Despite being cute, seals are a pest to fish framers, regularly breaking into cages and munching on the fish inside. In Scotland, farmers are allowed to shoot rogue seals but in Tasmania, Australia farmers are taking a less deadly approach.
Huon Aquaculture, which has the largest holding pens in the world, will invest AU$40 million dollars over the next three years to install state of the art seal proof cages.
The company has also bought a Owner
of Huon Aquaculture Peter Bender said the company has also invested in a
new $1.3 million boat to install the new cages.
Although AU$40 million, is a hefty price tag, seals cost an estimated 10 percent loss in revenue for Huon each year.
Brazil has chosen Norway as its collaboration partner to
modernize and up-scale its aquaculture industry.
“The perspectives are reduced deforestation in
the Amazon, less CO2 emissions and increased food security for the
population in a developing country,” says Atle
Mortensen, senior scientist, Nofima.
Since 2009 Nofima (more than 400 employees) has had an agreement with
Brazil’s largest research institute for fisheries and aquaculture,
Embrapa (approximately 9,000 employees). The collaboration agreement has the
complete approval of the fisheries ministers in both countries.
“But the collaboration has still not taken off to the degree one
could expect in an area with such enormous potential. The freshwater
resources in the Amazon are enormous. There is more fresh water here
than in the world’s 11 next largest rivers combined. This is in addition
to the enormous economic zone off the 8,500 km long coastline,” says
Mortensen.
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has launched a project which aims to develop the ASC Feed
Standard. ASC invites experts from the aquaculture feed industry to
join a working group and actively contribute to the future of
responsible aquaculture feed.
The project is starting shortly and a new, globally applicable, ASC Feed Standard should be ready by the end of 2015.
The standard will set out
requirements and introduce consistency for the aquaculture feed industry
to operate on a more environmentally sound and socially responsible
basis. It will allow manufacturers who have demonstrated their
environmentally responsible production practices to gain recognition for
their efforts.
For further information, please contact Michiel Fransen. Information on the Feed Project can be found on the ASC website under Projects.
Pilot tests of the Feed Standard are expected to start in the second half of 2014.
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| English: Fish cages in Velfjorden, Brønnøy, Norway. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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