JUNE 2019 ❘ VOL. 68
worldfishing.net
ISSUE 5
INFORMING THE GLOBAL FISHING INDUSTRY SINCE 1952 Industry News 4 | Insight 8 | Power & Fuel 18 | Aquaculture 22 | Newbuilds 28
ANALYSIS
ALGAE SURGE LEAVES NORWEGIAN SALMON SECTOR IN CRISIS
Mahé regional seminar examines IUU fishing and decent work page 10
Photo: Terje Engø
NEW HORIZONS
Fuelled by a spell of warm weather, a sudden surge of algae has hit Norway’s salmon industry hard, with an estimated eight million salmon killed off in the space of a single week and the salmon sector left counting the cost. Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are a natural phenomenon that can be triggered by a number of factors, including but not limited to weather, currents, nutrients and algae composition. In this instance, the algal blooms spread rapidly through the prime salmon farming regions of northern Norwegian waters, with the algae sticking to the fishes’ gills and suffocating them. Unlike wild fish, the caged salmon cannot swim to deeper waters to
8 Norway’s salmon industry has been left counting the cost as harmful algal blooms spread through the country’s salmon farming regions
Russia’s emerging seafood delicatessen industry page 12
FISHING TECHNOLOGY
avoid such challenges. Official estimates at the end of May put the preliminary mortality at more than 10,000 tonnes of salmon worth around NoK 620 million, although the expectation has been that the final tally of losses could be significantly higher as the blooms continued to spread. The initial loss of eight million fish that still had a great deal of growth ahead of them has been put at being equivalent to 40,000 tonnes of marketable salmon, with a first-sales value well in excess of NoK 2 billion. 8 Insight, page 8
Kiwi trawl technology approved for inshore fishery page 14
Two versatile new fishing vessels have joined the fleet working from Lorient in Brittany. Marie-Lou was delivered in March and has been followed by sister vessel Le Dolmen. Built at the Padmos yard in Holland for fishing company APAK, the two new combination trawler/seine netters are designed to rotate across a number of fisheries, including pelagic pair trawling for tuna during the summer months. The two are also equipped to operate as flyshooters and will work on demersal species in the Bay of Biscay for part of the year. The decision by APAK to add seine netting to its fishing methods means that the two new vessels can land higher quality catches while operating with a greater fuel economy. 8 Report page 29
Photo: Padmos
PADMOS PAIR JOIN LORIENT FLEET
8 Le Dolmen is the second of two new trawlers built for Lorient fishing company APAK
Van Beelen NET TING ROPES T WINES