After weighing up all the elements of risk and contingency, the EAS Board has decided that the Aquaculture Europe 2020 event planned in Cork next April cannot now go ahead. The Board has therefore decided to organise AE2020 as an ONLINE event, held over the same dates April 12-15, 2021.

The basic format of the event will stay the same as ‘normal’ Aquaculture Europe meetings, with morning plenary sessions and then breakout parallel sessions for oral and Eposter presentations. The parallel sessions will be made up of shorter slots for pre-recorded video presentations of the oral presentations and with time allocated to review Eposters and for Q&A.

The Board has also agreed to extend the deadline for submission of abstracts to January 31st.

While Chilean Naviera Orca is currently in legal proceedings against wellboat competitors Aquaship and Sølvtrans, major shareholder Odd Einar Sandøy has the support of another foreign shareholder, namely former Rostein chairman of the board Kjell Audun Aasen.

Odd Einar Sandøy, owner of the world’s largest wellboat company Rostein, has been reported as a stakeholder in Naviera Orca, the Chilean shipping company that is dragging Sølvtrans and Aquaship through the Chilean legal system for alleged violations of ownership laws in the country.

Author: Aslak Berge / SalmonBusiness | Read the full article here

Red Lobster is returning to some of the successful promotions it ran pre-COVID-19 in order to shore up slumping sales due to the pandemic.

The Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.-based restaurant chain is bringing back Daily Deals – previously available only during certain hours on weekdays – to run all day, every weekday.

Last week, Red Lobster also ran a week-long promotion to celebrate National Lobster Day on 25 September. 

Author: Christine Blank / SeafoodSource | Read the full article here

Scotland’s second biggest salmon producer, the Scottish Salmon Company (SSC), harvested 10,500 tonnes of fish in the third quarter of this year, its Faroese owner Bakkafrost said in a market update.

A further 11,100 tonnes of salmon were harvested in the Faroes – 5,300 tonnes in Bakkafrost’s Faroes North region, 4,700 tonnes in Farming West and 1,100 tonnes in Farming South.

All harvest volumes are provided in head on gutted (HOG) equivalents.

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Fishing industry bodies have reacted with scepticism to the European Commission’s announcement of, as part of its Green Deal, proposals to increase the EU’s offshore energy production twenty times to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 – aiming to meet this target while at the same time managing the maritime space sustainably.

Fishing industry body Europêche points out that a recent study commissioned by the EU Executive body puts forward a set of recommendations for positive interactions between fisheries and offshore wind farms.

Author: Quentin Bates / FiskerForum | Read the full article here

Led by Mowi, salmon shares rose in value on Wednesday, SEB singled out SalMar.

Just before the close of the stock exchange on Wednesday, salmon shares climbed on an otherwise slightly positive Oslo Stock Exchange. Mowi is leading the way, rising 4.2 per-cent, ahead of Grieg Seafood (3 per-cent), Atlantic Sapphire (2.8 per-cent), Bakkafrost (2.5 per-cent) and SalMar (2.1 per-cent).

There was no significant company-specific news on Wednesday, beyond investment bank SEB raising price targets on a number of shares.

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Norway and the United Kingdom have signed a new framework agreement on fisheries co-operation enabling both parties to agree to on the exchange fishing quotas as well as mutual access to each other’s areas of fisheries jurisdiction. The agreement will enter into force on 1st January 2021.

‘This is a great day! I am pleased that we have reached an agreement with the United Kingdom, which will be an important coastal state and partner from January 2021,’ said Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Seafood Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen.

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The Chinese government has asked frozen food importers to avoid countries with severe coronavirus. In fact, China suspended imports from seafood producers in Brazil, Indonesia and Russia for a week or more.

Chinese customs has detected several cases of imported seafood that tested positive for the virus. "Customs and local governments have repeatedly detected the coronavirus in imported food from the cold chain, demonstrating that there is a risk of contamination," the Beijing Municipal Commerce Office said in a statement issued to importing companies.

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The Blumar - Camanchaca Consortium, made up of Blumar S.A. and Camanchaca Pesca Sur S.A. It will have 13,793 tonnes of horse mackerel (Trachurus murphy), which correspond to the unused surplus of the high seas quota and which corresponds to the country by the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (RFMO - PS).

The award was granted by Produce within the framework of Public Tender No. 02-2020-PRODUCE / Horse Mackerel, published by Directorial Resolution No. 002-2020-PRODUCE / DGPARPA and Circular No. 05-2020-PRODUCE / CEJUREL. These 13,793 tons of horse mackerel will be harvested until December of this year and will provide resources of more than 1.9 million dollars for the promotion and competitiveness of the activity.

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Trading is currently around 20 per-cent below pre-COVID levels.

NZ King Salmon posted its full-year financial results for the 12 months ended 30 June.

The company’s revenue dipped to NZD 155 million (EUR 87 million), down 10 per-cent compared to last year. EBIT dropped by 10 per-cent to NZD 17 million (EUR 9.5 million).

Sales volumes were down 16 per-cent on FY19.

Author: Owen Evans / SalmonBusiness | Read the full article here