Pilot assesses ways to ensure full traceability of marine by-products in the UK UK consultancy, HSSMI, and marine ingredients standards body, MarinTrust, undertook a three-month study, with kickoff in December last year, to determine the feasibility of implementing a system to promote full traceability of marine by-products in the UK.
The MarinTrust and HSSMI run seafood traceability (SeaTrace) pilot project is funded by the UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF), which is administered by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) on behalf of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
The hope is that such rigorous traceability would add value to by-products, discards from the processing of fish for human consumption, such as heads, viscera, skin, bones, which, in the UK market, constitute the bulk of raw materials for the production of fishmeal and fish oil, Francisco Aldon, CEO, MarinTrust, told us.
New appointments to the Seafish board
Chair, Deputy Chair and five new members appointed to the board of the Sea Fish Industry Authority
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10 May 2021
A new chair, deputy chair and five members have been appointed to the board of the Sea Fish Industry Authority (Seafish).
Seafish is a non-departmental public body which carries out a wide range of activities to support a thriving seafood industry, working with the fishing industry and processors through to importers, retailers and food service providers.
Michael Sheldon, appointed as Seafish Chair, brings more than twenty years’ experience of the agri-food industry. Formerly Deputy Chair of Seafish, he is also board member on the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).
Researchers eye sea cucumbers as potential fish farming impact solution in Europe
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A team of aquaculture researchers is exploring how sea cucumbers might be used to help reduce the environmental impact of fish farming, using techniques already being used in agriculture.
Having secured a funding package from the UK Seafood Innovation Fund, and additional support from the Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC), Blue Remediation is conducting a feasibility study that will assess the efficiency of sea cucumbers in absorbing aquaculture biomass.
Bioremediation – the process of using living organisms to remove pollutants and toxins – is a method commonly used in agriculture to restore polluted soil. By introducing sea cucumbers, which will feed on fish faeces and excess food, to seafood farms it is hoped they could help to minimize the impact of waste on the seabed.