Organic Fish: The aquaculture industry is sowing confusion among consumers!
wave bio affects all food sectors, let alone other aquatic products. The market for organic fish (AB) has even experienced one of the biggest gains over the past three years (1). However, it should not be the aquaculture industry that is organic in this dynamic fishing industry, creating confusion among consumers with a contrasting bias from organically farmed fish and wild fish from fishing!
Examplestendentious articles
- Consoglobe: Power. Wild fish is it a fish organic?
"Distinguish wild fish organic fish!
In most minds, the wild fish is a healthy fish. In reality, the wild fish is not an organic fish. Indeed, the latter is necessarily a fish farm ... You follow? Yep, the fish is certified organic from a breeding, but high quality ....
Wild fish, polluted? "
- Bioaddict: Wild fish are not organic!
"All wild fish are not yet, fortunately, polluted. But in practice how to tell if those we buy or eat, are healthy? Today it is almost impossible to know. The fishing grounds are only rarely identified on the stalls, and almost never at the restaurant. And when the source is specified how to know if the place is polluted or not?
Wild fish is not organic, nor necessarily of quality. ... "
- Linear Bio: magazine interactive Bio Linear January-February 2011 devotes an entire folder to organic aquaculture: Aquaculture Bio: Products framed ... very
The file begins with a Bio Linear investigation reveals the a priori. A survey of ultra-fresh fish counter several food shops in the Paris region and in western France, shows that Clients classified as "pure" organic are not automatically reflex organic fish: "66% of buyers choose either certified organic fish and fish caught at sea"
For the reviewers, this result is unacceptable on the part of consumers sorted among the most bio. They even blame these consumers: "So the same customers that set as priorities the concepts related to sustainable development will be predominantly and equally buyers of organic farming and products" wild "caught at sea or whitewater. "
One of the conclusions of the investigation: "The concept of organic aquaculture fish is little known and not so spontaneous bearer of value in itself. We'll have to communicate, explain and convince. "
We'll have to communicate, explain, persuade ...
As shown in this survey, a majority of consumers of organic remains convinced of the quality of wild fish. But until when? The largest salmon aquaculture companies, bar / bream and shrimp are currently the package to convert part of their holdings in organic production ... These multinational aquaculture have the means to communicate, explain and convince consumers that their fish or their organic shrimp are better than the wild fish and shrimp ...
Bio consistency, ethics, commitment, brand
The sanitary quality of wild fish put on the market can not be questioned especially when consumer confusion is maintained by the aquaculture industry and the media specialist for organic products. ... For some reason common sense ...
Explain to me why a fish of aquaculture feeds granules composed mainly of oil and fishmeal wild, would be better than wild fish itself (before its transformation into fishmeal factories)? Subterfuge by which the farmed salmon, which feeds exclusively on pellets made of 70% oil and flour of horse mackerel, sardines, mackerel or anchovies ... would be better health than fish (mackerel, sardines, mackerel, anchovy , ...) used to manufacture pellets ...
The comparison between wild fish and organic fish is no longer any reason to be because the fish and shrimp are certified organic neither more nor less than fish and shrimp aquaculture from a rational or improved against the excesses of industrial aquaculture conventional
... That's why a group of French organizations has established a trademark "Bio Consistency" with a specification to a faithful with ethical commitments to organic production much more stringent than the new European organic regulations (see reviews of IFOAM below).
Philippe Favrelière
(1) In France, the market for fish products labeled organic (AB) amounted to nearly EUR 17 million and its growth has reached 220% between 2007 and 2008. In 2008, 123 farms were certified organic aquaculture in the European Union for a total of 225 worldwide. The EU accounts for nearly half of world production is estimated at 50,000 tons.
Other articles:
- fish and wine pair well in Bio!
- Wild fish naturally bio (followed by a press review of nearly two years on aquaculture bio)
- The organic market takes off ... What do shellfish?
- In France, consumption of fresh fish does not know crisis!
- Brand Consistency Bio
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Two texts for organic aquaculture French:
- European Regulation: Regulation (EC) No 710/2009 of the Commission on August 5 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No. 889/2008 laying down detailed rules for implementing Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 as regards the production organic aquaculture animals and seaweed. Click Here
- French Regulation: The specifications French (CCF) has been approved by the ministerial decree of 5 January 2010 published in the Official Gazette of January 15, 2010. CCF also incorporates the provisions of the CC-F REPAB for organic aquaculture production. Indeed, European legislation allows organic farmers to continue to French organic produce according to French rules and at latest until 1 July 2013. To access the Tender for organic production Livestock (CC F Organic production by order of January 5, 2010 - Jorf 15 January 2010), click Here
- See also the website of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (MAFF): Click Here
- additives in food fish bio: "Use of certain fish feed additive and cleaning substances in organic aquaculture" - Report: Ad-hoc expert group on /
Notices of the IFOAM EU regulations bio
In October 2009, the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, Europe Group (IFOAM) has released a document in French where the international organization says and give its opinion on the new European organic regulations. A section is devoted to fish farms where regulation is not final yet very vague, failing agreement between the parties ....
IFOAM: The new European Regulation for Organic Agriculture and Food (EC) No 834/2007 - Background, Assessment, interpretation ... Click Here
Page 48 to 52: Common provisions for organic aquaculture production in Regulation (EC) 889/2008 [Andreas Stamer, Stephan Bergleiter]
While the former regulation (EEC) 2092/91 allowed private organizations or individual Member States to develop their own rules for organic aquaculture (leading to the flourishing development of organic aquaculture sector since the 90s), the new regulations established in Chapter 2 (a) the foundations for the development instead of coherent rules and mandatory for the industry. More ...
Page 40: labeling of products derived from hunting and fishing
Effective from 01/01/2009
The new regulation establishes rules specific labeling of products derived from hunting and fishing when they are mixed with organic ingredients. For products derived from hunting or fishing, the reference to organic production methods may appear in the same field of vision the trade name but not the latter, and this provided the game or fish is the main ingredient and other ingredients of agricultural origin are organic. It may also be referred to organic farming in the list of ingredients, More ...
Number of organic farming Europe (+ draft)
Carp: 42 (7)
Cod: 1 (0)
Microalga: 2 (0) Mold
: 6 (1)
Salmon: 22 (1)
Bar: 7 (9)
Sturgeon: 1 (1)
Trout: 49 (7)
Total: 124 (26)
Hatchery: 8 (0)
Food: 13
consumption. Wild fish is always popular (The Telegram)
What new habits of consumers of Sea? To help professionals adapt, a study called Cogépêche was presented in 2010 in Lorient.
Women want more fresh and not frozen. Men attach more importance to lean fish. The consumption of seafood is sexual it is one of many findings in a wink identified by the team of pole fishing Agrocampus West, who presented the study yesterday in Lorient that she carried the expectations and needs of consumers of seafood in the various distribution channels. A study of the project Cogépêche designed to help companies adapt to new market conditions. The consumption of seafood tends to stagnate now, after a sharp rise seen over the past ten years (10 kg of seafood per capita entre1993 et2004).
brake consumption - Cogépêche In this study, the ideal fish for the consumer is still wild. With particular reference to low-fat fish. However, the consumer is totally resistant to the words "fish rich in omega 3." The whole fresh fish is scorned as being too laborious to prepare, in favor of prepackaged products. A purchase modulated by age. The study highlights a lack of knowledge of fish species and different ways of cooking. This allows the salmon, shrimp and cod to be the stars of the stalls. This ignorance is seen as a brake on consumption. Originally
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