• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

Biomanantial

Slimming, Beauty, Medicinal Plants

Main Navigation

Biomanantial

What would you like to find?
Browse by categories
  • Dietetics
    • Edible seaweed
    • Lose weight
    • Healthy Food
    • Diets
    • Syrup sap diet
    • Dietary
    • Vegetarian
    • Macrobiotic Food
  • Health
    • Pregnancy & Parenting
    • Fitoterapia
    • Herb teas
    • Manual therapy
    • Nature Centers
    • Alternative Therapies
    • Chinese Medicine
  • Beauty
    • Hair Care
    • Facial Care
    • Skin
    • Natural Cosmetics
    • Chest, Legs and Buttocks
  • Personal Development
    • Emotional Intelligence
    • Stress and Anxiety
    • Dating and Love
  • Organic Farming
    • Organic Nutrition
    • Natural Life
    • Environment
    • Transgenics
  • Sports nutrition
    • Burn Fat
    • Supplementation
    • Training and Exercises
  • Recipes & Cooking
    • Food Therapy
    • Seaweed Recipes
    • Soya recipes
    • Fruit recipes
    • Recipes with vegetables
    • Recipes with Grains
    • World Cuisine
  • Biomanantial from A to Z
  • All topics

Organic Fish & Seafood

Organic Fish & Seafood
  • Manifesto of the Platform for the Defense of Natural Health
  • Macrobiotic: Ying and Yang foods and other Basics

Published: 09/28/2007 - Updated: 07/17/2016

Author: Prof. Dr. Luis Ruiz-García3 Comments

The fishing industry, worth about 400,000 million dollars annually, will adapt to the growing demand from traders and consumers of fish caught in a sustainable manner for the environment.

During the 27th Congress of the industry of marine products, held in Dublin (Ireland) from 25th to September 27th, (25th-27th, Grimur Valdimarsson, Director of the Division of Fishing Industries of the United Nations Food and Agriculture (FAO), emphasized the need for seafood producers to pay attention to environmental issues.

"The demand for sustainable fisheries does not come only from the government or environmental groups, but the market itself," said Valdimarsson noting that the major retail chains in the sector between them Unilever, Tesco, Walmart and Asda have already committed to sell only fish that was caught or raised sustainably.

"In recent years…” he added “the industry was not sure whether or not these trends represent a passing fad. Today there are no doubts: this is a real and large and the path to be followed in the future. "

In general terms, this means that producers will have to demonstrate to retailers and consumers that the fish does not come from overfished stocks, it was bred in marine farms located where mangroves grew before or caught with nets that have the device to avoid accidental capture of turtles.

Providing these guarantees requires strict control of fishing activity tracking systems, labels and other similar mechanisms. For this, there is a number of initiatives, provided by merchants or public interest organizations. While expressing concern about the proliferation of initiatives with the same aim, Vadimarsson stressed that, overall, this is a positive trend.

Contents

  • It’s not easy being Green
  • Regular fishing rights

It’s not easy being Green

"Meeting these new charges is technically very difficult, so the industry must now look for an appropriate and economically viable way to do that," stressed Valdimarsson in his address to the meeting in the Irish capital.

Sector of capture fisheries should benefit from the experience of other sectors which in the past 25 years have ensured food safety. At first this was the responsibility of governments, but today is held by the industry itself, within a framework of formal and subject to random checks.

  • Syrup sap
    MORE IN BIOMANANTIAL
    Syrup sap

"The producers have already established internal systems to provide fresh seafood, safe and better quality, which is what consumers are asking today," said Valdimarsson. "It is not necessary to create a new agency to ensure the environmental safety criteria. These criteria are sufficient to control as is done already with the safety and quality.

Developing countries with fewer resources will have problems in the process to obtain certification of their fisheries. "We have been struggling hard to meet the standards of health and safety in fish imports imposed by developed countries," said Valdimarsson.

Helping to solve this problem is an issue of particular importance to FAO, said the expert. He also said that traders who set the market trends have a responsibility to help suppliers in countries with fewer resources.

Regular fishing rights

"Under the regime of open access to fishing grounds, fishing becomes very competitive and unworkable if a fisherman is not fishing, his competitor will, leaving little incentive to conserve resources," according to Valdimarsson, who warns that the consequence is overfishing. "Therefore, –he adds- fishermen have personal interest in disclosing what they have been doing."

  • Phytomedicine: Past and Present
    MORE IN BIOMANANTIAL
    Phytomedicine: Past and Present

"This attitude must change, as the emerging trend that requires the industry to be able to say exactly where, when and how the fish was caught. Only fishermen who have the right to fish and not be forced to fish more than their competitors will feel secure enough to operate with this level of transparency," said Valdimarsson.

World Congress of the seafood sector this year was organized jointly by FAO, the Organization of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the World Health (WHO), the International Certification of Food Quality and Protection Authority of Irish Fisheries, in collaboration of the International Association. Fish Inspectors (IAFI) and supported by the Irish Sea Fisheries Board, Enterprise Ireland and the Irish Food Safety.

Congress is traditionally focused on aspects of safety and quality of fish, but environmental issues have gained importance in recent years.

One of the major difficulties faced by exporters is to meet different safety standards imposed by importing countries. The Dublin meeting also discussed the need for greater harmonization of rules and reciprocity agreements, as well as the proliferation of standards and certification schemes for private fisheries products.

1 star2 stars3 stars4 stars5 stars

(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)

Loading...

About the author

By Prof. Dr. Luis Ruiz-García

PhD in Agricultural Engineering. He is an expert in Medicinal Plants, Organic Agriculture, Urban Agriculture and Environment. Google Scholar. Linkedin.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie policy

Reader Interactions

You may also be interested

  • Burn fat Burn fat Accumulation of fat is very common in our society. It is not easy to burn [...]
  • Azukis Recipes Azukis Recipes The adukis or azukis are a type of reddish legume typical of Japanese macrobiotic diet [...]
  • Henna: Natural Dyes Henna: Natural Dyes They say the hair is part of the face. Thus the dye is a good [...]

You are here: Biomanantial » Organic Farming » Organic Nutrition » Organic Fish & Seafood

All about Organic Nutrition

  • Organic food: What they are and reasons for eating Organic food: What they are and reasons for eating Note: In Spanish law, the terms organic, ecological and biological mean the same thing, are synonymous. Organic or [...]
  • Sustainable Coffee Sustainable Coffee Coffee is the livelihood of 20 million workers of all ages, collecting more than 6 million [...]
  • Production of organic food Production of organic food The development of products from organic agriculture techniques will be one of the most appropriate to preserve [...]
  • Life cycle in food technology Life cycle in food technology To solve environmental problems, we need awareness of society and we must all do our [...]
  • Products made with Organic guarantee Products made with Organic guarantee By definition, the organic agriculture and livestock prohibits the use of agrochemicals as pesticides, herbicides, [...]
Comments
  1. Gabby

    8 de November de 2013 at 16:13

    There are many discussion aimed at the environmental problem but almost all of them are related to the land and not about the sea, so it is important to touch this topic as well, as fish and that resources do not last forever, so we must learn to take proper care or them

    Reply
  2. MIRIAM

    4 de May de 2014 at 03:37

    I LIKE FISH AND I WOULD LIKE IT EVEN MORE IF IT COMES FROM ORGANIC SOURCES, WHICH FOLLOW MANY PROCESS ALWAYS THINKING IN THE ENVIROMENT AND THE CONSUMER..

    IT IS BETTER THAN ANY OTHER FISH YOU HAVE TASTED

    Reply
  3. Stacy

    9 de October de 2014 at 07:21

    Here in Alaska I am SO thankful that the state is so understanding about…life! Every year we are allowed an automatic amount of fish for each individual in the house, called “subsistence fishing”. You can catch a certain amount of fish each year for every individual in the household, without limiting out for the day, like normal limits placed on other states. It doesn’t get more organic than that.

    Reply
Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

   3See comments  

Copyright © 2025 · Biomanantial
   
Disclaimer  About Us  Cookies Policy  Privacy policy  Contact  Topics
RIVAS INTERNET S.L. CIF: ESB86492501 Travesía Fortuny, 2. 28300 Aranjuez. Spain.
The services, content and products on our website are for informational purposes only. Biomanantial does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment