{"id":6853,"date":"2022-07-17T17:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/paradox-news-nordland\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T17:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T17:02:43","slug":"paradox-news-nordland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/paradox-news-nordland\/","title":{"rendered":"– Paradox – news Nordland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Norway has exported salmon smolt worth NOK 125 million to Russia in the last three months. It writes IntraFish. Smolt is the juvenile fish for salmon, trout and char, which is ready for migration from freshwater to saltwater. Now several criticize Norway for helping to build Russia as a seafood nation. At the same time, large parts of Europe are boycotting the country, after going to war against Ukraine. The ban does not apply to feed In response to Western sanctions following the annexation of Crimea, Russia introduced an import ban on Norwegian fish and several other goods in August 2014. Previously, Russia was one of Norway’s most important seafood trading partners. But the Russian import ban does not apply to feed and live fish, such as smolts. Even after the war in Ukraine, exports or imports of fish feed are not subject to sanctions. Neither Norway nor Russia. Continues to deliver Magnus Lillest\u00f8l who is the general manager of Villa Smolt says that they produce and deliver to The Russian Aquaculture. They delivered 477,000 tonnes of smolt in mid-July. – The last delivery for this year is this week. Lillest\u00f8l says that so far they have not encountered any problems because they deliver to Russia. They have delivered as before despite the war in Ukraine. As long as there are no sanctions from the Norwegian authorities, they will continue to do so. – We are owned by The Russian Aquaculture. And we relate to what the Norwegian authorities say. Villa Smolt has a license to deliver 500,000 tonnes of smolt to Russia. Read the answer from the Ministry of Trade and Industry further down in the case. Should not be used as a tool One of the world’s largest producers of fish feed, Cargill Norway, told E24 that they will not stop exporting feed as long as it is legal and safe. – Our view is that food is a basic human right and should never be used as a tool in a conflict. This was said by communications director Kjartan M\u00e6stad to E24. Unlike Cargill, BioMar chose to stop all exports to Russia. H\u00e5vard J\u00f8rgensen, CEO of BioMar, believes that it is against the company’s guidelines to continue exporting to Russia. Photo: Graham \/ Graham H\u00e5vard J\u00f8rgensen in Biomar believes that by trading with Russia, one helps to keep the war going. – We stopped all exports from the entire group right after the war started. We believe that trade is not compatible with our ethical guidelines. We have also stopped buying raw materials from Russia, J\u00f8rgensen writes to news. – By buying raw materials from Russia, you are helping to keep the war machine going. – Paradox \u00d8ystein Hage, Editor-in-Chief of Fiskeribladet and IntraFish, agrees with J\u00f8rgensen. He believes it is a paradox that Norway as a seafood nation is building up its own competitor. Publisher for Fiskeribladet and IntraFish \u00d8ystein Hage believes it is a paradox that the Norwegian authorities contribute to Russia becoming a large seafood nation. Photo: NHST – By exporting, we are helping to build up the Russian business community. Both the seafood industry and technology. It is problematic when we also have to boycott everything else of Russian business. – What about the food security of people in Russia? – There are of course different aspects to this so that you can nuance it. And those aspects defend exports. But it is still ironic that Norway as a seafood nation is building up the Russian seafood industry, Hage points out. According to figures from Statistics Norway, 1,125 tonnes of smolt were exported to Russia worth about NOK 148 million in April, May and June 2022, most of which was salmon smolt, just under NOK 125 million. Photo: Roar Str\u00f8m \/ news Thousands of tonnes Before the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia was Norway’s largest trading partner in seafood. Following the boycott, Norway has continued to export feed, smolt and technology to the country’s seafood industry. According to figures from Statistics Norway, 1,125 tonnes of smolt were exported to Russia in April, May and June 2022. To a value of NOK 148 million. Most of this was salmon smolt. In the same period last year, 1,268 tonnes of smolt were exported to Russia. Throughout 2021, smolts worth NOK 195 million were exported to Russia. – With this, we have built up our own competitor, and made arrangements for it to grow. The seafood industry has extremely high values. With the salmon prices we see now, I mean that we are helping to finance the war machine Russia, says Hage. Geir Ove Ystmark, CEO of Seafood Norway, says that his member companies relate to the Norwegian authorities. Photo: \u00d8yvind A. Haram \/ Seafood Norway Does not want a private boycott – Neither the EU nor the Norwegian authorities have imposed sanctions on exports of food, including fish feed and smolts. This is what the CEO of Seafood Norway, Geir Ove Ystmark, says. Seafood Norway organizes over 800 seafood companies in Norway. – We have informed our members that they should comply with the Norwegian authorities’ recommendations. He further points out that the Minister of Fisheries has announced that they do not want a private boycott. And that they have emphasized that it is the authorities who will decide the level and scope of sanctions. That is why the “smolt window” is important S\u00f8ren Balteskard, chairman of the board of Northern Lights Salmon, explains why the smolt must come out now: When the fish is “smoltified”, the body is prepared to meet the seawater. Then the skin on it changes. This means that it changes from collecting salt to excreting salt. That window lasts a few weeks. If the fish goes out of this window, the skin returns to the freshwater stage again. You get “re-smoltification” and then it takes many months before you can do it again. Therefore, it is urgent to release the fish now, to secure the income for next year. Farming industry is growing Russia has been working for several years to become a big farmer and producer of fish feed. Among other things, the country’s largest aquaculture company, The Russian Aquaculture, bought two Norwegian companies in 2017. Olden Oppdrettsanlegg in Trondheim and Villa Smolt, owned by Salmar. In addition to the salmon smolt, figures from Statistics Norway show that fish feed was exported for just over NOK 380 million (22,233 tonnes) to Russia in the first half of 2022. In the same period in 2021, it was exported for just under NOK 290 million. Throughout 2021, fish feed was exported to Russia worth NOK 995 million. Russia’s fish farmers produced 116,000 tonnes of Atlantic salmon and trout in 2020, according to estimates by the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency, Rosrybolovstvo. This is an increase of 27.5 per cent from the previous year. Jobs for self-sufficiency Atlantic salmon and trout accounted for 30 percent of farmed production in Russia. In comparison, the figure was only 5 percent in 2014. – Russia is targeting self-sufficiency in salmon, said Ilya Shestakov, director of Rosrybolovstvo, in a statement in a Russian government publication in 2020. – By 2027 to 2030, Russian Atlantic salmon and trout production will increase. 150,000 tonnes per year, plus another 70,000 tonnes per year will be farmed in the Far East. This is the answer from the Ministry of Trade and Industry: news has received a reply e-mail from State Secretary Kristina Hansen in the Ministry of Trade and Industry. – The sanctions are our most important means of pressure against the Russian regime and to weaken Putin’s ability to finance the war in Ukraine. The government has had a clear line throughout the crisis that we stand with our neighboring countries and the EU to ensure that the sanctions are strong and effective. Norway has supported and implemented in Norwegian law all the restrictive measures against Russia adopted by the EU, with a few exceptions. The sanctions work best when many countries agree on them. We also have no authority in the Sanctions Act to adopt unilateral \/ unilateral sanctions. In 2014, Russia introduced an import ban on Norwegian seafood as a counter-reaction to Norwegian sanctions related to the Crimean annexation. This means that the seafood industry has essentially already replaced the Russian market with sales to other markets. Exports of Norwegian seafood, with a few exceptions, are not covered by Norway’s sanctions against Russia. The business actors must themselves decide where they export seafood within the current sanction regime. Neither smolts nor fish feed are covered by the Russian import ban from 2014 or the current Norwegian sanctions regime.
\n

\n
ttn-69 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norway has exported salmon smolt worth NOK 125 million to Russia in the last three months. It writes IntraFish. Smolt is the juvenile fish for salmon, trout and char, which is ready for migration from freshwater to saltwater. Now several criticize Norway for helping to build Russia as a seafood nation. At the same time, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,279,4670],"class_list":["post-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-news","tag-nordland","tag-paradox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}