the highest-level attendance since the year 2014.

The event scheduled presentations from Dr. Enrico Bachis

(Market Research Director, IFFO), Dr. Miguel Ñiquen Carranza

(Pelagic Resources Department Director, Instituto del Mar del

Perú, IMARPE), Shuiquan Zhuang (General Manager, King Max

Trade of Grobest) and Liangxiao Guo (General Manager,

Rongcheng Gedi Marine Biological Technology Co., Ltd.). All

presentations are already available in the Members’ Area of the

IFFO website. ( http://www.iffo.net/members-area/iffojci-2018-

conference-guangzhou)

The joint IFFO/JCI conference represented a good opportunity

for IFFO to raise its profile in what is the most important world

market for fishmeal: China. Around 1.9 million metric tonnes of

fishmeal are in fact estimated to have been consumed in 2017,

and a similar amount is expected also in the year 2018. This

represents roughly 35% of the world annual production.

During his presentation Dr. Enrico Bachis reiterated the

message that in spite of the negative press coverage marine

ingredients represent a sustainable product with the vast

majority of the stocks used for reduction responsibly managed

by local authorities. Allegations of overfished stocks and of an

inevitable declining supply of fishmeal and fish oil should thus

been rejected.

The IMARPE’s presentation helped delegates understand the

environmental and biological factors that affect size and state

of the anchovy biomass in Peru, allowing Dr. Ñiquen Carranza

to provide a promising outlook for the year 2018.

In his interesting contribution Mr. Zhuang introduced several

interesting points: i) changes in the Chinese seafood

consumption over time, both in term of variety and quality; ii)

historical expansion of the aquaculture activities from the coast

to the inner provinces; iii) higher demand of (high quality)

fishmeal by the new farmed species; iv) the differentiation of

the fishmeal and fish oil procurement markets has led to trade

with over 20 countries on an annual basis; v) increased

awareness towards a responsible management of the fish

stocks, both internationally and locally.

Finally, Mr. Guo explained that little fishmeal production has

been reported in China in the first months of 2018, due to the

stricter environmental protection measures and the shortage of

raw material. As the Chinese government plans to carry out

such strict policies until 2020, China fishmeal production is not

expected to recover and remain at the low levels reported in

the year 2017 (i.e., 360,000 metric tonnes).

Hanver Li, Chairman of JCI, closed the event with a summary of

the main messages and some interesting insights on the

market. First of all, the stricter environmental protection

measures imply that China aquaculture is to remove inland

polluting activities to more sustainable farming along the coast.

It is the upgrading of an industrial structure which does not

meet the overall needs of the country anymore. That should be

good news for marine ingredients as typical marine species

farmed in China consume more fishmeal and fish oil (e.g.,

shrimp, grouper, sea bass, big yellow croaker). Secondly, in the

quest for new sources of feed ingredients total production of

the Chinese-run fishmeal plants in Africa is estimated to have

reached around 50,000-70,000 tons per year already and

projected to exceed 80,000-100,000 tons in the near future.

Finally, China fishmeal consumption growth is more likely to

come the growth of the aqua feed supply, as the pig farming

seems to have entered a long downwards cycle.

Taking advantage of the trip to China Dr. Enrico Bachis had a

series of meeting with local institutions and companies. On

20th March 2018 along with Meng Wang, IFFO China market

analyst, he visited the Chinese Academy of Fisheries Sciences,

for a meeting with Dr. Ma Zhuojun, Director of the Division of

International Cooperation, and his assistant Dr. Yu Qian, head

IFFO/JCI forum on fishmeal and fish oil

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IFFO NEWS

of the research projects. The purpose of the meeting was to

investigate the possibility of a joint project on China’s fishmeal

production and consumption. More precisely, in line with the

green policies recently introduced and implemented by the

Chinese government they would like to evaluate how China

affects the world’s marine resources.

Dr. Enrico Bachis, Meng Wang and Maggie Xu, China Director,

then visited the Hailong feed plant, part of the Haid Group, and

the feed plant of YUEHAI Group, both near Zhuhai on 21st

March. It was a good opportunity to better understand the

Chinese feed production industry, with special cover on

fishmeal and fish oil inclusion rates in different diets. We learnt

that in their premium feed they range between 20% and 30%

for fishmeal, and around 5% for fish oil. Also very insightful

were visits to sea bass and shrimp farms in the area, as we got

confirmation from the farmers that high content of fishmeal

and fish oil are the preferred option as they produce better

conversion rates.

International Aquafeed Magazine—March column

IFFO’s Neil Auchterlonie

We were very pleased to welcome to the IFFO office in London this week the new IFFO President, Eduardo Goycoolea from Chile. Eduardo is the President of IFFO over the 2018-2019 period, and it was a great opportunity to review our work and think strategically about the future for IFFO and the global fishmeal and fish oil industry for that period and beyond. Eduardo has been in the industry for many years and has previously held the position of President, jointly with Helge Korsager, when IFFO was created from the predecessor organisations FEO and IFOMA in 2001, so he brings a wealth of understanding and knowledge to the strategic planning that is so important for a trade body.

One interesting discussion looked at the current market size for fishmeal across the farmed fish species. There is an assumption that the farming of salmonids takes the biggest proportion of fishmeal allocated to aquaculture, but actually it is interesting to look at the data. An analysis of figures for 2016, the last year for which IFFO has complete data at this point, shows that the allocation to shrimp feed was 941,000 tonnes, and that to salmonids was 730,000 tonnes. Another way to put it is to say that the amount going to salmonid feed is a little over three quarters that allocated to shrimp. The next closest species group in 2016 was the freshwater species, taking a total of 446,000 tonnes of fishmeal, a surprising quantity for a species that has comparatively low inclusion rates in feed but with a volume of production that clearly carries a significant impact on global fishmeal supply. Other groups such as the carps, eels, marine species and tilapias varied between 116,000 tonnes and 278,000 tonnes total usage in 2016.

A figure of just under 1 million tonnes of fishmeal represents approximately one fifth of annual fishmeal production, emphasising the importance of fishmeal to global shrimp nutrition, production and worldwide supply of this high value seafood product. Although there is perhaps a tendency to focus on finfish production systems, and salmonids especially,

as the success story of global aquaculture, it is a reminder of the great importance of global shrimp production and the feed required for that supply chain. Clearly the important nutritional contributions that are supplied to the finfish species via fishmeal are equally important to farmed crustaceans. With a continuing and increasing investment in science by IFFO over the coming years we look forward to gathering even more data on the reasons why fishmeal is such an effective nutrient for all farmed animals, and this will include shrimp.

After a few days of taking a high-level of view of the industry, it is back to the day job and the preparations for the forthcoming IFFO Members’ Meeting in Miami, 9th-11th April. The annual Members’ Meeting is a highlight of our annual calendar, being a great opportunity to discuss current issues in the fishmeal and fish oil industry, and to hear directly from the producers their own thoughts for the future. In the technical session we are hosting a panel discussion on the importance of fishmeal and fish oil to farmed aquatic species nutrition, and I look forward to writing more on this next month.

IFFO NEWS

6 ¦ IFFO UPDATE ¦ APRIL 2018

Libby Woodhatch announced as New Chair of IFFO RS Governing Body

The Governing Body of

IFFO RS, the global

standard for the

responsible supply of

Marine Ingredients, is

delighted to announce

that Libby Woodhatch

has been appointed to

be the next Executive

Chair for the standard. Libby will take-over from Andrew

Jackson who has held the role since the standard was launched

in 2009 and is now retiring.

Libby is currently the Head of Advocacy for the UK industry

authority Seafish, where she has played a major role in the

development of their Responsible Fishing Scheme (RFS)

standard for vessels and prior to this she was Chief Executive

for the trade body Seafood Scotland.

Andrew said of the appointment “I am delighted that Libby has

agreed to take on this role for IFFO RS. Following on from last

year’s Strategic Review, we have arrived at an exciting and

interesting time for IFFO RS. Libby has just the right qualities to

lead the standard to even greater success over the coming

years and provide an accessible, but credible, standard for

marine ingredient producers to aspire to and achieve, in all

regions of the world.”

In reply Libby said “I am thrilled to be offered this role, Andy is

leaving behind a great legacy and I look forward to working

with the Governing Body and team at IFFO RS to establish the

standard further”.

IFFO China’s Daisy Shu and Qiwen Zhang attended the Sharing

Session of Public Relations Professional Managers in China’s

Food Industry, held in Beijing on 29th March. The half-day

session was hosted by China Nutrition and Health Food

Association (CNHFA), covering presentations by a professor

from National Academy of Governance, a senior lecturer of

public relations, representatives of new media, public relation

managers from famous food companies including those from

Danone, Amway, Royal FrieslandCampina, and other domestic

companies.

The session was held under the new situation of China,

creating an opportunity for professional managers in food

industry to discuss on the possible changes brought by the

government’s reshuffling and share their experience regarding

how to manage public relations. On top of that, new media

introduce their innovations which could help food companies

to better popularize themselves and handle public affairs.

Nearly 120 delegates participated in the session.

The session gave insights into some suppositions and

interpretations of the possible changes regarding food and

drug administration system in China and the introduction of

innovative new media. Summaries by both Daisy and Qiwen on

the two sessions are below:

Presentation on possible changes and trends of China food

administration (Daisy# Shu)

Professor Yinglian Hu from National Academy of Governance

Food and drug administration system reform: remove State

Administration for Industry & Commerce-SAIC, China Food

and Drug Administration-CFDA and Administration of

Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine-AQSIQ, and

establish State Market Regulatory Administration-SMRA

Advantages of the reform: 1) incorporate the all functions

of the current three authorities to better perform their

roles in market supervision, social governance, public

service, and macroeconomic regulation; 2) coordinate and

integrate all means of supervision and regulation including

standards, certification, trademark, inspection,

informalization, etc. 3) SMAR will cover all main bodies of

consumer goods market and will achieve an economic scale

effect

Insights from China food industry sharing session

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Challenges for reform: 1) how to set up organization

structure within SMRA-currently there are more than 60

departments within CFDA, it is supposed that there will be

only 20 remained finally; 2) The position of health food

management (it is certain that the management of health

food will still belong to food administration) and the

relations among food management , drug management and

Chinese medicine management; 3) the authority-

responsibility relationship among head bureau and its

subordinates. 4) the profession and expertise of personnel

in municipality-level and county-level bureaus

Great potential of food industry in China: in 2017, the Gross

industrial product is about 90 trillion RMB, among which

food industry accounting for +12 trillion RMB and health

food accounting for about 40 million RMB.

Mr. Xuecong Liu, Secretary General of China Nutrition and

Health Food Association (CNHFA)

Predictions regarding food administration system reform

Even though the food and drug administration structure

will change, the overall function and responsibilities almost

remain the same;

Based on the government reform, the current Food Safety

Law and its ordinance will probably be amended;

More strict inspection will be on food labels, especially for

special foods;

Registration of special food will be more difficult, especially

for health food. (in 2017, no application of health food

registration was approved; only several cases were

approved at the beginning of 2018);

As a weapon of authorities, random inspection will be more

frequent. Food companies have to study carefully on the

authorities’ annual inspection plans and how to deal with

unconformities;

Local law enforcement will be strengthened, and food

companies should equip more personnel who can handle

crisis.

Presentation on public relations management (Qiwen Zhang)

Mr. Wu Haotian, a senior lecturer in public relations delivered

a speech about the China’s government officials-Business

relationship management. He provided a general idea about

this concept, and how should we deal with it. Actually, in

China, four groups could be categorized into the government/

politics sectors, which are party and government organiza-

tions, administrative institutions, social organizations, and

state-owned enterprises. In order to build a healthy and

normal relationship between officials and business people, our

government is proposing the concept of “Close” and

“Cleaning” Government-Business relationship. “Close” means

the authorities at all levels should pay more attention to the

non-public economy representatives, talk more, guide more,

help to solve the practical difficulties, and support the

development of private economy with sincerity. “Cleaning”

means the relationship with the private entrepreneurs should

be clean and pure. The authorities should strictly abide by the

Party's discipline and national law, no under-table deal is

allowed between power and money.

According to the research, in mainland China, if ranked by

province, the top 3 places which has the best government

officials-business relationship is Shanghai, Beijing and Zhejiang.

The relationship health index of eastern China is the best, and

the southwest and northwest regions are relatively backward.

The higher the administrative level and economic develop-

ment of the city, the higher the score of political and

commercial relations would be. So it seems like our Beijing

office is in the good zone. How to deal with the government

officials require lots of techniques. We should identify what

they need and recognize what we can provide, treat them

modestly, fairly and like a real friend, but no corruption

involved.

Ms. Huang Haiyun, the Chief operation officer from FOODINC,

a successful public account on Wechat, gives an introduction

of the new media. According to the statistics, the public

account of WeChat in 2017 has produced nearly 420,000

articles with 10W+ clicks. Different from the traditional media,

new media has lots of advantages in terms of timeliness,

influence range, freedom, content sources and etc. But at the

same time, as the news spread quickly, it is even harder to

cope with the crisis. Therefore, information digitization

promotes the relationship between brand and target

population, but also brings challenges to crisis management.

Mr. Ma Changbo, the founder and CEO from Shizhi TV,

provided a speech about the short video PR and marketing,

which is kind of a promotion on their business, but still very

inspiring. Short video has increasingly become a popular way

of expression in the Chinese social media, news and

information market, as it is more intuitive and expressive way

to convey information. Shizhi TV is a short video new medium

which focus on knowledge interpretation. This is kind of visual

translation knowledge. They make a short video by translating

professional and obscure knowledge into vivid forms such as

pictures, comics or videos. Although it still has the brand name

or advertise in the end, it still helps to increase the knowledge

in some ways, then make the marketing more acceptable.

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Neil Auchterlonie attended a workshop on “Food Antioxidants

and Functional Ingredients: Shelf Life Extension, Nutrition and

Health”, organised by the SCI Lipids Group & Food Group, on

the 7th and 8th March 2018. The SCI describes itself as a

“unique multi-science and multi-disciplinary forum where

science meets business”, and that was an accurate description

for the event. Although there was a strong academic flavour

to the presentations, the audience represented many of the

users of antioxidants across a broad range of industries in food

and drink.

Attendance at the event was part of a strategy to understand

the new developments in the food industry and see where

there may be some crossover to animal feeds (and potentially

fishmeal), with new products that could provide options into

the sector for stabilisation. Although IFFO has obviously been

trying to maintain an awareness and understanding of the

additives market, new product development for antioxidants

in the animal feed sector is difficult to gather information on,

and there has been little to report in the way of new synthetic

active ingredients up until now. The lack of information could

be a reflection of commercially sensitive work being

undertaken “behind the scenes”, or a lack of effort in the NPD

area, but without the detail it is difficult to gauge. The hope

was that at the workshop there could be a discussion of new

compounds in the food sector that may have application to

the animal feed market, and some of those compounds could

become candidate molecules for fishmeal.

With a day and a half of presentations there was an enormous

amount of information provided, and there was certainly

much discussion about new antioxidants in food, and the

potential health benefits of these compounds as functional

ingredients. On the latter subject it was interesting to see how

many parallels there are between the antioxidants industry

and the omega-3 industry in relation to the difficulty in

designing and running human nutritional trials that can

demonstrate unequivocal cause and effect relationships.

The keynote speech (provided by Fatima Paiva-Martins, of the

University of Porto, Portugal) talked of a food antioxidant

industry that is growing at 5.10% CAGR, and will be worth a

Report on SCI Event on Antioxidants in Food

IFFO NEWS

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IFFO NEWS

total of USD $1.48bn by 2022. This was an interesting

presentation that focused on efficacy of antioxidants that can

be affected by: the presence (or not) of pro-oxidants and how

they can affect stability, the presence of metals such as Fe and

Cu in the material, the distribution of the antioxidant in the

food matrix. These are all, also, important factors for

antioxidant performance in fishmeal, and the read-across is

clear. This first presentation was the first mention of

polyphenols as antioxidants in the workshop, and this was to

become a common reference through its duration.

Polyphenols are plant-derived compounds carrying multiple

phenolic structural units. They are commonly found in all

species of plants, and especially in fruits (e.g. blackberries) and

tea (tannins), and as reported throughout the workshop are

strongly linked to health benefits in consumers.

The following presentation, provided by Charlotte Jacobsen of

DTU, Denmark, provided a very informative presentation on

antioxidant systems and their application for omega-3 rich

foods and supplements. As with all the presentations, this

presentation was technically complex, but one thing that was

interesting was reference to other sources of antioxidants that

include, amongst others, species of seaweed. It appears that

there are opportunities to look at some of the compounds

being produced in seaweeds as potential novel antioxidants,

and Prof. Jacobsen and her team have been looking at this.

This subject is something that I shall be following up on. With

the growth of seaweed farming been driven by new

technology in aquaculture, there could well be some

interesting developments and opportunities in this area.

Other presentations looked specifically at the role of

antioxidants in specialist foods such as nuts, herbs and spices,

for example, as well as their potential advantages as functional

foods and direct health benefits in their own right. Although

the talk was firmly focused on food, all of this was important in

the context of animal feed, even if synthetic antioxidants were

rarely mentioned and the emphasis was very clearly on

“natural” products. A couple of presentations on communica-

tion with retailers and the media, and consumer perceptions,

had very strong analogies with the use of antioxidants in

fishmeal and animal feed.

Another talk of interest was given by Ron Savin of the

company Anton Paar, who described an accelerated test that

his company uses to determine oxidation stability in food.

This works on a 5ml/4g sample size, and is frequently used in

materials such as biscuits, providing results with a period of 1-

2 hours. This is another lead that I shall be following up on, as

there is again some possible application to fishmeal stability

testing, even though the company has no experience of that.

All in all, a very thought-provoking event that has provided

some leads for possible future work, projects, information,

data and even collaborations. I shall be following up on these

over time, but the lasting impression I had of the event was

how much the discussion was focused on “natural”

antioxidants as a consequence of the way the market has

moved in food. To an extent, of course, we have seen

something similar in animal feeds, and fishmeal in particular,

but efficacy differences make such substitution perhaps more

complicated than retailers and consumers realise.

Country Company Category

China Dalian Dragon Gate International Trade Co. Ltd. Premium

New IFFO applicant members

(awaiting Board approval in April)

INDUSTRY NEWS

Ecuador execs launch ‘Sustainable Shrimp Partnership’

The CEOs of several Ecuadorian shrimp firms have launched

the "Sustainable Shrimp Partnership". A statement announcing

the official launch claimed this was a "significant turning point

for the shrimp aquaculture sector", with the project seeking

"to transform the future of the industry and turn it in a new

direction – a race to the top".

The SSP companies are Industrial Pesquera Santa

Priscila; Omarsa; Corporacion Lanec; Naturisa; Camaronera Rio

Nilo; Salmos; Lebama; Agromarina; and Produmar. They are

committed to achieving, and promoting, the highest quality

products, produced to the highest social and environmental

standards, through greater collaboration and transparency,

the release said.

In order to achieve this, members must achieve Aquaculture

Stewardship Council (ASC) certification; use zero antibiotics;

be fully traceable; and have minimal environmental impact –

measured through an assessment of water quality. “Up until

this point the shrimp sector has been a commodity market,

and quality has often taken a back seat to prices,” said Jose

Antonio Camposano, executive president of Ecuador's national

chamber of aquaculture.

“But there are consumers who want more choice. Consumers

who care about what they eat, and how it has been produced,

and it is time they were offered a choice of farmed shrimp that

meets the highest standards and is fully traceable to its

origins."

Using the ASC standard as a benchmark for its sustainability

performance, SSP members have added three additional

indicators which will support greater market differentiation,

ultimately offering consumers the ability to make more

informed choices on the products they purchase.

“This level of industry commitment in removing antibiotics

from food production is a highly significant step in preserving

the utility of drugs we have and reducing the likely spread of

resistance. This is the direction we need to see all food sectors

taking," said Michael Gilmore PhD, director at Harvard's

Infectious Disease Institute and principle investigator of the

Harvard-wide Program on Antibiotic Resistance.

In addition to improving industry standards, the SSP is also

looking to drive industry-wide improvements through the

following activities:

Establishing a sustainability leadership roundtable: with

the intention of influencing the future of shrimp

aquaculture, the SSP will be working in collaboration with

other companies, stakeholders, and NGOs to support and

implement industry-wide improvements.

Leading an "industry scale up program": committed to

supporting more farms achieve SSP, the SSP with the

support of its advisory board – the World Wildlife Fund for

Nature, IDH the Sustainable Trade Initiative, and ASC – will

be working with small and mid-sized farms to help

improve their practices to SSP levels.

Driving consumer awareness: with the aim of creating product

differentiation, SSP will be looking to increase consumer

awareness of, and reward, the preferential environmental and

social practices of SSP members

The SSP is launched by seven founding members from

Ecuador, but any company or region who shares its ambition

and can meet the product criteria to join, it said.

Source: Undercurrent News

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Fishmeal solubles - Do they influence nursery pig performance?

To encourage feed intake for newly weaned pigs, highly

palatable and nutrient-dense protein sources, such as fishmeal

have historically been added to nursery diets. Fishmeal is

typically considered a very good protein source due to its

balance of amino acids, vitamins and minerals, and presence of

omega 3 fatty acids. However, the quality of fishmeal used can

vary considerably based on the species of fish, the freshness of

the raw material and the processing of fishmeal among others.

Because of these factors, growth responses to fishmeal have

varied.

While the most likely explanation for these inconsistencies are a

combination of the factors previously mentioned, it is unclear

what role if any fish solubles may play. Fish solubles (sometimes

known as stickwater concentrate) are a by-product derived

from the intermediate fraction (liquid phase) during the

manufacturing process of fishmeal. Fishmeal commonly

produced and sold today on average contains 8% to 15% fish

solubles included in the final product. It is unclear if the amount

of fish solubles contained within fishmeal will influence growth

performance of pigs. Therefore, the objective of our study was

to evaluate the growth performance of nursery pigs fed

fishmeal with increasing amounts of fish solubles.

For this study, 700 barrows initially 21 days of age and 14.3

pounds body weight were used in a 21-day growth trial to one

of five dietary treatments. Dietary treatments included a corn

soybean meal-based control diet and four diets containing 6%

LT Prime Menhaden Fishmeal (Daybrook Fisheries Inc., New

Orleans, La.). One batch of fishmeal contained 0.87% fish

solubles and the second batch contained 24.35% solubles. The

two batches were then blended to provide dietary treatments

with 0.87%, 8.70%, 16.52% and 24.35% fish solubles. Dietary

treatments contained 10% spray-dried whey and formulated to

contain 1.35% standardized ileal digestible Lysine and balanced

on a net energy basis.

In conclusion, this was the first study that we are aware of to

determine the influence of increasing fish solubles contained

within fishmeal on growth performance of nursery pigs. Based

on our findings, both the high and low solubles fishmeal we

tested were of high quality as indicated by the total volatile N

analyses and modified Torry digestibility values. However,

increasing fish solubles included in whole fishmeal had no

significant influence on growth performance. Thus, our results

would suggest that the inconsistencies observed within the

literature pertaining to growth responses when feeding

fishmeal to nursery pigs is not a reflection of the amount of fish

solubles in whole fishmeal.

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Value of Irish seafood sector exceeds EUR 1 billion for the first time

Ireland’s seafood sector recorded its third consecutive year of

growth in 2017, rising in value by 6.4 percent year-on-year to

EUR 1.15 billion (USD 1.4 billion), thanks to a booming export

trade, confirmed a new report compiled by the Irish Sea

Fisheries Board Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM).

According to “The Business of Seafood 2017,” a 12% spike in

net exports to EUR 331 million (USD 410.1 million), a four

percent increase in domestic consumption at EUR 429 million

(USD 531.6 million) and EUR 386 million (USD 478.3 million) of

private and public investment led to the value of trade

surpassing the EUR 1 billion (USD 1.2 billion) milestone for the

first time.

“Ireland’s Seafood Industry is thriving," BIM CEO Jim O'Toole

said. "Over the last two years, the contribution of the sector to

Ireland’s GDP has grown by over 14%." In terms of trade, the

European Union remained Ireland’s main export market,

valued at EUR 392 million (USD 485.7 million), an increase of

nine percent year-on-year. France was its top market within

the bloc, accounting for over a quarter of the E.U.'s total Irish

seafood exports. Source: Seafood Source

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Ray Hilborn: New study provides no new information on global fishing footprint

University of Washington fisheries researcher Ray Hilborn said

that a new study using satellite data from industrial fishing

vessels to map global fishing effort fails to provide any new

insight, despite media reports indicating otherwise.

The study, published in Science in February, used messages

transmitted between 2012 and 2016 from the automatic

identification systems (AIS) of more than 70,000 industrial

fishing vessels to create a global footprint, concluding that

“industrial fishing occurs in over 55% of ocean area,” according

to the abstract.

But Hilborn said the vessels monitored for the study were in

large part tuna boats over 100 feet, which have been

monitored for decades. “Most of the footprint data they have is

from high-seas tuna fishing, because that’s really the only thing

that goes on the high seas. Maps of the tuna long-lining and

seining distribution have been distributed as part of the

standard operating procedure by the tuna RFMOs [regional

fisheries management organizations] for decades. I remember

looking at them 30 or 40 years ago. There’s nothing new about

this – that tuna fishing goes on across much of tropical oceans

and some of the temperate oceans,” said Hilborn.

Not only is this not new information, Hilborn said, but it does

little to measure the impact of trawling on certain ecosystems,

which Hilborn said can be much more severe than high-seas

fishing.

“A place that has had one long-line for albacore or big-eye tuna

in five years is obviously not very heavily fished, he said. “But if

you go to Southeast Asia, we can calculate how often the

average piece of bottom is trawled a year. In the U.S.,

depending on where, it’s about once every three years. In

Southeast Asia or India, they are trawled 10 to 20 times a year.

That means the impact of fishing there is probably 1,000 times

higher than it is on the high seas where someone once visited

with a long-line boat.”

Furthermore, the trawling data provided in the new study,

Hilborn said, overestimates the proportion of the sea-bed that

is affected by 10 times. Hilborn and his team have just

completed a five-year study that attempts to provide a finer-

grained look at the impact of trawling by aggregating data from

vessel-monitoring systems, logbooks, and on-board

observations.

“What I want to do is work with those guys to merge our

information, because we have detailed data on the intensity of

trawling through pretty well all the world. We know how much

trawling effort takes place in, say, India. We can’t map it, but

we know how many boats there are, how many days a year

they fish, etcetera,” he said. “So what I want to do is work with

those guys to combine the data we have with the AIS data and

say ‘here’s the impact of fishing in different parts of the

ocean.’”

Hilborn said the study’s true substance has been lost in what he

sees as a redundant, if not misleading, narrative about the

global footprint of fishing. He said the study has valuable

information on how fishing patterns change throughout the

year, and is helpful in combating illegal, unreported, and

unregulated fishing and other rogue activities on the high seas.

“It’s a very valuable data set. There’s a lot [to] use,” he said.

“The one thing that I would say, and the real positive of this, is

to make the fishing industry realize that fishing is public. People

know where you are now. I’ve heard some pushback from

industry people saying they’ve had VMS for years but it’s secret

and not supposed to be shared. Well, those days are over, folks.

Everybody is going to know where you are, all the time.”

Source: Seafood Source

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Sintef Ocean spearheads project to find new methods for gaining an improved overview pelagic catches

Sintef Ocean, one of Norway's largest research institutions, is

spearheading a project together with the Norwegian Seafood

Research Fund (NSRF), the Norwegian Institute of Marine

Research (NIMR) and the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries

(NDF) and fishermen to help vessels find new methods for

gaining an improved overview pelagic catches, both before

and after landing in the net.

“It’s a major project,” said Hanne Digre, research director at

Sintef Ocean and head of the project. The first phase of the

project, which runs through 2021, is collecting input from

fishermen on what is truly needed in the field of monitoring.

“We distributed a questionnaire among fishermen. One of the

areas they wanted a greater focus on, was catch monitoring

before and during the catch,” said Digre.

Better instruments for identification of quantity, size and

species featured among fishermen’s requests. “There was also

a request for increased knowledge about fish behaviour

during the actual catch, through enhanced visualization of

electronic data from sensors and sonar as a means to make

more qualified decisions."

Monitoring underway

The data collected for the research will come from, among

other sources, acoustic methods. “We are talking about

monitoring schools of fish and equipment both before and

after the net is set out, which would provide data such as

biomass, fish density and fish size,” Digre said.

Subsea stereo camera technology is also being developed and

tested. “Some of the equipment is available already, some is

in the process of being developed further. We hope and

believe we can contribute in developing technology that

assists in skippers arriving at better qualified decisions with

regard to catching the correct species, size and best quality

fish,” Digre said.

“Our aim here is that this can provide better control for the

skipper during the harvesting process, and thus increase the

value of the catch and profitability for the vessel and company

owners. If they're catching the right species and size that is

going to result in a far better utilization of resources."

New aids

Seven fisheries companies are part of a management group,

which will contribute with sharing information and experience

to researchers. Olav Dale of Dales Rederi, which owns the

purse seine Rottingoy, heads the group. “I’m hoping this will

result in us receiving some assistive instruments and devices

that make it easier to estimate net quantity, preferably before

we cast the net, so that we know how much fish we are

aiming to catch,” he said.

Catch control in net fishing of pelagic species

According to the project description, the technology required

to start collecting this type of information already exists. What

is lacking is the opportunity to compare, analyse and visualize

this information in an integrated and meaningful way in

connection with catch monitoring of purse seine nets. “The

biggest advantage is that you can harvest appropriate catches

in terms of species, size and other factors,” said Dale.

Dale is looking forward to seeing results of the research

project. “We must achieve, and make progress," he said. "But

in the fishing business there are no hard and fast answers,

there are always many variables. There will always be a new

challenge. We’ll never have all the answers."

Source: Intrafish

Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles may shape future ocean investment

With the goal of preserving and increasing the value generated

by the world’s oceans, corporate, environmental, non-profit

and other participants in the Economist World Ocean Summit,

held in Mexico from 7 to 9 March, created a new set of

voluntary guidelines for institutional investors to create a path

toward greater aquatic sustainability.

The annual economic value generated by the world’s oceans is

estimated to be at least USD 2.5 trillion (EUR 2 trillion), making

it the equivalent of the seventh-largest economy on the planet.

The summit reviewed the numerous stresses being placed on

the world’s oceans, including declining biodiversity, degrading

habitat, increasing water acidity, accumulating plastic and other

wastes, and rising temperatures and participants came to a

consensus that concerted action is required to protect and

restore ocean health to avoid stunting the fast-growing global

blue economy. The summit closed with the unveiling of 14

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Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles intended to guide

the path to sustainable ocean development.

“Reconciling economic development aspirations with ocean

ecosystems that are already showing great stress is one of the

great challenges facing humanity,” WWF International

President Pavan Sukhdev said. “The role of the finance and

investment community to find a pathway to genuine

sustainability is vital, which is why the new principles were

created. We welcome additional signatories to this critical

initiative as well as strong partnerships to ensure their success.”

The blue economy principles emerged out of a partnership

between the European Commission, WWF, the Prince of

Wales’s International Sustainability Unit, and the European

Investment Bank (EIB), which in 2017 set out to look at how the

finance and investment community could play a strong role in

driving change. They found that for financiers investing in this

complex and risky environment, there was little guidance

available on how to act.

The new coalition’s first formal act, initiated in May 2017, was

to commission a study by Accenture Development Partnerships

on existing green and blue economy finance initiatives. This was

followed by EIB-led consultations with a broad range of private

and public financial institutions, insurance companies, NGOs,

and other interested parties, that resulted in the idea to

develop a set of principles that reflected the needs of as many

stakeholders as possible.

The newly released principles, which include seven focused on

sustainable investment and seven principles specific to the blue

economy, are designed to foster cooperation and communica-

tion on ocean health, scientific research, data collection, and

technical innovation, according to the coalition.

The principles complement existing frameworks in sustainable

finance, and recognize the importance of compliance,

transparency, and disclosure, the coalition said. They were

designed to support the United Nations’ Sustainable

Development Goals, a set of international development

objectives adopted in 2015 aimed at poverty elimination,

environmental stability, and global peace and prosperity. One

of those goals calls for conservation and sustainable use of the

world’s oceans, seas and marine resources. In addition, the

principles are compliant with International Finance Corporation

Performance Standards and EIB’s Environmental and Social

Principles and Standards.

“Harnessing global investment and ensuring investor

confidence through transparency and disclosure are key to

increasing support for the blue economy and strengthening

sustainable development in coastal communities,” EIB Vice

President Jonathan Taylor said. “The European Investment Bank

is pleased to support the Blue Finance Principles, which will

help to optimize the use of scarce public resources and crowd

in private sector investment. New investment in the blue

economy is essential to diversify economic activity in

communities most at risk from a changing climate and to

enhance resilience to extreme weather events.”

The partnership now hopes that the Sustainable Blue Economy

Finance Principles will become more widely adopted, and aims

to build an international coalition of financial institutions that

endorse them. The result would be a transformation in the way

in which humanity manages ocean resources, and become a

testament to how profitability can go hand-in-hand with

environmental and social stewardship, Taylor said.

Several big names have already signed up, including Althelia

Ecosphere, Aviva Investors, the EIB, The Nature Conservancy,

Rockefeller Ocean Strategy, Sky, the U.N. Principles for

Sustainable Insurance, and the World Bank.

The principles have also received endorsement in the final

report of the European Union High-Level Expert Group on

Sustainable Finance, which was published in January 2018. In its

report, the group recommended the broad adoption and

implementation of the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance

Principles by the finance community.

“One sector’s activity can have unintentional consequences on

other industries, or on ocean ecosystems and the communities

that rely on them for food security and livelihood,” Taylor said.

“The full value of the ocean’s natural capital asset therefore

depends on our ability to protect, maintain and restore it where

necessary, for future shared use.”

Source: Seafood Source

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How sustainable is the krill meal supply chain?

Leading companies involved in fish feed manufacture and

supply say they are fully engaged in making sure krill fishing is

responsible. Their claims follow a report by Greenpeace,

Licence to Krill, which concluded industrial fishing for krill is

posing a serious threat to the Antarctic ecosystem.

Greenpeace’s study on the Antarctic krill fishery over five

years indicated a pattern of fishing activity increasingly close

to shore and in the immediate vicinity of penguin colonies and

whale feeding grounds. It added that such krill fishing is taking

place in areas that have been put forward as ocean sanctuar-

ies. “Such protected areas will help these marine ecosystems

to build resilience to the combined impacts of climate change,

pollution and fishing.”

Greenpeace wants the industry to voluntarily halt fishing in

areas under consideration as ocean sanctuaries. Feed

Navigator talked to BioMar and Skretting, along with Aker

Biomarine, the Norwegian company that is the biggest player

by volume in terms of krill fishing, to get their views on those

findings. Trygve Berg Lea, sustainability manager at the

Nutreco owned fish feed manufacturer, the Skretting Group,

said the company believes the krill fishery in the Antarctic is, in

fact, well managed.

“Some important players like Aker Biomarine have demon-

strated that through certification under the Marine Steward-

ship Council (MSC) standard for responsible fisheries.”

He said fish feed companies also highly rate the role that the

Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living

Resources (CCAMLR) plays in ensuring responsible krill fishing

in the Antarctic. “As I read it, the [call] from Greenpeace is not

about stopping krill fishing in Antarctica, but that there should

be an established marine sanctuary close to shore.”

“As a company we do not have a position on this; Greenpeace

has the full right to advocate its view. Chile, Argentina and

Germany have also proposed sanctuaries”

“I also understand that fishing companies will fish krill where it

is allowed and it will not be easy for them to act on voluntary

grounds. As I understand it, the practice of fishing relatively

close to shore is a legal practice,” he added.

Antarctica is extremely vulnerable and particularly exposed to

climate change, said Greenpeace.

Unstable ocean conditions, due to climate change, are a

serious threat to the planet in general, and to all life, below

water and on land, said Vidar Gundersen, sustainability

director at Danish fish feed manufacturer, BioMar. “It is

important that all industries acknowledge and address climate

change. However, there is not data showing a decrease in krill

biomass, and the krill fishery is a fraction of the unexploited

biomass and TAC. There are many safety valves when it comes

to the fishing of Antarctic krill, starting with CCAMLR, and that

is one of the reasons it is perceived as the best-managed

fishery there is by the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP),”

he said.

Aker Biomarine is BioMar’s only krill meal supplier, and one

that is certified as responsible:

“Aker Biomarine has had things in order for a long time, so to

speak. It has done its homework, done its research work with

the Antarctic Wildlife Research Fund (AWR), engaged with a

lot stakeholders and, of course, certified its operations, and

used eco technology on its harvesting. That is why we have

that company as a partner.”

“We only want krill meal that is MSC certified – that is a KPI for

us. It is very important for us that things are transparent and

traceable, if you do things right, if things are in order, you can

stand tall,” said Gundersen.

BioMar encourages other krill meal suppliers to follow the

‘best practice’ model of Aker Biomarine, he said. When asked

how the Danish group could promote wider responsible

sourcing, he said, “What we can do is tell our story, show to

customers that retailers have recognized and even adopted

our policies and practices on responsible sourcing. For us to

improve, feedback from stakeholders is very important and, so

far, they are overwhelmingly constructive and positive.”

Cilia Indahl, sustainability director at Aker Biomarine, said the

supplier is working with Greenpeace and other NGOs to

ensure the Antarctic region is protected and intends to

continue this approach. “We believe that sustainable fisheries

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and marine protected areas can and should coexist.” She said

that view is shared by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)

and other NGOs caring for the world oceans.

Aker has been in dialogue for many years with several of the

environmental groups working on marine protected areas

(MPAs), said Indahl. “Greenpeace has now entered that space

and that conversation. I think it is actually healthy for the

dialogue that it has come in. What we have seen as a positive

trend in Greenpeace’s communication is that it is now

acknowledging and accepting the [Antarctic krill] fishery and

its trawling is being well-managed but it is asking for a

protected zone spanning 30 kilometers from the coast.”

Truls Gulowsen, head of Greenpeace Norway, talking to

Norwegian media outlet, Fiskeribladet, acknowledged that

Aker is good at listening to advice and feedback from

Greenpeace and other environmental organizations:

“The company also expends resources on the research we seek.

Furthermore, the harvesting technology used by Aker is of a

higher standard. The situation, though, is not so positive with

the trawling companies from China, South Korea, and the

Ukraine,” he said.

Keith Reid, a science manager at CCAMLR, told the Guardian

although more krill fishing was taking place nearer penguin

colonies along the coast, it was often happening later in the

season when these colonies were empty.

Indahl weighed in on that: “Krill moves around. Sometimes it is

near the coast, sometimes it is not. We have no scientific

evidence that it is actually harmful to fish along the coast but

we are looking into this topic with scientists, and, for the last

few years, we have not fished there during the breeding season

of the penguins. Definitely, there needs to be more research

into this topic.”

Aker’s krill fishery operation received MSC certification in

2010, a decision questioned by Greenpeace in its report. The

activists said three key issues were not taken into account in

the MSC’s decision: the potential effects of climate change;

the impact of all the fisheries targeting krill in the Antarctic;

and our limited understanding of the krill’s life cycle and its

importance to the food web.

However, Indahl stressed that the MSC full assessment for

fisheries is a detailed, public, rigorous process, and the last

renewal of its certification saw no opposition from any

stakeholders.

Read more: Feed Navigator

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Future availability of raw materials for salmon feeds and supply chain implications

The current range of Scottish salmon feeds is adapted to a

differentiated supply of salmon products, including differing

omega-3 content, differing content of marine raw materials,

etc. The progressive replacement of marine feed ingredients by

plant proteins and oils is reducing the content of omega-3 long-

chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA). However the

benefits are a more secure and less volatile raw material

supply, together with environmental feed contaminants at low

or undetectable levels in the resulting salmon product. There is

widespread adoption of standards and certification schemes by

Scottish salmon farmers and feed suppliers in order to

demonstrate environmental sustainability. This has focused in

particular on use of certified ingredients from sustainable

supply sources (‘responsible sourcing’). Future volume

estimates of Scottish salmon production, hence feed

requirements, are insufficient to threaten raw material supply

compared with global markets, although it is argued this is

likely to involve greater use of locally grown plant proteins and

an increased proportion of fishmeal manufactured from by-

product trimmings (derived from processing fish for human

consumption). However, UK retail chains will remain reluctant

to allow salmon suppliers to utilise land animal by-products due

to negative consumer perceptions, with resulting implications

for formulation cost and flexibility. Given its world-wide

scarcity, the main strategic concern relates to future availability

of sufficient omega-3 LC-PUFA, in particular eicosapentaenoic

acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), in order to

maintain the healthy image of Scottish salmon. To maintain its

longer-term reputation and product benefits, the Scottish

industry may need to consider adopting a more flexible attitude

to using new alternatives to fish oil (e.g. EPA and DHA derived

from transgenic oil seed crops, when commercially available). It

is concluded that Scottish salmon farming is a successful

example of sustainable feed development and the industry can

be confident that the changing raw material base will support

continuing production of high quality, healthy farmed salmon,

but the long-term security of supply of omega-3 LC-PUFA

remains an issue.

Source: Science Direct

Calysta is testing its natural gas derived protein in shrimp diets

and it says initial results suggest that the ingredient supports

shrimp survival and production. The biotech company said it

has completed research trials looking at the use of its alterna-

tive protein feed ingredient, FeedKind Aqua, in the diets of Pa-

cific whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannami) in place of fish-

meal. Shrimp were evaluated for growth response and survival.

The trials were conducted in conjunction with researchers at

Auburn University and at Texas A&M University at Corpus

Christi. Calysta said the feeding trials found that shrimp survival

improved when the alternative protein ingredient was added to

the diet. Shrimp receiving blended diets with the novel protein

and fishmeal also saw an increase in weight gain.

“We expected to see good growth at low and intermediate in-

clusion levels, and we were pleased to see there weren't any

palatability issues in the fishmeal-free feed,” Allen LeBlanc, sen-

ior director and FeedKind product manager, told Feed Naviga-

tor. “While we know FeedKind protein is effective and safe as a

feed ingredient, there was a concern in the industry that

attractability and feed consumption might fall at high inclusion

levels.”

“Shrimp feed very differently to finfish,” he said. “We were

pleasantly surprised that this was not the case.” The non-GMO

fermented single cell protein is expected to be commercially

available in 2020, Calysta reported.

Source: Feed Navigator

European Union project chooses three insect-to-aquafeed firms for accelerated growth

The European Maritime and Fisheries Fund-backed

INvertebrateIT project has selected three firms to gain a boost

in the field of insect-to-aquafeed development. The open

contest saw 11 entrants, whom INvertebrateIT praised as high

quality and investment-ready. It has chosen three for a capacity

-building process, "to accelerate and expand their market

potential, aiming to implement them into public-private

partnerships in EU Atlantic regions".

The project aims to help aquaculture operators mitigate their

current dependence on costly, volatile, and what it says are

"often unsustainable" fish feeds, to diversify their business and

to contribute to a better management of valuable organic

waste and/or new algal substrates for invertebrate production,

it said. The three chosen were: EntoGreen, which aims to

create up to 60 jobs by recycling up to 1,000 metric tons a

month of organic waste from maize agriculture, using it to feed

insects and subsequently producing high quality proteins and

oils for aquafeeds.

Project IPATAC, led by InnovaFeed in France, which is

commercializing the first insect-fed (black soldier fly) farmed

fish in Europe, and aims to engage with consumers and

investors to fulfil their plans to expand into new regions and

species.

And project Musflour, led by Mariscos Punta Sinas in Spain,

which focuses on marine invertebrates and aims to "revalorize

large quantities of available scraps coming from mussel

aquaculture and processing for fish farm feed".

Source: Undercurrent News

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Alternative feed protein may boost shrimp survival, weight gain

Shrimp farmers can tap into

the first cloud-based solution

in the aquaculture industry

thanks to Cargill’s iQShrimp.

The predictive software uses

machine learning and

sensors to give them real-

time visibility into their farm operations. iQShrimp is a first-

generation offering driven by iQuatic™, Cargill’s digital platform

for aquaculture. “Shrimp farming has inherent weather and

disease risks,” said Neil Wendover, Cargill’s digital insights

product line director for aquaculture. “By working directly with

shrimp farmers, our data scientists can use machine learning to

deliver insights to inform decisions that directly impact the

growth and economics of their operations.”

The iQShrimp software captures data from shrimp ponds

through mobile devices, sensors and automated feeders to

record data about shrimp size, water quality, feeding patterns,

and health and weather conditions. The system then combines

production and environmental information into a “live

operations dashboard” to provide insights and recommenda-

tions, such as feeding management strategies and optimal

harvest dates. Source: Cargill

BioMar Group delivered on the growth aspirations. During the

year 2017, BioMar emphasized that its strategic ambitions are

coming alive. The company delivered increased revenue of 12%

compared to 2016,

mainly boosted by a

significant capacity

expansion in Norway and

the acquisition of the

shrimp feed producer

Alimentsa in Ecuador. "I

believe that our strategic decision to safeguard local agility has

proven to be a strong competitive advantage across our

markets. Together with the customers, we keep improving

growth performance and animal health, at the same time

moving even beyond, embracing important trends within the

consumer markets. In parallel, we have continued our

meticulous focus expanding and optimizing global innovation

capacity", explains Carlos Diaz, CEO BioMar Group:

"It has been a busy, but encouraging year. We accomplished

our first full year with operations in Turkey and China, and we

completed the acquisition of Alimentsa in Ecuador to

complement our presence in the shrimp segment, together

with our factory in Costa Rica. On top of this we initiated our

factory project in Australia, started the biggest fish feed line in

the world and began operations of our new LNG vessel in

Norway, reinforcing our state-of-the-art technology and fleet.

And finally we started the construction of our trial facility in

Ecuador to supplement the ATC network together with lots of

interesting product concepts launched in our different markets.

Everywhere I have seen an amazing dedication to innovating

aquaculture." Source: Biomar

BUSINESS

Nine of the 26 Chilean fisheries having Biological Reference

Points presented a progressive recovery last year and have gone

to Full Exploitation status. Some of them are the fisheries for

horse mackerel, common sardine and shrimp, which are the

main fisheries exploited in the Bío Bío Region. These data are

derived from the Situation Report of the Main Chilean Fisheries,

2017, which has been published by the Undersecretariat of

Fisheries and Aquaculture (SUBPESCA), Diario Concepción

reported.

Of the total fisheries covered by the report, one fishery is under-

exploited, eight in full exploitation, eight overfished, eight

depleted or collapsed and one in an undetermined status.

However, SUBPESCA highlights that several overexploited

fisheries have encouraging performance indicators that they

suggest are undergoing a recovery process, which is expected to

increase in response to the regulatory and management

measures adopted within the framework of their respective

Management Plans.

The full exploitation phase implies a level of exploitation in

which there are no risks for the survival of exploited popula-

tions, explains marine biologist Eduardo Tarifeño, from the

Department of Zoology at the University of Concepción. That

the fisheries for horse mackerel, sardine and shrimp are in this

status is positive news for the fishing activity of the Bío Bío

region, given that these fisheries would be maintained with the

positive economic and social consequences, as long as the

measure extends in time, the scientist stressed. Read more: FIS

COUNTRY

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A new order requiring bank accounts for migrant workers in

Thailand’s fishing and seafood industries can help end forced

labour, officials said, as pressure grows from foreign buyers to

tackle abuses in the multi-billion-dollar sector. The National

Fisheries Association

of Thailand will in

April or May begin

enforcing the order

requiring workers to

be paid through

electronic bank

transfers, said

Supavadee

Chotikajan, of the International Labour Organization (ILO),

Thomson Reuters Foundation reported.

Before it begins enforcing the order, which the labour ministry

passed in November, the association will need to issue new

employment contracts to migrant workers in the seafood and

fishing industries, said Chotikajan. “The policy to pay through

bank accounts will ensure greater transparency and fairness to

workers in the seafood and fishing industry,” said Jarin

Jakkaphak, a labour ministry official.

“They may be migrants, but they are entitled to equal rights as

human beings,” he told reporters Wednesday at the launch of

an ILO report on conditions for fishermen and seafood

processing workers in Thailand. More than half the estimated

600,000 workers in the industries are registered migrant

workers. Nearly a fourth of workers ILO surveyed said they had

experienced delayed and partial payments. Source: FIS

Russia enabled 28 new Argentine fishing facilities to be suppliers.

The Federal Service for Sanitary and Phytosanitary Control of

the Russian Federation (Rosselkhoznadzor) included 28 new

fishing facilities of the Argentine Republic, in the Register of

Third Countries, which are authorized to export to this Asian

destination, according to the Ministry of Agroindustry of the

Nation. In February, the Rosselkhoznadzor proceeded with the

extension and inclusion of new activities for 135 fishing facilities

that had already been authorized, as requested in due time by

the National Service for Agri-Food Health and Quality (SENASA),

which will allow the export and access of a new range of

products to the Russian market and countries of the Eurasian

Economic Union (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan).

Russia imports fish and molluscs from the world for an annual

value of USD 1,392 million. This expansion will allow Argentina

to expand exports, incorporating an innumerable variety of

products. The extension and inclusion of new activities for the

135 fishing facilities that have already been authorised,

includes: frozen fish (except aquaculture); fish fillet (including

fish meat, minced meat) fresh, chilled or frozen fish (except

aquaculture), shellfish with or without shell, live, fresh, chilled,

frozen, cooked and frozen, dried, salted fish or seafood in brine

(except aquaculture) ); molluscs with and without pods, other

aquatic invertebrates, alive, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted

or in brine presentations (except aquaculture); frozen, frozen

fishing offals (except aquaculture), fresh and chilled fish (except

aquaculture) and fishmeal. Source: FIS

Ending overfishing would stop the population declines of

endangered bycatch species about half the time. A new UC Santa

Barbara-led study has

found that ending

overfishing would

promote population

recoveries for many

endangered species

ensnared accidentally

as bycatch -- the

unwanted fish and

other marine creatures caught during commercial fishing for a

different species. The study examined how much fishing

pressure needs to be reduced to maximize profits in the 4,713

fisheries that produce most of the world's catch -- and to halt

the population declines of 20 marine mammal, sea turtle and

sea bird populations threatened as bycatch. The researchers

also identified which fisheries might be causing the bycatch for

each population.

To account for the many uncertainties in each of these aspects,

the scientists simulated 1,000 possible scenarios. In each, they

asked what fraction of the 20 threatened bycatch populations

would begin to recover if all fisheries adopted efforts that

would maximize their profits. For each bycatch population that

would not recover under such efforts, the investigators then

asked how much profit the fisheries would have to give up to

enable recovery of the bycatch population. In 95% of the

simulated scenarios, the analysis demonstrated that between

seven and 13 of the bycatch populations could be saved from

decline at a cost of less than 5% of the maximum profit.

"Maintaining productive fisheries and protecting threatened

bycatch species are two of the primary goals of fisheries policy,"

said lead author Matt Burgess. "We found that about half the

time we can accomplish these goals together with the same

management actions." Source: Science Daily

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2018 9-11 April IFFO Members Meeting Miami, U.S.A.

24-26 April International Symposium: Understanding changes

in transitional areas of the Pacific La Paz, Mexico

24-26 April Seafood Expo Global 2018 Brussels, Belgium

23-24 May Aquaculture UK 2018 Aviemore, Scotland

3-7 June 18th International Symposium on Fish Nutrition

and Feed Gran Canaria, Spain

11-13 June AquaVision Stravanger, Norway

19-21 June SeaWeb Seafood Summit Barcelona, Spain

25 August AQUA 2018 Montpellier, France

29-31 August Shanghai International Fisheries and Seafood

Exhibition Shanghai, China

15-17 October IFFO 58th Annual Conference Rome, Italy

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