Land: Denmark

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.

The fishing industry has been blamed for years for destroying the seabed, emitting excessive levels of CO2 and oil pollution. Meanwhile, the quota system has forced fishermen to throw about half of their catch back into the sea where it rarely survives. Danish fishermen have now had enough, which is why the Danish Fishing Equipment Group has invited a number of experts to the “Blue Ocean – Green Fishing” conference to be held on 7 October, at the DanFISH exhibition in Aalborg.

Danish fishermen have announced their plan to adhere to globally recognized standards for marine stewardship.

The Danish Fishermen’s Association (DFA) plans to have all Danish fisheries certified as sustainable under the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) eco-labelling scheme before the end of 2012.

ollowing the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of the Danish

Atlanto Scandian herring has been entered into the final assessment of MSC, confirms a report.