Fish industry news
Laboratory test results of the products exported from China into Russia demonstrated bacterial contamination of squid rings manufactured by plant No. 3700/02883 (Longkou Runsheng Foodstaffs Co., Ltd) that is a non-compliance with veterinary and sanitary requirements of the Customs Union and Russia. In view of the fact that the non-compliance was detected for the first time the Rosselkhoznadzor imposes enhanced laboratory monitoring of the products exported from this plant. In case of further such non-compliances the Rosselkhoznadzor will have to impose temporary restrictions on importation of the products from this plant into Russia...
Monitoring activities for banned and harmful substances revealed mesophilic aerobic and facultative anaerobic microorganisms in frozen pork produced at Plant no. 484 (Alimets Asta Inc); E.coli in frozen hake produced at Plant No. 1908 (scanner enterprises)...
The Rosselkhoznadzor was notified of the fact that from April 1 this year the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) of Germany excluded Russia from the list of countries having privileges for importation of dual-use commodities from Germany. The BAFA considers RIDASCREEN® and SureFood Test-Kits to be among such commodities...
Blue whiting is now migrating northwards through the Faroese zone where twelve Icelandic vessels have been fishing since last Monday. According to Gudlaugur Jónsson, skipper of Ingunn AK, fishing started in earnest on Monday night and Ingunn’s crew took their last haul on Tuesday morning...
The Russian delegation to the Second Session of Russia Morocco Joint Fishery Commission in Agadir was headed by Head of the Federal Agency for Fishery Ilya Shestakov. The Moroccan delegation was headed by Moroccan Minister of Agriculture and Sea Fishery Aziz Akhannouch...
Ten Icelandic pelagic boats are currently tied up in the Faroes, five in Tórshavn and another five at Tvøroyri, where their crews are waiting for the blue whiting to migrate out of EU waters and into the Faroese EEZ. Two Icelandic vessels were searching in Faroese waters and in the gray zone to the south, and they caught some blue whiting in the middle of the week...
The last few days have seen 4,000 tonnes of blue whiting landed at HB Grandi’s Akranes fishmeal plant and production is now a round-the-clock operation with two twelve-hour shifts running. The big plant is running at full capacity on blue whiting, while the smaller facility that was recently commissioned is producing bone meal...
The Russian delegation was headed by Assistant of the Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Alexey Alekseenko; the Norwegian delegation was headed by Director of Central Office of Norwegian National Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet) Bjorn Rothe Knutdtsen...
A delegation from the Rosselkhoznadzor is going to visit Agadir (Kingdom of Morocco) on 6-9 of April of 2014...
It appears that relatively little blue whiting has migrated northwards west of the British Isles outside the UK and Irish territorial limits this year. There was good fishing in international waters west of Ireland last week, but it seems that the fishing has dropped away and the Icelandic vessels fishing there had to work hard for their catches...
Factory trawler Therney RE docked early yesterday morning in Reykjavík after a 38-day trip in Norwegian waters. The 1270 tonnes of fish that landed on the deck over 31 days of fishing produced 665 tonnes of frozen products with a value of ISK400 million (FOB)...
The extension of the HB Grandi fishmeal factory at Vopnafjördur is making good progress and is expected to be completed shortly. The factory has a production licence for 850 tonnes of raw material per 24 hours and once the extension is complete, production capacity will be 1150 tonnes...
The Meeting took place upon the initiative of the Canadian party. The Council established in 1915 is a non-profit trade association representing more than a hundred of companies engaged in the growing, harvesting, processing, importing and marketing of fish and seafood...
Marine Harvest has entered into an agreement with FF Skagen to clean all relevant fish oil used for Marine Harvest salmon farming, according to MH. Cleaning of fish oils removes environmental pollutants, and should make intake limitations for salmon redundant. This sort of cleaning is not currently being carried in production of salmon feed and will be a differentiator for Marine Harvest...
The topic of the discussion was the information published in mass media about the ban on marketing and withdrawal from the circulation of canned fish produced by the Kaliningrad plants due to non-compliance of the Russian goods with the Ukrainian legislation requirements..
The meeting is to be held in Moscow tomorrow, April 2...
Knowledge of OA and work to monitor and counter it is growing in Maryland and Virginia, in part through the work of Global Ocean Health. In January, GOH advisor Todd Capson presented at the annual conference of the Maryland Watermen’s Association on the impacts of OA in the Pacific Northwest and the steps taken by shellfish growers to address it...
Olympia oysters were abundant in San Francisco Bay until their population collapsed in the late 1800s due to overfishing...
In January, the West Coast Governors Alliance on Ocean Health launched the West Coast Ocean Data Portal to better deal with the multiple threats to ocean and coastal health...
In September 2013, Jeremy Mathis of NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory installed high-resolution carbonate chemistry monitoring equipment at the Alutiiq Pride hatchery in Seward, Alaska. The hatchery, operating since 1994, produces stocks of numerous organisms, including blue and red king crab, sea cucumbers, razor clams, oysters, and geoducks...