Sardines

Directly eating small pelagic fish rather turning them into aquafeed for farmed salmon could prevent the harvest of nearly 4 million tonnes of fish, while simultaneously providing an extra 6 million tonnes of seafood.

Eco Clean Team is repurposing fish oils and processing them into surfactants, a key component in detergents and other cleaning products.

The IFFO's latest analysis on marine ingredients shows that total cumulative production of fishmeal and fish oil from January to November 2021 is up 6 percent year-on-year.

Updated sustainability metrics from the IFFO, the marine ingredients organisation, shows that the use of fish meal and fish oil is being optimised and being used at key points in aquaculture production cycles.

According to the latest data from IFFO, the marine ingredients organisation, cumulative fish meal production for 2021 has increased by 5 percent, while cumulative fish oil production is up by 8 percent compared to 2020. …

Petter M Johannessen, director general of the IFFO, believes that marine ingredients play a crucial role in developing aquafeeds with a low carbon footprint.

“Aquatic foods, which include plants, animals, and microorganisms, are the closest thing we have to a ‘nature-based solution’ to the complex challenges of transforming our current food system to one that is healthier, mo…

The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership and IFFO have launched a new Global Roundtable to improve and increase the availability of sustainable marine ingredients and will begin its initial work in West Africa.

Recent reporting from the Marine Ingredient Organisation (IFFO) shows that cumulative production of fishmeal increased by 6.5 percent while fish oil production increased by 12 percent when compared to the same period in …

A panel of leading policymakers and researchers has emphasised the value of diverse aquatic foods as key components of sustainable healthy diets and as drivers of food security in the Global South.

A Chinese-owned fishmeal factory in The Gambia has been torched by youths, who are becoming increasingly disaffected by a raft of problems associated with the fishmeal industry in the West African country.

Reduction fisheries from Mauritania and India have become the first from Africa and Asia respectively to join the IFFO RS Improver Programme.

The Portuguese government has backed plans to establish a sardine aquaculture industry, following the collapse of the sardine fishery in the Bay of Biscay.

Due to concerns over the pollution they generate and the impact they have on local forage fish stocks and the fishermen who traditionally rely on them, in the last few weeks, fisheries representatives and environmental a…