The use of additives in salmon feed is regulated differently in various countries.

Additives like vitamins, minerals, and amino acids are used in salmon feed to promote growth and health.

Probiotics and prebiotics are used to improve fish growth and immunity.

Insect-based ingredients are being used as a sustainable alternative to traditional fishmeal and fish oil.

The use of additives like antibiotics and hormones is common in some countries, but regulated.

These additives promote growth, prevent disease, and improve fish health and quality.

The use of additives like antibiotics has raised health concerns over antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Norway and Scotland, major farmed salmon producers, have strict regulations governing additives in salmon feed.

The Norwegian Aquaculture Act and Aquaculture Stewardship Council regulate and set standards for responsible salmon farming practices.

The RSPCA and A Greener World set standards for farmed Atlantic salmon, including feed additives.

The Marine Stewardship Council certifies sustainable salmon fishing, without standards for salmon feed additives.

The FDA regulates seafood imports for banned substances and has import alerts for countries with contaminated seafood.

China aims to reduce feed-grade fish in aquaculture feed to below 20 percent by 2020.

Compound feed is cheaper and reduces fish use in salmon farming.

Additives in salmon feed can impact nutrition, safety, and the environment, and potentially harm human health.

Farmed salmon may have added pigments, while wild salmon has a naturally darker red color.

There are no international standards for salmon feed additives, leading to varying regulations and potential health concerns.

Country labeling regulations for salmon vary, impacting consumer awareness of additives used in farming.

The demand for natural poultry feed additives drives market growth.

Disease outbreaks drive the standardization of meat products and possibly salmon feed additives.

Taiwan regulates feed additives like probiotics and vitamins as drugs.

Taiwan has no specific regulations on salmon feed additives.

Differences in salmon feed additive regulations between countries can impact industry and consumer safety, but more information is needed.

The FAO plays a crucial role in shaping global regulations for salmon feed additives.

The FAO sets global safety standards for internationally traded food.

The Codex Alimentarius Commission sets voluntary food additive and residue standards widely adopted by developing countries.

The FAO has 190 member countries and sets standards for the food supply chain, including permitted additives.

The FAO sets global standards for salmon feed additives that are applied in international food legislation.

International organizations influence salmon feed regulations, impacting the global salmon market.

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council and RSPCA have standards for farmed Atlantic salmon.

The Marine Stewardship Council and Global Salmon Initiative promote sustainable and responsible salmon farming.

The FAO promotes sustainable aquaculture and tracks global production, including fish used for fishmeal and fish oil.

China is the world's biggest consumer of fishmeal, with 18 million tonnes of fish used for it in 2020.

China's Ministry of Agriculture promotes compound feed to reduce fishmeal and fish oil use in aquaculture.

The FAO's reports inform global discussions on sustainable aquaculture, but there are no global regulations for salmon feed additives.

The FAO leads global cooperation, sets standards, and collects information on food and agriculture.

The FAO plays a vital role in global food security and development, particularly in developing countries.

The FAO, founded in 1945, is based in Rome, Italy, and led by a Director-General.

The FAO holds a biennial Ministerial Conference, influences agriculture policy, and elects a Director-General.

China has increased representation in the FAO and significantly influences its decisions.

The FAO supplied toxic pesticides to Africa, Asia, and Oceania, and is affiliated with the Belt and Road Initiative.

The Norwegian Aquaculture Act and EU's EFSA regulations govern salmon farming and food legislation.

The FDA regulates medicine and food together, including feed additives and animal health.

The Food Safety Authority lacks necessary competencies and effective oversight tools.

The OIE regulations and international organizations shape food legislation and additives.

Certifications like ASC and MSC promote responsible additive use in sustainable salmon farming.

The ASC certification ensures responsible and sustainable use of feed and additives on certified farms.

The MSC certification process, conducted by a third-party assessor, takes 12 months and requires fisheries to meet three standards: sustainable populations, minimal ecosystem impact, and effective management.

MSC certification requires sustainable populations, minimal ecosystem impact, and effective management.

Mowi uses ASC-certified salmon farming, with 68% of its northern Norway operations certified.

Mowi has a Green and Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework that funds green projects.

The MSC certification is important for Asian customers and required for exporting to Europe, but does not impact transaction terms or price.

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council certifies responsible aquaculture.

Reducing fishmeal use can make aquaculture feeds cheaper, with China importing 1.4 million tonnes annually.

China, which produces 60 percent of global aquaculture output, cut feed-grade fish use by 835,000 tonnes in Zhejiang from 2016-2020.

The use of additives in salmon feed can pollute surrounding water quality and pose health concerns.

Pacific Seafood has increased sustainable seafood by 34%, reduced bycatch, and saved 13,000,000 gallons of water in 2023.

The Marine Stewardship Council promotes small-scale fishing in about half its content, despite industrial-scale operations catching around three-quarters of the global catch.

Consumers should be aware that certain seafood, like salmon, can harm the environment and human health due to additives in their feed.

The salmon farming industry is researching alternative feed additives to reduce environmental impact and improve salmon health.

Researchers are exploring insect-based ingredients as a sustainable alternative to traditional fishmeal and fish oil.

Mealworms are 55% protein and contain all essential amino and fatty acids, making them a nutritious feed additive for salmon.

Insect farming requires fewer resources and energy, reducing the industry's carbon footprint.

Insect-based foods can replace wild-caught sources, reducing pressure on ocean ecosystems.

Ÿnsect is producing large quantities of insect-based ingredients, with contracts over $100 million for fish feed.

Insect-based feed can reduce fish mortality and increase growth rate.

Developing domestic starter food for salmon can increase weight by almost three times and reduce reliance on imported feed.

Domestic feed is half the price of imports and contains over 40% raw protein and essential amino acids.

The use of integrated multi-trophic aquac

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Content: DUBLIN, March 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Salmon Market, By Species, By Fish Type, By Distribution Channel, By Product Type, Estimation & Forecast, 2017 - 2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global salmon market held a market value of USD 20,880.5 Million in 2021 and is projected to reach USD 27,344.0 Million by the year 2027. The market is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 4.6% from 2022 to 2027. Approximately, 3,282.72 kilo tons of salmon was estimated to be sold in 2021.

Salmon is a common name for a Salmonidae family's species of the ray-finned fish. The market is expected to be driven by the rising prevalence of chronic conditions and global rise in penetration of e-commerce sector. Furthermore, rise in consumer awareness towards the health benefits of salmon are also expected to contribute to the market growth.

Despite the driving factors, depletion of sea species are anticipated to hinder the market growth. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the market was negatively impacted due to closure of fishing activities and hence, decrease in the supply of salmon in global markets.

Growth Influencers:

Rise in consumer awareness towards the health benefits of salmon

Salmon provides various health benefits. It is rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, is a great source of protein, high in Vitamin B, good source of potassium, loaded with selenium, contains astaxanthin, reduced the risk of heart diseases, helps in weight management, helps to fight inflammation, and protects brain health. Consumers are getting aware regarding all these benefits, which is increasing its adoption, hence boosting the market growth.

Competitive Landscape

Major players in the global salmon market include Cermaq Group ASA, Leroy Seafood Group ASA, Mowi ASA, SalMar ASA, AquaChile, Cooke Aquaculture, Bakkafrost, Grieg Seafood, Multiexport, Blumar, Salmones Camanchaca, Australis Seafoods, Nova Sea, Tassal Group, Sinkaberg-Hansen, Nordlaks, Bremnes Seashore, Norway Royal Salmon, Alsaker Fjordbruk, and Other Prominent Players.

These market players are involved in collaborations, mergers & acquisitions, and new product launches, among other initiatives, to strengthen their market presence. For instance, in January 2022, Benchmark Animal Health and Cermaq received funding from the Research Council of Norway for research and development of Tenacibaculum vaccines for Salmon. Furthermore, Bekkafrost collaborated with the salmon industry through the Faroe Fish Farmer's Association And Global Salmon Initiative (GSI).

The global Salmon market report provides insights on the below pointers:

  • Market Penetration: Provides comprehensive information on the market offered by the prominent players
  • Market Development: The report offers detailed information about lucrative emerging markets and analyzes penetration across mature segments of the markets
  • Market Diversification: Provides in-depth information about untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments
  • Competitive Landscape Assessment: Mergers & acquisitions, certifications, product launches in the global Salmon market have been provided in this research report. In addition, the report also emphasizes the SWOT analysis of the leading players.
  • Product Development & Innovation: The report provides intelligent insights on future technologies, R&D activities, and breakthrough product developments
  • Global Salmon Production: Total Harvest of Atlantic Salmon, 2016-2020
  • Salmon Production Cost Breakdown
  • Consumer Behavior Analysis: By Region, By Age, By Gender, By Annual Household Income, Seasonal of Fish
  • Fresh Salmon Export: Trends & Predictions for the Supply of Salmon Consumed (USD Million) in the United States; Largest Fishing Companies
  • Regulatory Landscape: Section 6 of Norwegian Aquaculture Act , Aquaculture Stewardship Council Salmon standard, RSPCA welfare standards for Farmed Atlantic salmon, A Greener World (AGW), Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)

The global Salmon market report answers questions such as:

  • What is the market size and forecast of the Global Salmon Market?
  • What are the inhibiting factors and impact of COVID-19 on the Global Salmon Market during the assessment period?
  • Which are the products/segments/applications/areas to invest in over the assessment period in the Global Salmon Market?
  • What is the competitive strategic window for opportunities in the Global Salmon Market?
  • What are the technology trends and regulatory frameworks in the Global Salmon Market?
  • What is the market share of the leading players in the Global Salmon Market?
  • What modes and strategic moves are considered favorable for entering the Global Salmon Market?

Key Topics Covered:

Chapter 1. Research Framework

Chapter 2. Executive Summary: Global Salmon Market

Chapter 3. Global Salmon Market Overview

3.1. Industry Value Chain Analysis

3.1.1. Raw Material

3.1.2. Processing and Packaging

3.1.3. Distributor

3.1.4. End User

3.2. Industry Outlook

3.2.1. Global Salmon Production

3.2.2. Salmon Production Cost Breakdown

3.2.3. Fresh Salmon Export

3.2.4. Consumer Behavior Analysis

3.2.4.1. Income

3.2.4.2. Occupation

3.2.4.3. Seasonal of Fish

3.2.5. Trends and Predictions for the Supply of Salmon Consumed in the United States

3.2.6. Largest Fishing Companies

3.3. PESTLE Analysis

3.4. Porter's Five Forces Analysis

3.4.1. Bargaining Power of Suppliers

3.4.2. Bargaining Power of Buyers

3.4.3. Threat of Substitutes

3.4.4. Threat of New Entrants

3.4.5. Degree of Competition

3.5. Market Dynamics and Trends

3.5.1. Key Trends

3.5.2. Growth Drivers

3.5.3. Restraints/ Challenges

3.6. Market Growth and Outlook

3.6.1. Market Revenue Estimates and Forecast (US$ Mn), 2017-2027

3.6.2. Market Volume Estimates and Forecast (MMT), 2017-2027

3.6.3. Pricing Analysis

3.7. Covid-19 Impact Assessment on Market Growth Trend

3.7.1. Growth Trend Shift Analysis

3.7.2. Industry Best Practices

3.8. Regulatory Landscape

Chapter 4. Competition Dashboard

4.1. Market Concentration Rate

4.2. Company Market Share Analysis (Value %), 2020

4.3. Competitor Mapping

Chapter 5. Salmon Market Analysis, By Species

5.1. Key Insights

5.2. Market Size and Forecast, 2017 - 2027 (US$ Mn & MMT)

5.2.1. Atlantic

5.2.2. Pink

5.2.3. Chum/Dog

5.2.4. Coho

5.2.5. Sockeye

5.2.6. Others

Chapter 6. Salmon Market Analysis, By Fish Type

6.1. Key Insights

6.2. Market Size and Forecast, 2017 - 2027 (US$ Mn & MMT)

6.2.1. Farmed

6.2.2. Wild

Chapter 7. Salmon Market Analysis, By Product Type

7.1. Key Insights

7.2. Market Size and Forecast, 2017 - 2027 (US$ Mn & MMT)

7.2.1. Canned

7.2.2. Fresh

7.2.3. Frozen

7.2.4. Others

Chapter 8. Salmon Market Analysis, By Retail

8.1. Key Insights

8.2. Market Size and Forecast, 2017 - 2027 (US$ Mn & MMT)

8.2.1. Retail

8.2.1.1. E-commerce (online)

8.2.1.2. Brick & Mortar Stores (offline)

8.2.2. HoReCa & Wholesale

8.2.3. Processed Food Industry

8.2.4. Other Institutional Customers

Chapter 9. Salmon Market Analysis, By Region

9.1. Key Insights

9.2. Market Size and Forecast, 2017 - 2027 (US$ Mn & MMT)

9.2.1. North America

9.2.1.1. The U.S.

9.2.1.2. Canada

9.2.1.3. Mexico

9.2.2. Europe

9.2.2.1. Western Europe

9.2.2.1.1. The UK

9.2.2.1.2. Germany

9.2.2.1.3. France

9.2.2.1.4. Italy

9.2.2.1.5. Spain

9.2.2.1.6. Rest of Western Europe

9.2.2.2. Eastern Europe

9.2.2.2.1. Poland

9.2.2.2.2. Russia

9.2.2.2.3. Rest of Eastern Europe

9.2.3. Asia Pacific

9.2.3.1. China

9.2.3.2. India

9.2.3.3. Japan

9.2.3.4. Australia & New Zealand

9.2.3.5. ASEAN

9.2.3.6. Rest of Asia Pacific

9.2.4. Middle East & Africa

9.2.4.1. UAE

9.2.4.2. Saudi Arabia

9.2.4.3. South Africa

9.2.4.4. Rest of MEA

9.2.5. South America

9.2.5.1. Argentina

9.2.5.2. Brazil

9.2.5.3. Rest of South America

Chapter 10. North America Salmon Market Analysis

10.1. Key Insights

10.2. Market Size and Forecast, 2017 - 2027 (US$ Mn & MMT)

10.2.1. By Species

10.2.2. By Type

10.2.3. By Product

10.2.4. By Distribution Channel

10.2.5. By Country

Chapter 11. Europe Salmon Market Analysis

11.1. Key Insights

11.2. Market Size and Forecast, 2017 - 2027 (US$ Mn & MMT)

11.2.1. By Species

11.2.2. By Type

11.2.3. By Product

11.2.4. By Distribution Channel

11.2.5. By Country

Chapter 12. Asia Pacific Salmon Market Analysis

12.1. Key Insights

12.2. Market Size and Forecast, 2017 - 2027 (US$ Mn & MMT)

12.2.1. By Species

12.2.2. By Type

12.2.3. By Product

12.2.4. By Distribution Channel

12.2.5. By Country

Chapter 13. Middle East and Africa Salmon Market Analysis

13.1. Key Insights

13.2. Market Size and Forecast, 2017 - 2027 (US$ Mn & MMT)

13.2.1. By Species

13.2.2. By Type

13.2.3. By Product

13.2.4. By Distribution Channel

13.2.5. By Country

Chapter 14. South America Salmon Market Analysis

14.1. Key Insights

14.2. Market Size and Forecast, 2017 - 2027 (US$ Mn & MMT)

14.2.1. By Species

14.2.2. By Type

14.2.3. By Product

14.2.4. By Distribution Channel

14.2.5. By Country

Chapter 15. Company Profile (Company Overview, Financial Matrix, Key Product landscape, Key Personnel, Key Competitors, Contact Address, and Business Strategy Outlook) *

15.1. Cremaq Group ASA

15.2. Leroy Seafood Group ASA

15.3. Mowi ASA

15.4. SalMar ASA

15.5. AquaChile

15.6. Cooke Aquaculture

15.7. Bakkafrost

15.8. Grieg Seafood

15.9. Multiexport

15.10. Blumar

15.11. Salmones Camanchaca

15.12. Australis Seafoods

15.13. Nova Sea

15.14. Tassal Group

15.15. Sinkaberg-Hansen

15.16. Nordlaks

15.17. Bremnes Seashore

15.18. Norway Royal Salmon

15.19. Alsaker Fjordbruk

15.20. Other Prominent players

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Organic Feed Additive market is segmented by region (country), players, by Type and by Application. Players, stakeholders, and other participants in the global Organic Feed Additive market will be able to gain the upper hand as they use the report as a powerful resource. The segmental analysis focuses on revenue and forecast by region (country), by Type and by Application for the period 2017-2028.

For United States market, this report focuses on the Organic Feed Additive market size by players, by Type and by Application, for the period 2017-2028. The key players include the global and local players, which play important roles in United States.

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Russia

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1.1 Organic Feed Additive Product Introduction
1.2 Global Organic Feed Additive Outlook 2017 VS 2022 VS 2028
1.2.1 Global Organic Feed Additive Sales in US$ Million for the Year 2017-2028
1.2.2 Global Organic Feed Additive Sales in Volume for the Year 2017-2028
1.3 United States Organic Feed Additive Outlook 2017 VS 2022 VS 2028
1.3.1 United States Organic Feed Additive Sales in US$ Million for the Year 2017-2028
1.3.2 United States Organic Feed Additive Sales in Volume for the Year 2017-2028
1.4 Organic Feed Additive Market Size, United States VS Global, 2017 VS 2022 VS 2028
1.4.1 The Market Share of United States Organic Feed Additive in Global, 2017 VS 2022 VS 2028
1.4.2 The Growth Rate of Organic Feed Additive Market Size, United States VS Global, 2017 VS 2022 VS 2028
1.5 Organic Feed Additive Market Dynamics
1.5.1 Organic Feed Additive Industry Trends
1.5.2 Organic Feed Additive Market Drivers
1.5.3 Organic Feed Additive Market Challenges
1.5.4 Organic Feed Additive Market Restraints
1.6 Study Objectives
1.7 Years Considered
2 Market by Type
2.1 Organic Feed Additive Market Segment by Type
2.1.1 Minerals
2.1.2 Amino Acids
2.1.3 Vitamins
2.1.4 Enzymes
2.1.5 Others
2.2 Global Organic Feed Additive Market Size by Type
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▲ The water laboratory said that in recent years, due to climate change, the unusually high temperature in the summer, it is easy to cause the fish to be attacked by germs. (Photo by reporter Yang Chih-hing)
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The water laboratory pointed out that glucan can be used as an emulsifier and thickener flavor carrier in food processing. In terms of health care, research shows that glucan can be used as a prebiotic to increase the number of probiotics - bifidobacteria and lactic acid bacteria in the body, and regulate immunity.
As mentioned in the water test, lactic acid bacteria B4, previously screened from the gut of perch fish, is a probiotic with special enzymes. Adding cheap sucrose can promote the production of glucan by lactic acid bacteria B4, and developed functional yogurt and ice cream containing glucan with lactic acid bacteria B4.
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According to the water test, the literature points out that probiotics or prebiotics such as glycans and oligosaccharides as feed additives can effectively improve the growth and immunity of fish and shrimp. The combined use of probiotics and prebiotics is usually higher than the combined effect of the two alone. Probiotics that produce pathogens can also produce glucans themselves, so the lactobacillus B4 yogurt is applied to aquaculture.
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Once fully operational, the massive vertical farm will produce 200,000 tonnes of insect-based ingredients a year.

Ÿnsect, one of the world’s largest insect rangers, is betting big on bugs to help push the world in a more sustainable direction.

Founded in 2011, the company is fast approaching its goal of opening the world’s largest insect farm and dramatically scaling up its operations. Located about an hour north of Paris, the state-of-the-art facility will leverage automated systems and vertical farming techniques to raise mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) and enable the production of over 200,000 tonnes of insect-based ingredients per year. The site, estimated to be completed by the end of 2022, will join two other Ÿnsect facilities already operational in France and the Netherlands.

"It’s an automated warehouse, very similar to an Amazon warehouse, where instead of storing stuff, we are storing live insects," Ÿnsect CEO and co-founder Antoine Hubert told Time last year. "There is a climate-control system which is highly complex to maintain temperature and moisture from zero to 30 meters high. All operations are automated. Anything that you do on [an insect] farm is done with robots."

Feed for Fish, Fertilizer for Plants, Burgers for Humans

For the past decade, mealworms cultivated at Ÿnsect’s farms have been turned into powders and oils that have become nutritional additives to pet and farm feeds. Thanks to a ruling last year by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) that deemed mealworms safe for human consumption, the company has also begun selling its powders for shakes, cereal bars, pasta, and even alt-meat burgers. In addition, the shed shells of the rapidly growing mealworms are collected and sold as beneficial organic fertilizers to farmers.

According to MealFlour, a project that promotes mealworm farming as a way to battle malnutrition in Guatemala, a serving of mealworm powder is 55% protein, contains all essential amino and fatty acids, and has more iron than sirloin beef. Compared to the production of milk, pork, chicken, and beef, mealworms are also more sustainable and require fewer resources and energy.

While its recent forays into human foodstuffs have garnered attention, Ÿnsect's focus presently remains on helping to feed sustainably the animals that feed the world. For instance, aquaculture, like salmon farming, is a resource-intensive operation that uses both land-based crops (soy) and massive amounts of wild-caught fish to create what's known as fishmeal. With food production projected to have to grow by more than 70% by 2050 to meet demand, the overfishing of oceans to feed aquaculture operations is not a feasible option. Studies, such as a recent trial by NOAA, have shown that supplementing or even replacing fishmeal with insect- and plant-based foods holds promise for eliminating the need for wild-caught sources. According to Hubert, there are other positives as well.

"They [salmon] were reaching the maturity stage faster and eating less so they were avoiding a large quantity of feed," he told Fast Company in 2020. "There was less mortality so the farmers get more fish eventually than before... This also explains why we have a carbon-negative balance, because we are avoiding so many quantities of inputs to feed fish to have the same quantities of fish."

Hubert added to Fast Company that Ÿnsect has contracts worth more than $100 million with fish feed producers. This past year, with the acquisition of U.S.-based mealworm producer Jord, it also began entering new markets, such as the rapidly growing U.S. backyard chicken feed market.

A Record-Breaking Vertical Farm

One look at the animated video of Ÿnsect’s new facility up above and you can see why it’s been touted as an automated marvel. Mealworms will be reared by robots in stacked tubs stretching several stories tall. Unlike other insect food alternatives such as flies or crickets, mealworms do not hop or fly, allowing the company to maximize the space available.

In an effort to make sure the creatures are ethically farmed, Hubert reached out to philosophers from the Sorbonne University to judge their welfare. As he told The Guardian, the students determined that the mealworms had "more in common with mushroom-growing and hothousing vegetables" than with livestock.

"They have no brain in the strict sense of the word," he said. "We know they have a reflex reaction and they communicate and build intelligent structures, but nobody has shown they feel anything. However, what is important is to respect them as living organisms, which we do."

In addition to the new farm in France, Ÿnsect plans to continue to scale its operations with additional facilities, including a major site in the U.S. The biggest hurdle ahead, however, says Hubert, is making insects a normal part of everyday diets.

"I believe that the big challenge is accepting insects as part of the human diet," he told Authority Magazine. "A large part of the world's population eats insects, but we must be able to prove its properties and its benefits for the environment in order to reach more and have more impact!"

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The EU must not support intensive fish farming — it's not sustainable

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The Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union, which will run between 1 July and 31 December 2024, has announced in its programme that it will pay particular attention to the development of “sustainable and competitive aquaculture”, arguing that “it is the animal protein production sector with the smallest environmental footprint.”

Beyond a supposedly low carbon footprint, aquaculture is also presented as an alternative to mitigate declining wild fish catches. However, under the term “aquaculture” we find various production models – some of which are more environmentally benign when conducted at appropriate scale, such as the cultivation of mussels, clams, and oysters, and some of which come with significant damaging impacts.

Many European consumers who want to eat fish from sustainable sources believe farmed salmon, trout and seabass are sustainable choices. But the intensive farming of carnivorous fin fish is neither socially nor environmentally sustainable.

The environmental impacts of this industrial production model include an increase in harmful algal blooms, a negative impact on sea grass meadows due to the accumulation of organic matter around farms, mass fish die-offs, the use of the harmful substances such as carcinogenic formaldehyde or antibiotics, and water pollution, creating dead zones on the sea bed underneath the farms. Adding to this, carnivorous farmed fish such as salmon and seabass require high volumes of fishmeal and fish oil from wild-caught fish in their feed.

In Europe, industrial aquaculture of carnivorous fish at sea is damaging the environment and displacing traditional activities such as coastal small-scale fisheries.

On the island of Poros, Greece, for example, the plan is to increase the area dedicated to open net pen carnivorous fish farms by 28 times. Yet, underwater video depicts that marine ecosystem near the current small-scale pens is completely dead from the waste and pollution of the farms, and local professional fishermen attest to a loss of wild fish since the influx of fish farms.

Beyond Europe, the production of fishmeal and fish oil necessary to feed carnivorous farmed fish is depleting wild fish stocks. This is the case in West Africa where the overfishing of small pelagics such as sardines and mackerel for industrial fish farms in Europe is undermining food security and the livelihoods of small-scale fishers and women fish-processors. Fish is taken away from people in low-income countries to feed the farmed fish which will be consumed in wealthy nations.

The UN special rapporteur on the right to food acknowledged this in his report to the Human Rights Council in early 2024: “Many farmed fish are carnivorous species that require feed products harvested from wild fish stock, thereby creating another source of pressure on wild fish stocks and disrupting ecosystems.

Moreover, global feed companies are exacerbating food insecurity in some communities. For example, over half a million tons of pelagic fish that could feed over 33 million people in the region are instead extracted from the ocean along the coast of West Africa and converted to fishmeal and fish oil, primarily in order to feed farmed fish and livestock, mostly in Asia and Europe.”

The current EU strategy for aquaculture does not respond to the social and environmental challenges posed by this sector and fails to clearly define what “sustainable” aquaculture is. In fact, in a special report on aquaculture, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) found that the European Union has been pouring funds into the development of aquaculture with little proof that this has contributed to the sector’s “environmental and social sustainability or its competitiveness.” The ECA report further highlights that “there are currently no indicators available to monitor the environmental sustainability of EU aquaculture.”

Under the agriculture and fisheries agenda, Hungary has reaffirmed its wish to support farmers, and fish farmers, through a “farmer-friendly European food system.” Rather they should support low impact small-scale fishers as primary food producers.

Under the Hungarian presidency, the EU should discontinue support for industrial aquaculture of carnivorous species and instead promote more sustainable small-scale aquaculture options that can co-exist instead of negatively affecting small-scale fisheries in Europe and beyond. If Europe wants to be a model in sustainable ocean governance, it must place small-scale, low-impact fisheries and aquaculture at the heart of its food policy.

This is an open letter signed by the following organisations from Africa and Europe: African Confederation of Artisanal Fisheries Organisations (CAOPA), Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements (CFFA), Feedback Europe, Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE), Compassion in World Farming and the Rauch Foundation.

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[By Zhang Chun]

A 2021 Chinese government initiative to stop aquaculture feed being made from only young or low-value fish and to instead start producing “compound feed” – mixed with ingredients harvested from the land – is opening up a greener future for the sector.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, in a series of trials last year, the sole use of low-value “feed-grade” fish as aquaculture feed was reduced by 77 percent, and by as much as 94 percent in farming of largemouth bass. Experts say the switch to compound feed could see overall use of feed-grade fish slashed by half for farming of certain species.

What is compound feed?

Compound feed normally contains a mixture of animal- and plant-based ingredients, and added nutrients such as vitamins. For aquaculture feeds containing fishmeal and fish oil, common additives include soy proteins, wheat gluten and corn gluten meal.

Feed-grade fish are those in a catch that are small, low in commercial value, or unsuitable for human consumption. They are sent to be processed into fishmeal and fish oil, or fed directly to farmed fish. But a significant proportion of feed-grade fish consists of juveniles of commercially important species. Once caught they can no longer grow into adult fish and breed, or be caught and sold on the market. Their removal damages ocean food chains and ecosystem stability.

The last decade and more has seen increased calls for China to tackle the use of feed-grade fish in aquaculture, but the current round of trials is the first organised by the Ministry of Agriculture. It focuses on species such as the yellow croaker, Japanese sea bass and largemouth bass, which tend to be fed more feed-grade fish. While those species don’t account for much of China’s fed aquaculture output, they do require much more protein than others to put on the same amount of weight. Compound feed cuts down on the use of fish by substituting vegetable alternatives, and is cheaper.

In the long term, sustained reductions in the use of fishmeal and fish oil in feed will be necessary to protect wild fisheries.

Aquaculture driving feed-grade fish catch

Fishers never used to set out to catch feed-grade fish; it was bycatch, with no economic value. Then in the 1980s, global aquaculture took off. “There was a lot of need for fishmeal and oil,” Rashid Sumalia, a fisheries researcher at the University of British Columbia, told China Dialogue. People started going out “purposely to catch them at distance, because there was a market”, he added.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO’s) 2020 global fisheries and aquaculture report, the use of fish for reduction to fishmeal and fish oil peaked in 1994 at 30 million tonnes, and stood at 18 million tonnes by 2018. Another 4 million tonnes were used elsewhere, including directly in feed for aquaculture, livestock and fur animals.

It wasn’t until the mid and late 1990s that aquaculture took off in China. The FAO’s 1998 fisheries and aquaculture report describes how rare it was for fish catches in Asia to go unused or be used as aquaculture feed. But in Asia, particularly in China and Vietnam, aquaculture has expanded rapidly and the region now accounts for almost 90 percent of global output. In China, output tripled between 1998 and 2020, to represent 60 percent of the global total.

Although many of the species farmed in China need little or no feed, fed fish and crustacean aquaculture accounts for half of output and requires millions of tonnes of feed-grade fish from Chinese waters alone. China does not currently have statistics on its feed-grade fish catch or use in fed aquaculture. One study calculated that in 2016 4.6 million tonnes of feed-grade fish were caught, 35 percent of the total recorded catch in China’s waters, and most was used directly as feed.

“The state is certainly aware of the problem,” said Fang Qing, China general manager for the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, adding that the difficulty in banning some harmful types of fishing gear in China is due to the ongoing market for the feed-grade fish it brings in. Since 2018, China has put minimum size limits in place for 15 commercial fish species, and ruled that feed-grade fish catch would drop to below 20% by 2020. There is no data available indicating whether this target was met.

This it isn’t just a Chinese problem. According to a 2017 study by the University of British Columbia, many countries, including the US and Norway, use feed-grade fish directly as feed. But the practice increased significantly in Asia between the 1990s and 2010, with feed-grade fish coming to account for a high percentage of landed catches.

Replacing feed-grade fish

In early 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture announced it would work to make Chinese aquaculture more environmentally friendly, and proposed the use of compound feed instead of purely fish-based feed. In April 2021, several provinces started trials of compound feed as part of more concrete action plans.

Compound feed for aquaculture is usually a mix of fishmeal, fish oil, wheat flour, soybean meal, vegetable oil and other land-grown ingredients. The amount of fishmeal and fish oil needed depends on the type of fish to be fed, and its stage of growth. According to Fang Qing, carnivorous fish such as the yellow croaker need huge quantities of meat protein at certain stages in their growth, and the relationship between particular nutrients and the growth and physiology of the fish can be complex. Hence, producing appropriate compound feed involves a lot of research and development.

To quantify how efficiently a species is farmed, the aquaculture industry uses a ratio called Fish in:Fish out (FIFO). The closer the FIFO is to 1, the more fish meat is produced per unit of input; a score of 1 means an extra kilogram of fish used as feed results in an extra kilogram of fish to harvest.

A study published in 2020 shows a FIFO of almost 1 for salmon and trout, thanks to the use of compound feeds which require less fishmeal and fish oil. If only fish were used to feed those species, the FIFO figure would be similar to that of the yellow croaker – over 6, according to an upcoming paper co-authored by Zhang Wenbo, an assistant professor in the College of Fisheries and Life Science at Shanghai Ocean University. His research into conventional yellow croaker aquaculture in China found that the direct use of feed-grade fish is still the best option for the yellow croaker farmers. But Fang Qing told China Dialogue that a lot of feed-grade fish fed to yellow croaker goes uneaten, and ends up sinking to the seabed or rotting, causing pollution and increasing the risk of disease.

More compound feed use would help reduce FIFO numbers in two ways: by cutting use of feed-grade fish, and by increasing conversion ratios – that is, generating more fish growth per unit of feed.

Zhejiang is taking the lead in both those areas. Since 2016, the province has been shutting fishmeal factories during the closed season and restricting the percentage of feed-grade fish in the overall catch. This, combined with the use of compound feed, saw Zhejiang cut the use of feed-grade fish by 835,000 tonnes across 710,000 mu (474 square kilometres) of aquaculture farms during the 13th FYP period (2016-2020). “Previously, feed-grade fish were the primary feed for largemouth bass in Zhejiang. These last two years that’s almost all been replaced with compound feed.” The FIFO ratio for farmed largemouth bass in Zhejiang could come down to 1.5, half the national average for this species, according to 2016 calculations Zhang Wenbo contributed to.

But cutting back on feed-grade fish use in China won’t be easy. Fishers catch a wide range of fish with a wide range of gear. At the local level there is a lack of fisher associations that can impose rules on the sector, making management tricky. Zhejiang’s success can be ascribed to strong local regulations. “There are no successful [international] examples that China can apply,” said Fang Qing. Alongside legislation to bolster oversight of the feed-grade fish catch, he also suggests developing feeds which will be more palatable to fish, and labelling products according to their use of feed-grade fish or compound feed, so consumers can make an informed choice.

Increasing the efficiency of fish inputs

The use of compound feed isn’t the end of the story. At least for now, fishmeal and fish oil are essential ingredients in those feeds. And while the global supply of fishmeal and fish oil has fallen from its peak in 2000 to a fairly stable level, the demand for aquaculture feeds has been increasing. That requires the development of feeds containing less meal and oil.

Plans announced by Norway to boost salmon farming have led to concerns about the supply of fishmeal and fish oil as well as vegetable ingredients. The country has started researching the use of mesopelagic fish (which inhabit the middle depths of the ocean), algae and farmed insects to meet that need and make feed more efficient. A more complete solution would be to develop entirely vegetarian feeds, with no fishmeal at all. However, as things stand that would only be suitable for a few species.

“Fishmeal is the most expensive of the ingredients found in bulk feeds. Reducing the amount in those feeds is the best way to make them cheaper,” Zhang Wenbo points out. A tonne of fishmeal costs around 10,000 yuan (US$1,500), compared to 1,000–4,000 yuan for bran or soybean meal, he added. “Feed conversion ratios are also affected by the type of aquaculture, the make-up of the feed, and genetic selection – the breeding of strains more suited to compound feeds,” he said. This is more difficult in China, with its wide range of farmed species, than in Norway, where salmon dominates. But progress is still being made, and associated targets have been set in the 14th Five Year Plan (2021–25).

Increasing the efficiency of fishmeal and fish oil use in China will also ease global pressures on the supply and help protect juvenile fish. China is the world’s biggest consumer of fishmeal, with the largest part being used in aquaculture, and the second largest being fed to pigs. But the country only produces 400,000–700,000 tonnes of fishmeal a year – not even close to meeting domestic demand. Fishmeal imports have held steady since 2017, at about 1.4 million tonnes, but jumped to 1.82 million tonnes in 2021, with experts ascribing the change to the recovery in pig farming. The extra fishmeal came from the Americas and elsewhere in Asia.

Zhang Wenbo explains that China’s fishmeal and fish oil imports come from forage fish, caught specifically to be turned into fishmeal, and Peru is the main supplier. Relatively little of China’s fishmeal is made from feed-grade fish. “Imports of by-product processed fishmeal from Vietnam and Thailand have been increasing in recent years,” he said.

Minimizing the feed-grade fish catch

Cutting back on the use of feed-grade fish is good for the sustainable development of both wild fishing and aquaculture. It will also help protect already vulnerable ocean ecosystems. In 1959, fishing vessels in China’s Bohai Sea caught 420 kg of fish per net for every hour they worked. By 1993, that had fallen to 30 kg, and only 8 kg between 1998 and 2011. The above-mentioned research into China’s feed-grade fish catch found that a long-term stable total catch has masked trends including falling biomass and changes in end use.

The losses to biodiversity and ecological services cannot be measured in financial terms, and the fishing industry needs more than simply output. Wang Songlin, president and founder of the Qingdao Marine Conservation Society, believes the industry needs to work towards a balance of ecological, economic and social benefits. He told China Dialogue that even if total catch may still be the same by volume, the underlying destruction to the integrity of ecosystems and the environment should not be ignored.

Management of the sector in China has acquired a new ecological focus. Alongside the use of compound feeds, some provinces are providing fishery stewardship subsidies for the protection of rare and endangered species and for keeping down feed-grade fish catch volumes.

Protecting juvenile fish isn’t just a matter for China – it’s crucial for ocean ecosystems around the world. Rashid Sumalia said: “If you look at the economies and the ecology at the higher level, you don’t want to [catch feed-grade fish] because the losses are too high” to be sustainable. Sumalia acknowledges that many people rely on that fishing for their livelihoods but says: “We need to take it down as far as we can.”

Zhang Chun is a senior researcher at China Dialogue. This article appears courtesy of China Dialogue Ocean and may be found in its original form here

The opinions expressed herein are the author's and not necessarily those of The Maritime Executive.

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In the past, more than 300 people in Taiwan changed their name after turning around the famous sushi restaurant “Sushi Lang ” to launch the“ Free Salmon to Eat ” campaign, setting off a “salmon chaos ” in society, showing the people ’ s love for salmon.
With Netflix ’ s new ecological crisis documentary “Seaspiracy ”, which exposes the problems of antibiotics released by“ sea captive salmon ” and fears of pollution, as well as millions of salmon crammed in underwater cages, mercilessly attacked by fish lice, and violating the nature of wild migration, people can ’ t help but look at the issue of animal persecution. It has been proven to sense pain.
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More than 300 people changed their name to "salmon" to eat! The salmon that Taiwanese love to eat is not wild at all.
As with many livestock farms on the land, salmon is of high economic value, so many aquaculture operators around the world use sea box nets to trap and breed salmon in captivity, and regularly feed them to pipelines in order to obtain huge "salmon gold" business opportunities.
If you look at Taiwan from a perspective, according to the statistics of customs imports and exports in 2020, the weight of locally imported “captive salmon ” alone is as high as 18,000 tons, with a total value of about NT $5.15 billion.
On the other hand, even if the world is hit by the epidemic in 2020, Norway, the world ’ s largest exporter of salmon, not only will the production of salmon still reach 1.1 million tons, but the export volume will also reach a record second high.
But with the release of Netflix ’ s new marine crisis documentary “Seaspiracy ” in 2023, the blood-soaked disclosure of the sea farming salmon behind the following three unknown dark sides, finally let the terrible“ salmon hell ” shake the world.
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High-density farmed salmon have nowhere to escape! Scales and fins are mercilessly devoured by sea lice parasites
Compared to free wild salmon, captive salmon are likely to be crowded together by the fish, constantly colliding, friction, conflict, and nowhere to hide, resulting in scales, kisses, and fins are broken, infectious anemia, spinal deformities and other symptoms, and are more likely to be parasitized by sea lice.
For example, a survey by the global animal lobby welfare organization Compassion in World Farming found that floating dead fish can be found everywhere in crowded salmon farms, and such a harsh living environment is simply a hotbed for the spread of disease.
What is even more frightening is that once the salmon is entangled in sea lice, the scales, skin tissue, surface mucus and blood on the body will soon become food for the parasites.
As the scales of the salmon gradually disappear, in addition to the pain of the body beginning to erode, the pain of infection in the wound or loss of immunity can also plunge them into the abyss of death.
For example, in the clip of "The Ocean Conspiracy", it directly captures the horror of the salmon being eaten alive by a parasite to the eyes, the limbs, and the body.
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In order to solve the salmon nightmare, farmers have to put a lot of irritating chemicals and antibiotics into the box to remove sea lice and reduce the risk of disease in high-density breeding, or to increase the water temperature and try to kill sea lice.
But the pumps and containers used by the former to transport chemicals have undoubtedly made the salmon's sea cages smaller and tighter, while the temperature of the latter has already exceeded the range that the salmon can adapt to, and each of them has brought great pain to the salmon.
At the same time, antibiotics and pesticides flowing into the sea will of course lead to pollution of the surrounding environment, and the organic waste generated by captive salmon will also seriously affect the entire bottom ecology.
In April 2023, the environmental group Greenpeace accused Chile ’ s salmon farming industry of dumping sewage into the ocean, killing more than 5,000 tons of salmon from oxidation.
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Undersea cages violate the migratory nature of wild salmon! Millions of animals are ignored
Not only that, Scotland, the world ’ s third largest Atlantic salmon farming exporter, which supplies about 10% of Taiwan ’ s salmon imports each year, has also been raised by the farm animal protection group Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) at the end of 2020, pointing directly to the 22 farms of the local five largest salmon farming companies, and raising millions of salmon in the sea bottom in one breath, completely depriving them of their migratory nature.
Because the migratory nature of salmon has always been a mystery in the animal world, some studies have suggested that salmon can always find the "origin" by remembering the special smell of their birthplace, or by being guided by the magnetic fields of the Sun and Earth.
Regardless of the truth, the physiological structure of salmon is obviously sensitive to sensing the environment, judging the location, and even evading electric shocks in real time.
Therefore, allowing them to roam aimlessly in the box for many years is a kind of cruelty to the body and spirit, depriving the fish instinct of long-distance migration.
All the unhealthy salmon raised in captivity are eaten by humans!
Food chain security in jeopardy
In other words, the three major concerns of captive salmon at sea have caused more than 25% of Scotland ’ s fish populations to suffer and die before they are slaughtered, resulting in a huge waste of food and a complete disregard for animal welfare.
In addition, countless dead fish have been dumped directly in open barrels by Scottish farmers, allowing wild birds and other wildlife to come into contact for food, potentially endangering the safety of other ecological chains.
Salmon farming on land is more humane to the earth! Salmon business opportunities and marine conservation to create food sustainability
Fortunately, this traditional salmon farming method is expected to gradually come to an end.
Because the international company Atlantic Sapphire has been developing "land salmon farm" for 10 years, and in 2022, it invested nearly 4 billion US dollars (about 112 billion US dollars) to build the world's largest land salmon farm Bluehouse in Florida, the United States.
The biggest feature of the land salmon farm is the use of the Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) to effectively control the temperature, salinity, pH and oxygen content of the water body, and effectively eliminate carbon dioxide and filter waste, to ensure that the salmon are free from parasites and diseases, while reducing the possibility of marine pollution.
Johan Andreassen, CEO of Atlantic Sapphire: “Ten years ago no one believed that farming salmon on land was financially viable; now Atlantic Sapphire is finally proving that it works, so the question now is how much competition there will be and how much scale there will be in this industry. ”
In order to prove that land-based salmon farming will eventually become a trend in the marine industry, Atlantic Sapphire CEO Johan Andreassen is also looking further into the future, with an estimated 372,000 square meters of fish tanks on about 650,000 square meters of land by 2031, allowing land-based salmon to meet 41% of the annual salmon consumption in the United States.
Also thanks to Atlantic Sapphire, one of the world ’ s largest salmon producers, Norwegian company Grieg Seafood has entered into a joint venture with Årdal Aqua to build a 5,000-tonne annual land farm there.
Salmon Evolution, also from Norway, joined forces with Dongwon Industries, South Korea ’ s largest seafood company, in 2023 to expand its “salmon footprint ” to South Korea.
At the same time, Benchmark Genetics, an aquaculture company that has always strictly controlled the quality of salmon eggs, now sells up to 10% of its salmon eggs to the land-based farming industry to improve the yield and quality of “land-based captive salmon. ”
People from all walks of life, through their own efforts, hope to work for the welfare of salmon, no longer be poisoned by the lust of human words, even if they reproduce artificially, they can also maintain their physical and mental health, and achieve the true meaning of "sustainable food" on earth.
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There are three major differences between wild salmon and farmed salmon.
The average consumer relies on the label on the packaging to confirm whether the salmon is farmed or wild, and the food label is different from country to country.
Stan liked the Japanese way of labelling the fish. Whether it was farmed or wild was clearly written; however, if there were no such labelling elsewhere, how would you know where it came from?
In order to make the meat more beautiful, the fish will be added to the feed to make the meat appear bright orange red, attracting consumers to buy, that is, everyone sees the color of salmon meat on weekdays, because the wild salmon does not have that kind of pigment, the fish will appear dark red, it does not look so beautiful.
If you look carefully, the fish meat of the salmon will have a very obvious white fat line, because the feed is specially added a lot of fat to speed up the weight of the fish, but in fact, the wild salmon in the food eaten in the wild environment, there is not so much fat, so the fat line of the wild salmon is smaller than that of the fish.
In addition, because many pollutants are fat-soluble, too much fat in fish makes pollutants accumulate; in terms of taste, wild salmon does not have as much fat as fish, so it is not so oily when cooking, but its fish meat is more delicious.
Of course, you may be very health-conscious and afraid that wild salmon is too expensive, but there are many other omega-3 rich ingredients to choose from.
Fish, you can eat mackerel, mackerel, tuna, sardines, etc. Plants, you can eat flaxseeds, chia seeds and peach, but note that the Omege-3 of the plant is not directly absorbed, you must undergo physical transformation to obtain, so absorption will be slower; as for supplements, you can choose fish oil or krill oil, these are very good and convenient to choose. And...
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What are some of the additives that are added to salmon feeds in salmon farms?

What are the purposes of adding pigments to the feed in salmon farms?

There are no international standards for salmon feed additives, leading to varying regulations and potential health concerns.

Country labeling regulations for salmon vary, impacting consumer awareness of additives used in farming.

The demand for natural poultry feed additives drives market growth.

Disease outbreaks drive the standardization of meat products and possibly salmon feed additives.

Taiwan regulates feed additives like probiotics and vitamins as drugs.

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Content: Chen Jizhong, chairman of the Council of Agriculture, said in an interview with the DPP Network Department Podcast that "the ear does not travel out of oil", Leckdopamine is a feed additive, "just like people, we usually eat three meals, but you will eat some health food". Sorry about the overextension, the future will be more precise words.
Chen Jizhong said in an interview with the DPP Network Department Podcast “The ear does not travel out of oil ”,“ Leckdopamine is a very simple product, that is, for example, you want to make the pig grow up, and finally provide us when the pig is eaten, you have to add some additives in addition to feed him, feed is like corn, or soybean meal to mix it. We usually eat three meals, but you will eat some health food, in fact, he let his meat exchange rate, let the lean meat more than fat. "
As soon as this statement occupied all the major pages of the media yesterday, some people criticized "Since lyophilic acid is so good, why not use it?", "Now it has become a good additive, the chairman has made me so confused!", "Open up good things, Taiwan's beautiful relations!" 」
Chen Jizhong responded today that Leckdopamine is originally a feed additive for pigs and cattle. He has never said that Leckdopamine is a health food, and he regrets the excessive expansion of the outside world.
Different countries in the world have different management methods for feed additives. In Taiwan, there are already additives for feed and drugs in Taiwan, such as probiotics, vitamins, amino acids, etc., will be based on different environments to do feed management, "If the words on the broadcast are not accurate, they will be more accurate in the future."
Chen Chi-chung says that when President Tsai opened Lai-pig on August 28 last year, he communicated with all farmers, and in order to make the market for pork at home and abroad, by clearly marking that the feed should not be used as lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-was.
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Taiwan has no specific regulations on salmon feed additives.

Differences in salmon feed additive regulations between countries can impact industry and consumer safety, but more information is needed.

The FAO plays a crucial role in shaping global regulations for salmon feed additives.

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DAMMAM (Reuters) - The European Union is threatening food supplies in developing countries.
According to Karen Holliback, who chaired the Codex Alimentarius Commission from 2008 to 2011, the EU is currently engaged in a vague but hugely important bureaucratic battle at the United Nations, and if it does not back down, it could jeopardize the economies, and even food supplies, of dozens of developing countries.
She pointed out that the dispute revolves around the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which is sometimes described as “the most important organization you ’ ve ever heard of. ”
Under the law of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), both UN agencies, the Codex Alimentarius Commission sets global safety standards for all foods traded internationally in a market of nearly $1.5 trillion.
Currently, FAO considers the EU and 188 other countries, rich and poor alike, members, and although safety standards set by the Codex Alimentarius Commission are voluntary, many developing countries eagerly embrace them because they lack the resources and technical expertise to set their own strict rules for food imports and exports.
Codex standards touch on almost every aspect of the food supply chain, from permitted additives to the level of residues that can remain in products and any supplements that can be given to livestock.
Creating an internationally applicable food code is an enormous and ongoing task as it adapts to ongoing agricultural and technological developments, and also requires extensive data collection, analysis, and scientific and technical assessment that can withstand rigorous scrutiny.
He added that the Codex works very well, and this is due to a mechanism called “statements of principles ”, which allows countries to individually object to the standard and record their disagreement, but in a way that does not prevent the adoption of the standard.
That dispute settlement mechanism had worked well so far.
But for now, the EU, along with Russia and China, is objecting to the adoption of a standard related to a generic veterinary drug called zilpaterol, which helps livestock convert feed into muscle more efficiently.
She noted that the union does not dispute the safety of the drug or health concerns, but opposes the standard for reasons related to consumer preferences.
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The FAO has 190 member countries and sets standards for the food supply chain, including permitted additives.

The FAO sets global standards for salmon feed additives that are applied in international food legislation.

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Veterinarians: The Food Safety Authority does not have effective oversight tools
Dr. Mohammed Shafik, Secretary General of the Veterinarians Syndicate, praised the state ’ s keenness to have a national food safety authority to maintain the health of citizens, pointing out that there are some legal deficiencies, starting with the issuance of a flawed law, administrative and financial regulations and then all regulatory decisions.
During his speech at the press conference entitled "Implementation of the State Food Safety Law is a imposition and not a choice", Shafik stressed that the systems and mechanisms of managing the food safety file differ from one country to another, for example, the FDA included medicine and food together, which was applied by several countries such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and China. While it was first to include food from the earliest production processes, feed additives, plants, phytosanitary and animal health until it reaches the product, it is called "food chain tracking".
He wondered: Food supplements are originally the jurisdiction of the Drug Authority according to the state laws issued, will the Food Safety Authority apply the sale of food supplements in the supermarket as a food commodity?
The Secretary-General pointed out that Dr. Hussein Mansour, head of the Food Safety Authority, manages the file on his own, taking advantage that all parties are concerned with their powers only in food safety, and do not pay attention to the management systems, saying: Are the FAO regulations applied or are the OIE regulations or the European Union (EFSA) regulations applied as standards for international food legislation?
He stressed that the Authority is currently devoid of the necessary competencies, does not have actual control tools, and does not operate a scientific system studied, and that the fragile management system was not exposed to the management of risks or crises in food safety or food accidents, pointing out that the union waited for the reform of the management of the Food Safety Authority for its legal shortcomings, but this did not happen, which made the union adhere to the application of Article 2 and 4 as control tools And the speed of publication of the job description card, which guarantees to each of the food control authorities the right to exercise its competencies in accordance with the law.

International organizations influence salmon feed regulations, impacting the global salmon market.

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council and RSPCA have standards for farmed Atlantic salmon.

The Marine Stewardship Council and Global Salmon Initiative promote sustainable and responsible salmon farming.

The FAO promotes sustainable aquaculture and tracks global production, including fish used for fishmeal and fish oil.

China is the world's biggest consumer of fishmeal, with 18 million tonnes of fish used for it in 2020.

China's Ministry of Agriculture promotes compound feed to reduce fishmeal and fish oil use in aquaculture.

What countries or jurisdictions have regulations concerning additives in salmon feed?

The FAO's reports inform global discussions on sustainable aquaculture, but there are no global regulations for salmon feed additives.

The FAO leads global cooperation, sets standards, and collects information on food and agriculture.

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Content: China ’ s Xu Dongyu re-elected as FAO director
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has re-elected its Director-General Xu Dongyu for a second term, the first Chinese to hold the post.
He was re-elected as head of the Rome-based UN agency and was voted for re-election as the sole candidate for the post by 168 votes out of 182 at the current 43rd session of the FAO Conference in a secret ballot for the biennial FAO Ministerial Conference.
The new Doño term runs from August 1 to July 13, 2027, and Doño was elected for the first time in June 2019 as the head of the organization.
Since taking office, he has effectively led FAO to address challenges related to global food security concerns and contribute to the food and agricultural development of all countries, especially developing countries.
Founded in 1945 and based in Rome, Italy, FAO leads cooperation in food and agriculture and plays a vital role in sharing world food and agricultural policies, setting standards and collecting information and statistics.
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The FAO plays a vital role in global food security and development, particularly in developing countries.

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Content: China ’ s Xu Dongyu re-elected as FAO director
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has re-elected its Director-General Xu Dongyu for a second term, the first Chinese to hold the post.
He was re-elected as head of the Rome-based UN agency and was voted for re-election as the sole candidate for the post by 168 votes out of 182 at the current 43rd session of the FAO Conference in a secret ballot for the biennial FAO Ministerial Conference.
The new Doño term runs from August 1 to July 13, 2027, and Doño was elected for the first time in June 2019 as the head of the organization.
Since taking office, he has effectively led FAO to address challenges related to global food security concerns and contribute to the food and agricultural development of all countries, especially developing countries.
Founded in 1945 and based in Rome, Italy, FAO leads cooperation in food and agriculture and plays a vital role in sharing world food and agricultural policies, setting standards and collecting information and statistics.
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The FAO, founded in 1945, is based in Rome, Italy, and led by a Director-General.

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Content: China ’ s Xu Dongyu re-elected as FAO director
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has re-elected its Director-General Xu Dongyu for a second term, the first Chinese to hold the post.
He was re-elected as head of the Rome-based UN agency and was voted for re-election as the sole candidate for the post by 168 votes out of 182 at the current 43rd session of the FAO Conference in a secret ballot for the biennial FAO Ministerial Conference.
The new Doño term runs from August 1 to July 13, 2027, and Doño was elected for the first time in June 2019 as the head of the organization.
Since taking office, he has effectively led FAO to address challenges related to global food security concerns and contribute to the food and agricultural development of all countries, especially developing countries.
Founded in 1945 and based in Rome, Italy, FAO leads cooperation in food and agriculture and plays a vital role in sharing world food and agricultural policies, setting standards and collecting information and statistics.
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The FAO holds a biennial Ministerial Conference, influences agriculture policy, and elects a Director-General.

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Qu Dongyu re-elected as FAO Director-General
July 2, 2023, 19: 35 | Source: Xinhua Network
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Xinhua News Agency, ROME, July 2, The 43rd session of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held on July 2 in Rome, the capital of Italy, the election of the new Director-General, Chinese candidate and current Director-General Qu Dongyu, was successfully re-elected by a high vote.
Chinese Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Qu Dongyu (center) awaits the results of the vote at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, on July 2.
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Qu Dongyu was elected Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in June 2019, becoming the first Chinese Director-General in the history of the organization.
Since serving as FAO Director-General, Qu Dongyu has actively led FAO in tackling the challenges of global food security and helping countries, especially developing countries, to develop food and agriculture, which has been recognized by FAO member states.
On July 2, the election of the new Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was held in Rome, Italy.
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Founded in 1945 and headquartered in Rome, Italy, FAO is a specialized agency of the United Nations system responsible for cooperation in the field of food and agriculture, and has an important influence in global food and agriculture policy exchange, standard setting, and information statistics.
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Senior CPC Official Joins UN Food and Agriculture Organization to Serve Beijing ’ s Interests
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) this month re-elected its secretary-general, with Qu Dongyu (pictured) as the only candidate, a former deputy minister of agriculture in China, but a German media investigation found that Qu Dongyu ’ s restructuring of the FAO became a tool to serve Beijing ’ s interests during his four years in office. (AFP file photo)
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) this month re-elected its secretary-general, the current Qu Dongyu is the only candidate, he is a former deputy minister of agriculture of China, but according to a German media investigation, Qu Dongyu in the past four years, the restructuring of the FAO has become a tool to serve Beijing's interests.
Deutsche Welle (DW) reported on June 30 that a total of four German media groups investigated Qu: Bavarian Radio and Television (BR), Central German Radio and Television (MDR), Berlin-Brandenburg Radio and Television (RBB), and South-West German Radio and Television (SWR).
After about a month, the investigation team collected internal data and documents provided by informants on four continents, and interviewed a large number of former and current staff of the Food and Agriculture Organization, as well as German domestic and international experts, and found that Qu Dongyu's four years in office had transformed FAO into a tool for serving and serving China's interests.
For example, to provide Europe to ban pesticides produced by Chinese manufacturers, to plan the United Nations project and the Belt and Road, but the United States is not China is the largest contributor to the Food and Agriculture Organization, followed by Germany, statistics show that in 2021, Germany paid FAO more than 100 million euros (about NT $3.4 billion).
The investigation team revealed that in 2019, the FAO Secretary-General was re-elected to represent Africa ’ s Medi Moungui, who was originally one of the five candidates officially nominated, but Meng Gui withdrew after China cancelled Cameroon ’ s nearly $80 million (about NT $2.4 billion) debt.
At the time, Julia Klockner, the German Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture, recalled that it was widely known before the vote that African delegates were asked to take their votes during the voting.
There were 191 votes, and Qu Dongyu was elected with 108 votes in the first round.
The investigation team said that after Qu Dongyu took office, the food and agriculture organization initially had only two Chinese executives, but gradually increased to six, and that many important positions were held and controlled by Chinese who had been subjected to strict political ideological scrutiny and had to report regularly to the embassy, which the FAO internally called “spies. ”
Internal documents obtained for 2020-2023 show that the FAO supplied pesticides produced by Syngenta AG to Africa, Asia and Oceania, which are toxic and banned in Europe.
Syngenta was acquired by China Chemical in 2017, and on June 16 this year, the SSE passed the IPO application.
In addition, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which has been appointed by Qu Dongyu, has become an affiliate of the Belt and Road Initiative, such as a press release issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of China: "China helps neighboring Laos (Laos) vaccinate cattle exported to China through the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)."
According to an internal FAO project note, this is in line with China ’ s priority to support the Belt and Road Regional Trade Initiative.
The Deutsche Welle report quoted an article published by the Italian magazine Formiche in late May that Iraq and Tajikistan withdrew in March and April, respectively, and should have competed with Qu Dongyu for the nomination of secretary-general in July.
Both countries have joined the Belt and Road Initiative, so that Qu Dongyu is the only candidate for the new secretary-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Content: Mowi, the world's largest salmon farmer, has successfully issued NOK 3.5 billion (€298 million/$318 million) of new senior unsecured green bonds split between two tranches, the company said Thursday.

The transaction was "well oversubscribed," the salmon giant added.

The proceeds from the bond issues will be used for green projects defined by Mowi's Green and Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework dated May 2023.

Several new green projects were added in 2023, two of which relate to the company's investments in new capacity for Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC)-certified salmon farming through license purchases in the northern and southern regions of Norway, where 68 percent and 79 percent respectively of Mowi’s farming operations are ASC-certified, and through the acquisition of a majority share in 100 percent ASC-certified Icelandic salmon farming company Arctic Fish in December 2022, the company said in its 2023 Green Financing Impact Report.

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Content: For a Model in Sustainable Sushi, Look No Further Than Oregon

From albacore to unagi, here’s how to spot responsibly sourced seafood on menus.

Normally, a casual night out for sushi doesn’t require much thought. The allure is being able to grab whatever salmon nigiri glides your way on the conveyor belt or trusting the omakase menu to guide you toward your next roll loaded with freshly sliced fish.

But in Oregon, every step of the seafood process has been meticulously thought out, from policy to plate, ensuring the most sustainable seafood option ends up on your table.

This can all be traced back to Portland Mayor Vera Katz, who drafted and adopted a first-in-the-nation set of urban sustainability principles nearly 30 years ago. The Sustainable City Principles continue to shape the city’s environmental policies to this day and, yes, make an impact on what’s inside your unagi and crab roll.

Her guidelines met the moment globally—adopted at a time when world governments first mobilized to respond to the threat of climate change—but also served as the guiding blueprint for the city’s efforts to mitigate harm on local wildlife and, in turn, permeated its sprawling food and bar scene.

Seafood, of course, has become increasingly vulnerable to climate change and overfishing, according to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). And, as one of the greenest cities in America, Portland is a mecca for the sustainable seafood movement—from being the starting grounds for restaurants like Bamboo Sushi, the world’s first MSC-certified sushi restaurant, to pioneering local programs like the Endangered Species Act Program. What began as local policy has transformed a so-called “parochial backwater” into an all encompassing, globally known food culture that lives and dies by the mantra “local, organic, and sustainable.”

“Portland really blew me away,” says Top Chef star and James Beard nominee Gregory Gourdet, who moved from New York City to head Portland’s Departure Restaurant + Lounge more than a decade ago. “I was amazed with the produce, from the bounty of berries, hazelnuts, mushrooms, and seafood. We are so directly connected to the people who grow our food here. It makes a difference when you know who your farmer is and you’re having honest conversations about what they’re growing or can’t grow because of the heat waves or a snowstorm.”

For Gourdet—who’s opening his own restaurant, Kann, this summer in Portland—the decades-long push for more sustainable seafood, from its sourcing to transportation, is responding to the larger, urgent global issue of overfishing.

According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, more than 35 percent of global fisheries are fishing at unsustainable levels, leading to rapidly depleting populations of seafood mainstays like bluefin tuna and salmon across the world.

With the global demand for seafood at historic highs, and with a growing number of fish populations on the brink of extinction, Gourdet says that both chefs and diners have a responsibility to heed the call to save our ocean’s ecosystems. “As chefs, there is an extra level of responsibility we all should have to help inform our guests,” he says. “It’s our responsibility as stewards of the land to offer options that are good for you and the planet.”

Hardly anywhere is this more evident than Portland’s own Bamboo Sushi, which now has expanded to nearly 10 locations in Seattle, Denver, and California. “It’s a finite resource, but we’re treating it like it’s an infinite resource,” says Bamboo chef Jin Soo Yang “We’re going to have to wake up to the day that this is not going to be ok.”

What does sustainable seafood actually mean?

While the term “sustainable” has become a nebulous marketing term, slapped on everything from laptops to fast fashion, Yang is clear-eyed about what it means for seafood. “It’s become too marketable. Now, everybody’s ‘sustainable.’” he says. “I want to stop using the word ‘sustainability.’ Let’s talk purpose. Let’s talk about the actions that we’re taking.”

At Bamboo Sushi, he’s crafted a research-heavy process to source ingredients for his chefs’ sushi creations, one that involves independent research, personal outreach to fishers on the scene, and cross-referencing certifications and endangered fish species from the Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA), Asian Seafood Improvement Collaborative, and MSC.

The process is so intensive that Yang has created a supply chain and sustainability director position within the company, someone who directly communicates with fisheries and fishers to make sure that Bamboo Sushi is serving “the most sustainable product at the best price.”

“Let’s discuss different life cycles of fish, how long does it take for them to rebound, how long does it take for them to get to sexual maturity,” Yang explains. “Let’s look into the fisheries—who’s managing their fishery appropriately? Even if it’s scary or expensive, it’s a mission right? We’re here for a purpose.”

Gourdet says that he also deploys a similarly all-encompassing vetting process that utilizes resources like MSC and MBA, and considers the sustainability of the whole of the process, from the sourcing to the packaging to the carbon emissions generated from the transportation. “Oftentimes, I question shipping fish from all over the world, even if it is the most sustainable,” he says. “Do I really need to fly in salmon from New Zealand and what’s the impact of that on the environment even through it’s ‘sustainable seafood?’”

But, even research has its limits. When it comes to imported seafood from fisheries abroad, particularly Japan, Yang says there’s a frustrating lack of public information available on supply chain traceability and farming standards.

Take, for example, unagi or eel, which has been broadly deemed unsustainable because of opaque farming standards abroad and its rapidly depleting populations both in the U.S. and Japan. Yang says he’s been working for years to find sustainable sources of eel to serve at Bamboo Sushi—efforts that went unanswered until last year with the opening of American Unagi, the nation’s first glass eel farm. (The product is used in Bamboo’s Zig Zag Roll.)

“You’d be amazed at how much of a lack of information there is out there, depending on what fisheries in different countries feel comfortable telling us,” Yang says.

For both Gourdet and Yang, sourcing their ingredients locally from fishers and farmers is an integral part of their approaches to sustainability. Part of it is practical—it’s easier to vet fishing or farming practices when you directly know and interact with the fisher. Plus, there are lower carbon emissions involved with local transport and processing.

The menu at Bamboo Sushi heavily features albacore from Oregon—whether diners opt to drape it atop the popular Green Machine Roll or have it gently seared as nigiri. Other popular items include kampachi from Hawaii served with yuzu juice and truffle sauce and coho salmon from Alaska rolled alongside avocado and crispy kaiso. All told, Yang estimates that about 80% of the seafood served at the restaurant is domestic.

Sustainability beyond the menu

The other part of the sustainability ethos is philosophical. Both Yang and Gourdet believe that a true sustainability effort starts locally, and, true to Katz’s principles, is defined by how they support their local community, from their workers to the residents.

“We are a smaller community and we have direct relationships with so many of the people who grow food here,” Gourdet says. “It’s been extremely important to me that I am connected with the people who helped organize all of our great resources. Local is definitely the best choice when we talk about the bigger picture of sustainability.”

Yangs says that sustainability, for him, is also defined by how Bamboo Sushi treats its workers. While the nuts and bolts of sustainability as it relates to seafood matter, Yang says that he approaches the term “holistically” within his company. The restaurant offers one fully-paid eight-hour shift for employees to volunteer in the local community, whether that be at a soup kitchen or a trash pickup.

“Sustainability for us is not a gimmick, it’s an ethos,” Yang explains. “Our sustainability is the way we treat our people. We want to make sure that people understand that our sustainability is not just for the product we serve to our guests.”

It’s an ethos that Gourdet says that he hopes to create at Kann, his ode to Haitian cuisine (“The most delicious food in the world.”) and the bounty of Oregon. “Sustainability just means creating systems where everyone can thrive for a long time,” Gourdet says. “That means team mental health and having an equitable workplace. That’s a big part of it, too.”

How to prioritize sustainable seafood as a consumer

Both Gourdet and Yang recommend using the Marine Stewardship Council as a resource for vetting sustainable fish and fisheries, and for good reason.

Founded in 1997 following the collapse of the Grand Banks cod fishery in Canada, the MSC has spearheaded global efforts to curb overfishing through its sustainability standards and fishery certification program.

According to Dan Averill, MSC’s senior fisheries manager, the certification process is multi-pronged and intensive, taking place over a 12-month span and conducted by a third-party assessor. Averill says that a MSC-certified fishery must meet three requirements: it must fish from sustainable populations that can remain productive and healthy into the future, minimize its impacts on marine ecosystems, and maintain effective, adaptable fishery management that meets local, state, and federal fishing regulations.

Fisheries that meet the MSC’s certification standards can earn the nonprofit’s blue fish product label—a sign that a seafood product is ecological, from the fishery to the grocery store.

“The fishery must also undergo annual audits and re-certification every five years,” Averill says. “Fisheries are resilient and dynamic, so a fishery whose populations are struggling one year can be flourishing the next. So, that’s why there are checks and balances in the MSC program to make sure that fisheries are under regular surveillance for changing conditions.”

Beyond looking for the blue seal, if you’re at a restaurant and unsure of whether or not you’re engaging in sustainable consumption, Gourdet recommends using apps like Seafood Watch to see what fish populations are endangered and directly asking restaurants where they source their seafood.

“It’s important to not be afraid to ask your servers where your fish is from and whether it’s sustainable,” says Gourdet. “I think that’s a fair question and we as people who operate in hospitality should have those answers for you. It’s also important that people know what they’re putting in their bodies and where it comes from.”

The impulse to invest and participate in sustainable forms of consumption is natural. After all, Yang says, “our dollar is our vote,” but he implores consumers to directly engage with policymakers in charge of local, state, and federal policies, and to vote based on their convictions. After all, Portland’s sustainability culture didn’t just come out of nowhere: it was born from city policy crafted by Katz back in 1994, and built on by successive administrations.

“People always joke, ‘Write your local representative,’ but it works! They work for us,” Yang says. “If you want change, you have to be involved. You can’t let other people change it for you.”

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The ASC certification ensures responsible and sustainable use of feed and additives on certified farms.

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Content: Mowi, the world's largest salmon farmer, has successfully issued NOK 3.5 billion (€298 million/$318 million) of new senior unsecured green bonds split between two tranches, the company said Thursday.

The transaction was "well oversubscribed," the salmon giant added.

The proceeds from the bond issues will be used for green projects defined by Mowi's Green and Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework dated May 2023.

Several new green projects were added in 2023, two of which relate to the company's investments in new capacity for Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC)-certified salmon farming through license purchases in the northern and southern regions of Norway, where 68 percent and 79 percent respectively of Mowi’s farming operations are ASC-certified, and through the acquisition of a majority share in 100 percent ASC-certified Icelandic salmon farming company Arctic Fish in December 2022, the company said in its 2023 Green Financing Impact Report.

The MSC certification process, conducted by a third-party assessor, takes 12 months and requires fisheries to meet three standards: sustainable populations, minimal ecosystem impact, and effective management.

MSC certification requires sustainable populations, minimal ecosystem impact, and effective management.

Mowi uses ASC-certified salmon farming, with 68% of its northern Norway operations certified.

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Content: Mowi, the world's largest salmon farmer, has successfully issued NOK 3.5 billion (€298 million/$318 million) of new senior unsecured green bonds split between two tranches, the company said Thursday.

The transaction was "well oversubscribed," the salmon giant added.

The proceeds from the bond issues will be used for green projects defined by Mowi's Green and Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework dated May 2023.

Several new green projects were added in 2023, two of which relate to the company's investments in new capacity for Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC)-certified salmon farming through license purchases in the northern and southern regions of Norway, where 68 percent and 79 percent respectively of Mowi’s farming operations are ASC-certified, and through the acquisition of a majority share in 100 percent ASC-certified Icelandic salmon farming company Arctic Fish in December 2022, the company said in its 2023 Green Financing Impact Report.

Mowi has a Green and Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework that funds green projects.

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Content: Mowi, the world's largest salmon farmer, has successfully issued NOK 3.5 billion (€298 million/$318 million) of new senior unsecured green bonds split between two tranches, the company said Thursday.

The transaction was "well oversubscribed," the salmon giant added.

The proceeds from the bond issues will be used for green projects defined by Mowi's Green and Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework dated May 2023.

Several new green projects were added in 2023, two of which relate to the company's investments in new capacity for Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC)-certified salmon farming through license purchases in the northern and southern regions of Norway, where 68 percent and 79 percent respectively of Mowi’s farming operations are ASC-certified, and through the acquisition of a majority share in 100 percent ASC-certified Icelandic salmon farming company Arctic Fish in December 2022, the company said in its 2023 Green Financing Impact Report.

The MSC certification is important for Asian customers and required for exporting to Europe, but does not impact transaction terms or price.

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18 June 2024
The domestic market is certainly not experiencing a salmon shortage
Evgeny Karpov, General Director, Kamchatka Meridian Trading House
A rich catch, it would seem, should please fishermen, but it is not easy to sell it, even if we are talking about such a popular fish as Pacific salmon, the volume of production of which Russia last year again took first place in the world.
With what expectations the market approaches the new salmon Putin, how the situation differs from last year and what factors most affect the preferences of Russian and foreign buyers, in an interview with Fishnews told the CEO of the trading house "Kamchatka Meridian" Eugene Karpov.
— Evgeny, how would you characterize the situation with salmon, which developed in the market before Putin?
A year ago, the catches were close to a record - did you manage to sell everything?
— The situation with the implementation is now very difficult.
Almost all types of salmon remain large runoff, which will pass into the next year.
Most likely, for some time this will be a deterrent to price growth – even taking into account the fact that this year the approaches promise small.
— This often happens or usually by the beginning of Putin ’ s last year ’ s fish is no longer there?
- In my practice for 15 years, this is the first time that we have so many fish transferred to the next year.
Even though the price was low this year.
We usually go into the new season without any leftovers.
- In your opinion, due to what happened?
Only because of the successful Putin or sales volumes are also declining?
I think it was influenced by a combination of factors.
Big fish certainly played a role.
But the end consumer in his food basket paid less attention to the Far Eastern salmon.
We even see from our own retail that around March there was a strong decline.
First of all, this applies to pink salmon and coho, with keta - more or less stable.
For example, coho in our store costs 450 rubles, and at the same time it is not really sold.
- Although in previous years, restaurateurs have repeatedly complained that they lack coho.
- Exactly.
If we compare with salmon and trout, there are wholesale prices in the region of 700-800 rubles, and we already retail - 450 rubles, and we do not see any excitement - barely sold.
So the situation is tough.
In fact, the domestic market in the price range has almost stood still for four years, the average prices plus or minus the same.
The same can be said about volumes.
— And the forecasts of science that this year will not be so fruitful for salmon, affect the mood of wholesale buyers?
Most buyers don ’ t look that far into the future.
People live in the present day: buy a little fish, do not take in advance.
Although, from the point of view of fish processing, now the price is very comfortable - even with an eye to work next year, because the shelf life of frozen fish is 24 months, of course, if you follow the storage conditions.
It is clear that a lot depends on the availability of working capital in companies.
To buy raw materials for future use, you need either your own money or credit.
Our loans are now expensive, respectively, processors do not have the opportunity to buy a larger volume and store it longer.
Therefore, they have to work with the wheels, and our sales are slowed down.
— Enterprises whose products are sold by the Kamchatka Meridian Trading House passed MSC certification of moose fisheries several years ago.
What does this mean when working in different markets?
Certification is important when working with customers from Asian countries, because Asian companies supply their products to global markets, including Europe, and they ask for an MSC certificate.
In such cases, it is important that the entire supply chain is certified and can be traced from the beginning to the very end.
At the same time, the presence of certification does not affect the terms of the transaction at all, and the price range - only when there are few fish.
It happens that the first batch is taken only with an MSC certificate, and the rest are taken without it.
In the Russian market, this certificate is not needed and is not interesting.
— And for the Russian market it is important, who exactly is the manufacturer?
Or the main thing is that the products comply with the stated characteristics of the sale?
- Yeah, it's important.
Processors tend to have an idea of   the products of different plants, so they often ask for fish from certain manufacturers.
Sometimes you yourself offer to try the products of another plant, and the processor refuses, because its production is already fully configured for a specific raw material.
In retail, there are practically no such requirements, there is a visual inspection - the fish looks good, the eyes are glittering, the documents are checked - and everything is fine, let's go.
This is not the case with processors.
In fact, the competition among manufacturers is huge, and this is good, because when there is competition, there is development.
Every company tries to improve the quality of products - this is the first point.
But there are others – for example, the issue of delivery to the buyer.
If you take our group, we have our own transport company, which allows us to provide our customers with a full range of services: caught fish themselves, sold, loaded, delivered, gave.
The buyer does not need to look for who will deliver the fish, worry about maintaining the temperature regime, solve emerging problems.
Products are under our control all the time.
By the way, many companies go the same way: build their logistics, services.
I think all of this is driving the market forward.
Is the catch area for red fish also important?
And are there leaders in popularity among the Far Eastern regions?
- You know, there is.
The first place is occupied by Sakhalin fish - pink salmon, it is constantly asked.
But since the approaches on Sakhalin have been weak in recent years, the prices for this raw material are simply space, the difference can reach 50 rubles per kilogram, so processors still go for more affordable pink salmon to Kamchatka.
There is a different herd, the meat of the fish is a little different - and the color and consistency.
The chicken is also very good.
If we talk about ketu, then in the Khabarovsk Territory, on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, there is an enterprise that, in my opinion, is one of the best in keta.
But Sakhalin, where chum is mainly factory breeding, on the contrary is not so popular with fish processors.
— Given this, is it worth, in your opinion, to develop brands with a geographical reference?
For example, "Kamchatka salmon" or "Far Eastern pollock"?
It's hard for me to say.
The Russian Fish brand, of course, needs to be developed and promoted.
And regional brands are rather consumer history and, probably, more for the western part of our country - Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Urals, from where the Far East or Kamchatka look something distant and interesting.
Russian fishermen are often accused of too strong an export orientation.
Is this true for Pacific salmon products?
In your experience, which fish is most in demand abroad?
Let ’ s look at individual species.
Almost all coho - 99.9% - goes to the domestic market.
In terms of sockeye, about 60-70% is Japan, exports.
Further pink salmon - in some years, the ratio may be 50% to 50%, and may be 70% to 30% in favor of the domestic market.
About 20% is bought by Asia - Vietnam, China, and the rest goes to the domestic market.
In the Far Eastern salmon, our country certainly does not experience a deficit.
— You recently returned from the largest fish exhibition in Europe Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona.
What was the main purpose of the trip for you?
First of all, we were able to meet with our Asian partners.
This is important because the next exhibition where this can be done will be held only in Dalian, and this is not soon.
In addition, there are many partners in Europe who would like to resume work with us when the opportunity arises.
In this regard, it was useful to communicate with them, to find out in general how the situation is there.
They, too, not everything is smooth, the purchasing power has greatly decreased from Europeans.
The main thing is that we do not lose ties, we maintain a dialogue, and we are waiting.
— Some Far Eastern regions are actively engaged in organizing business missions, hold festivals for exporters at home and abroad, and use a variety of opportunities to establish international relations.
How do you assess the effectiveness of such projects?
- It actually helps.
We are slowly beginning to swing new directions of supply.
It is clear that this is not a question of one day or even one year.
It may take five years before anything works out, but to be honest, it ’ s worth it.
We are investing in a future where in a few years we will stand on our feet and compete on an equal footing in these markets.
For example, our representatives have already traveled to Kyrgyzstan, then to Uzbekistan, and now they are in Turkey.
I myself was at the exhibition in the UAE, we plan to supply pollock fillet and red fish, as well as caviar.
Next in the plans - Thailand, the exhibition will be in Bangkok.
We are also interested in Brazil and Latin America in general.
I consider this region one of the most promising markets for the sale of pollock fillet, white fish - at least because of its size.
In general, there are many interesting areas, we are actively working on them, and the authorities are seriously helping us in this.
I am referring to the programs of the Ministry of Agriculture for the development of exports, and the initiatives of the leadership of the Kamchatka Territory, and the activities of export centers in Primorye and Kamchatka.
They are really doing everything possible at their own level, and we are happy to cooperate with them, participate in foreign delegations, receive feedback — all this is very valuable.
— How is the work on the online service FishStat, which is designed for wholesale transactions with fish products?
Has the project already been launched in wide access?
In May, we launched it in full.
The first participants of the online service were our partners.
They already have the ability to buy fish in this system in real time, use logistics, watch storage in refrigerators - and everything related to it.
Now we are closely engaged in tools for analytics, training artificial intelligence, and I think that next year it will be able to tell users of the platform the level of prices for various types of products within the country.
Moreover, we upload sales data for several years into the system, so it will be able to build forecasts on them in advance.
— How big is the interest in such a tool on the part of your partners?
- We have already discussed this topic with some fishermen and fish processing enterprises.
They are also interested to get acquainted with our system, upload their products there and see how it will work.
Because in our field they are used to working the old fashioned way, to find out the details and conditions on the call.
And here you went: there are photos, the fishing area is indicated, the size range is present and prices.
The latter is especially important, and we ask suppliers to specify the real prices in the rules of the service.
Thus, the buyer immediately sees all the information, he chooses the product that suits him, and the volume that he needs.
I entered the numbers, pressed one button and the application immediately flew to the supplier ’ s mail.
The manager processed this request, wrote a message in the messenger on the same platform, attached an account and sent it. That 's it!
Plus, the entire history of correspondence is saved, which makes it easy to resolve possible disputes.
— In addition to analytical functions, what other advantages does FishStat have compared to other trading systems?
— For example, we consider our messenger with a built-in online translator based on neural network technologies, which instantly translates messages from Russian to English and Chinese and back.
This allows you to discuss transactions with foreign partners, even without knowing the language.
When we trained the neural network and tested the translation quality with Chinese partners, the accuracy reached 99%.
We understood them, and they understood us.
Now we are working on other languages, first of all, Korean and Japanese, we will connect them as soon as we are ready.
It seems to me that this is a huge plus, because our fishermen have many Asian partners, and such communication is very convenient for them.
- At the end of last year, you talked about plans to hold a Far Eastern salmon festival.
Are they still in force?
If so, where and when is the event planned?
The festival is still in our plans.
I think popularization is important.
We would very much like the Russian consumer not to pay more attention to imported salmon, and would look in the direction of his native Pacific.
And then it is even a shame when you come to a restaurant even in Vladivostok or Sakhalin, and in the menu salmon is by default trout or salmon.
Yes, our fish is a little different, but we just need to find an approach to it.
So many culinary shows are held, why not show how to cook pink salmon or keta properly to be tasty?
As soon as the salmon goes to Kamchatka, we will finally determine the date of the festival.
We have already chosen a place for this.
In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, we are now launching our retail store, and on its basis we plan to start this story with a festival.
And in the future, we want to make the same events in Moscow, St. Petersburg and, possibly, in Novosibirsk — we are just conducting such negotiations with our partners.
— Is the store in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky your first step in retail or has there already been such an experience?
- If we talk about the Kamchatka Meridian Trading House, then in Moscow we are now working with several Pyaterochki, on the territory of which our fish shops are located.
For us, such a neighborhood is convenient, it gives great permeability.
So far, four shops have been opened, but if everything goes well, we will gradually expand.
But in the Far East, this store will be the first for us.
Fishstat.ru
Advertiser — Kamchatka Meridian Trading House LLC
Anna LIM, Fishnews
June 2024
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Dining Table Learning: Leave the Ocean a Bowl to Breathe
[Ming Pao News] In coffee shops or Western-style restaurants that provide light meals, in addition to avocado, salmon is often found on the menu – a popular ingredient that can increase the price in an environment with high operating costs, and is simple and convenient to handle (especially smoked salmon), high plasticity, and any sauce or side dishes are safe dishes.
In Hong Kong, we can always choose to eat a certain kind of fish, so most restaurants only use a few popular and convenient seafood.
I also love seafood, but I can ’ t help but worry about what ’ s left of our ocean when I see cheap sushi restaurants, snow-covered fish fillets, and comments on social media groups showing off that I ’ ve eaten a variety of rare species of fish.
Gifts of the Ocean
The ocean covers about two-thirds of the earth. More than 80% of human discoveries about the ocean are still unknown, but 80% of the earth's living creatures are home to the sea.
Oceans are just as important as rainforests. The entire ecosystem regulates the Earth ’ s temperature and absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, providing abundant food for humans.
Humans feed from rivers, lakes, and coasts when they are present, especially when gathering and hunting are unable to provide enough food, and fish is abundant and endlessly abundant as a transitional food.
As humans evolved from harvesting and hunting to domesticating wild animals and plants to farming and animal husbandry, until the Industrial Revolution, the methods of obtaining fish were largely the same: fishing with forks and nets, fishing with fishes or dams, and collecting mollusca (shellfish, octopus, squid, etc.) on the coast.
Archaeologists and historians view fish as the food that has underpinned the development of human civilization.
China had a regular fishery industry as early as 3500 BC. Since 475 BC (the Warring States Period), it has developed a complete set of aquaculture management methods. After more than 1,000 years, the business derived from fish farming, such as planting mulberry trees next to fish ponds to raise silkworms, making fish sauce, etc., has led to economic development.
In addition to beer and bread, dried fish was an important food for the craftsmen, priests and civilians involved in the huge pyramid project in ancient Egypt (circa 2560 BC).
Pickled fish and dried fish were the daily food of the Roman Empire (27 BC to 476 AD), feeding sailors, armies and slaves.
Fish played a very important role in Japan from the Ribbon Period (about 14000 BC to 300 AD), especially after Buddhism came to Japan in the 7th century AD and the Emperor issued a meat ban. In 1883, British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley was convinced that cod, herring, sardines and mackerel fisheries, and possibly all large marine fisheries, were inexhaustible. It does not affect the number of fish.
It has now been proven that this great biologist far underestimated the destructive power of this human creature.
The Sea of Sorrow
Since trawling began in the 1300s, mankind has been “evolving ” its destructive power since the industrial revolution. In the 1890s, steam trawlers caught up to eight times more than windswept fishing boats, and diesel-powered trawlers sometimes caught up to 40% more than steam trawlers.
After World War II, sonar (also sonar), originally used to detect enemy positions in the ocean, was used to detect fish stocks, nylon nets replaced cotton nets, and larger steel boats replaced wooden fishing boats, which were able to go farther to catch deeper fish.
The documentary “Seaspiracy ” points out that the current trawl is as big as a football field, towing along the seabed, leveling the entire seabed into wasteland faster and larger than leveling the rainforest. Today, the average forest area that is leveled every minute is equal to 27 football fields, and the average seabed area that is leveled every minute is 4,316 football fields, equivalent to one year. It flattened Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Iran, Thailand and Australia.
Leading international fisheries experts estimate that if current fishing trends continue, the oceans will be wiped out by 2048.
While the bottom trawl destroys all benthic habitats, a quarter of the fish catch is immediately discarded, because these by-catch have no market value, and the by-catch also includes high-ranking and important organisms in the marine life chain such as dolphins and sea turtles, seriously disrupting the ecological balance.
According to the Plastic Pollution Coalition, more than half of all marine litter is plastic fishing gear, especially fish nets.
Some fish products, such as canned tuna, are labeled with the Marine Stewardship Council Certified Sustainable Seafood label or the Dolphin-Safe label issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. There are thousands of connections, and no one has ever been sent to a fishing boat to monitor the actual operation, so long as the money can buy these labels.
These labels can increase the price of products and become a more profitable tool for fishery enterprises.
Since the 1970s, trophic levels such as halibut, cod and bluefin tuna have been at the highest, with numbers falling by 86 to 99%.
Once a 12-year veteran of the MICHELIN Samsung in Japan, Jiro Ono, the god of sushi, lamented that he could not find good seafood when he was young, and the seafood that used to be easy to get is now rare.
Utilizing quotas to support sustainable fisheries
As fewer and fewer fish are available, fish are raised to meet the market ’ s demand for seafood, and nearly half of all fish now come from farms.
It looks like aquaculture is a way out, but that doesn ’ t reduce the impact on the ocean.
Although there are sustainable natural farms, the quality of fisheries is even better than that of wild capture, but most of the world's farms for economic efficiency, fish are crowded in a high-density living environment, swimming in their own excrement, antibiotics and uneaten feed pollution the surrounding water quality, once the genetically unified fish escape will endanger the diversity of endangered wild species.
In addition, meat or scavenging species (salmon and shrimp) feed mainly for fishmeal, in fact, it is also consuming non-protected wild fish, and it is very inefficient (1.2 kg of feed per 1 kg of salmon; 1.5 kg of Bluefin Tuna per 1 kg).
At present, the only way to protect the ocean is to not eat seafood.
I always want to eat seafood.
David Toutain, the French chef who received two Michelin stars and a green star in Paris, suggested that we should leave the table to nature, avoid eating from time to time, eat less fish and meat, and leave the quota for eating quality, quality and quantity.
I envy my friends living in Paris who participate in the community to support sustainable fishing, get to know fishermen and learn about ocean-friendly fishing methods. Members can only order the seafood that the fisherman is expected to catch during the week, not what kind of seafood the fisherman is asked to provide.
Use what you can and don't waste it.
Slow Food has set up an international network, Slow Fish, to focus on marine biodiversity, promote sustainable fisheries and promote responsible seafood consumption. Unfortunately, the Slow Fish network in Asia is only in Taiwan. Although there is no organization support in Hong Kong, as a consumer, you can think about and consciously choose before eating fish.
WWF-Hong Kong has produced the Seafood Selection Guide, which covers the seafood varieties commonly found in local markets, supermarkets, refrigerated food stores and restaurants. It is divided into three categories: Preferred, Second Choice and Avoid.
The revised Taiwan Seafood Selection Guide by the Taiwan Ocean Conservation and Fisheries Sustainability Foundation is also worth a look.
Australian chef Josh Niland, who specializes in fish cooking, said that fish should not be regarded as an immutable and readily available commodity. Quality fish is not easy to come by, and should be treated as a precious and important place to encourage consumers to know and choose different fish, learn to handle whole fish and make the best use of them, and reduce waste.
I am still planning to cook a weekly seafood soup for dinner. After reading a lot of information, I still have to wait for a special day to eat seafood. Instead, I will cook vegan weekly mixed vegetable soup, replace fresh cream with chickpeas and potatoes, and add fresh flavor with kombu and salted yeast.
Chow Ta Miso Soup. Recipe
【 Ingredients 】 (4 to 5 servings)
• kumbu … … 8g
• Water … … 800g
• Dried chickpeas … 120g
• Onion … 1 piece (180g)
• Garlic … 1 piece
• Extra virgin olive oil … about 60 to 90 grams (about 4 to 6 tablespoons)
• Carrot … … 200g
• Potato … … 320g
• Mushrooms … 250g
• Laurel leaves … … 1 slice
• Thyme … 0.5g (about half a teaspoon)
• Coriander … … a little (chopped)
• Salt Koji … 40g (about 4 teaspoons)
• Lemon juice … 2g (about half a teaspoon)
• Black pepper … 0.6g (about half a teaspoon)
• Overnight sourdough bread … … 1 slice
• Sea salt … about 3g (half a teaspoon)
【 Practice 】
1. Put kunbu in the water, put it in the refrigerator overnight (8 hours), put it in the pot the next day, cook for half an hour on a low heat, do not cook until the water boils, the water is slightly out of steam, ready (after cooking the kunbu can be left to make other cold dishes).
Wash and peel the onion, rinse the chickpeas, put in a pot, add 360 grams of kunbu soup, half an onion, bay leaf, 2 grams of salt, heat over medium heat, roll the soup over a low heat, and cook until the chickpeas are softened.
2. Preheat the oven to 180 ℃. Cut the garlic in half. Drain 1 teaspoon of olive oil on each side and sprinkle 1 / 5 teaspoon of sea salt. Bake in tin paper for 40 minutes or until the garlic is softened.
3. Dice sour bread, drizzle with olive oil, bake in oven for 15 minutes until golden brown, set aside.
4. Peel and diced potato and carrot, and diced mushrooms and another half onion, set aside.
5. After the chickpeas are boiled, add half of the potatoes to the chickpeas and cook until softened.
6. Baked garlic meat, cooked potatoes and half chickpeas, add 200g of kombu soup and beat into a paste.
7. In another pot, add 4 to 5 tablespoons of olive oil, heat over medium heat, add onions and fry until transparent.
Add the mushrooms, fry until dry, add the carrot and potato, fry until slightly golden on the surface.
8. Add the mashed potato chickpeas, the remaining chickpeas, and the water of the chickpeas to the pot. Cook on a low heat for 10 to 15 minutes. If too thick, add the remaining kombu soup and dilute.
Serve with thyme, salt yeast, lemon juice and black pepper.
Serve with bread, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with chopped coriander. Finish.
Text, photos and photos by Lin Nu
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PORTLAND, Ore.– Pacific Seafood, provider of the healthiest protein on the planet, released its seventh annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report, “Beneath the Surface.” This year’s report emphasizes Pacific Seafood’s commitments to sustainable seafood, environmental responsibilities, value creation and quality, as well as efforts to support communities and team members.

Highlights of the report include:

Sustainable Seafood

  • Certifications – Pacific Seafood increased its sustainable seafood offerings by 34% with 67 certified sustainable species through the Marine Stewardship Council, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, and Best Aquaculture Practices.
  • Bycatch Reduction Measures – By partnering with independent observers and utilizing various excluder devices, Pacific Seafood significantly reduced bycatch, protecting vulnerable species.

Environmental Responsibility

  • Sustainability Saves – In 2023, Pacific Seafood launched our new resource conservation initiative, Sustainability Saves. With the new ability to track utility usage, along with continuous education, Pacific Seafood team members saved 13,000,000 gallons of water companywide.
  • World Oceans Day – Through Pacific Seafood’s World Oceans Day initiative, Pacific Seafood team members prevented 5,213 pounds of debris from entering the oceans and various waterways.
  • EPA Award  Pacific Seafood was recognized with the EPA’s 2023 Regional Pollution Prevention Award for pollution prevention practices that exemplify environmental excellence and innovation.

Value Creation and Quality

  • Fish Town Fertilizer – Pacific Seafood continues to develop new ways to utilize leftover materials from its processing facilities, including Pacific Seafood’s Fish Town Fertilizer, developed to help meet the company’s goal of 100% whole fish utilization.
  • High Audit Scores – In 2023, Pacific Seafood’s Value Creation and Quality Teams excelled in food safety processes with top audit scores.

Supporting Our Communities

  • National Seafood Month – Pacific Seafood team members celebrated October’s National Seafood Month by partnering with food banks, schools, and community organizations to make seafood more accessible to local community members. Throughout the month, 11,000 pounds of seafood were donated, 341,071 meals were provided, and 2,600 families were served.
  • Coast to Kids – In 2023, Pacific Seafood launched its Coast to Kids initiative with the commitment to supply students with healthier school lunch options. Within the first year, Pacific Seafood supplied seafood to three Oregon school districts.

Supporting Our Team Members

  • Development Programs – Throughout 2023,140 Pacific Seafood teammembers graduated from development programs such as Team Blue, Supervisory Basics, and the Management Development Program. All programs are created to develop leadership skills and enhance personal and professional growth.
  • Feedback – As part of Pacific Seafood’s goal to continuously improve, the companylaunched a biannual team member survey to gauge areas of improvement, including company communication and job satisfaction.
  • 401K Record Profit Match – In 2023, Pacific Seafood delivered an industry-leading profit-sharing match contribution to 1,988 team members.

Pacific Seafood President and CEO, Frank Dulcich said, “The health of our oceans and marine resources correlates directly to the health of our business and our mission of ‘feeding the world the healthiest protein on the planet.’ Our definition of health extends far beyond the nutrition label and includes the betterment of our environment, our innovation process, our communities, and our team members.”

About Pacific Seafood Group: Founded in 1941 by Frank Dulcich, Pacific Seafood remains a family-owned and operated company dedicated to providing the healthiest protein on the planet. Pacific Seafood manages all parts of the supply chain from harvesting/fishing, processing, and distribution to provide customers with fresh, sustainable, and high-quality products. Pacific Seafood Group is headquartered in Clackamas, Ore. Learn more and order products directly to your door at PacificSeafood.com.

The Marine Stewardship Council promotes small-scale fishing in about half its content, despite industrial-scale operations catching around three-quarters of the global catch.

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Content: Whitewashing ‘Blue Food’ Won’t Make the World More Green

Recent public messaging encouraging people to eat more seafood conveniently omits information about the environmental impact of fishing.

Marine wildlife is in a state of global emergency. Ninety percent of fish populations are at or below half their historical levels, and more fish species appear on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list of threatened species than any other class of animals. Since 1970 alone, global shark and ray populations have declined by more than 70 percent. The vaquita porpoise will be extinct in a matter of years, with the Māui dolphin and North Atlantic right whale likely following close behind. The primary driver of this aquatic extinction crisis is not climate change or plastic pollution but fishing, and conservation biologists around the world have warned that addressing this crisis requires overhauling traditional notions of fisheries management and implementing significant restrictions on catch limits.

Recently, however, calls have emerged not for less fishing, but more, under the banner of a new term encompassing all seafood and aquaculture products: “blue food.” The Blue Food Alliance, launched ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit, has brought together academics, policymakers, and corporate donors focused on increasing the consumption of sustainable seafood. The project was introduced with much fanfare, including a set of papers in the journal Nature Food, an editorial in its parent journal Nature, a number of well-placed op-eds by important academics and members of industry, and even a promotional video. According to the group’s report, titled “The Blue Food Assessment,” seafood and aquaculture often have lower environmental impact and provide greater nutritional benefits than terrestrial foods while contributing to food security, making it economically and ecologically sustainable.

But this blue-food narrative relies on generalizations and omissions that obscure the facts about the impacts of seafood. Just as harmful industries such as Big Oil and Big Livestock have promoted superficial production tweaks and embraced the language of sustainability, so too has the seafood industry. While the Blue Food Alliance boasts the membership of sustainability nonprofits like EAT, it also includes seafood titans like the Walton Family Foundation. As countless unsustainable industries claim to go green, public messaging on blue food bears all the hallmarks of a branding pivot—call it a “bluewash.”

It’s not that the message of this campaign and others like it are predicated on bad science, it’s that they deploy scientific claims selectively. In doing so, “The Blue Food Assessment” omits many of the harms of fishing and fish farming, and makes it seem far more sustainable than it actually is. Take the idea that consuming seafood is generally more environmentally friendly than eating land-based meat. To substantiate this, the authors use sustainability metrics from previous studies to score the greenhouse gas, nitrogen, and phosphorus emissions, as well as land and fresh water use, of various seafood and aquaculture products. This leads to the conclusion that these foods’ environmental impacts are lower than those of many agricultural products, particularly chicken, the least environmentally impactful industrially raised meat. The problem is that this is an apples-to-oranges comparison—it applies criteria designed for terrestrial agriculture to the oceans, while omitting environmental impacts specific to marine life. Eating wild fish may use virtually no land or freshwater, but it also depletes marine life populations, disrupts food webs, dredges up reefs and algal beds, and litters the ocean with ghost nets. The report is equally selective in its discussion of the health benefits of seafood. Fish may be rich in various vitamins and dietary minerals, but it can also be laden with microplastics and bioaccumulative toxins such as PCBs, PBDEs, and mercury. While these various shortcomings are acknowledged in some of the blue food manuscripts, they are all but absent from promotional materials, overstating the benefits of blue food while underplaying its shortcomings.

Specific claims aside, the nomenclature in this campaign is also concerning. While lumping all marine foods into the new category of “blue food” does little to facilitate comparison to other food groups, it does quite a bit to conflate species- and region-specific impact assessments. For example, while advocates boast that “the BFA assessment emphasizes the enormous diversity of blue foods,” the data are actually quite vague, with wide margins of error and broad categorizations like “miscellaneous marine fishes.” Even more problematically, this tactic also obscures the different producers and production processes within the seafood industry. For one thing, although it doesn’t explicitly advocate expanding industrial fishing, it is effusive about growing industrialized forms of fish production like aquaculture. But aquaculture does not take pressure off wild fisheries as much as it complements them, often requiring hundreds of wild-caught bait fish to feed a single farmed salmon or tuna. It also brings with it a range of risks and harms, including effluent pollution, mangrove deforestation, and viral proliferation both within aquaculture farms and spreading to wild fish. Yet “The Blue Food Assessment” recommends expansion of aquaculture despite these risks.

Even as they push for more aquaculture, blue food proponents do raise legitimate concerns about seafood being central to many cultures, food systems, and economies, especially among coastal communities in the Global South. However, while the BFA states that small-scale fishers haul in “over half the world’s fish catch,” reports indicate that subsistence fisheries account for less than 3 percent of the global catch and so-called “artisanal” fishing for another 20, meaning that three-quarters comes from industrial-scale operations like trawlers, seiners, and longliners that are widely condemned as unsustainable. By conflating industrial fishing practices that feed high-end consumers with subsistence fishing traditions, the blue food category creates needless confusion about the specific needs of coastal communities.

This follows a long history of using humanitarianism to disguise exploitation by the fishing industry. The Blue Food Alliance invokes human rights in the context of nutrition, but it omits the impacts of the aquaculture and fishing industries on marginalized peoples. Its press materials feature images of subsistence fishing communities hanging their catches to dry on modest clothing lines and selling them in hand-weaved baskets, a common marketing angle for seafood, used heavily by sustainability certification programs such as the Marine Stewardship Council. A recent analysis found that the MSC featured small-scale, low-impact fishing methods in roughly half of its promotional content, despite these methods representing only 7 percent of the products it certified.

The reality is that traditional fishing communities are the ones that suffer most from the impacts of the global fishing industry. But in “The Blue Food Assessment,” you won’t find photos of West African artisanal fishermen drowning in deep water after collisions with illegal supertrawlers, Salish chiefs decrying the cultural genocide of industrial herring extraction, or the tens of thousands people enslaved on up to a quarter of the global fishing fleet. The seafood industry wants its consumers to associate seafood with modest subsistence fishing traditions, but the truth is that the vast majority of seafood—and especially that which is sold in industrialized nations—is obtained by methods that pose a direct threat to those ways of life.

While the discourse around sustainable seafood can be heated, there are still fundamental solutions on which conservation biologists and fisheries scientists agree. As the renowned fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly puts it, “Fisheries issues are not difficult or intractable problems. We need to fish less and to create sanctuaries where fish populations can revive.” While policy should protect the food security and economic viability of coastal communities, especially in the Global South, it also must massively reduce subsidies and permits for both fishing and aquaculture and expand marine reserves to protect our marine ecosystems. Consumers should also be aware of the major impacts associated with consuming species like tuna at the top of food chains or those like crabs that live in sensitive ecosystems on the ocean floor, and realize that farmed fish aren’t necessarily low-impact either. Notably, the only “blue foods” with negative emissions impacts aren’t fish at all, but farmed algae and bivalves. However, the biggest environmental benefits of outplanting these species might be as building blocks for rewilding coastal ecosystems, which is also one of our most effective tools for drawing down atmospheric carbon. The truth is, transitioning to a sustainable food system will require people in industrialized nations to eat far fewer animals, both farmed and wild, terrestrial and aquatic.

However, rather than clarifying these diverse environmental stakes, the “blue food” narrative risks muddying the waters of the seafood sustainability debate by suggesting to consumers that a deeply destructive industry is actually sustainable, perhaps as an environmentally friendly alternative to factory-farmed meat. But it’s not that simple. The main beneficiaries of this sort of discourse are the big players in the fishing industry, who escape direct critique and benefit from a bluewashing bonanza that lifts all boats.

While the science underlying “The Blue Food Assessment” is reputable, its lens is narrow, removing blue food from the ecological context it comes from. The blue parts of our planet cycle our nutrients, stabilize our climate, produce half the oxygen in the air we breathe, and provide a home to millions of marine species—functions we risk disrupting if we value them simply as a source of food.

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MOSCOW, October 2 – RIA Novosti.
A new all-domestic starter food for salmon fish was presented by NArFU scientists.
According to them, the results of the experiments showed an increase in the weight of the model by almost three times, which is comparable to the effect of the use of high-quality imported analogues, the press service of the university reported.
Today, as the experts of the university note, special feeds are used for high productivity of aqua farms that can give the maximum increase in fish weight with a minimum feed coefficient.
However, at the moment about 80% of such feed on the market is imported, which creates problems in the supply of domestic farms.
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Researchers of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov (NArFU) presented experimental formulations of starter feed for young salmon species of fish, the effectiveness of which is comparable to imported analogues, and the price is half as low due to the use of only domestic components.
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“The feed is rich in essential amino acids, it contains more than 40% of the mass fraction of raw protein, which allows us to consider the developed composition of the feed formulation as a full-fledged, balanced and high-quality product ready for use in the industrial production of fish farms, ” said Alexander Antonov, Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Artificial Forests of NArFU.
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The effectiveness of the domestic "diet" was tested on the basis of the Solzensky production and experimental salmon plant in the Arkhangelsk region.
As a model fish, trout was chosen - lake or brook fish from the salmon family.
"At the end of the experiment - after 40 days of feeding - the increase in fish weight was 187% (mass increased by 2.9 times), in length by 32%.
On average, trout by weight grew by 7.2% (0.24 g) per day, which is a good indicator that is comparable to the results of changes in the biometric values of fish that feed on high-quality imported feed, "Antonov said.
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He added that the project is very promising for commercialization, and can be widely used both in large industrial water farms and in private business.
All work on the production of feed was carried out in the feed shop of the NArFU Aquaculture Center on Russian equipment.
According to the scientist, the main goal that now stands before the team is the development of a line of forage for trout and obtaining safe fish products in conditions of mass production.
The research was carried out within the framework of the REC project "Russian Arctic: New Materials, Technologies and Research Methods" with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development, Industry and Science of the Arkhangelsk Region.
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