The Marelife News | April 2013

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Newsletter from Marel i fe • Apri l • 2013

VIBRANTTHINKING!

THE WINNERS!

MARINEVIDEOEXTRA!Theglobalkeyplayers live.

TheNASFMarineInnovationDayinBergenreleasedideasanddirectionsforlongtermsolutions, andfeaturedactionsfor

sustainableexpansionofglobalaquaculturebasedfoodsupply.

The Marine Innovation Day in Bergen March 5, 2013, attracted an all time high audience with 210 delegates.Photo: Gorm K. Gaare.

Paul van der Heyden, Jan Økern and Neil Robertson.

http://bit.ly/156hlvH

NASFMarineInnovationDay2013:AllTimeHigh!

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KEY PEOPLEDoers intheMareLifenetwork!

MareLife, the independent science-basedmarine innovation network, hasreinforced its staff and put in operationR&D projects initiated by experiencedworking groups covering key areas inmarine innovation.

A strong and committed staff combined withhighly experienced people on our Board andin core working groups, provides Marel ife witha sol id foundation for moving forward, saysMarel ife executive manager Øystein Lie.

Staff

The staff consists of Øystein Lie (Executive Manager), Carl Seip Hanevold(Cermaq) (Working Chairperson), Jon Aul ie (The Norwegian SeafoodFederation, Marine Ingredients), Paul J . Midtlyng (Aquamedic AS,Aquaculture disease control),Sytse Ybema (Sustainovate, OceanResources) and Erik Fedde Lopez, Fedde Consulting (Administrativematters)

Our four working groups.

Marel ife has four working groups in the core areas fisheries, aquaculture,ingredients industry, commercial ization. These working groups have beeninitiating our R&D projects and strategic efforts l ike the Havlandet Norgereport and are chaired by the fol lowing people:

Fisheries: Lars Olav Lie (Liegruppen AS),Aquaculture: Petter Arnesen (Marine Harvest ASAIngredients Industry: Jon Aulie (MARING Forum, the Norwegian Seafood

Federation, FHL)Commercialization: Knut Traaseth (Norwegian Venture capital Association)

NASF Marine Innovation Day

Chair: Karl Almås, CEO SINTEF Fishery & AquacultureModerator: Jostein Refsnes, COB NorlaksChair Vision Paper 2013 and Award Committee:Kjel l Maroni , R&D Director FHF

Board of directors

* Carl Seip Hanevold (Cermaq), Chairperon* Live Haukvik Aker (Considium Consulting), deputy chairperon* Kjetil Jakobsen, University of Oslo* Odd Magne Rødseth, AquaGen* Dag Knappskog, MSD Animal Health* Ørjan Olsvik, University of Tromsø* Torstein Steine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, UMB* Espen Rimstad, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, NVH* Kristine Naterstad, Nofima* Jon Aulie, The Norwegian Seafood Federation (FHL) MARING

The Nomination Committee

Sissel Rogne, CEO, The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board(Committee chairperson)

Director General Arne Benjaminsen, Ministry of fisheries and coastalaffairs (FKD)

Geir Andreassen, CEO, The Norwegian Seafood Federation (FHL)

Far-reaching network

Marel ife has grown its membership base from 17 founding members tocurrently 48 members and has a strong international network. See themember l ist here:

http://www.marelife.org/our-network/our-members.html

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THE AQUA-CULTURE

EXPLORERSTheeventwherenewfrontiers

arechallenged.The NASF Marine Innovation Day gathered major stakehold-ers and key players. Manufacturers, solution providers, fin-ance, public sector and authorities, networkers, consumerorganizations, NGOs and the press arrived i Bergen to paintthe scenarios and point at tracks to follow and innovationsneeded to sustainably expand global aquaculture many fold.

Leading ambassadors of the sector and serious engagement byal l delegates made this again a vibrant and successful event inthe spirit of shaping the future for the aquaculture sector. Theparticipation was al l time high, over 200 delegates from mostcorners of the planet made it by far the largest special session ofNASF. The way the delegates involved and engaged was a goldengift to our common mission.

In her opening address, Christina Abildgaard Director RCN pointedat the immense untapped potentials of the blue resources, and an-nounced that the blue is a key emerging priority for the world eco-nomy (quoting World Bank Group). She displayed convincing empiricdata on how state of the art R&D has paved the way for new innov-ative breakthroughs for improved cost efficiency, productivity andsustainability in global aquaculture.

The Marine Innovation Award winners from left: Paul van der Heyden on behalf of Hortimare BV: Integrated Aquaculture ofsalmon and Kelp, Jan Økern CEO Oxysolutions AS: Radical new oxygenation technology, Neil Robertson European CommercialManagerNovartis Animal Health: Nucleic Acid Vaccine.

Photo: Thorvald Tande

ChristinaAbildgaard,The ResearchCouncil ofNorway.

Photo: Gorm K.Gaare.


LOOKING TOTHE NEWMARKETS

GeorgeChamberlain's top tenlistoffutureexpansiongeographiesGeorge Chamberlain, President GAA, stated in his openingkey-note speach that rising global demand for seafood, driv-en mainly by a rapidly growing middle class in China andother Asian nations, is putting new pressure on the aquacul-ture industry to find sustainable ways to increase pro-ductivity.Hence, he also pointed at a clear trend: The global economy'sshifting "centre of gravity”. By 2030 well above 60% of Worldmiddle class wil l l ive in Asia Pacific. The estimates of rising de-mand, which far exceed earl ier projections based solely on popu-lation increases, indicate that seafood demand is l ikely to keeprising for several decades.

Chamberlain displayed challenging statistics on the ratiobetween projected seafood consumption growth versus projectedgrowth in aquaculture supply to 2030 and with this knowledge ofrapidly increasing seafood demand, aquaculture producers are seek-ing improved technologies to sustainably produce more seafood withfewer resources.

Mr Chamberlain listed in his opinion the major challenges con-straining aquaculture growth as the following: disease management,feed supplies, environmental issues, investment capital, and marketacceptance. His talk substantiated in more details the major com-ponents among these constraints and on the science and technologypart he stated that genetics represented a major driver for enhancedproductivity. He went through the main measures for contemporary

George Chamerlain, GlobalAquaculture Alliance.

Photo: Gorm K. Gaare.


aquaculture (genetic enhancements, optimized feeding regimes, dis-ease control, managements and infrastructure) by major shrimp andtropical finfish species (tilapias, pangasius etc), reviewing also brieflythe pioneering shrimp farming tech, disease research and commer-cialization carried out by Dr Fujinaga and Dr Liao.

George Chamberlain projected very interesting top 10 potentialexpansion geographies (Brazil, Russia, US, Australia, DR Congo, India,Sudan, Argentina, Bolivia and Mozambique), pointed at the still volat-ile market dynamics to be expected, the still low level consolidatedsector, the versatile capital investments structures and last but notleast the critical factors of market acceptance with the market as themain driver for certification needs.

His final highlights on aquaculture opportunities were: risingmiddle class Asia Pacific as demand driver, major constraints to over-come: environments, feed, disease, finance and market, and that in-creased common effort into innovation is needed to address and totap. He welcomed the audience to GOAL XIII , October 7-10, Paris.

VIDEOS: Check out the MarineInnovation Day video channel,featuring key players in theglobal biomarine sector

outlining the challenges and opportunitiesfor global aquaculture!

https://vimeo.com/channels/487086

Hanne Benjaminsen,Cape Fish.



GREENVISIONS

FROM GREECEAboutdevelopingmethodsofevaluatingandminimizingtheenvironmentalfootprint.

Dr Lara Barazi-Yeroulanos, CEO Kefalonia Fisheries, focusedon the Mediterranean aquaculture sector, which has experi-enced dynamic growth over the past 30 years. Compared toglobal aquaculture production, it is still far from reaching itspotential.The same elements that contributed to the dynamic growth ofthis sub-sector of European aquaculture wil l continue to drive itsgrowth in the next 20 years: The recognized health benefits offish together with the positive image of the Mediterranean dietand the produce from the region, the oceanographic, cl imatic andgeomorphological characteristics of the region.

In order to make the industry more competitive and viable, re-search into species diversification, genetics, disease prevention andmanagement and improvement of feed quality, efficiency and sus-tainability must be encouraged. None of this, however, can happen ifthe industry does not pass into a more mature phase where profes-sionalizing the industry with better management, better data andmost importantly planning will help smooth out the volatility thathas largely hampered its development so far.

Promoting long-term vision, planning and management skills re-quired to compete in the more mature phase the industry is in now is

essential. This means developing science-based methods of evaluat-ing our environmental footprint, developing innovative means ofminimizing it, and adapting in a competitive manner to the chal-lenges of climate change.

Barazi addressed extensively major future challenges and fea-tured fascinating out of the box future visions and self sustainingconcepts to adapt to these major existential issues: water and en-ergy supply, feed bottle necks, climate change. Indeed inspirationalinputs to the Vision Paper.

Lara Barazi-Yeroulanos, Kefalonia Fisheriesand Pierre Erwes, BioMarine.


MAGAZINE: Read the interviewwith Lara Barazi-Yeroulanos inBlue Frontier Magazine!http://bit.ly/Zl27vx


ALGAEFUTURE

Aboutnewfattyacidssourcesandimprovemets infishdiseases

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Odd Magne Rødseth, CEO Aqua Gen AS, stated the fact thataquaculture continues to be the fastest growing animalfood production sector on the planet, with an average annu-al growth rate close to six percent the last decade, outpa-cing the global population growth.In 2010 people consumed about 60 mil l ion tonnes fish, crusta-ceans and mussels from aquaculture with the Asia-Pacific as themajor aquaculture region. Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout arethe main fish species produced in cold water regions, and the pro-duction reached 2.5 mil l ion tonnes in 2010, representing aroundsix percent of the global farmed fish production.

The farming of cold water carnivores, representing a high trophiclevel of marine organisms, is dependent upon capture fisheries forthe supply of their major dietary source of protein and lipids. Farmedsalmon and trout are among the largest consumer of fishmeal andfish oil in the world. There is stil l strong evidence that current pro-duction is sustainable, but it will be increasingly difficult for aquacul-ture to exploit a larger share of the total fish meal and fish oilsupplies.

Intensive research programmes have therefore been initiated tofind alternatives to fish oils. The most promising efforts include pro-duction of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids by yeast fermentation, ex-traction from algal sources or genetic modification of oilseed crops.

Production losses in general and infectious diseases in particularcontinue to constrain aquaculture sustainability.

In response, scientists and industry have developed new techno-logies and improved management strategies based on better under-standing of the genetic and physiological basis of immunity anddisease resistance. In the post genomic era there will be a betterunderstanding of the host-pathogens interactions that can be ex-ploited to develop new tools to improve the way in which fish dis-eases can be controlled.

VIDEO: Bergen aims at becoming aseafood innovation innovation center.https://vimeo.com/61175951

Tanja Hoel,Fiskeriforum Vest.


Odd Magne Rødseth, Aqua Gen.Photo: Gorm K. Gaare.


LAND &WATERThemainchallengesseenfrom

FAODoris Soto, FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture Departement, gavea plenary keynote as an introductory prelude to the ThinkTank.She did sum up and outl ine her talk on the fol lowing major topics:FAO FI efforts to advance the global aquaculture agenda, the EAAand its relevance to open aquaculture horizons and the process toaquaculture zoning and site selection within the EAA.

She listed the main challenges as the following:

*Land and water availability*Cost and energy efficient productivity*Ecosystem impacts

Concerning feeds, Doris Soto's l ist contained: Fishmeal , Fish Oi land other ingredients, Biosecurity and health, Conducive pol icy,Technology and knowledge, Finance and investment, Improveequity and social impact, Diversify the sector, External forcingfactors (e.g. cl imate change). She also l isted FAOs efforts to pro-mote a global aquaculture agenda:

- Promoting aquaculture governance and compliance with theCCRF, Assisting member countries into policy and planning of the sec-tor, Producing certification guidelines and compliance assessment topromote the sector and consumer confidence, Production and dis-semination of investment tools for small farmers, Better feeds andfeeding, Better management practices, Biosecurity, Technological im-provement, Genetic improvement, Promoting the ecosystem ap-proach to aquaculture.

Furthermore she presented the aquaculture spatial planningwithin the EAA as the following: The spatial planning of aquaculture,be it the zoning, or the location of specific sites can use the EAAframework considering the social, economic/productive, environ-mental and governance elements.

VIDEO: - I want to bring theNorwegian Cod to China, saysMr. Tjoen Kong Lim, Lim Shrimp

Organization. Whatch the video!

https://vimeo.com/61214224

Rita Westwik (left) and Tjoen Kong Lim.


These factors are considered “elements” of the carrying capacityto sustain aquaculture in a specific area or water body, FAO has beendeveloping tools and guidelines for aquaculture zoning and site se-lection.

Doris Soto finalized with FAO's future efforts on these top-ics: - We are developing a tool box for EAA implementation containingtraining for policy makers, managers and extensionists on the EAAsteps and tools as well as testing and training on the guidelines foraquaculture zoning and site selection within the EAA.

Ful l presentations of al l keynotes can be downloaded here:http://bit.ly/11ZfhCD

THINKINGVISIONS

Thenewmanualto shapethefuture

Two main new components were introduced and exercisedon the Marine Innovation Day with the think tanks andwork on a vision paper.Seven categories of special ized sessions were run in paral lel ,chaired by experienced experts in the field. Ahead of the confer-ence the chairs produced one page memos for each field embra-cing main issues upon which to guide the workshop sessions.

Intense discussions took place during the brief and hectic parallelsessions and the chairs summarised and presented their synthesisduring the subsequent plenary.

· From the Think Tank (TT) “race for space” one clear messagewas sent that we need major innovations to find and agree on the

utilization of optimal sites for long-term efficient aquaculture pro-duction, where are the “super-sites” and how can they be utilized ina sustainable manner.

· In TT “science &technology” the question about species wasdebated, landing at 5 groups most probable to be the major contrib-utors to growth (salmonids, cyprinids, catfish, bass/bream andshrimps). To really contribute to food production the group focusedon production time, innovations are needed to cut the time from eggto market by 50 percent.

· TT “brains, money &dialogue” focused in on the need for theaquaculture industry to innovate to be the most attractive know-ledge-based industry globally, the most talented young people in theworld should prefer the aquaculture industry.

· Related to this the TT “engineering & gear solutions” dis-cussed innovations for intelligent technology – the need for techno-logy which work perfect independent of human operating mistakes.

· In “human health & seafood” the importance of seafood ashealthy food was addresses, and the need for major innovations util -izing completely new feed raw material sources.

· This was echoed in TT ”existing & new bio resources” ad-dressing the need to innovate and develop fully integrated systemsfor balanced, ecosystem based harvesting and total utilization of allthe catch.

· From TT “market innovation” the concept of a Total BrandManagement Approach together with a strengthened market orient-ation among the players came out as essential for further develop-ment and value creation.

VIDEO: The think tankexperiencehttps://vimeo.com/61243373


VISIONSIN PARIS

Focusontheneedformajorin-novativesolutions

Based on a mandate formed in interaction with the MarineInnovation Day chair, Karl Almås, an international workgroup chaired by Kjell Maroni is in progress aiming at devel-oping a vision paper focusing on major innovative solutionsor breakthroughs needed to expand global aquaculture sig-nificantly.The group col lected substantial inspiration and inputs from theMID, starting with the keynotes and fol lowed up by Think Tanksand Innovative cases.

The essence of the VP is not yet revealed, but it is obvious thatimportant components of the carbon foot print of the sector will beaddressed in a comprehensive way, including issues like sustainablefeed supply (e.g: aquafeed 100% based on raw materials not usedfor human food and sustainable exploitation of marine resources),considerably enhanced predictability in the farming phase (e.g. newpowerful disease control systems and accompanying regimes tomanage environmental and wild stock impacts) in addition to neces-sary focus on recruitment of human capital, communication and mar-ket innovation.

The likely road map of the vision paper is expected that the re-port will be launched at GOAL XIII Conference, October 7-10, Paris.

NASF Marine Innovation Day Presentations, Photo col lections andcase portfol io can be viewed at:http://www.marelife.org

Professor Karin Pittman,University of Bergen,presenting her innovativecase Mucus Metrics.Photo: Gorm K. Gaare.

The NASF Marine Innovation Day organizer prof. Øystein Lie (left),manager MareLife, acknowledging theconference moderator Jostein Refsnes (right), COB Norlaks, and Vision Paper leader Kjell Maroni, R&DDirector FHF, for a great job at the conference. Photo: Gorm K. Gaare.


THE WINNERSStrongcompetitionbetween17

casesofinnovationSolutions: To highlight potential innovative and powerfulsolutions the MID launched an Innovation Award. 17 caseswere submitted and evaluated by the jury (see box), endingup with 3 awards in the following categories:

BestInventionThis category cover «longs shots», cases with signi-ficant commercial potential in the long run if successeven if not yet “in business”. The award winner inthis category is OxySolutions. OxySolutions has de-veloped and patented a radical new method for oxy-

genation of water. The technology can increase the amount ofoxygen in water up to 1000% in normal room conditions (temper-ature and pressure). This new total ly bubble-free oxygenationsolution makes it possible to oxygenate large tanks or RAS faci l it-ies to the desired level dependent on fish type. This enhancesfood uptake, fish health and growth.

BestSolutionCovering smart solutions. The award winner here isHortimare for their system to produce kelp is a valu-able source of marine proteins, rich in essentialamino acids to be used in fish feed. Kelps can be cul-tivated in the neighborhood of fish farms and use

the valuable nutrients coming from them, bio-remediating the seaat the same time. This results in a more stable ecosystem and lesspressure on worldwide fish catches for fish meal .

BestInnovationThis category is covering cases more related tototal system innovation, i .e. the innovation is moreabout connecting different known innovations. Theaward winner was Novartis Animal Health fortheir work on nucleic acid vaccine (NAV) technology

for fish. This is a novel biomedical technology offering distinct ad-vantages over conventional immunization or chemotherapy.

Case portfol io can be viewed here:http://bit.ly/WGWEnk

Jørgen J. Lund, CEO North AtlanticSeafood Conference (left)

and Jon Hindar, CEO Cermaq.Photo: Gorm K. Gaare.


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