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Eurofish organised a webinar on behalf of its member countries. The speakers were seafood industry experts from four international markets: …

The March/April issue of the EUROFISH Magazine featuring Hungary and Denmark is now available and covers: Country profile: Hungary and Denmark Aquaculture: Early Sturgeon Sex Discrimination (ESSD),…

March / April 2021 EUROFISH Magazine 2 Country profile: Hungary and Denmark Aquaculture: Early Sturgeon Sex Discrimination (ESSD),…

Sturgeon farmers producing fish for caviar would benefit hugely from a molecular-biological sex test for juvenile and adolescent sturgeons. Early sexual identification can significantly decrease production costs by increasing the number of females for caviar production while maintaining a balance of male animals for meat production and for use as brood stock. Additional advantages from the genomic analysis to determine sex could be the identification of genes implicated in growth, meat production, or egg quality (caviar) which opens the door for improvements in these areas. Currently, the normal male to female ratio in production facilities is approximately 1:1 through natural selection. If an early sex test is available, then this ratio could be manipulated to favour the production of either caviar or meat.

Reduce, reuse or recycle properly This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 2 2021. A world without packaging is nothing but a pipe dream, since there is hardly a single product that can be produced, transported and handled completely unpackaged.

A voice for Denmark’s fishermen This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 2 2021. Danish fisheries contributed some DKK14bn (EUR1.8bn) in 2018 to the nation’s GDP. The sector is an important source of export earnings as well as of livelihoods in coastal communities. The Danish Fishermen Producer Organisation (DFPO) is the national organisation representing the fisheries sector through some 32 local associations across the country.