Land: Denmark

Another sand eel season is now upon us – and of course we hope it will be a good one. However, only time will show if that is the case.

A completely new water purification plant, which is both environmentally

Currently, the price of salmon is high. The Norwegian salmon

In 2009, TripleNine succeeded in increasing the production capacity at the Thyborøn factory by no less than 700 tons a day rather than the expected 400 tons.

Mussels caught in Denmark’s Limfjord by Vilsund Muslinge Industri (VMI)

Readers wanting to hear about stable times in the fishmeal industry may as well stop reading now.

The Fishmeal Association has applied for IFFO certification of the fishing. When that is in place, the individual factories have to get their production certified themselves.

“It is grotesque and unacceptable – Danish fisheries is getting destroyed by bureaucracy,” says Svend-Erik Andersen, who is chairman of the Danish Fishermen’s Association.
“The European Commission and the Swedish Presidency of the EU will implement some completely useless legislation in the fisheries,” he says.
At the EU fisheries ministers meeting next week in Luxembourg, the European Commission and Sweden, which holds the Presidency of the EU, want to adopt a new regulation on fisheries control, and before Christmas they also intend to adopt some new legislation on technical regulations for fishing in North Sea, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat.
In Denmark we have the most effective fisheries control in the European Union. It is documented in international studies. Fisheries controls are not as effective and widespread in other countries. The EU Commission tries to manage this by imposing a new regulation – that is a new legislation on fisheries control.

Norwegian raw fish materials have been very costly for Danish fishmeal plants this year.

Danish fishing industry is now balanced due to the supports of ITQs and VQSs, says a report.