Daily 2017 - 25 avril 2017 - 32

DAILY n°1

Fishmeal fisheries : changing the practice (NOT TO BE MISSED)
■ Hottlet (Stand 6-801)

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The Belgian company specializing in frozen seafood products invites visitors to
discover its online order platform, launched at the start of 2017. With this service, customers gain permanent access to product data and to a billing service.
Moreover, the company continues to enhance the range of its trademark Epic,
with Ocean Tiger wild prawns for example, from Nigeria, or cuttelfish ink, an
original ingredient for various recipes. Hottlet Frozen Foods also remains attentive to sustainability of the offered species and includes more and more ASC and
MSC certified products such as the MSC scallops of Canada.

Today, fishmeal fisheries mainly feed aquaculture but they are increasingly promoted in other markets too.

The constant growth of fish farming Most of the global production of fish
meal and oil supplies the aquaculture sector but Bloom deplores that
a part of this production also goes
to feed cattle on land. Nevertheless,

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research and investment for the
promotion of human nutrition and
health products is gaining ground. It
is necessary to design cold chains in
some countries and make the most
of fish by-products. This is indeed
a crucial challenge : aquaculture is
considered a way to provide marine
protein for the 9 billion inhabitants
who will live on Earth in 2050, while
the catch can only remain stable. The
FAO anticipates that, in 2030, 62% of
fish consumption will come from fish
breeding. Today, even if the proportion of fishmeal in farmed fish food
has clearly decreased, one and a half
kilos of wild fish, in the form of meal,
is still necessary to produce one kilo
of farmed salmon, the nutritional
benefits of which are changing.

Sustitute food ? - Research towards
the achievement of responsible aquaculture is intensifying. On the subject
both of breeding non carnivorous species and of finding alternatives to fish
oil and meal - which could return directly to human food. In Norway, the
largest global producer of salmon, all

stakeholders are mobilized. In other
parts of the world too. The Competitivity Centre of Aquimer in Boulognesur-Mer, works with this aim in mind.
Its NINAqua project, in collaboration
with Mer Bretagne Atlantique and
Mer Mediterranée centres, aims at
conceiving new ways to feed aquaculture notably with insect meal,
seaweeds, yeast, agricultural waste...
The French fish breeding industry for
« trout » and «bass » anticipates the
time when it may be necessary totally
to replace fish oil and meal.

■ Seafoodia (Stand 9-4169)
Since the start of 2017, Seafoodexport has changed : Seafoodia, a new
name to express the excellence of the sea (Seafood) every day (Dia). Based
in Marseille, in the heart of the Mediterranean, and supported by strong
partnerships with more than 40 production facilities and fishing boats
worldwide, Seafoodia exports to more than 60 countries and is one of
the leaders in its sector. 2016 was an important year for the company. Seafoodia entered the Top 400 seafood companies worldwide, reaching
€ 115 million, thanks to a + 15% growth. An Innovation Centre was opened
on Prince Edward Island in Canada and the Corporate responsibility plan was
launched. An association, Pure Ocean, was set up to protect the ocean and promote sustainable fishing practices. In 2016, Seafoodia was certified MSC (Marine
Stewardship Council) and Friend of the Sea.

Benoit LOBEZ

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% of the global production of fishmeal is used
by aquaculture.
million tons of fish a year
going into fish meal
and oil
% of fish processed into
fishmeal is suited
to human consumption.

Non responsible fishing ? - « The tonnage of fish reduced to meal or oil
since 1950, represents 25% of the
global catch », reckons the Blooms
NGO in its report « The dark side of
aquaculture ». In Europe, fishmeal
fisheries account for only 12% of
the catch. This type of fishing takes
place mainly in Denmark for sand
eel, sprat, Norway pout. Fishmeal
fisheries feed the carnivorous fish of
aquaculture (salmon, sea bream....).
In other parts of the world, Peruvian
anchoveta, capelin, blue whiting but
also sardines are caught in billions to
feed other fish, with the risk of endangering the food security of developing countries' local populations.
This is why this intensive fishing goes
against the Conduct Code of Responsible Fishing established in Rome
in 1995 by the United Nations (FAO).

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