European News BIM to host seaweed conference
THE Irish Sea Fisheries Board – Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) – has announced that its confer- ence, ‘Farmed Irish Seaweed: An Ocean Wonder Food?‘, will take place on 18 November 2014, with a post-conference interac- tive forum on 19 November in Limerick.
It is being held at the Radis- son Blu, in Limerick, where a range of national and interna- tional speakers from the science and food sectors will discuss the potential to farm seaweed in Ire- land. The event’s keynote speaker is Amarjit Sahota, founder/director of Organic Monitor, a specialist UK market research, consulting & training fi rm focusing on the global organic and related niche product industries. Other speakers include: Professor Sue Brawley, Professor of Botany at the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, USA and an expert on the cultivation of sea vegetables and Dr Helena Abreu,
research and development director of Algaplus, the Portuguese-based pioneer in the production of ma- rine macroalgae. The programme also includes a session for potential investors and a BIM-led session about how the BIM can assist farmers in estab- lishing farmed seaweed businesses. Donal Maguire, BIM’s Aquaculture Development Services Director said: ‘Through initiatives like the forthcoming conference and forum, BIM is working to raise aware- ness of and encourage inward investment into Ireland’s emerging farmed seaweed sector.
‘BIM has led a number of technological breakthroughs in seaweed culture techniques and, as a result, Ireland’s high value seaweed species such as Alaria esculenta and Saccharina latissima among others can now be reliably cultured in large volumes around our shores. ‘In addition, ground breaking culture techniques are under investigation for Porphyra and
Palmaria. These highly nutritious and very valuable species have the potential to bring unprecedented growth and development to Ire- land’s seaweed farming activities. ‘This new scale of development should provide an alternative source of farmed raw material from which Ireland can even- tually produce a wide range of seaweed-based foods for human consumption that should be traded competitively in EU markets where the nutritional benefi ts of eating seaweed are gaining solid and increasing recognition.’
Russian import ban affecting do-
mestic businesses ONE of the largest fi sh-process- ing factories in Russia has been forced to suspend operations as a direct impact of the newly imposed sanctions on seafood imports. A report in
ShanghailDaily.com states that Mikhail Zub, head of the Murmansky Rybokombinat, told local papers that all work in the factory, in Murmansk, had ceased after fi sh shipments from Norway were discontinued following the decision by the Russian Federation to suspend seafood imports from the EU, US, Australia, Norway and Canada. The company has petitioned the Russian government for assistance, and will even consider taking legal action. With a produc- tion capacity of around 70,000 tonnes, the factory specialises in live fi sh processing for value-add- ed products.
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