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DIRECTORY 2019 Údarás na Gaeltachta, Na Forbacha, Co. na Gaillimhe Teil:/Tel: (091) 503100 E: [email protected] www.udaras.ie aquacultureandseafoodireland.com CONTENTS Page 4 Page 16 Page 23 Page 41 Contributions: Minister Michael Creed on implementing the recommendations of the Aquaculture Licensing Donal Buckley Review Group 4 Tara Chamberlain John Connaughton Donal Maguire: Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative recognises BIM’s Certified Quality Richard Donnelly Aquaculture Programme 6 Niamh Doyle Lynn Gilmore Donal Buckley: The Seafood Innovation Hub - where ideas are tested and developed into Lee Hastie profitable business opportunities 8 Elise Hjelle Fishermen’s Health Manual: Simple, practical advice on how to stay healthy and safe working Fergal Keane Niall Madigan on land and at sea 10 Donal Maguire Myles Mulligan: Recycling waste plastics from the fishing and aquaculture sectors 12 Mo Mathies Peter McGroary John Connaughton: New Higher Diploma in Business in Aqua Business offered by the Institute Chris Mitchell of Technology Carlow Wexford Campus 16 Myles Mulligan Wiebke Schmidt Mo Mathies: Irish seafood sector embraces sustainability through the Origin Green programme 18 Joe Silke Richard Donnelly: ARC - the Aquaculture Remote Classroom - offering children a unique learning Alex Wan experience 20 Editor: Bord Bia expands its reach into the lucrative Japanese market 22 Gery Flynn Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland Lynn Gilmore: Government and industry aim to get more locally-sourced seafood on menus Tel: +353 91 844 822 across Northern Ireland 24 Mob +353 85 747 57 97 Email: [email protected] Peter McGroary: SFPA Sanitary Survey Programme providing assurance to seafood retailers Web: www.aquacultureandseafoodireland.com and consumers 26 Food Safety Authority of Ireland: Europe’s first, dedicated, consumer-orientated food-safety Advertisement Manager: Roger Cole watchdog is 20 years old! 28 Tel: +353 1 285 91 11 Lee Hastie: PRIMROSE Project forecasts the risk and impact of Harmful Algal Blooms and Mob: +353 87 261 15 97 microbial events in coastal waters 30 Email: [email protected] Web: www.silchestermarketing.com Niall Madigan: A tribute to Richie Flynn, Executive Secretary of IFA Aquaculture for 22 years, who died in August 2018 34 Design: Conleth Adamson Alex Wan: Plant-based derivatives as a protein alternative to fish meal now widely used in ICON Graphic Services commercial diets 36 Tel: 01 831 8103 Mob: 087 673 7441 Triskell Seafood Ltd: Ireland’s premier live shellfish traders and retailers of professional clothing Email: [email protected] and equipment to the fishing and aquaculture sectors 38 Fergal Keane: SEASCAPES - 30 years a favourite worldwide from RTE Radio 41 Cover picture: David McGloine, a diver with Mowi Ireland PHARMAQ Analytiq: SmoltVision - a new tool determines how well smolts will tolerate seawater 42 Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland 3 Substantial reduction in licensing backlog n recent years the My Department is IAquaculture industry in committed to a further Ireland has continued to 300 shellfish licence make significant progress. determinations this year. At The most recently available the end of 2019 the backlog BIM survey data shows an in shellfish licensing will overall increase in output effectively be eliminated from Irish aquaculture of and this will be a game 7% across all the species changer for the shellfish from 2016 to 2017. industry in Ireland. It will provide the solid In 2017 the industry footing long demanded by produced approximately industry representatives. 47,000 tonnes of high value seafood. Not only In addition, my did the volume of output Department has already increase, so did the value commenced measures to which reached €208m at reduce the finfish backlog first point of sale at the and these are set to end of 2017. This is a very intensify significantly. impressive 24% increase from 2016. These figures The importance of reflect the growing global Ireland’s Aquaculture demand for seafood and Industry to vulnerable the increased activity is a coastal communities credit to all involved in the cannot be emphasised industry. enough. Around the coast, over 14,000 people An important development are employed, directly in recent years was and indirectly, in the the publication in May seafood sector. As well as 2017 of the Aquaculture Since receiving the Report Review Group was to employment, seafood is Licensing Review Group of the Review Group my eliminate the backlog in a key driver in economic Report. The Review, which Department has engaged aquaculture licensing. I activity, and in many I commissioned, was a in detailed consideration made it a core priority cases is at the heart of the detailed examination of of its recommendations last year to tackle this community. the existing aquaculture with a view to their issue and as a result licensing process. The implementation, having significant progress has I am very optimistic that Review Group undertook regard to the legislative, been achieved. Evidence Ireland’s Aquaculture comprehensive stakeholder environmental, technical of this progress is in the Industry has a bright consultation and looked and public interest issues form of 305 aquaculture future and I wish all at comparative national that arise. The Department licence determinations operators further success and international consent has also engaged achieved in 2018. This in the years ahead in systems to determine best closely with industry represents an almost your continuing efforts practice for managing representatives and three-fold increase on to produce high quality a complex licensing relevant State Agencies. yearly determinations seafood. system in a transparent, and it has already environmentally By far the most resulted in a substantial Michael Creed T.D., appropriate and legally important and urgent reduction in the licensing Minister for Agriculture, robust manner. recommendation of the backlog. Food and the Marine 4 Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland OYSTER WASHING MACHINE ▲ ▲ MUSSEL DECLUMPING MACHINE ▲ WASTE SHREDDING MACHINE ▲ SACKING SCALES Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland 5 Irish Farmed Seafood receives prized international accolade! Donal Maguire, Director of Aquaculture Development at BIM environmental sustainability. achieve equivalence and GSSI used a number of public recognition by GSSI key reference documents as meeting the benchmark as its basis. These included standard. SPAT the FAO Code of Conduct In turn ,the holders of PREGROWN for Responsible Fisheries the BIM CQA standards HALF-GROWN (CCRF), the FAO Guidelines gain added value from for Ecolabelling of Fish participation as a result of and Fishery Products from GSSI “equivalence” status and Marine/Inland Capture thus stay ahead of emerging Fisheries and the FAO market demands so as to Technical Guidelines for allow them to “choose the Aquaculture Certification (FAO right customers” and occupy Guidelines) as the foundation the top value niches in the to create a Global Benchmark marketplace. “This recognition shows n February 20th 2019 ENVIRONMENTAL Tool for seafood certification OThe Global Sustainable schemes. that the BIM Certified Quality Seafood Initiative (GSSI) SUSTAINABILITY Aquaculture (CQA) scheme Naturellement… Through its Global GSSI is a benchmark platform provided formal recognition Benchmark Tool GSSI works and their Farm Standard is in of the BIM Certified Quality that brings partners together towards its collective objective line with the FAO’s guidelines Aquaculture (CQA) scheme for from across the seafood to minimise the overall for aquaculture certification,” Irish aquaculture products. sector worldwide to share environmental impact of how said Herman Wisse, Managing This highly prestigious GSSI knowledge and drive change we catch, grow and deliver Director, GSSI. recognition shows that the by coming up with solutions seafood to meet a growing The GSSI Benchmark Tool also provides global BIM Farm Standard (Issue to challenges in the sector. global demand. alignment in seafood 1, Revision 1, November It was set up, under the The GSSI Tool is made up of certification. 2018) is in alignment with aegis of the UN FAO to 3 parts: a Benchmark Process; “GSSI recognition marks an all applicable Essential bring more clarity into the a Benchmark Framework with important step for Ireland’s Components of the GSSI marketplace due to the Essential and Supplementary seafood sector and for the Global Benchmark Tool growing number of seafood Components; and a Result. Irish aquaculture industry. certification schemes and to Seafood Certification (version 1.0, 8 October 2015). The endorsement of our ensure consumer confidence schemes must go through an This is a great outcome for Certified Quality Aquaculture in certified seafood, helping exhaustive 7-step Benchmark farmed Irish Seafood as it (CQA) scheme by the Global to make purchasing decisions ‘future proofs’ the provenance Process to be recognised Sustainable Seafood Initiative more efficient by offering Environmental of our products and gives our by GSSI. The intention makes it one of four global producers access to premium greater choice and driving behind the Benchmarking aquaculture schemes that sustainable Safe Diverse markets. down costs, while at the exercise is for a seafood has achieved this standard same time promoting certification scheme to Satmar is willing to preserve the essence of its products The choice to establish production sites of best Satmar activity consists in the hatch and raise The BIM Certified