21/12/12: EWOS COO steps down; Spanish fish preferences; Nile tilapia in the Philippines

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• EWOS Chief Operating Officer (COO) steps down. Mr Kjell Bjordal will retire as COO from February 15, 2013 and will be replaced temporarily by Dr Einar Wathne. Mr Kjell Bjordal will step down when he turns 60 early next year. Revenue has increased more than tenfold and the operating result has developed even stronger during the more than 13 years that Kjell Bjordal had led what is now Cermaq's feed division.

• Spanish consumers prefer home-grown fish according research. The study, published in the Food Quality and Preference journal, asked consumers to analyse factor when buying fish. Origin ranked highest above fished or farmed-raised, price and conservation method.  the Spain is the biggest producer of fish in the EU but in recent years domestic consumption has fallen. Read more...

What is most important when buying fish: the price, the country of origin, whether it is fresh or frozen or whether it is wild or farm-raised? The average Spanish consumer prefers above all that their fish comes from Spain, according to a study published in the 'Food Quality and Preference' journal. Spain is the largest producer of fish in the European Union but in recent years its population has consumed less fish, especially seafood.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-12-spanish-consumers-national-fish.html#jCp

• A project by the WorldFish Center to identify Nile tilapia 'super strains' in the Philippines aims to increase living standards of farmers, create jobs and improve food security. Nile tilapia is the most cultured freshwater fish in the country. The project is about to enter its second year find out more about it..

male Oreochromis niloticus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)