High growth expectations for 'Kindai tuna'

Farmed tuna. (Photo Credit: Kinki University)

JAPAN 
Friday, November 28, 2014, 23:50 (GMT + 9)

Kinki University (Kindai) expects that by 2020 there will have been a threefold increase in the farmed bluefin tuna obtained through an innovative technique it developed to offset overfishing impacts on this resource.

The university is confident that the new way of raising bluefin tuna from eggs to maturity, whose meat has been named Kindai tuna, will contribute for annual shipments to increase from 2,000 to 3,000 this year, and to 6,000 by 2020, The Japan Timesreported.

Meanwhile, given the decline in bluefin tuna stocks in the Pacific Ocean, Japan and other tuna-fishing economies are due to tighten fisheries control measures starting next year.

University Kinki's project was appealing to Tuna Dream Goto Co, a subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho Corp, with headquarters in Nagasaki prefecture, which has become a commercial partner and certified producer of Kindai tuna.

“As moves to protect natural resources are increasing, it is clear that demand for Kindai tuna will rise,” said Yoshiki Miura, head of Toyota Tsusho’s Food and Agribusiness Division.

At first Kindai tuna will be supplied to tuna restaurants run by the university and to department stores across Japan but then it will be sold overseas, such as in North America and Southeast Asia.

Goto raises young fish that the university hatches from eggs and thanks to the use of the techniques developed by the University, it has become successful in making tuna reach adulthood.

Kinki University, whose aquaculture programme and research started in 1948, was the first organization to successfully raise red sea bream and amberjack using full-cycle aquaculture, a process that involves raising fish from eggs to adults, rather than from juvenile fish caught in the wild.

This institution intends to continue to push the boundaries of aquaculture research, with the ultimate goal of reducing pressure on wild fish stocks and cultivating the oceans of the world through the reintroduction of fish.

Northern Pacific countries agree to cut bluefin tuna captures

Bluefin tuna capture. (Photo Copyright: FIS)

JAPAN
Friday, September 05, 2014, 04:00 (GMT + 9)
Several countries and regions fishing in the northern Pacific have agreed to cut by half the number of young bluefin tuna they catch in an attempt to double the ocean's stock in 10 years.
This decision was taken at the end of a four-day subcommittee meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) held in Fukuoka, south-western Japan, in response to Tokyo's proposal for a drastic reduction on the 2002-2004 average catch, AFP informed.
The shift in Japan's policy towards more radical conservation comes after an international independent assessment found last year that stocks of this species had fallen 96 per cent from its original level, MSN News reported.
Attendees to these meetings included South Korea, the United States, Canada, Taiwan and Japan - the world's biggest consumer of tuna - hoping the move will help to safeguard the at-risk species.
Meanwhile, the non-profit, non-governmental organization The Pew Charitable Trusts participated in a presentation titled Current Situation of Pacific Bluefin Tuna (PBF) and Stock Management at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.
"There must be a strong recovery and rebuilding plan put in place for Pacific bluefin across its full range," pointed out Amanda Nickson, director of global tuna conservation for Pew.
"Countries have the responsibility to agree on a strong recovery plan that does more than simply move the population from severely depleted to slightly less seriously depleted," she added.
Cutting the catch in half would reduce Japan's annual catch of juvenile bluefins to about 4,000 tonnes from next year, out of a fisheries-wide catch of 4,725 tonnes, AP reported.
To contribute to the move, fisheries experts in Japan are rushing to devise techniques for commercially viable aquaculture of the deep-sea species.
To join the efforts, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last month issued stricter quotas for bycatches of Atlantic bluefin tuna on surface longlines meant to catch other species.
Furthermore, earlier this year, the EU proposed banning all use of driftnets in its waters and on its vessels by the year's end to better enforce the protection of dolphins, sharks, swordfish and bluefin tuna.
For its part, Greenpeace Japan welcomed the move, applauding the fact that the international forum had finally "taken a step forward" towards the sustainable control of the resources.
Wakao Hanaoka, an expert in marine ecology for the conservation body, urged Japan to take more initiative to conserve the species especially before they lay eggs.
"It would be insufficient if the resource control plan allows fishermen to sweep up schools of tuna before they lay eggs, even if the plan aims to increase the number of young fish," he said in a statement.
The territories in the northern part of the vast area covered by the WCPFC will present the plan at the organisation's annual conference in December, along with a 10-year recovery plan for Pacific bluefin tuna, beginning in 2015.
Related articles:
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- Govt plans to limit Pacific bluefin tuna catch
- Juvenile bluefin tuna catch to be cut in the Northern Pacific

Control of attempts to dodge trade ban strengthened

Russian Federal Fisheries Agency Rosrybolovstvo head Ilya Shestakov. (Photo: Stock File)

RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Thursday, August 21, 2014, 02:50 (GMT + 9)
The import ban on food imposed by the Russian government earlier this month has led those affected countries to consider possible alternatives to offset the situation.
And the search of ways of dodging the sanctions In view of the suspicions through re-exporting products to other markets seems to be one of the options considered by some entrepreneurs.
In view of the suspicions that "some unscrupulous importers" may be attempting to re-export the fish to profit from the situation, Russian Federal Fisheries Agency Rosrybolovstvo head Ilya Shestakov warned Russian competent authorities such as the veterinary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor and the Federal Customs Service (FCS) will monitor such cases and check the products’ certificates of origin.
The agency informed that fresh fish might be exported to Russia from the Faroe Islands, Turkey and Tunisia.
“The Faroe islands can export chilled salmon, though not in the volumes we imported from Norway,” Shestakov told Rossiya 24 TV channel. Furthermore, he said Turkey and Tunisia could supply other chilled fishes.
Besides, mullus barbatus ponticus and Black Sea turbot would be supplied to Russian shops from Crimea, Itar-Tass informed.
One of the most seriously affected countries following the Russian boycott is Norway. Large premium Norwegian salmon producers, such as Salmar, had been exporting up to 10 per cent of their fish to Russia. Norway Royal Salmon has also sold much of its production to the country, which along with France have been Norway’s largest individual national markets, News in English informed.
Thus, the Norwegian government has promised to help the country’s huge salmon industry find new buyers for its fish like Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Funnelling Norwegian salmon through Iceland or the Færoe Islands, which are not members of the European Union and thus not subject to Russia’s boycott could be a way of dodging the sanctions. Besides, the biggest Norwegian salmon producers, Marine Harvest and Cermaq, which have major operations in Chile, could send fish to Russia.
However, for Trond Davidsen, of the fish-farming trade association FHL, this plan is “unrealistic."
"We’ve been living with strict controls from Russia for several years now. If salmon comes into Russia from Chile, the Færoes or the UK, it’s produced there,” he argued.
Meanwhile, foreign businesses located in Russia may also face issues after the Russian import ban. This is the case of the Swedish retailer IKEA, which will stop selling Norwegian salmon - among other products - at its Russian stores.
Related articles:
- Seafood marketing activities boosted after Russian import ban
- Russian ban on Norwegian seafood poses 'a challenging situation'
- Russia bans food imports to retaliate against sanctions

Norway and Brazil develop aquaculture cooperation

Brazil and Norway strengthen mutual aquaculture cooperation. (Photo: BNCC)

BRAZIL
Thursday, August 21, 2014, 01:40 (GMT + 9)
The governments of Brazil and Norway continue to work on identifying areas for bilateral technical cooperation in order to develop joint actions towards the development of aquaculture in both nations.
The important fishing fair Nor-Fhishing, held this week in Trondheim, Norway, has provided a framework to develop this process.
The meeting was attended by consort Queen Sonja Haraldsen; the head of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministry (MPA) from Brazil, Eduardo Lopes; and Secretary of MPA Aquaculture Planning and Management, Maria Fernanda Nince.
The collaboration between the two countries foresees actions as to search areas, training and management of continental and marine aquaculture space.
The agreement also includes issues relating to technology transfer in aquaculture segments such as production and infrastructure, health and biosecurity, supply chain, bearing capacity, caged fish escape and fish feed.
Another objective of this bilateral cooperation is to develop an international legislation for the aquaculture sector.
In Norway, Lopes also met with the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Elisabeth Aspaker; and the Brazilian ambassador to that country, Flávio Macieira, among other officials.
Nince was planning to perform a technical visit to a fish farming centre located on the island Hitra, along with representatives of the aquaculture industry from over 20 countries, such as Vietnam and Angola.
For some time, Brazil has been developing different cooperation ways with other countries for the exchange of knowledge and to incorporate new technology in the aquaculture sector.
The MPA stressed that as part of Government’s efforts to increase the quality and safety of fish produced in the country, Brazil signed cooperation agreements with Israel and Portugal last year.

Data gaps affect pacific tuna assessment

Four Asian fishing powers were requested to supply proper data on its tuna catch. (Image: Stock File)

MARSHALL ISLANDS
Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 04:40 (GMT + 9)
Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) requests its members to properly report their fishing catches in Pacific waters to help prevent overfishing.
This request was made by the international organisation in the framework of the 10th Scientific Committee meeting of the WCPFC in the Marshall Islands, Solomon Star informed.
Tokelau chair of the FFA Science Working Group Tiga Galo recalled one of the obligations that all members signed up to when they joined the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) was to provide full catch and effort data on the operations of their fishing vessels in the Convention Area.
Galo challenged China, Chinese-Taipei, Japan and Republic of Korea to bring their domestic laws up to date so they can comply with their data obligations to the WCPFC.
She stated Asian countries should follow the lead of the United States, "which used to have domestic legal impediments, but is now in full compliance with their data obligations to WCPFC. Quite frankly, we think these other countries are just making excuses," she stressed.
“Yet, here we are 10 years down the track, and there are still four Asian Co-operating Country Members that are hiding behind the temporary deferment that allowed them time to amend their domestic regulations - laws that might have technically prevented them from supplying this operational data at the time of agreement,” Galo pointed out.
Galo explained FFA members have long debated the problem of monitoring high seas fishing activity on the borders of Pacific EEZs.
She explained that Pacific Island countries supply operational data to the commission on all the tuna fishing vessels that they licence to fish in their national waters, whether foreign or local. And she added that Pacific Island nations cannot collect data for Asian distant water vessels operating on the high seas if they are not licensed to fish in Pacific Island EEZs.
The resulting data gaps affect the accuracy and reliability of fisheries stock assessments and increases the risk of exceeding fisheries conservation and management limits as well as removing the ability to hold vessels and their flag States to account for their actions.
For his part Marshall Islands fisheries director Glen Joseph stressed: "We need to narrow the uncertainty (in stock assessments)."
The islands provide all data on catches within their 200-mile exclusive economic zones, but the four Asian nations are not providing detailed data for catches on the high seas, which Joseph and Galo said is a major problem.
"This creates an uncertainty about our own resources that affects food security, sustainable development, and our survival," Joseph said.
Fisheries scientist John Hampton of the New Caledonia-based Secretariat of the Pacific Community, which coordinates stock assessments for the WCPFC, said the lack of this data, mostly from longline fishing vessels that fish on the high seas, is a gap in the research.
Joseph ensured a big push will be made at the annual meeting of the WCPFC in December to resolve the problem of lack of tuna catch data by the four Asian nations.
The 11th regular session of the WCPFC has been schedules for 1-5 December in Apia, Samoa.
 

Lobster quality assurance booklet to support provincial industry

Lobster fisheries. (Photo: Stock File)

CANADA
Monday, August 18, 2014, 02:20 (GMT + 9)
With financing from the Provincial Government, a booklet will be developed by the Seafood Processors of Newfoundland and Labrador to provide the lobster industry with the most up-to-date information to help maintain quality, as well as to help harvesters receive the best price for their catch.

Keith Hutchings, Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, announced CAD 24,550 (USD 22,500) through the Fisheries Technology and New Opportunities Programme for the initiative.

“This quality standards booklet will help the provincial lobster sector continue to improve its regular handling practices that can be set across the industry. The Provincial Government is pleased to support this project with CAD 24,550, as this booklet will help our seafood industry maintain its strong reputation in global markets,” said Hutchings.

The informational booklet will outline best practices in the lobster industry regarding at-sea handling, holding, transporting and processing.

“We need to maintain quality control across the board to continue to be competitive in the global marketplace. This booklet contains the information to help our industry continue to produce top quality seafood product. We would like to thank the Provincial Government for their support with this endeavour,” said George Joyce, Executive Director, Seafood Processors of Newfoundland and Labrador.

With this funding, 1,000 copies of the booklet, as well as two lobster marketing banners will be produced. 

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Nova Austral acquired by Ewos

Feed bags for fish belonging to Ewos. (Photo: Ewos)

CHILE
Friday, August 15, 2014, 23:00 (GMT + 9)
The salmon firm Nova Austral, which forms part of the PescaChile subsidiary of the Galician multinational firm Pescanova, is owned by the Norwegian firm Ewos.
The sale was settled with the payment of EUR 7.4 million, having been authorized by the insolvency administrator and creditor banks -- BCI, Banco do Brasil and DNB.
Several sources related to the operation that were consulted by the Galician newspaper La Voz de Galicia said the Norwegian firm presented an offer for Nova Austral worth EUR 134.6 million, equivalent to the value of assets. The accrued liabilities amounting to around EUR 128 million, was deducted from that amount.
The plant is expected to produce about 15,000 tonnes of salmon annually.
Later, the sale of the firm Acuinova, another subsidiary of PescaChile engaged in salmon farming, is expected. This sale would have to take place before the end of September.
In May last year, Chilean assets failed to compute in Pescanova’s balance, just a month after the multinational firm filed for creditors’ meeting.
In recent months, the multinational was trying to prevent the Chilean receivers from selling their most prized subsidiary.
Currently, PescaChile owes EUR 89 million with major creditors: Banco de Credito e Inversiones (BCI), DNB, Itaú, Banco do Brasil and HSBC.
Nova Austral has about 28 concessions for salmon farming, all in the region of Magallanes. This aspect is considered very important because it is "isolated" from the rest of the Chilean salmon industry and also this area has special incentives.

Hake depletion warned due to illegal fishing

Hake fishing. (Photo: Subpesca)

CHILE
Thursday, August 14, 2014, 03:20 (GMT + 9)
The director of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (SERNAPESCA), José Miguel Burgos, expressed a strong rejection to illegal hake fishing, a resource that is now overfished and for which within weeks there will be a reproductive ban coming into force.
"They're depleting the hake," warned the official, who also made it clear that the Government is strengthening controls and inspection throughout the entire production chain, especially in the inter-regional roads.
Burgos highlighted that during the morning on 12 August, SERNAPESCA's staff from the regions of Maule, Metropolitana and Valparaiso, surprised five transport operators trying to sell a total of 11,500 kilograms of hake without legal documentation.
This operation follows another one performed last Saturday in Concepcion, Bío Bío Region, where 2.5 tonnes of the resource were detected, reported SERNAPESCA.
Burgos explained that the seized specimens in these checks come from the creeks of the Maule Region, such as Pellines, Iloca and Constitución.
At present, this resource is declared as overexploited fishery so the authorized quotas for 2014 declined significantly.
"This is totally useless if people do not become aware of the fact and continue acting illegally on the resource," SERNAPESCA’s director sentenced.
And he added that as the catch is not declared, "in practice it is impossible to know the extent of the fishing effort operating on the hake." For this reason, he stressed that "these practices are not only illegal but they are depleting the resource."
Meanwhile, SERNAPESCA’s director of Valparaiso Region, Marcelo Arredondo, warned that catch volumes are a sign of "a hake extinction in five years" if the authorities do not control the fishing activity.

IN BRIEF - Pacific tuna industry calls for 'drastic' action to avoid bigeye stock collapse

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AUSTRALIA Thursday, August 14, 2014 The Pacific tuna industry has joined environmental organisations and scientists calling for serious action to save bigeye tuna. More than 60 per cent of the world's tuna is caught in the Pacific, much of it by powerful distant water fishing nations from Asia, Europe and North America. Scientists meeting at the region's tuna management body, the Central and Western Pacific Fisheries Commission, have heard bigeye tuna stocks are down to just 16 per of the original population. Source: Radio Austalia

プロフェッショナル漁師

船主義務
船舶所有者は、容器」でボード上で行う14日乗組員の前に庁に通知し、かつ内クルー出発前に、可能な範囲内で血管雇用に関する必要な乗組員、容器と精神の出発の準備を行うためにエージェンシーを行いますインドネシア。
義務THE AGENCY
1 THEエージェンシーは心からの品質とは、雇用船主のための資格を有する乗組員を募集して供給します。
2エージェンシーは健全であり、従うとインドネシアの調節に乗組員としての資格を有する乗組員は、問題なく船主によって指名場所及び日時に出発したことができるようように、すべての手続きと準備を実行し、提出しなければならないVISAに当該の船主クルーリスト、パスポート番号、船員図書番号、およびドキュメント。
3エージェンシーは地域の条例や法律（スペインを含むように地元の手段）と国とのことで仕事について乗組員を教育し、乗組員の出発前に船主教育ブックに必要な事務を送信し、遵守するようにしてくださいます容器に入った）と船主によって要求された各規制。
4 THEエージェンシーはすぐに乗組員の個人的な変化の船主が虚弱になります。



雇用期間

乗組員の雇用期間は18カ月間、一般的になります。彼は、容器とその操業のナビゲーション中に戻ることができない、と船が港に置くまで、容器に働かなければならない。

雇用期間中の船主の向きに応じて、他の容器に要求が転送すると、それが受け入れられなければならない。船主は、乗組員は、他の容器に移すと同時に、それをエージェンシーに通知します。


乗組員の雇用期間は、インドネシアからインドネシアの到着日に乗組員の出発以来、効果的であること、およびパスポート、VISA、乗組員の入国許可を含むエントリ·エグジットの手法に関してれます。エージェンシーは、インドネシア内の手順や乗船や下船のそれらの領域船主によって実行される処理されます。
                                                               


雇用費（クルー旅費）
乗組員が所有することで、彼らによって引き起こさ返さ乗組員の場合は、まだ彼らの契約を完了していない「エージェンシー」が経費の航空券を旅行するカバーされなければならない。、代理店は、進行を負担になります。
18ヶ月間、船主がクマ彼ら旅費になる以内彼らによって引き起こさ返さ乗組員の場合には、彼らの契約を終えた。
途中下船の中で、完全に「船主」と完全に"エージェンシー"で彼自身のオプションで返し乗組員のそれによって支払われ、この量は優先的に差し引かれます当直ながら傷害が持続している乗組員の戻り費賃金の送金時（ただし、CREWの途中下船の場合、船主は、乗組員の自身の声明を提出しなければならない、宣誓供述書と庁にキャプテン/釣りマスターの進捗レポートを保有する経費。）
ボートに乗って労働時間
1）当事者は、ボードや作品で行ったスペインの乗組員の労働時間は、合法的に決定されるものではなく、乗組員は機関によって適用されるかを理解する必要があります。スペインの乗組員と労働時間と同等を遵守し、それが特別に漁業作業のに基づいて、キャプテン/釣りマスターの方向によって実行されます。
2）当事者が、ルールは、契約期間中に合意バンドの同意を実行するために行い、当事者に不利なこと事故が引き起こされることはありませんように船主やエージェンシーが共同して、厳密に乗組員を教育し、インドネシアの乗組員は仕事上の容器のリビングにスペインの乗組員から異なる方法で処理してはいけません。
3）CREWは、追加の補償なしにいつでも危険やその容器内の乗組員の救助上容器などの安全のために必要な作業を実行する必要があります。