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September | October 2010 Feature title: A general overview of aquaculture in the EU The International magazine for the aquaculture feed industry International Aquafeed is published five times a year by Perendale Publishers Ltd of the United Kingdom. All data is published in good faith, based on information received, and while every care is taken to prevent inaccuracies, the publishers accept no liability for any errors or omissions or for the consequences of action taken on the basis of information published. ©Copyright 2009 Perendale Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior permission of the copyright owner. Printed by Perendale Publishers Ltd. ISSN: 1464-0058

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September | October 2010

Feature title: A general overview of aquaculture in the EU

The International magazine for the aquaculture feed industry

International Aquafeed is published five times a year by Perendale Publishers Ltd of the United Kingdom.All data is published in good faith, based on information received, and while every care is taken to prevent inaccuracies, the publishers accept no liability for any errors or omissions or for the consequences of action taken on the basis of information published. ©Copyright 2009 Perendale Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior permission of the copyright owner. Printed by Perendale Publishers Ltd. ISSN: 1464-0058

F: EU Aquaculture

The increase of the world’s population during the past 50 years has led to a rapid increase of the demand

of proteins. Aquatic organisms like finfish, crustaceans, shellfish and algae, known since the antiquity for their high nutritional values, became the first target of people searching for products containing preferably substances good and safe for human health.

Wild fisheries stocks, with the improve-ment of technology, were very quickly depleted and more than 85% of them are already overfished.

According to FAO, in 2007 the world consumed 113.7 million tonnes of fish, 50.3 million tonnes originating from aquaculture - and demand continues to increase. The only way to respond to this increase in

demand is to turn to the culture of aquatic organisms.

Aquaculture over the past 30 years has become a high-tech and an important eco-nomic activity. It continues to be the fastest food producing sector in the world with an annual increase of six to eight percent.

Today’s world’s production surpasses 50 million tonnes and FAO predicts that 10 years from now, aquaculture will need to produce annually more than 28 million tonnes in order to face the increase in

demand.

EU aquaculture production

Thanks to the generous financial contributions of the structural sec-tor of the Common Fisheries Policy, but also to courageous investors, EU aquaculture production dou-bled in the period 1981-2001.

It became an industry with over16,500 firms generating some 65,000 direct and indirect jobs. It includes various types of farming systems of finfish and shellfish in coastal and continental areas.

In 2007 EU fishery products were 6.45 million tonnes, representing 4.6% of the world’s production. 1308 million tonnes (20%) of this production came from aqua-

culture, representing 2.6% of the world’s total aquaculture production in volume but 5.1% of the world’s aquaculture in value.

Nevertheless, since 2001 the production is almost stagnating with an annual increase of less than 0.5%.

Main production countries in volume are Spain (22%); France (18%); Italy (14%) and UK (13%). The most important species in volume in 2007 were the Mediterranean mussel (23%), Rainbow trout (16%), the Common mussel (13%) and the Atlantic salmon (11%).

The total estimated turnover of the aquaculture sector in EU is greater than three billion Euros; UK is the most impor-tant producer in value with 21%, followed by Italy (17%), France (17%) and Greece (12%). The most important species in value in 2007 were the Atlantic salmon (20%), the Rainbow trout (16%), the Gilthead sea bream (11%) and the European sea bass (9%).

European citizens are consuming more fishery products than EU produces, with an average of 22.3kg/inhabitant per year.

The EU is probably the biggest market for aquatic products in the world.

Annual consumption is estimated to be 12 million tonnes. Therefore, in 2008, 65% of these products representing 5,657,000

by Prof Dr Constantin VamvakasEUA GENERAL OVERVIEW AQUACULTURE IN THE

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tonnes and of a value of Euros16,540 million was imported. In the same year EU exported 1,774,000 tonnes of a value of Euros2934 million.

LegislationFor the past 30 years an important

number of legislation concerning aqua-culture was prepared by the European Institutions, covering subjects such as economic, social, safety, hygiene and envi-ronmental matters.

Nevertheless, a general framework containing the guidelines of its develop-ment was missing. This is why, in 2002, the European Commission has prepared a Strategy for the sustainable develop-ment of the European Aquaculture, which was adopted by the competent European Institutions the same year.

The main objectives of this strategy were to create a long term and secure employment, in particular in fisheries dependent areas, to assure the availability to consumers of products that are healthy, safe and of good quality, to promote high animal health and welfare standards and to ensure

an environmentally sound industry. At the same time, the fundamental aim of the strategy was the maintenance of the competitiveness, the productivity and the durability of the aquaculture sector.

A prerequisite for the realisation of these objectives were:

To increase the production volume by an average four percent per year. This should focus mainly the molluscs’ production, the development of know-how for new species and strains from selective breeding and the promotion of the ‘organic’ production

To enlarge the market outlets by con-tributing to the ability of the aquaculture business to cope with market demands, by opening new markets, by improving the integration between production and sales, by developing new tools to gather statistical information on production and markets and

by stimulating demand through a convincing quality policy

To undertake social actions in order to adopt training programmes to aquaculture needs, to recognize the role of women in the production and the administration of the aquaculture firms and to challenge the role of aquaculture in rural development and reversing the decline in coastal communities;

To improve governance in the design and implementation of policies and measures that influence the development of aquac-ulture, notably with the view to ensuring proper stakeholder participation

"The total estimated turnover of the aquaculture sector in EU is

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the Strategy for the Sustainable Development of European Aquaculture’.

Most of the main objectives of the 2002 Strategy continued to be among the priori-ties of the new Strategy.

The new Strategy underlines the role of the public authorities for the sustainable development of aquaculture in Europe and proposes the following actions, which will ensure the leadership of European aquac-ulture on the international scene and will remove the problems, which did not allow the industry to develop its full potential:

To promote competitiveness of the EU aquaculture by pursuing its efforts in aqua-culture R&D, by continuing its initiatives in order aquaculture to become an equal competitor in terms of space, by enabling the aquaculture business to cope with mar-ket demands and by promoting aquaculture development on an international level

To establish conditions for the sustain-able growth of aquaculture by ensuring compatibility between aquaculture and the environment, by shaping a high-performance aquatic animal-farming industry, by ensuring consumer health protection and by recog-nizing the health benefit of aquatic food

To improve the sector’s image and govern-ance by a better implementation of EU legisla-tion, by reducing the administrative burden, by ensuring a proper stakeholder participation and an appropriate information to the public and by ensuring an adequate monitoring of the aquaculture sector

The new Strategy has already received positive comments from the European Fisheries Council and the European Parliament.

Its implementation will reinforce the lead-ing role of the European aquaculture in the world, but its success depends on the good collaboration of the stakeholders. Public and private sectors, producers and administra-tions should unite their efforts and a perma-nent dialogue should be established, in order to face all the challenges, follow step by step the evolution of the industry and, if necessary, take the appropriate measures and guarantee a promising future of the sector.

To reduce the negative environmental impacts of aquaculture by ensuring that aquaculture has a low impact on the natural environment

To provide the aquaculture industry with a high quality aquatic environment to match its needs

To improve the positive environmental contribution of extensive aquaculture by pro-moting extensive farming in the framework of schemes for environment restoration (wet-lands, biodiversity conservation)

To give priority to aquaculture research and its technological development

Most of the objectives of this strategy were achieved with the exception of the increase of the total production and the availability of jobs.

This is mainly due to the lack of space and the antagonism with other industries for access to water, the competition with the imported products and the EU severe legislation concerning the protection of the environment and the safety and hygiene rules. An overall evaluation of the Strategy, five years after its implementa-tion, proved that an update was necessary.

Following this conclusion, European Commission launched in 2007 a large public consultation, including discussions with all the stakeholders of the industry and in 2009 pre-sented to the competent European Institutions a Communication entitled ‘Building a sustain-able future for aquaculture. A new impetus for

To provide a level playing field and to reduce the administrative burden

To persuade the industry to make more use of self-regulation and voluntary agreements

To increase even more the safety of aquaculture products by recasting the Community legislation on food hygiene, by updating and simplifying the legislation of aquatic animal health, by securing animal health and animal welfare, by addressing the need for specific veterinary medicines, by providing high quality and sustainable feeding-stuffs for fish, by ensuring consumer health protection and by recognizing the health benefits of aquatic food

To solve most of the conflicts for space and to ensure that aquaculture can com-

pete on an equal basis for access to space, particularly by developing the application of Integrated Coastal Zone Management plan-ning, by improving offshore technologies for both fish and molluscs in marine aquacul-ture and by improving water recirculation technologies for inland farms

“Building a sustainable future for aquaculture. A new impetus for the Strategy for the Sustainable Development of European Aquaculture’’

About the author:Prof Dr Constantin Vamvakas former senior official of the European Commission, DG Fisheries and Maritime Affairs. Dept. of Animal Production, Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, University of Ghent, Belgium.

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Main production countries in volume are:

Spain (22%)

France (18%)

Italy (14%)

UK (13%)

The most important species in volume:

Mediterranean mussel (23%)

Rainbow trout (16%)

Common mussel (13%)

Atlantic salmon (11%)

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The seafood category has come under immense pressure as a direct result

of the ongoing global popula-tion boom. The demands put upon wild fisheries have been widely documented, and while fish farming contributes more and more product each year, the aqua-culture industry is also being signif-icantly constrained.

At the Third Offshore Mariculture 2010 technical confer-ence staged in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on June 16-17, 2010, which was opened by the Croatian Director of Fisheries Mrs Neda Skakelja, the audience of more than 100 delegates representing 28 coun-tries and including 33 fish farmers, debated the future of the aquacul-ture industry.

Many of these attendees have found the sector’s biggest problem is the lack of space available to develop it.

For example , Hayr i Deniz, d i r e c to r o f Ma r i c u l t u r e , Aquaculture depar tment, from Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), high-lighted in his presentation – fish farming all over the world now conflicts with many other indus-tries, most notably tourism and energy production as well as a growing number of marine pro-tected areas (MPAs).

It was as a result of such con-flicts that MARA introduced its new environmental law in Turkey,

which has moved inshore farms to offshore sites. It has also created a number of projects aimed at developing the sector in a sustain-able manner.

Conference chairman Arne Fredheim, a director of the Centre for Research-based Innovation in Aquaculture Technology and Research (Create), quoted UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) fisheries and consumption statistics and highlighted the lucra-tive opportunities presented to forward thinking producers due to static wild capture landings.

“Aquaculture needs to supply the additional demand for seafood. And it will need to come from marine farming conducted further offshore,” said Mr Fredheim.

Fish farming output, which has grown consistently by 10 percent each year for the past 20 years, is expected to reach close to 120 million tonnes by 2020, said Prof Branko Glamuzina, who teaches aquaculture at the University of Dubrovnik.

"Aquaculture is the fastest growing agro-business," Prof Glamuzina said.

"It represents the only serious means of providing enough seafood for the ever growing pop-ulation."

Taking into account the expected increase of the world’s popula-tion, it is widely believed food pro-duction will need to be doubled by 2030, commented Torgeir

Edvardsen of the European Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Platform (EATiP).

“As a result, we'll have to farm the sea much more effi-ciently than we've done up until now.”

DebateThe cost of creating offshore

farm sites was debated at length at Offshore Mariculture.

Without doubt this form of production does incur addi-tional costs, but on the other hand a number of conference attendees spoke about faster growing times, improved product quality, less environ-mental impacts and reduced risk of disease outbreaks.

There were also a number of presentations on the potential benefits and cost-efficiencies of working with other marine space users.

Professor Bela Buck of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research delivered a pres-entation on how shellfish aquacul-ture could site with offshore wind farms.

Similarly, Artur Simoes, project manager with Seaweed Energy Solutions, talked about creating synergies with the offshore culti-vation of seaweed, which would then be used to provide a sustain-able supply of biofuels.

EATiP’s Mr Edvardsen was delighted with the conference

programme. He assured delegates that the offshore farming industry has a bright future producing high quality products.

“The main challenge will be the time it takes to implement these and other innovations and new ini-tiatives,” he said.

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Offshore aquaculture is the future for the seafood industry28 nations congregate in Dubrovnik, Croatia for the 3rd Offshore Mariculture Conference

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• Overviews of the European, North American and Asian offshore sectors, including policy, legal framework and key research updates

• Feeding and harvesting oper-ations

• Fish escape prevention• The effects and interaction

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• Codes of conduct and best aquaculture practices

• Spatial analysis, efficiencies, and the sustainable devel-opment of offshore aquacul-ture

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