The Netherlands is an important hub in the international fish trade. One quarter of the raw materials that are processed or traded by Dutch seafood companies come from the country’s own fishery. The major share – fish and seafood worth about 2.2 billion euros – is imported. Only 20 per cent of the products produced in the Netherlands remain within the country. Most of them are exported, mainly to other European countries. The total value of Dutch seafood exports adds up to over 2.5 billion euros.
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A joint venture between the BioMar Group from Denmark and the Sagun Group of Turkey, BioMar-Sagun has established a greenfield fish feed factory in Söke, Turkey, that went on stream in the middle of 2016.
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Pakyurek, based in Adana in the south of Turkey along the Mediterranean coast, produces a range of fish and seafood products for the domestic market and for export. However, one of the company’s most important items is land snails, which are exported to France.
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Turkey produces more farmed trout than any other farmed species. Of the total farmed fish production, trout amounted to 45% in 2015 thanks to the almost 2,000 inland fish farms that exist across the country.
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The company Noordzee farms seabass, seabream, and meagre in the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, processing and exporting the fish to countries in Europe and to Russia. A planned expansion to its fish feed factory will contribute to the integration of operations enabling the company to maintain even closer control over all the production parameters.
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EUROFISH conducted a study on consumption of fish and seafood in Croatia. The objective of the study was to conduct a survey to estimate consumer habits and preferences regarding fish consumption in Croatia and obtain related information on supply and demand.…
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A national aquaculture workshop was held in Vilnius to highlight the latest developments in the aquaculture industry,…
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Technical assistance to the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection
In the framework of the EuropeAid assistance project EUROFISH provided professional consultancy services as a Senior Non-Key Expert in EU Fishery Legislation to the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection.… -
EUROFISH, in close collaboration with the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), has assessed the request of the Albanian Ministry of Agriculture,…
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Norway is busy preparing itself for the end of the oil and gas era and is focusing strongly on biological marine resources. The commercially utilizable marine area is six times larger than the country’s land area, and the fish stocks are among the world’s best managed resources. A significant reserve is, however, also to be found in marine by-products that have up to now not been sufficiently used.
