July / August 2015 EM 4Country profile: Lithuania and FinlandEvents: …
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Fishing is one of the oldest ways by which people have fed themselves and their families. In a certain sense the original idea of the individual hunting for fish has survived to this day in sport fishing. Whereas in the past, however, people fished only for self-sufficiency, fishing is today also a form of recreation and a leisure activity for millions of people. That makes sport fishing a billion dollar business with enormous commercial importance.
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Nearly 27 million tonnes of algae and aquatic plants – a source of important ingredients for medicines, cosmetics and foods – were produced worldwide in aquaculture in 2013. Algae farming is work-intensive but not very lucrative. In some regions, however, it is one of the few possibilities for earning a living without having to make larger investments. For example on Lembongan, one of over 17,000 islands that make up Indonesia.
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Cold chains are temperature controlled supply chains. That means that on their path from the producer to the consumer certain products have to be kept, transported and stored continuously under defined temperature conditions at each individual trade level. Cold chains guarantee the storage life of seafood products, linking up far-off regions of the world and thereby enabling global trade.
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Termodizayn specialises in designing and implementing customised turnkey solutions for coldstores. These skills are also being put to use to develop mobile cooling solutions that can be used in many different contexts. The mobile solutions that Termodizayn, an Istanbul-based company, has created come in a variety of models. Mobile stores, mobile cold storages, mobile water chiller, and even mobile blast freezers are some of the company’s mobile products.
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Despite its relatively small area and population, Germany is one of the world’s most important export nations. It owes its economic success not only to the big stock exchange listed companies but also to numerous small and middle sized enterprises that have often been in the hands of the same family for generations. One of the strengths of German industry is processing machines that set international standards in the seafood sector.
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A pilot project under the Operational Programme “Sustainable Development of the Fisheries Sector and Coastal Fishing Areas 2007-2013,” was developed between 2010 and 2013 by a team of specialists from the National Marine Fisheries Research Institute and Koszalin University of Technology. The objective was to find ways of using carp that would improve the economy of carp farming.
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The fisheries and aquaculture sector in Norway is an important and growing part of the country’s economy. Highly diversified in terms of types of production, species, products, and above all, markets, yet the sector still has the potential to increase its contribution to the economy several-fold. Steering this development is Elisabeth Aspaker, Minister of Fisheries, who outlines here some of the ways in which this growth will be realised.
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The Norwegian seafood sector had another dream year, the second in a row, in terms of its export performance in 2014. Overall, the country’s seafood exports at NOK68.8bn (≈EUR8.2bn) represented a 12% increase over 2013 and this despite the sudden closure (for political reasons) of their biggest market, Russia, in August last year.
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Eurofish held a meeting with and Ilya Shestakov, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation and head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries to discuss areas of cooperation both with the administration and the industry. Mr Shestakov also answered several questions about developments and priorities in the Russian fisheries and aquaculture sector and discussed some of the impacts of the sanctions and counter sanctions.
