SFP Importance of sustainable Marine Ingredients Niels Alsted
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Fish feed producer.
How important is fishmeal/oil sustainability in your relationships with suppliers and customers? - how do you incorporate fishmeal/oil sustainability into your regular business practices and what standards do you work to? - what steps do you take to support improvements in fisheries that produce fishmeal and oil? - how do you think things will change in the future - for instance, what effect will higher prices and/or greater demand have on sustainability
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Feed producer
Focus on overfishing IUCN level, extension Head lines of overfishing Political quotas Credible quota system incl control Multispecies management Eco system based management Habitat effects
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The dilemma Customers expectation ( fish farmers) Customer expect a “natural” diet but its changing
Carnivorous fish eat fish in nature “They are not vegetarians” EPA/DHA content comes from fish “Its unnatural to feed vegetable to carnivorous fish” Especially Veg oil ( high in w 6 low in w3)
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Internal Approach to sustainability
SRG Sourcing review Group Evaluating all new raw materials and sources Helicopter view CSR SAAT
Supplier Audit Approval Team
Sustainability report Biomar Norway => Global GRI 2014 report Dealing with more specific targets Monitoring specific challenges Marine ingredients have special focus Participating in int. Standard setting ( IFFO, ASC, GSI) Local requirements ( by country) Biosustain
IFFO RS UK 100%, N 70 %.
model for calculating the environmental footprint Collaboration with BASF
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How are we in involved in Sustainability
ASC
Trout and salmon standard in operation Salmon trout farms getting certified A new feed standard on the way Criteria for origin of fishmeal/oil IFFO RS ISEAL members?? IFFO RS FIP Fishery improvement program more active
We need to be
GSI
Global Salmon initiative committed to ASC Commitment to purchase of algae oil 1 % of marine oils
IUCN
European initiative FEAP/FEFAC Red list endangered species relevant for trimmings.
Fish source scores Very good system (metrics), but too slow updated World Class Fish Feed www.biomar.com
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Fish meal and oil
IFFO RS approved Meal %
IFFO RS approved Oil %
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IFFO RS approved %
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ASC Fish source scores
ASC approved Meal %
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Enviromental footprint.
LCA together with BASF
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Future
More standards will come and we have already too many. We need them to be international/global and we need fewer. We need to engage with problematic areas like Africa/Asia via FIP’s Fish Source score are very good but far too slow They are metric Cover 5 relevant areas How to make them more visible and transparent. How reliable are the evalutations