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Final CLG minutes for 3 July 2013

Final minutes of the Common Language Group meeting held at Billingsgate on Wednesday 3 July 2013.

Assessing greenhouse gas emissions from UK Fishing Fleet

This report proposes a method to estimate daily fuel consumption and emissions of the UK Fishing Fleet using vessel characteristics. Coefficients are derived from 2017–2022 fuel records collected by Seafish in the Annual Fleet Economic Survey.

Board Minutes - 25 May 2023

Minutes from the Seafish Board meeting on 25 May 2023.

Fishermen's Handbook_Costs and Earnings of the Uk Fishing Vessel Fleet 1996/97

The SFIA has gathered data on costs and earnings of the UK Fishing Vessel Fleet, via annual surveys, since the 1970's. This information was used to examine the economic performance of the fleet as a whole and the results were distributed to fishing vessel owners in the form of a booklet containing summaries broken down into vessel length groupings.

Shellfish Industry Advisory Group Minutes - December 2022

Meeting minutes for the 11th meeting of the Shellfish Industry Advisory Group (SIAG) which took place on 12th December 2022 via Microsoft Teams.

A Study of Low Cost Recirulation Aquaculture

The overarching goal of this study is to attempt to demonstrate a low-cost approach to recirculation aquaculture of turbot (Psetta maxima), a high value marine flatfish. The two main assumptions of the project are: • Recirculation aquaculture (for UK industry) is inherently desirable because it allows species diversification, enhances biosecurity and minimises environmental impact • Current recirculation systems are too expensive for the production of fish for human consumption, and would be vulnerable to price declines in the market as aquaculture expands in the future – and are thus not good investment propositions for the industry The project reared its own juvenile turbot at the Marine Farming Unit in Ardtoe, with eggs sourced from France Turbot.

Final ACIG minutes 12 September 2013

Final minutes of the Aquaculture Common Issues Group meeting held in London on 12 September 2013.

Use of discards in bait

Further to the Defra ‘Fishing for the Markets’ initiative, this study explores whether discards from English vessels not destined for human consumption can be utilised in bait in England. Analysis of current discards from the English fleet and the pot bait needs of those targeting crab and lobster showed that the bait market could potentially utilise all discards in England. Commercial sea trials tested the effectiveness of a range of discards species as bait. These identified that virtually all species currently discarded by English fishing vessels could be used as effective pot bait for crabbers. But this was not the case for lobster catches where the sea trials showed a negative impact on the catch rate compared to traditional bait. The study concludes that the use of discards as pot bait will predominantly depend on the cost as they will be competing on price with a range of existing cost-effective baits already used by the potting sector.

Seafish Responsible Sourcing Guide - Nephrops - October 2013

This Responsible Sourcing Guide to Nephrops contains information on sustainability issues, stock assessment, conservation measures and management worldwide for the individual stocks of this species updated to 2013. There is a short section on the product characteristics of the species. The information was obtained from scientific, industry and governmental sources and appropriate references are given

A Business Study of the N. Ireland Fish Industry

This study, carried out in 1982/83, describes the fisheries of the County Down coast centred on the three ports of Kilkeel, Portagovie and Ardglass. The costs and earnings of fishing vessels are given and the report points out that the catching capacity of the Northern Ireland fleet is in excess of the resources available to it and alternative opportunities must be sought. Included are assessments of the Northern Ireland consumer market. This report has been produced from a scanned original and may therefore contain some formatting and other inaccuracies. In cases where this affects the technical content, a paper copy of the original report can still be obtained from Seafish.

Singapore Export Guide

A market research report on the seafood sector in Singapore.

Chilled Seafood in Multiple Retail (2023)

Salmon continues to dominate the chilled seafood sector, increasing its value share of the top ten chilled species to 48.7% (+0.9pp), selling around four times its nearest competitor, warm water prawns.

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