Danish Fishery Traces Path of Sustainability
DENMARK - The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries is supporting traceability in Danish fishery to ensure sustainable fishing. Traceability is the red thread that binds the whole fishing industry together – and optimises the value chain from...

Talking Trout: Dialogue Begins in November
DENAMARK - The process of creating the world's first set of credible standards for minimising the key environmental and social impacts of the trout aquaculture industry will begin in November, when the inaugural meeting of the Trout Aquaculture Dialogue...

A Policy that Counts - Discards and All
DENMARK - The Danish Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries is calling for bureaucratic and inefficient fisheries management to be replaced by the responsibility and accountability of the fishermen themselves.

Eating Fish in Pregnancy Improves Child Development
DENMARK - New research claims that a higher fish consumption during pregnancy can lead to better physical and cognitive development in infants.

An Eye On Board: Denmark's Fishing Trial
DENMARK - Six Danish fishing boats have just started a trial with photographic documentation of their catches using a camera on each vessel. The cameras were mounted on the vessels over the past few days and the first catches have now been monitored and...

Danish Cooperation Paves Way to Sustainability
DENMARK - WWF Denmark and the Danish Aquaculture Organization have signed an agreement of cooperation focusing, among other things, on establishing a global standard for sustainable aquaculture.

North Sea Fisheries Workshop
DENMARK - The EU-funded PROFET POLICY project will hold a workshop on North Sea fisheries in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 23 and 24 June.

BioMar Completes Acquisition of Provimi Aqua
DENMARK - BioMar, the third-biggest supplier of fish feed to the aquaculture industry has completed the acquisition of Provimi Aqua with factories in Chile, Denmark and Spain.

Redundancies at Fish Company
A fish processing factory in Glyngøre Denmark is to lose 115 jobs in fillet production as the operation is to be offshored to Koszalin in Poland.

Closing salmon escape routes
DENMARK - Icing, operating errors and lack of knowledge of currents and waves led to escapes from fish farms last year. But countermeasures are now being put into effect.

BASF sells animal feed premix sites
DENMARK - BASF is selling its animal nutrition premix business in eight countries to Nutreco, an animal feed group headquartered in the Netherlands. Premixes are mixtures of vitamins and feed additives for animal nutrition. Nutreco is one of the world’s...

Vietnam – Danish Funding for Aquaculture Programme.
DENMARK - The Danish International Development Programme (Danida) is to provide funding worth DKK7 million (USD1.22 million) to Vietnam to fund a review of the country’s aquaculture policies and assess the impact of aquaculture projects on the environment,...