INFOPESCA Internacional 27

Promoting the domestic seafood consumption in Mexico.
By COMEPESCA
The Committee for the Promotion of Fishery and Aquaculture Products (COMEPESCA) was created in 2003 by the common efforts of producing, processing and trading companies which were interested in promoting the domestic seafood consumption. The first Campaign for the General Promotion of Fish and Fishery Products was launched in 2004 nation-wide. Results were so satisfactory, that the promoters now plan to re-edit the campaign this year, as a way to consolidate the increase of consumption reached after the first step.

¿What does cobia have?
By Santiago Caro
The search of the “ideal” species for farming, is indoubtely the main goal of aquaculture producers. Tilapia is considered to be very close to this ideal: it shows resistance to disease, it is prolific, has a good yield and an acceptable flesh. But once the ideal seemed to have been reached, another species emerged, which not only looks like sharing tilapia’s attributes, but even seems to overshine them. Are we assisting at the birth of a new aquaculture boom?

EU and US legislations related to fish and fishery products
by Ioannis S. Arvanitoyannis and Persefoni Tserkezou
In this second of the two-part article, the authors focus on the regulatory requirements of the EU and the US Food and Drug Administration on seafood safety. The US system is based on strong science-based federal and state laws and the legal responsibility to produce safe foods is vested on the industry. The EU food safety legislation aims to create a single hygiene regime. Also, the issue of genetically modified fish is addressed.

Spiny lobster production in Colombia. A research of the biological and fishing aspects, and its relation with the producing indigenous community.
By Adriana Rodríguez-Forero, Carlos Barreto, Gina Puentes Cañón, John Ramírez Téllez and Sandra Nieto Torres
People with very poor material resources, are the fishermen for a very high-valued seafood product. This work describes the biological and fishing characteristics of the Caribbean lobster while treaces a parallell with the main socio-economic aspects of this ancient etnia, which has been linked to this production for many years. Alternatives are proposed in order to manage a more sustainable and lucrative exploitation.

Technological development of smoked salmon
By E. Bertullo, S. Fernández, J. Campot, F. Gómez and A. Pollak
In many producing center of the world, caviar production requires that mature female individuals must be slaughtered in order to extract its roes. Not many fish farms can afford the high-costy technology to avoid this practice. However, where this technology has not been developed yet and/or cannot be afforded, the flesh of the fish can be used, and a high quality food can be obtained, as described in this article.

Waste fish ensilage. An aquaculture feed recently introduced in Cuba.
By José Toledo and José Llanes Iglesias
Another technological experience related to the usage of both fish processing wastes and by-catches, has been developed in Cuba. The authors detail the process and its technology, showing figures that demonstrate the nutritional and economic differences between the final product and raw material in terms of fish feeding.

Mollusc farming in Santa Catarina
By Jaime Fernando Ferreira, Francisco Manoel de Oliveira Neto and Fausto Silvestri
Brazilian southern state o Santa Catarina has managed to succeed in the bivalve mollusc culture. After many years, they have been able not only to develop an adequate technology, but also to place in the regional and international markets through an origin-appelation label for their products. The authors present an historical description of all this process, they describe the techniques commonly used and reveal the most updated producing data.