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NEWS 2014 BUMPER SALMON SEASON As part of an agreement to supply Fish and Game New Zealand with fi sh from its Waiau Hatchery near Rotherham in North Canterbury, New Zealand King Salmon has released 15,000 king salmon smolt into West Coast lakes, signaling good news for anglers in the 2014 season. When the salmon return to the West Coast rivers they are expected to be between about three and six kilos in weight. NZKS and Fish and Game also released 5000 fi sh into both Lake Haupiri and Lake Mapourika in 2011. King Salmon is one of fi ve species of pacifi c salmon. It is New Zealand's largest freshwater fi sh, and the largest species in the salmon family. The breed was introduced into New Zealand rivers on the South Island's east coast in Canterbury and Otago more than 100 years ago. Opihi, Ashburton, Rakaia, Waimakariri, Hurunui and Waiau rivers. SALMON PRICES FIRM ON ROBUST DEMAND Consumers are munching their way through a global glut of Atlantic salmon, analyst Mikael Clement of Parento Securities told delegates at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum in Oslo. An extra 70,000 tonnes of salmon have been sold and prices have fi rmed and the market appeared ready to absorb a further 16 percent jump in salmon production without the expectation of another price fall, Clement said. Demand in Russia and Brazil appeared robust and in Europe to a lesser extent. Current demand was being maintained by aggressive promotional activity. Most salmon products remained at the same price as last year. The difference was the return of more aggressive promotional offers to grab consumer attention. In March, the best deal in the United Kingdom was on smoked salmon with a "Buy one, get two free" deal that brought the price of Scottish smoked salmon down to under £13 per kilo, lower than the price offered by the main discounters. WILD VS FARMED SALMON: CHEAP DEAL Norway's auditor general, Jørgen Kosmo, has issued the results of his investigation into the aquaculture industry in which he condemns the impact of salmon farming on the environment. Kosmo looked at fi ve different aspects of salmon farming including escapes, sea lice, licences, pollution and feed sustainability. It contained criticism about farmed escapes and the threat they pose to the genetic characteristics of the wild fi sh through inter-breeding. Callander McDowell criticised the Norwegian investigation and went on to look at the way some scientifi c papers have been used in the environmental assessment of interactions between wild and farmed salmon. They quote Lifetime success and interactions of farmed salmon invading a natural population by Fleming and colleagues published in 2000 by the 4 ■ NZ AQUACULTURE ■ Royal Society, and say the experiment only served to demonstrate what happens in an artifi cially created scenario and that it bears no relation to any naturally occurring salmon populations. ANTIBIOTIC RESIDUES IN VIETNAMESE SEAFOOD Though seafood exports now have to undergo strict examination by Vietnam's National Agro Forestry Fisheries Quality Assurance Department, a lot of export consignments still have been refused by the importers due to high antibiotic residues. More than 50 percent of the consignments have been found to have antibiotic residues from aquaculture. Meanwhile, enterprises have affi rmed that they have obeyed the current regulations on having samples tested before shipping and got Nafi qad's certifi cates. Seafood processing companies said that they have been tightening the control in the processing phase, but they cannot control all material. SIX NEW MARINE FARMS PLANNED Six marine farming businesses have applied to the Marlborough District Council for new marine farming space since the government passed legislation in October last year easing the way for aquaculture expansion. Ten operators have applied to change the species they farm. Since October, six companies have lodged eight applications for about 31ha of new marine farming space. So far, the council had consented a 3ha mussel, scallop, oyster and seaweed farm in Beatrix Bay and a 2.5ha extension to a mussel farm in Hallam Cove, both in Pelorus Sound. The Beatrix Bay application was lodged in 2001 but got caught up in the moratorium. were for minor in-fi lls and extensions to existing farms. A ribbon of marine farms lines most available bays and the only option is to fi ll gaps and extend seaward. Large mid-bay applications were unlikely after the Environment Court MAY/JUNE 2012 Established spawning runs are found in the Rangitata, turned down two in Beatrix Bay for reasons including risks to rare birdlife and mammals and negative impacts on the outstanding sounds' landscape. The 2004 decision said the cumulative effect of the existing and proposed new farms would create a bay entirely dominated by marine farms. The council was seeing a trend toward companies changing or adding species to existing marine farms. New Zealand King Salmon had applied for a plan change and resource consents allowing it to farm salmon at eight new sites in areas of the sounds where marine farming was prohibited. There are 885 consented marine farming sites covering 4212ha of Marlborough waterspace. INFECTIOUS SALMON ANAEMIA CONFIRMED IN NOVA SCOTIA The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confi rmed infectious salmon anaemia at a commercial aquaculture facility in Nova Scotia. Infectious salmon anaemia does not affect human health or food safety, but it does pose risks to fi sh health and the economy. A quarantine remains on the facility to control movements of people, vessels, equipment and fi sh onto or off of the site. The owner of the facility chose to euthanise two pens containing affected salmon when the disease was fi rst suspected. The CFIA will now order a third cage of salmon to be humanely destroyed and disposed of, with compensation paid to the owner. DON EVERITT RETIRES FROM NZ KING SALMON After 20 years with New Zealand King Salmon, marketing stalwart Don Everitt has left his position as general manager, global strategy at NZ King Salmon, seeking new challenges and creating new sales territories. He is keen to offer his international marketing skills as a consultant to other New Zealand businesses, "I look at it as helping exporters 'get over the hump'. "There's a big difference between being an exporter and an international marketing business. It's mostly a cultural thing – the stakeholders need to get their minds in to the right space." Everitt is setting up work from home in Wakefi eld, about 20km south of Nelson and plans to swap salmon to spend more time with his beloved Angus cattle on his Wakefi eld farm. Most applications NMIT AQUACULTURE PROGRAMME EXPANDED Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology has employed a new tutor and expanded its facilities at Cawthron Institute's Aquaculture Park at Glenduan to