{"id":50715,"date":"2019-10-25T14:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edu.danwatch.dk\/perspektiv\/they-buy-fish-meal-and-fish-oil-from-west-africa\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T13:11:00","slug":"they-buy-fish-meal-and-fish-oil-from-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"perspektiv","link":"https:\/\/edu.danwatch.dk\/en\/perspektiv\/they-buy-fish-meal-and-fish-oil-from-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"They buy fish meal and fish oil from West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"50715\" class=\"elementor elementor-50715 elementor-50386\" data-elementor-post-type=\"perspektiv\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-52d959ec elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"52d959ec\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-66389398\" data-id=\"66389398\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-356cf6dc\" data-id=\"356cf6dc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-478fde42 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"478fde42\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the world\u2019s largest companies within fish oil, fish meal and fish feed are located in Denmark. This makes Denmark a large consumer of fish meal and fish oil, which is used for animal feed, especially for fish. A smaller part of fish oil is being sold as a health supplement for Danes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The companies buy large quantities from the US, Peru, Iceland and Norway, which are among the largest exporters to Denmark. According to numbers from the Danish Fishery Agency, Morocco and Mauritania are seventh on the list of countries who last year exported fish meal and fish oil to Denmark.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6bc166c6 elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone\" data-id=\"6bc166c6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-24db3771 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"24db3771\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1ad14d91 elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone\" data-id=\"1ad14d91\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-456252a2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"456252a2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-32618f1d\" data-id=\"32618f1d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-604b7563 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"604b7563\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>FAKTA<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-88d512d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"88d512d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-70ce7257\" data-id=\"70ce7257\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d2475c elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"3d2475c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe title=\"Top 10: Dansk import af fiskemel\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-wsODY\" src=\"\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/wsODY\/1\/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; 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But when fish from West Africa are made into fish meal and oil for other fish, fish prices increase, and the fishstocks are being overfished, which is are damaging to food security, critics say.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>A survey<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve asked six danish companies that imported fish meal and fish oil from Mauritania and Morocco from 2017-2019, what they have done to ensure sustainable procurement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TripleNine Group, Pelagia and FF Skagen confirm that they are buying fish meal and fish oil from Morocco and Mauritania: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CEO of Pelagia, Egil Magne, says, that Pelagia have traded with Mauritania for 10 years, but he won&#8217;t disclose their suppliers or the volume of the quantities they have bought.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI find it hard to believe that increased fishing for the use of fish meal and fish oil will affect food security for Mauritanias&#8217; population\u201d, he says and elaborates that Pelagia will \u201ccut off companies if they have any suspicion of illegal fishing or other intolerant activities\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TripleNine Group call themselves, \u201cEurope\u2019s largest and one of the world\u2019s largest producers of fish meal and fish oil\u201d. CEO, Jes Bjerregaard, writes in an email to Danwatch: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn 2019, we bought 600 tons of certified fish meal from Morocco. In general, we are careful with only buying from suppliers, who are certified and operates sustainably\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FF Skagens CEO, Johannes Palsson writes in an email that the company in the period of 2017-2019 got \u201cquite a volume from Morocco and Mauritania\u201d:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe most of the import was certified and came from the filet industry. We have been told that Mauritania is on its way to becoming certified with the intent to improve the future of fishing\u201d, Johannes Palsson writes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>They do not wish to inform of their suppliers<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fish feed producer Biomar imports from West Africa, and Assistant Director for the EMEA division in Biomar, Ole Christensen, informs in an email, that \u201cinformation about commodities is found on our website, but we do not wish to disclose information on individual suppliers\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the <a href=\"https:\/\/oceandisclosureproject.org\/companies\/biomar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ocean Disclosure Project Database<\/a> it is shown that Biomar bought sardinella from Gambia, Mauritania and Senegal in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company ED&amp;F Man Terminals do not wish to disclose their suppliers, but an acces to documents through the Ministry of Food show, that ED&amp;F Man Terminals have imported fish oil for human consumption from both Morocco and Mauritania from 2017-2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Sustainable alternatives on its way<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EUFishmeal and Marine Ingredient Denmark are respectively the European and the Danish marine branch organisation for fish meal producers, and Anne Mette B\u00e6k is the CEO of both organisations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She points out that the industry is already working on sustainable solutions. Today, the amount of fish meal in fish feed is about 30 percent opposed to 70 percent in the 1990\u2019s. As an alternative to using the whole fish in the production of fish meal and fish oil, the industry now buy cut offs from filet factories, which means head, tale and fish bones, which can be used for fish feed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLast year around 15 percent of fish meal and fish oil came from cut offs\u201d, Anne Mette B\u00e6k writes in an email.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, import of fish meal and fish oil from West Africa is limited, she writes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn both Mauritania and Morocco certification schemes are used, and they are in the process of developing Fisheries Improvement Programme\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fisheries Improvement Programme (FIP) is the first step towards being certified as an sustainable fishery under the Marine Stewardship Council, also known as the MSC-label.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At MSC in London, Henry Appleton says, that there currently are no MSC certified fishing in Mauritania and Morocco. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Daniel Pauly, a marine biologist and professor at University of British Columbia in Canada, those certifications are not worth much to West Africans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCertifications do not ensure food security. The fish meal industry will destroy the sardinella population in the region, but before that happens, it will have reduced the local consumption of fish and thereby affect livelihoods and food security for the population in West Africa\u201d, says Daniel Pauly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b83598a elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone\" data-id=\"b83598a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International marine biologists criticize companies for buying fish meal and fish oil from West Africa. 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