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Lecithin
- as a rich energy
source with nutritional
performance
Advanced lessons
in economics
Aquaculture
in Ghana
- Special two part feature
India
- Aqua feeds and
feeding trends
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present with much emphasis (due to research funding pressure) on the so-called -omics. Whilst such terms as genomics, metabolomics and proteomics that form the basis of a
molecular basis to our fundamental understanding of fish nutrition has an important place in our arsenal of research tools,
we must not lose sight that fish farmers and feed companies
require good practical information that allows the application
of knowledge at a fundamental and applied level that is easy
to put into effect.
The quest by scientists for the highest impact scientific
paper may not translate comfortably to the practising fish
farmer who at the end of the day is more tuned to fish
growth performance and feed conversion than the gene
expression for a specific nutrient or trait. Scientists can often
lose themselves in their own world and become ignorant of
the demands of society for translational research leading to
real benefits.
We would be failing in our mission if we only focused on
a narrow path of scientific disciplines or self-interest in a particular area of fish nutrition without seeing the bigger picture.
To our detriment we increasingly see this now in the appointments of fish nutritionists in academic posts who seem to
fail to appreciate the wider context of applied fish nutrition
and feed technology. The science of fish nutrition should be
embedded with a sound grasp of core animal nutrition as well.
Moving on! In this late summer issue we have a number of
interesting features including our focus on tilapia production in
India as our special fish species topic.
India is a dynamic player in the global arena and we also
review its range of commodities, raw materials and development in the aquafeed sector in an Asian context.
With President Obama recently saying that Africa is on the
move, it is opportune to focus on Ghanas activities with its
growing aquaculture industry and strong support of tilapia for
both domestic consumption and export.
We also report on the 6th Monaco Blue Initiative which
was held in the Monaco Yacht Club in late June held by HSH
Prince Albert II and his Monaco foundation. Its theme focused
on Feeding and fueling the world through sustainable aquaculture. Our publisher Roger Gilbert and writer Roy Palmer were
initiated to participate in two of the four panels held and their
report is in this issue.
Our team travelled to Germany in June to report on the
production of feed additives from the Dr Eckel factory in
Niederzissen, which is just south of Bonn to the west of the
Rhein River. They were most impressed with the production
facilities and the work being done of fish nutrition.
We also report on a lesson in advanced economics for the
aquaculture and fisheries sector with much to learn indeed. I
hope that our masters in the funding agencies and our ministers of finance in Europe are listening and making sure of the
information for investment and development.
Please enjoy our full range of other news items, focus
group reports and blogs as we cover the broader range of
international aquafeed topics of interest as usual.
Ioannis Zabetakis,
assistant professor
of food chemistry,
university of
Athens, Greece
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he
Aquaculture
Stewardship Council
(ASC) is developing a
Responsible Feed Standard to
tackle the important feed issue
which has created continued
tension with many groups the
standard will be new and globally
applicable.
As with all standards, an important stage in the development is
the Public Comment period. The
Public Comment period enables
anyone who feels they have
something to contribute to use
the period to provide their view
on its provisions. All comments
have to be considered in detail
by the relevant Committee and,
if necessar y, fur ther drafting is
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into the way in which the aquaculture feed industry has been
asked to address sustainability
and social responsibility issues
concerning feed.
He added, the Steer ing
Committee, Technical Working
Groups and Secretary have now
approved the initial draft of the
ASC Responsible Feed Standard
to be open for public consultation
ascaqua.org/index.cfm?act=tekst.
item&iid=311&iids=313&lng=1).
In addition, four outreach events
are being organised to present
the standard and receive public
feedback. These events will be
held in as follows:
Registration is impor tant for
catering purposes so please refer
to ASC website for instructions
on this point.
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AQUACULTURE
heads and 10 tails in his pot. Now, the person counts the fish and he
is finding 11 heads and 9 tails. He may only be off by 10 percent but
there is something fundamentally wrong going on!
That was Dr Chos whimsical way of telling me that results, whether
from a chemical analysis or from a research trial, should be logical
and that biological or analytical variability is sometimes a nice excuse
for work relatively poorly done.
To illustrate with an example: In recent months, I had the chance
of reviewing the results from a number of digestibility trials carried
out by my own research group or by some collaborators or during
peer-review of scientific manuscripts for journals. Up to a few years
ago, I have not realised all that could go wrong with estimating the
apparent digestibility of nutrients of diets and feed ingredients! And
no, I am not talking about the methods used for collecting the fecal
material! The fish nutrition community has been discussing the issue
of fecal collection method for years and yet sometimes overlooks
basic issues.
When carrying out a digestibility trial, a digestion indicator (e.g.
chromic oxide, yttrium oxide) is generally carefully incorporated in
the experimental diets at a pre-determined, concentration (e.g. 0.5
percent, 100 ppm). However, for a good 30 percent of the digestibility results (sample analysis) that I am reviewing each year, the
concentration of the digestion indicator of the experimental diets
measured (or reported by the lab) for the experimental diets does not
concur with the levels that were incorporated in the diet. How can
this be?
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that not only leverages substantial investment, but will feed into
Scottish economic growth.
S t e ve B r a c k e n , B u s i n e s s
Suppor t Manager at Marine
Har vest (Scotland) Ltd, added:
The deployment of wrasse as a
means to control sea lice should
increase the availability of farm
sites, reduce medication costs and
increase production efficiency. All
parts of the industry from large
companies such as ourselves, to
SMEs - will see benefits from this,
and the already-excellent reputation of Scottish salmon will be
enhanced.
And the academic lead on
the project team, Professor
Her v Migaud, Professor in
Fish Physiology and Director
of Research at Institute of
Aquaculture, University of Stirling,
commented:
The Scottish Aquaculture
Innovation Centres support and
funding will enable us to extend
this project from proof of concept
to the commercial environment.
The impact of the research will
be considerable in both scientific
and economic terms. In addition,
PhD and Masters students at
the Institute of Aquaculture have
the opportunity to gain research
exper tise in one of the aquaculture industrys most pressing
issues.
states of Mexico.
In Mexico the role of women
in the rural environment and the
development of aquaculture is of
utmost importance. Aquaculture
production models are at three
levels, namely extensive, semi-intensive, and intensive with rural integration, varying according to climate
and activities integrated with land
and animal husbandry.
Veronica is currently collaborating in the Depar tment of
Planning and International Affairs
for CONAPESC A and has
worked tirelessly for the organisation in areas such as administration, management, governance
and strategic planning. Veronica
has shown willingness for transferring knowledge and technology and developing within the
sector an increasing capability and
capacity to ensure the issues of
gender are well covered.
he Scottish Aquaculture
Innovation Centre has
kicked off a 4 million
applied research project to
upscale the use of farmed wrasse
in commercial salmon farms.
The new project, now rolling
out on Scotlands West Coast,
has the potential to increase productivity on salmon farms and
reduce the use of medicines in
the industr y. With the project
agreement in place, the project
team can set about taking validated lab research through to
full application in the commercial
environment.
The deployment of farmed
wrasse to control sea lice on
farms could lead to the creation
of new jobs in rural communities, not just in salmon production, but in wrasse production
and management. Wrasse can
co-habit with salmon in the same
pens and can be used as cleaner
fish to remove sea lice from the
salmon.
The Scottish Aquaculture
Innovation Centre (SAIC)
has awarded grant funding of
831,530 to this cleaner fish
project. The grant has leveraged
contributions worth 3.01 million
from Marine Harvest (Scotland),
quaculture without
Frontiers is very pleased
to announce that
Veronica Esquivel Medina from
Mazatln, Mexico is our Woman
of the Month for July. This is the
first such award presented to
anyone in Latin America.
A current leader for all women
who are working in the fisheries
and aquaculture sector in Mexico,
Veronica is an example of hard
work, honesty and collaboration.
She is always involved in young
professionals career development and everyone seeks her out
for her advice.
Veronica has always fought for
the rights of women in Mexican
policies and has led several fish-
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At this moment GMP+ International is preparing an evaluation of the EWS notifications of 2013 and 2014. In general the
figures show that there have been more notifications in 2013 and
2014 than the years before. This increase in the number of notifications was related to mycotoxins. It is also good to realise that
sometimes more than one EWS message has been related to the
same case.
Most of the reported issues are controlled in an early stage.
Only a limited number were related to a more or less serious
feed safety emergency. In 2013 this was aflatoxin in maize and
in 2014 this was furazolidon in in soymix. Because of these two
safety issues, the requirements to notify have become stricter.
Before 2015, GMP+ FSA certified companies were only obliged
to notify contamination levels above maximum permitted level,
in case the situation was not fully under control of the involved
company and could affect other companies too. End 2014,
we introduced the obligation to notify every exceeding of the
maximum permitted level of an undesirable substance to GMP+
International as well as the certification body. This notification as
well as informing the customers is considered so crucial for the
effectiveness of the control of a safety incident, that non-compliance is classified as a critical non-conformity with withdrawal of
the GMP+ FSA certificate as a consequence.
GMP+ International always tries to find out the source and
cause of contamination, because that could be relevant for the
risk assessments and could contribute to avoid occurrence in
the future. The GMP+ FSA certified companies observe these
EWS messages as worthwhile, because it increases their alertness
regarding specific risks.
It adds also value in comparison of the Rapid Alerts System
Feed & Food (RASFF) of the European Union, due to more details
and quick publication. The most important causes of contamination (figure 2) are natural exposure and genesis during processing.
Process aids can also be a source, which need to be considered in
the risk assessments.
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tems, conservation of biodiversity and habitats and most importantly, empower vulnerable communities engaged in small-scale
production to act as resource
users and stewards noted Dr
Alinovi.
Implementing BGI
through the Ecosystem
Approach to Aquaculture
(EAA) in Kenya
Elaborating the
Ecosystem Approach to
Aquaculture
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Afla
ZEN
DON
T-2
FUM
OTA
The highest Afla, DON
where most aquaculture
Aqua
Number of samples tested
37
37
37
41
37
and
FUM prevalence was
is practiced. Temperature
Feed
% of contaminated samples
59%
59%
68%
51%
57%
observed in corn DDGS.
resistant, mycotoxins are not
Average of positives (ppb)
49
71
162
637
2
The highest average level
destroyed by the heat and
Maximum (ppb)
221
306
413
7,534
5
and maximum concentrapressure of pelleting and
Corn
Number of samples tested
1010
1557
1834
766
970
879
tion of OTA was determined
extrusion.
% of contaminated samples
22%
55%
72%
16%
72%
5%
in soybean meal samples at
24ppb and 141ppb respecCrop contamination
Average of positives (ppb)
49
443
2,651
74
2,974
3
tively. DON is the most
over 25 percent
Maximum (ppb) 1,352
16,495 29,600
852
154,000
41
common mycotoxin found
The Council for
Corn
Number of samples tested
59
61
58
42
59
55
DDGS
in wheat samples with an
Agricultural Sciences and
% of contaminated samples
41%
74%
83%
26%
78%
29%
incidence of 56 percent. The
Technology (CAST) in 2003
Average of positives (ppb)
13
250
834
28
1,808
4
highest average T-2 level was
estimated that 25 percent
Maximum (ppb)
196
3,600
5,941
80
27,665
22
detected in wheat samples
of the world's crop producSoybean
Number of samples tested
79
79
80
59
79
79
at 100ppb. The highest incition was contaminated with
Meal
% of contaminated samples
13%
24%
16%
3%
15%
20%
dence of DON among all
mycotoxins.
Average of positives (ppb)
3
17
278
12
117
24
samples was determined
Over the past 10 years
in wheat bran samples. The
of the Biomin Mycotoxin
Maximum (ppb)
10
101
1,166
13
746
141
highest prevalence of Afla
Survey, the evaluation of
Wheat
Number of samples tested
160
339
523
147
148
166
(40 percent) was deteralmost 33,000 samples from
% of contaminated samples
8%
32%
56%
12%
14%
9%
mined in rice bran.
around the world revealed
Average of positives (ppb)
11
75
882
100
350
3
Mycotoxin analyses in
that more than three
Maximum (ppb)
87
2,115
28,864 1,300
2,935
10
this survey clearly indicate
quarters of these samples
Wheat
Number of samples tested
67
69
69
17
60
62
that constant monitoring
were contaminated with at
Bran
% of contaminated samples
3%
28%
93%
18%
17%
26%
of mycotoxins is important.
least one mycotoxin and 43
Average of positives (ppb)
2
124
760
5
605
3
An effective mycotoxin risk
percent of all samples were
Maximum (ppb)
3
1,491
3,806
10
4,333
18
management program is
co-contaminated with two
Rice
Number of samples tested
25
25
25
17
25
24
essential in order to protect
or more toxins.
Bran
animals from the negative
While in terrestrial animals
% of contaminated samples
40%
56%
8%
0%
72%
21%
impacts of mycotoxins on
the toxic effects of mycoAverage of positives (ppb)
5
43
24
85
4
their health and perfortoxins have been widely
Maximum (ppb)
11
200
25
282
18
mance.
studied, the effects in aquatic
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outh East Asia and Vietnam in particular has received a boost to its aquaculture development with the opening
of a refurbished and revitalized fish-research
facility at Nong Lam University, in the Thu
Duc District of Saigon. Called the Biomin
Aquaculture Centre for Applied Nutrition
(ACAN) the centre will share the laboratories on site with two other companies.
The Erber Group, which is the holding
company for Biomin, Sanphar and Romer
Labs, has acquired and refurbished the facilities
that were previously operated in partnership
with the university by Novus until 2014.
Joining three companies interests together
has meant the facility will play a vital role in
not only aquaculture in Vietnam, but for aquaculture research throughout the whole region
as well as for land-based livestock production.
The aquatic facilities, which will carry out
more than 14 trials, specific to the Asia
region, over the next 12 months, has four
fully equipped laboratories as well as a major
recirculation system with an extensive water
quality control capability.
Biomins ACAN centre was opened on June
29, 2015 following a half-day seminar in the
city followed by a traditional fanfare and celebration at the centre itself.
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Six speakers in the Biomin session, presented a range of the trial work now being
conducted with a highlight being phytogenics;
the screening of natural spices and herbs for
their biologically active compounds, especially
Partner companies
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the discussion focused on the fact that aquaculture is happening, is the fastest growing
primary industry and that the demand for
fish products has increased vastly in the last
few years.
Noting that more than one billion people
in developing countries depend on fish to
survive and 16.5 percent of global protein
consumption is from fish with that likely to
improve in the future.
In order to get an understanding about
the difference between the East and the
West in respect of aquaculture Mr Palmer
quoted Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002),
founder of the International Oceans Institute.
This highlights, he said, the importance of the
industry to the Asian countries and the failure
of the West to come to grips with production.
"That aquaculture has a philosophical base
in the East and a scientific base in the West
has far-reaching implications.
"In the East, it is culture, it is life: culture to
improve life by providing food and employment. It is embedded in the social and economic infrastructure. All that science can and
must do is to make this culture more effective.
"In the West, aquaculture is science and
technology, embodied in industry and providing profits: money. It has no social infrastructure. In this, the West has much to learn from
the East." - Elizabeth Mann Borgese (19182002), Seafarm, The Story of Aquaculture,
1980
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The importance of food security and nutrition was seemingly lost in North America,
EU and Australia with consistent demand on
developing countries to supply the majority of
seafood for those countries.
In fact many countries have not given
sufficient thought to governance and really
understood the difference between wild fishing and aquaculture. This is a failure which
clearly is holding many countries back from
getting involved in aquaculture.
Getting an understanding that the majority
of aquaculture was not about feeding fish-tofish, was an important issue and was emphasised by Mr Palmer highlighting that world
production of Tilapia was now 4,500,000
tonnes per annum which was the equivalent
of 143kg every second of every day.
He pointed out that Tilapia is one of the
oldest species aquacultured yet, as mature as
it is, as a freshwater white flesh species it is still
very much in its infancy on its genetic potential
in comparison to Salmon and all terrestrial
proteins.
The question will be how much the industry will move forward once such knowledge
has been obtained bearing in mind the volumes that are already being harvested. Surely,
this will be chicken of the 2050s, if not earlier,
he asked
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along with genetic improvements - as with all animals - by taking the
best and improving product quality and fish performance is actually
where the future of the worlds food is more likely to come from.
Reducing poverty, improving health and increasing sustainability
at the community as well as at a national level needs attention from
capacity building. A need to build capacity from within, a systems
approach based on worlds best practice.
Progress may well be assisted by new technologies but it is really
an innovation in a systems approach which engages the farmer directly
which will have the most effect.
The need to promote healthy diets from sustainable food systems
is essential.
Ending poverty and hunger is not possible unless we place agri-food
systems near the top of the priority list where research is the backbone
but development and transparency the keys to success.
Microalgae to energy
The third panel was moderated by Oystein Lie of MarLife and the
panel consisted: John White of the Aquaculture Stewardship Council;
Giuseppe Di Carlo, WWF Mediterranean; Olivier Fourcadet, ESSEC
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India
Aqua feeds
and feeding
trends
by Dr B. Laxmappa,
Fisheries
Development
Officer, Department
of Fisheries, India
Aqua feeds
Feeding trends
In India, large fish culture ponds are fertilised with poultry or cattle manure throughout
the production cycle. Fertilisation is well
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fish is also cultured in some
pockets of India, particularly
Andhra Pradesh and West
Bengal. But farmers typically
use high stocking densities
and mixed feeds composed
of rice bran, oilseed cake
residues, cooked maize grains,
kitchen waste, poultry processing waste and others. Mud
crabs are fed on a variety
of diets including low-value/
trash fish, slaughter wastes, fish
wastes, mussels, snails, shrimp
heads, small bivalves etc.
Today, owing to non-availability of commercial feeds and
for economic reasons, more
than 90 percent of farmers use
farm-made feeds of cake-bran
mixture or improved versions
of the feed mixture in carp
culture. Farm-made feeds are
prepared based on ingredient
availability and feeding experience. In Andhra Pradesh, farmers use defatted rice bran and
groundnut oil cake in a 7:3 ratio, with feed
additives mineral and vitamin mixtures. Interlinking of artificial feeding with natural fish
food organisms has been found beneficial as
it influences dietary efficiency and economic
utilisation of the former. There has been a
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Table 1: Major conventional and non-conventional feed ingredients producing states in India
Ingredients
Rice bran
Groundnut cake
Sunflower cake
Mustard cake
Fish meal
Maritime states
Shrimp waste
Maritime states
Silkworm pupae
Poultry offal
Karnataka, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, Tamil Nadu,
Asom, Madhya Pradesh, North East Region.
All states
Table 2: Type of supplementary feeds used for commercially important aquaculture species in India.
Category
Species
Major Carps
Catfishes
Catla catla
Labeo rohita
Cirrhinus mrigala
Clarias batrachus
Formulated feed
Clarias gariepinus
Poultry offal
Pangasius hypopthalmus
Snakeheads
Feed type
Channa striatus
Channa marulius
Channa punctatus
Formulated feed
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Formulated feed
Schizothorax sp.
Formulated feed
Tor putitora
Formulated feed
Trouts
Mahseers
Tor tor
Formulated feed
Tor mussullah
Formulated feed
Tor khudree
Formulated feed
Tilapia
Oreochromius niloticus
Prawn
Macrobrachium rosenbergii
Macrobrachium malcolmsonii
Shrimp
Penaeus monodon
Pellet feed
Litopenaeus vannamei
Pellet feed
Crab
Others
Pellet feed
Scylla serrata
Scylla tranquebarica
Piaractus brachypomus
Chanos chanos
Formulated feed
Aquafeed industry
Poultry offal
Lates calcarifer
Conclusion
In India semi-intensive and intensive freshwater fish production systems are predominantly based on farm-made feeds. An
estimated 6.83 million tonnes of feed ingredients are used for producing farm-made
feeds, while only 10,000 tonnes of industrially
manufactured feeds are used in freshwater
aquaculture. Preliminary data suggests that
the use of manufactured feeds could bring
about significant savings in carp production.
Food conversion ratios (FCR) could be
reduced from three to 1:1 when manufactured feeds replace farm-made feeds.
There are additional benefits associated with
manufactured feeds in the form of cleaner
ponds and less labour for feed preparation
and feeding.
The principal constraint to the use of
manufactured feeds in fish production is the
perception that such feeds are not costeffective. Once feed manufacturers and farmers realise that it is possible to profitably
produce and use feeds in fish farming, the use
of manufactured feeds will increase. It is likely
that the current use of manufactured feeds
in freshwater fish farming will increase from
10,000 tonnes to at least 0.25 million tonnes
within the next couple of years.
Both farm-made and compound feeds are
used extensively and the proportion varies by
species. In shrimp feed the main ingredients
are fish and soybean meal, wheat, rice and fish
oil. In fish feed the main ingredients are oilseed meal, maize, bran, blood and bone meal.
It is estimated that annual consumption of
concentrated feed by the aquaculture sector
is approximately 8.3 million tonnes, ranking
third in the consumers of concentrated feeds
in India, behind dairy and poultry.
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growth in fish production can only come
from aquaculture. The important choices for
society are between increasing aquaculture
or increasing meat production. The challenge
for society is to maximise the significant
potential benefits from both wild fisheries and
aquaculture.
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waterways and oceans are a great under
utilised resource.
Professor Asche said, Increasingly, landbased technologies are being adopted to
use this resource and Aquaculture is the
food production arm of the ocean with
Aquaculture being all about farming while
fisheries are the worlds last large hunting
industry. Aquaculture is an old technology, but
a revolution took place in the 1970s as people
began to use knowledge from agro-sciences
to domesticate, breed and feed fish.
Asche underlined that conditions favouring
increased aquaculture production with population growth and economic growth leading to
increased aggregate demand for food. With
stagnating global catches of fish reducing the
competitiveness of wild fish and globalisation
reducing the cost of shipping products and
increasing trade. Added to this, the growth
of retail chains favouring supply chains with
sufficient control to enable efficient logistics
created the opening for aquaculture. To
exploit these conditions, businesses must be
competitive and competitive producers are
efficient.
He added, Aquaculture is the result of
systematic Research and Development and
innovation in water-based food production
systems. Expansion of aquaculture production is profitable because of lower production cost due to a number of innovations
and better technology increases productivity
as one can produce more with the same
input factors or increase the efficiency of
those inputs.
On productivity growth, specifically
Salmon, Professor Asche said, The development of input factors has been tremendous,
with better feed, automatic feeding systems,
etc and there is a substantial catching up
potential for most species. Twenty years ago
feed made up 25 percent of salmon farmers
cost, and smolt about 20 percent whereas
currently feed is 55 percent and smolt is down
to 15 percent due to increased growth rates,
earlier smolt release. On the other hand for
efficient chicken farmers, feed is more than
80 percent of the production cost. Efficient
and Innovation Program for the period 20142020. H2020 puts the emphasis on three
core themes: science of excellence, industrial
leadership and societal challenges. It aims to
raise the level of excellence in Europes
science base, encourage important achievements, discoveries and world-firsts by taking
great ideas from the lab to the market.
Included in the Blue Growth Strategy,
defined by the European Commission as a
long term strategy to support sustainable
growth in the marine and maritime sectors
as a whole (COM(2014) 254/2), SUCCESS
specifically addresses topic BG-10-2014 :
Consolidating the economic sustainability and
competitiveness of European fisheries and
aquaculture sectors to reap the potential of
seafood markets.
Dr Carole Engle, Engle-Stone Aquatic LLC,
spoke at some length regarding the issues
confronting the aquaculture industry in USA,
notably the Alabama Catfish industry based
on years of personal involvement and study
she had done.
Carole highlighted that many of the businesses she had dealt with had little business
education and that was the area where they
were mainly failing. She said that the common
reasons for failure were insufficient capital;
poor credit or loan structure; poor inventory
management or simply running out of cash.
Carole said some of the legislation in the USA
needed to be reviewed as clearly created an
impediment to trade.
The event was sponsored by The
Foundation Alfonso Martin Escudero in cooperation with FAO and the Galicia Regional
Ministry for Rural and Maritime Affairs and
coordinated by CETMAR Foundation. The
closing ceremony was conducted by Paloma
Rueda Crespo, director-manager of Sea
Technology Centre, coordinator of the seminar organisation, and was accompanied by
Ignacio Llorente, a professor at the University
of Cantabria. During her speech, the head of
the Foundation CETMAR thanked the set of
speakers and students work and praised the
quality of the debates promoted throughout
the week.
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PHOTOSHOOT
Jeju Island
Jeju Island, off the south coast of Korea, is not just noted as a world
heritage site for its volcanoes and lava tubes, but is also recognised
for its 350-plus flounder farms producing over 25,000 tonnes of olive
flounder. Jeju hosted this years World Aquaculture Societys 2015
Convention and offered delegates much more. Here, we reflect on
the Spirited Gardens of bonsai trees and koi carp, developed over
40 years by Bum-young Sung (pictured below) which has received
visits from two Chinese premiers. The oldest tree in the garden is
over 1300 years and the oldest potted bonsai over 600 years. Mount
Sanbang (formed as a gigantic bell-shaped lava dome) reflects the
ethos of the island.
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Technology on display
Since 1979, Norway has
hosted the greatest aquaculture
show in the world: Aqua Nor.
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Aqua Nor
Technology on display
already. Many are registering early to make sure they get the space
and location they want. In addition to the many Norwegian exhibitors, exhibitors from a number of foreign countries like the UK,
Chile, China, the USA and Dubai have also registered.
The exhibition area presently covers 18,000 m2, but will be
expanded to about 23,000 m2 when a new hall is added a few years
from now.
But because of the great interest this year, we have added one
extra hall, says Mrs Steinsb.
All the exhibition halls were fully booked six months ahead of the
show, so we decided to erect a new hall, Hall A2, which is now filling
up.
Aqua Nor is the only aquaculture technology exhibition where you can
actually see the equipment in its right element: on the water. At the
Skansen area in the Trondheim harbor, a short 10-minute walk from
the main exhibition halls, exhibitors display floating cages, workboats,
underwater equipment and other installations. On Aqua Nors opening
day, a gigantic AC850 feed barge will be officially handed over from
AKVA group to its new owners, Marine Harvest. This event will take
place at Skansen.
Mini-seminars
Networking
Many visitors claim that the most important aspect of Aqua Nor
is the networking - meeting old friends and making new contacts.
Consequently, there is a lot of chatting going on in the exhibition halls
and above all at the several restaurants on the premises. One of the
most popular meeting places is the outdoor restaurant, where people
can also listen to heated debates during the lunch hour.
Foreign delegations
Over the years, many foreign delegations have visited Aqua Nor, often
headed by ministers and top officials from the visiting countries. There
have been large delegations visiting from Indonesia, China, Vietnam,
South Korea, and other Asian countries, as well as from Latin America
and Africa. Many of these delegations have used the occasion to
present investment opportunities in their own country during brief
seminars during the exhibition.
Innovation Award
Norway has developed a wide range of know-how in the offshore petroleum industry and is considered a leading nation when
it comes to seabed technology. Now Mr Haram wants that the
aquaculture industry should develop excellence higher up in the
water column also.
We need many young people in order to reach the objectives
that we have set. Anything from civil engineering, ITC experts and
young people who are interested in politics, trade, marketing and
economics. I hope they will use this opportunity to get to know the
aquaculture industry on Aqua Nors Student Day.
Aqua Nor invites all students to visit the exhibition free of charge
on Friday 21st August. In addition, 10 students from all over the
country will be selected to receive free travel and accommodation
in Trondheim during the exhibition.
Students who visit Aqua Nor will have a full menu of options:
Exciting seminars with top-notch speakers
Mingling and networking, including happy hour
A raffle with a festival pass to Pstereo
Sampling delicious seafood products
Meetings with various exhibitors
Since Nor-Fishing 2012 the organisers have given out The Best Stand
Award. The idea is to stimulate innovation and reward those exhibitors who put an extra effort into their stand design.
The criteria for selecting the best stand were established in 2012,
and they are relatively simple, but relevant:
Is the stand an attention-getter? It should be a stand that catches
the attention of visitors, it should reflect a thematic idea, and be
aesthetically pleasing.
Does the stand attract visitors? Do visitors stop to talk to the
personnel?
Does the stand give clear and relevant information about the
message that it is meant to communicate?
With these questions in mind, a Jury will spend the first three days
of the exhibition visiting stands all over the exhibition. On the last day
of the exhibition, the Jurys decision will be announced.
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Ghana is one of the countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa region with the potential to dramatically increase its
fish production through aquaculture. In this two part special focus on Ghana, we examine two major issues;
alternative feed resources and best management practices.
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At the fish farm of Crystal Lake Fishing Ltd, Volta Lake, Ghana
out-grower farmers
who are expected
to grow enough sunflower oil for the local
fish cannery industry,
and enough sunflower seed cake for the
poultry and aquaculture industries.
Results from a
collaborative work
by AquaFish CRSP
of Oregon State
University and the
Sokoine University in
Tanzania showed that
a 50/50 combination
of moringa and sunflower seed cake was a
viable substitute for soya bean meal.
A major challenge facing the aquafeed
industry is the absence of good quality feed
processing. About 30 percent of feed used
in the industry is imported, and Raanan
Feeds, the only producer of extruded feed
in Ghana, is currently producing at maximum
capacity. Most of the feed used or produced
by the many small-scale farms in Ghana are
neither pelletised nor extruded, and do not
float. Current signs show good prospects for
investment inflows. The combination of sizeable investment and alternative feed resource
deployment will give aquaculture in Ghana a
bright future.
Aquaculture in hana #2
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aquaculture. This is the result of a high fish demand, and the combination of a stable political environment and the commissioning of the
only commercial fish feed mill in West Africa. The country derives a
majority of its dietary protein from fish, with an estimated per capita
fish consumption of 2030 kg per annum in 2009, higher than the
global estimate of about 18 kg.
The global aquaculture industry has been blamed widely for its
negative impacts on natural aquatic ecosystems. Pond effluents are
relatively dilute, and as such not amenable to conventional treatment
technologies. Aquaculture management practices affect the volume of
water, nutrient, solids, and oxygen demand loading rates from ponds to
effluent-receiving water bodies. Generally, these practices are grouped
into nutrient management and effluent management.
In 2014 Frimpong et al showed the effect of two best management practices (BMPs) on the growth of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis
niloticus) and their effectiveness at preventing the transport of nutrients and solids from fishponds to water bodies in Ghana. Specifically,
these two BMPs were the use of commercial floating feeds and pond
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water reuse. That study showed that reused pond
water resulted in the same growth rates as the usual
practice of draining and refilling pond with new water
before stocking. This result was in contrast to the
widely held belief among pond fish farmers in the
sub-Saharan Africa region that reusing water from a
previous cycle could harm cultured fish.
Two main types of fish feed are used by fish farmers in Ghana. The recommended commercial feed
type is pelleted, smooth, and mostly floating, unlike
the farm-made type, which is coarse, powdery, and
sinking. In a previous study Frimpong et al showed
that the commercial floating feed type resulted in up
to a 100 percent increase in fish growth compared to
the farm-made sinking feed. Analysis of revenues and
costs on a typical tilapia farm in Ghana also indicated
that using commercial floating feed resulted in a
higher probability of profitability (45%) than using the
farm-made alternative (25%).
Demonstrating profitability of better management
practices will encourage the adoption by fish farmers,
which will both protect the environment and further
increase farm profits. Widespread adoption of profitable innovations is expected to have an impact not
only at the farmhousehold level, but also on the
welfare of the society as a whole, including both producers and consumers. Positive outcomes of adopting BMPs such as commercial floating feeds include
achievement of an environmentally-friendly image
by the aquaculture industry, increased tilapia production, and lower fish costs. This study conducted by
Dr Ansah and Dr Frimpong sought to quantify the
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maximum adoption rate, which they believe to be a realistic figure for
an aquaculture innovation.
Aquaculture production in Ghana occurs in two main systems,
floating cages in the Volta Lake and dugout earthen ponds. Floating
cage systems are intensive operations that rely solely on commercial
floating feed through the production cycle, and these systems account
for about 90 percent of the countrys aquaculture production. Total
production from cages alone was 24,250 metric tons (mt) in 2013.
Current BMP dissemination efforts are targeted at the less-intensive
earthen-pond systems that rely more on the farm-made sinking feed
type. Effectively, the adoption of the new feed technology will likely
impact the production from earthen ponds, since the innovation is
already being used widely in the cage systems.
Research findings
Final thoughts
However, considering the significant positive social welfare implications of adopting this feed type in earthen pond farming, both
governmental and nongovernmental agencies could invest in reducing
feed cost in order to facilitate diffusion. Our results indicate that the
marginal benefit from any investments made to reduce feed costs and
facilitate farmers use of the new feed type is high.
Also, adoption rates of the recommended feed type had a nonsignificant but positive effect on mean NPV. However, adoption rate
links indirectly to change in yield. Change in yield is the physical change
in the average weight of fish fed the new feed type, but the more
farmers that adopt the technology the higher the chances of increasing
production in order to realise the calculated NPV.
This study projected that adoption of yield-enhancing aquaculture BMPs and innovations in a developing country such as Ghana
would result in significant social welfare benefits. Considering the
high marginal benefits of investments in floating feed, it is recommended that affordable credit programs and other financial packages
be created to help farmers meet the current price of fish feed. Dr
Ansah and Dr Frimpong also recommend investment into research
and development projects to reduce the amount of feed wasted
from overfeeding. The focusing of extension effort on production
technologies will lead to the realisation of benefits and reduction in
risk. These efforts will result in the country reaping high social benefits
from the increased yield. Also, active dissemination of this and other
BMPs will create the awareness required for rapid diffusion of these
innovations.
This feature has been altered from the original open access article for
formatting reasons. The original open access article is distributed under a
Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license. Published by Cogent
Food & Agriculture (ISSN: 2331-1932), Cogent OA, part of Taylor &
Francis Group.
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Pellet quality
PL are required in shrimp feed for the efficient transport of dietary fatty acids and lipids
from the gut epithelium into the haemolymph,
and the mobility of lipids between the various
tissues and organs. Dietary PL also improves
the mobilisation of cholesterol, which is essential in the molting process of crustaceans. PL
also reduces the accumulation of lipid droplets
in the intestine, due to its essential role in the
transportation of Triacylglycerol (TAG) from
the intestinal mucosa via the haemolymph
into the serum of shrimp as chylomicron and
other lipoprotein. Diets with additional PL
have higher levels of plasma lipoproteins and
epithelial enzymes.
The inclusion of PL in the diet affects
lipid deposition, resulting in increased lipid
retention and levels in the animal. A higher
proportion of EPA and DHA was observed
in juvenile P. japonicas due to the addition of
three percent of soybean lecithin in the diet.
Benefits of lecithin (phospholipids):
- Higher survival and growth
- Better resistance to stress
- Prevention of malformations
- Improve water stability of food particles
- Reduce leaching of water soluble
nutrients
- Antioxidant
- Reduce accumulation of lipid droplets
- Higher levels of plasma lipoproteins
- Higher levels of epithelial enzymes
- Increase lipid retention
- Better essential lipid composition of
the fish.
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Effect on enzymes
Nobacithin Aqua
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Native liquid lecithin has a very high viscosity
and is therefore not so easy to handle in a
feed plant. In Nobacithin Aqua R100, oil
and fatty acids have been added to lecithin
which makes its application much easier. This
Nobacithin Aqua R100 is based upon rape
lecithin. It is a NON-GMO blend. Beside
this rape base blend, there are also mixtures
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Phospholipids increase lipid retention
and levels in the animals
Noba
Noba Vital Lipids is a leading Dutch manufacturer and supplier of high-energy fat products for the animal feed industries, servicing
greater Europe. Our strengths are rooted in
more than 60 years of experience alongside
our high standards of quality, which are fulfilled
at every step of the production process. NOBA
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care and product safety during raw material
selection and processing, as well as in the final
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Noba partners with leading research universities and animal feed testing centres to
conduct basic nutritional research and indepth feed trials. We focus on nutrients, not
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Other species such as tilapia have also featured in recent trials. As readers of International
Aquafeed will know, Tilman has had aquaculture
articles published in this magazine a recent and
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EXPERT TPIC
EXPERT TOPIC
TILAPIA
Welcome to Expert Topic. Each issue will take an in-depth look
at a particular species and how its feed is managed.
EXPERT TPIC
1 Tilapia: adaptable
2 Tilapia survey
demonstrates GAAs
commitment to
responsible aquaculture
health. Some of these substances are permitted for veterinary use. But there are concerns
that overuse could potentially, by spreading
resistance, reduce the effectiveness of human
antimicrobial therapy. Thus, subject to the
survey results, GAA will seek by years end
to modify the tilapia-specific section of the
BAP finfish and crustacean farm standards to
exclude the use of antimicrobials listed by the
WHO as critical to human health.
Some experts feel that antimicrobials listed
by the WHO as critical to human health
should be excluded from use in tilapia farming. Other experts feel that these antibiotics
are critical tools for disease treatment and
animal welfare. BAP-certified tilapia farms and
processing plants are encouraged to take the
survey, which is anonymous.
EXPERT TPIC
Tilapia
production in India:
Present status
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Mozambique tilapia
Blue tilapia
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Gallilee tilapia
Black-chinned tilapia
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REVIEW
The sun shone on Jeju and everyone who attended learned much about
the history of Korea (especially unique cultural folk heritage of Jeju) and the
advancements that the country and the area has made in many areas, not
least of those being aquaculture.
The conference had 57 sessions and 510 oral presentations and attracted
280 poster presentations all housed with the Trade Show at the International
Convention Centre (ICC) located in the Jungmun Tourist Complex with
the cobalt-blue Northern Pacific stretching on the south and towering Mt.
Hallasan in the north. The ICC spreads over an area of more than 5,000,
and is a seven-story building. Jeju Island is not only Koreas most prestigious
destination and top honeymoon spot, but it has been the venue for several
political joint summit talks and other major international meetings.
There were 134 booths at the Trade Show covering both Korean and
international organisations plying their trade to the delegates and many others who attended the trade show following the successful AquaForum event
which aimed to attract farmers from the entire region.
Activities at AquaForum included specific topical industry sessions, facilitated workshops and round table discussions with simultaneous translations.
The focus of the session was targeted towards the most important industry
issues affecting key Asia Pacific aquaculture producing countries and a raft of
world-renowned experts were engaged.
It is a true Industry forum whereby timely topical and regionally relevant
sessions are tailored to enhance industrial representation and participation.
Session topics will include health, nutrition, and production systems of fish and
shrimp in freshwater and marine environment.
Whilst travel to Jeju is a trifle complicated everyone arriving was blown
away with how many tourists were attracted to the beautiful island. Its
extinct volcano with its peak jutting skyward at the centre and a broad, many
delegates considered gentle littoral all the way around as a challenging walk!
Jeju is, of course, designated by UNESCO World Natural Heritage Sites
for its natural beauty and geographical value. There are bountiful forests and
ravines, fantastic rock formations and volcanic craters, and caves and grasslands that together paint a natural scene of breathtaking beauty. Sparkling seas
and tiny islets surround Jeju, with rocks scattering amidst sandy beaches to
create a magnificent view everywhere you look.
Jeju is unique in many ways so it combines modern aquaculture with
other important and relevant seafood history, education and entertainment.
Importantly Jeju is well known as a centre in Korea for the flatfish species of
Olive Flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) and Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)
and the history with Abalone with the infamous wild fish diving women
through to current aquaculture farms. Jeju is actually much more than that as
far as aquaculture is concerned with some two thousand plus people engaged
in the industry on the island involved in all sectors including research, hatcheries, farms, feed mills, etc and covering a multitude of species covering eels, sea
cucumbers, fish from parrot fish to rainbow trout and tuna and shellfish from
shrimp to clams and oysters.
Additionally Jeju is home to a Future Aquaculture Research Centre and
besides having its own provincial government research activities also houses
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important National Fisheries Research & Development Institute (NFRDI)
activities as well as Jeju National University and home to Aqua Planet Jeju
which is the largest aquarium in all of Asia (Total Floor Area: 25,600m,
10,800 tons) reportedly approx. 11 times that of 63 Sea World. With approx.
48,000 animals and plants of around 500 species in exhibition.
There was an underplayed but special emphasis on women in aquaculture
at the event which ensured there was a stronger than normal female presence
at the event. With WAS having a stronger than usual female board, there was
an effort to link to the Jeju history of Haenyeo ("sea women", are female divers)
and that saw a female plenary speaker and 26 female Session Chairs.
The Opening Ceremony which typically covered many of the important
local protocols was followed by a generous and sumptuous buffet on the 5th
floor of the ICC with lots of opportunities for networking and superb views
over the ocean. Always a good start to a conference!
The Plenary introduced by Conference Co-Chairs Jay Parsons and S. K.
(Albert) Choi saw Chung Yeong-Hoon presenting on Status and Future of
Korean Aquaculture followed by Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted speaking
on How can Aquaculture Contribute to Healthy Diets of the Poor? and
concluded with Kangsen Mai presenting Aquaculture is the only way to meet
the Increasing Demand for Aquatic Products - the Example of China. This
was followed by the Student Spotlight.
Chung Yeong-Hoon is the Deputy Minister, Fisheries Policy Officer,
Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and he spoke of an impressive aquaculture
program for Korea. The main emphasis was on transitioning from being
production orientated to ecosystem aquaculture based on farm management systems being more concerned with environmental carrying capacities;
integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA); expansion of Biofloc technology
and recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS).
The four issues would be integral in the Korean Governments program
based on Space Innovation which would see these activities operate offshore,
in tidal flat aquaculture and a hybrid aquaculture island. This connected with
Technology Innovation and virtual aquaculture technology, fisheries seed
and vaccine development along with what was termed, Aquatic Life materials industry, and research and development activities would deliver stable
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production, increase in seafood exports, job creation in aquaculture industry,
securing intellectual property and loyalty and improved customer relationship
management.
The important background to all these efforts emphasised Chung YeongHoon will be reliant on species information and Big Data and he set out a
plan on how that will occur.
Senior Nutrition Scientist at WorldFish, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted,
based in Bangladesh and has a background with the Department of Human
Nutrition, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her broad area of research
and expertise is food-based strategies for improved food and nutrition
security in low-income countries. She has carried out work in Bangladesh,
Cambodia, West Bengal and Nepal, together with government institutions,
universities and NGOs, focusing on the potential of nutrient-dense small fish
in combating and preventing vitamin and mineral deficiencies, in particular,
vitamin A, iron, zinc and calcium, especially in women and children. At the
WorldFish Centre, she has been developing and implementing the CGIAR
Mega Program 4: Agriculture for Improved Nutrition and Health.
In her presentation Dr Thilsted put a lot of emphasis on the aquaculture
industry getting a greater understanding of the importance of the healthy
nutritional products that they could create through aquaculture and the
importance of the industry to the poor.
Shakuntala has long been an advocate of the importance of the education
relating to the most important days of anyones life the one thousand days
from time of conception until the two-year-old birthday. During that time
getting the right nutrition is so important that it shapes the future of each
individual.
Explaining the underlying characteristics of a healthy diet for the poor,
Shakuntala accentuated the importance of fish and other aquatic foods
which are rich in several essential micronutrients. Highlighting work recently
achieved in Bangladesh, Dr Thilsted spoke about a range of fish based products which included fish chutney, complementary food and fish powder as
being successful in creating the ideal nutritional base to assist the poor.
Dr Thilsted hoped that the delegates could take away the message that
it should not all be about large scale aquaculture and monoculture but that
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small scale and a food systems approach was essential when dealing with
improving the opportunities for the poor. Additionally she underlined the
need to minimise waste and losses through the supply chains, the need for
good preservation and innovation in processing to deliver desirable, affordable micronutrient rich fish based products.
Additionally Shakuntala was a keynote speaker for the Seafood & Health
(GILLS) session at the event which primarily discussed the Recommendations
of the 2nd International Conference on Nutrition (see http://www.fao.
org/3/a-mm215e.pdf). As a result of this session WAS has agreed to establish
a Community of Practice (CoP) for Aquaculture Food Security & Nutrition
as it was clear that there many missing pieces to the full Aquaculture nutrition
story. The session also included Jillian Fry (John Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health), Madan Dey (University of Arkansas) and WAS Director,
Roy Palmer.
The information relating to the CoPs will be posted on the WAS website
(www.was.org), and that will include information for anyone that is interested
in engaging.
Dr Kangsen Mai, Ocean University of China, is a Professor of aquaculture
nutrition based in Qingdao, China. He currently focuses on fish species native
to China and as a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering plays
a major role in shaping the countrys aquaculture policy. Additionally he is
Vice chairman of the China Society of Fisheries and committee member of
International Fish Nutrition and Feeding.
Kangsens current research topics are mainly on the nutritional physiology
and nutrient quantitative requirements of the representative mariculture
species in China, such as turbot, yellow croaker, seabass, and groupers. He is
particularly interested in the comparative studies on the protein metabolism
among carnivorous, omnivorous and herbivorous fish, and the replacement
of fishmeal by alternative protein sources in their feeds.
In his presentation Dr Mai was very centred on a recent news story
which came from Science Journal (Jan 9th 2015) and a publication by Cao et
al which announced a sensational conclusion Chinas aquaculture sector is
destined to diminish wild fish stocks worldwide.
He continued stressing that opponents of aquaculture generally argue
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that the industry threatens food safety, results in environmental pollution and
depletes wild fishery stocks. He said they have the opinion that aquaculture
should be stopped or only extensive farming should be allowed to continue.
Dr Mai said, Obviously their views are extreme and they lack global vision
and long term considerations and seem to forget about the increasing global
population and income.
From here Kangsen gave a powerful history of the move from hunter-gatherer
to domestication and farming the inevitable choice for human society development. Additionally based on FAO 2014 figures he highlighted the fallacy of the
Science Journal article by showing that Chinas capture per capita is only 9.5kgs
whereas world average is 11.3 kgs and China has the second lowest when compared with the worlds top 18 countries of fisheries.
Additionally he highlighted that in general, China does not aquaculture
carnivorous fish with at least 50 percent of the Chinese aquaculture industry
not depending on Aquafeed as they use natural productivity. Even on the
utilisation of fishmeal Dr Mai presented information showing that China had
achieved over the last 15 years massive gains due to technology driven by the
high prices required. He accentuated that China was actually an absolute net
fish producer with a low ratio of fish in/fish out.
To add to his points he mentioned that one of the worlds most influential
thinkers, Lester R. Brown, had recently said The world may not realise how
great Chinas contribution to Aquaculture is at this time. Aquaculture is the
most efficient technology of animal production, based on FCE in animal farming (2-7 times higher than land animals).
The rapid growth of aquaculture in China has not only contributed to
improved food supply (1/3 food protein from fishes) but has also generated
employment and income to the Chinese people. About 4.3 million rural
workers are directly employed in aquaculture. In 2012 total seafood exports
from China was US$ 18.98 billion accounting for 30 percent of the total agricultural exports. Aquaculture not only raised the fish consumption per capita
in China from 9.5kgs (wild capture) to 36.6kgs in 2013, but also in the world,
exporting 4 million MT more than importing, said Dr Mai.
All of these plenaries created a strong platform for the conference which
delivered on many facets for all engaged.
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Enzymes
Additives
Chemoforma
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www.chemoforma.com
www.evonik.com
JEFO
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GMP+ International
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Liptosa
Sonac
Ab Vista
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TSC Silos
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www.extru-techinc.com
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Vigan Enginnering
VIV
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Analysis
R-Biopharm
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www.r-biopharm.com
Colour sorters
Bhler AG
Romer Labs
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www.buhlergroup.com
www.romerlabs.com
Amino acids
Evonik
+49 618 1596785
www.evonik.com
www.vigan.com
www.viv.net
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Almex
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Satake
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Amandus Kahl
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Cenzone
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Brabender
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Mondi Group
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Buhler AG
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Denis
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Muyang Group
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www.muyang.com
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Insta-Pro International
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Hatchery products
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PellTech
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Bastak
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Aqualabo
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www.parkerfarm.com
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Leiber GmbH
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www.leibergmbh.de
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Sanderson Weatherall
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www.mondigroup.com
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www.lesaffre.fr
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Liv Holmefjord has been Director General of Fisheries in Norway since 2008. The Directorate of Fisheries is an advisory and executive
body in matters relating to fishing and management of aquaculture. Her main tasks involve regulation, guidance, supervision, resource
management and control. She is also Chair of the Nor Fishing Foundation - an organisation established in 1992 by the Norwegian
Ministry of Fisheries, which today has the right and responsibility to hold the Norwegian International fisheries exhibition, Nor Fishing
and Aqua Nor (held between 18 - 21 August, 2015). Following her father and grandfather who were fishermen, she has spent most of
her career in the seafood sector. She was educated at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Admin.
There are in fact a couple of new halls: A1 and A2. There has
not only been an increase in exhibitors, but also in the number
of those who wish to increase the size of their stand. The
exhibition is now fully occupied and there is a long waiting list
of exhibitors who wish to participate. The area that is covered
is now the largest ever. This signifies a sense of optimism in
the industry, but also dynamic development and the sharing of
knowledge amongst the industry, scientists, researchers, public
authorities, and local communities.
Hopefully a lot! The Aqua Nor exhibition is where all the fields
of technology, processes and services related to the farming of
salmon as well as other species of fish and shellfish etc. are on
display, and experts from all over the world get together to
exchange experiences and learn about innovations.
A key example of Aqua Nors commitment to technology is
the innovation award. This year we received 17 applications.
The three finalists that were selected have developed new and
exciting solutions. The Board of Directors of the Nor-Fishing
Foundation will discuss the proposed winners in a meeting
on Monday 17 August, and the Innovation Award - consisting
of NOK100, 000 and a diploma - will be presented to the
winner during the Festive Evening in Trondheim at the Scandic
Nidelven Hotel on Tuesday 18 August.
However, it is important to mention that it is not just
technology that will be showcased. Different services and
scientific solutions will also be showcased, coupled with
discussions; numerous seminars, mini conferences and
presentations will be held on various subjects.
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r Nino Gruettke, Managing Director of VNU Exhibitions Asia Pacific, has announced the
appointment of the new General Manager, Mrs Kanya Viravan. Mrs Viravan succeeds
Mrs Ladda Mongkolchaivivat, who became the Executive Vice President - Marketing of
NCC Group.
Prior to this post, Mrs Viravan was the Assistant Vice President - Sales at Asset World Leisure and TCC Hotel
Group for the past 11 years. She brings a wealth of experience in hotel sales, marketing and leadership. She also
played an important role in international key trade accounts and trade fairs.
Mr Gruettke and Mrs Viravan will work hand in hand to enhance VNU's market presence and to further develop positive exhibition and
conference results - in particular in the agri-food business and in the laboratory equipment industry.
"I am pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs Kanya Viravan. Kanya's profound experience and in-depth knowledge of hospitality, sales,
and international management will strengthen our leading position in the industry," Mr Gruettke said.
"I am very glad to join VNU Exhibitions Asia Pacific. My new role is an exciting challenge and I am looking forward to expanding our network
and corporations to new industries and to growing our business," said Mrs Viravan.
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