Trial to minimise lumpfish discards A couple of fishermen in Qeqertarsuatsiaat and Paamiut will be landing whole lumpfish once a week during the annual lumpfish season. A trial involving the landing of whole fish with roe aims to reduce the number of lumpfish being discarded at sea, while the fish will also be used experimentally as bait in crab fishing. A couple of fishermen will partici pate in the trial, during which the roe will be harvested at Royal Greenland’s factory before being processed into the end-product in Cuxhaven while the fish is frozen. “The project has three aims, which will all contribute to building a business case on how an alternative landing set-up for lumpfish in Greenland might look,” says Thomas Alsted, environmental coordinator in Royal Green land’s corporate sustainability department, who has been inspired by lumpfish fishing on Iceland. “The aim is to exploit the resource better than we do today, achieve better-quality roe prod ucts, and create better working conditions for the same earnings for fishermen,” says Thomas Alsted, and elaborates: This is the first time that the lumpfish roe is being removed at the factory in Paamiut. Special knives are used to harvest the roe. Roe which is removed from the fish at the factory must be processed as normal at the facility. “Roe which is removed at the factory will be followed all the way to Royal Greenland’s processing and packaging facility in Cuxhaven. We must do this to be able to compare the quality to the quality of roe which is cut out of the fish by the fishermen at sea,” says Thomas Alsted. Thomas Alsted, environmental coordinator in Royal Greenland’s corporate sustainability department, is in charge of the project, which he refers to as ‘Fish ashore’. Here is Thomas Alsted with one of Tittooraq Petersen’s lumpfish catches. 4 NAVIGATIO NO. 1 2018
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