Analysis of marine by-products 2013 English summary SINTEF Fiskeri og havbruk AS SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture Address: Postboks 118 NO-9252 Tromsø NORWAY Telephone: +47 40005350 Telefax:+47 fish@sintef.no www.sintef.no/fisk Enterprise /VAT No: NO 980 478 270 MVA AUTHOR's Trude Olafsen, Roger Richardsen, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture AS Ragnar Nystøyl, Gunn Strandheim, Jan Petter Kosmo, Kontali Analyse AS Ref to SINTEF report nr A26097 (In Norwegian) PROJECT NO / FILE CODE DATE 2014-05-06 CLASSIFICATION Unrestricted Marine by-products from seafood processing and aquaculture production make a valuable resource for further economic activity. In Norway, most of the raw materials are taken care of, but still there are a good potential both to increase the volumes and further value adding. Marine by-products add substantial value to the seafood industry, and many companies have a special focus on product development into a growing business of marine ingredients. Thus, this report is meant as a tool for the industry, sector administrations, and R&D institutions to have a best possible overview of volumes, types of by-products as well as main applications of the raw material. The main goal has been screening the raw material flow of products as detailed as possible. To estimate volumes of by-products into secondary processing, various sources of public statistics has been used. The most important issued by Directorate of Fisheries, SSB (Statistics Norway) and the Norwegian Seafood Council. Figures and numbers of products and applications of by-products are sourced directly from the industry as public statistics are scarce and not sufficient detailed for our purpose. Results available volumes of by-products A starting point for an evaluation of available volumes in 2013 comes from a live weight catch and farming of totally 3.07 Mill tons fish and crustaceans. This create 0,87 Mill. Tons of by-products. In 2013, 69 % of the total was taken care of, approximately 600 000 tons. The table and figure below gives a summary of available volumes specified to sector of the industry. Basis for byproducts (live weight) Available byproducts Available byproducts as share of basis for byproducts Total Demersal fish Pelagic fish* Aquaculture Crustaceans 3 066 000 775 000 965 000 1 301 000 25 000 867 000 340 000 178 000 336 000 12 500 28 % 44 % 18 % 26 % 50 % This memo contains project information and preliminary results as a basis for final report(s). SINTEF accepts no responsibility of this memo and no part of it may be copied. 1 of 8
tons tons Basis for and available by-products per sector, 2013 1 400 000 Basis for by-products (live weight) 1 Available by-products 1 000 000 800 000 600 000 400 000 0 Demersal fish Pelagic fish Aquaculture Crustaceans Source: Directorate of Fisheries, Statistics Norway, Norwegian Seafood Council, Sales organizations, Kontali Analyse og SINTEF In general it can be concluded that it is by-products from the demersal fisheries which is not being used, and this sum up to 260 280 000 metric tons for the year 2013. It is mainly due to on board processing on board trawlers and other types of long distance fishing fleet, which lack technical solutions and perceived economic intensives to bring by-products ashore. On the other hand: Almost everything which is brought ashore is utilized as raw material for further processing. In aquaculture processing a substantial amount of blood is not utilized, but is taken care of according to regulatory prescriptions. 400 000 350 000 300 000 250 000 150 000 50 000 0 Utilization per sector, 2013 Estimated not utilized Estimated utilized 89% 100% 33% 41% Demersal fish Pelagic fish Aquaculture Crustaceans Source: Directorate of Fisheries, Statistics Norway, Norwagian Seafood Council, Sales organizations, Kontali Analyse og SINTEF 2 of 8
tons A detailed regional distribution of where the by-products are landed, conclude that Nordland, Møre & Romsdal and Troms Counties are the top three. 180 000 160 000 140 000 120 000 80 000 60 000 40 000 20 000 - Total available by-products per sector and county, 2013 Finnmark Troms Nordland Trøndelag Møre & Romsdal Sogn & Fjordane Aquaculture Pelagic fish Demersal fish Hordaland Rogaland / Agder Source: Directorate of Fisheries, Statistics Norway, Norwagian Seafood Council, Sales organizations, Kontali Analyse og SINTEF The calculation of seasonal landing figures (below) gives rather big variations. October and November, as well as January, February and March are months with the biggest supply of raw material. This follows natural by the normal seasonal patterns of the fisheries. 3 of 8
tons 120 000 80 000 Total available by-products per sector and month, 2013 Aquaculture Pelagic fish Demersal fish 60 000 40 000 20 000 - Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Source: Directorate of Fisheries, Statistics Norway, Norwegian Seafood Council, Sales organizations, Kontali Analyse og SINTEF Most of the non-used volumes of marine by-products consist of heads, guts and livers from demersal species. In this report we have also calculated the amount of free blood from farmed salmon and trout, which has a potential to be utilized. In 2013 this accumulated to approximately 34 000 tons. Source: Kontali Analyse, SINTEF Not utilized by-product, ranked by volume, 2013 Head - Demersal fish Other gut - Demersal fish Liver - Demersal fish Blood - Aquaculture Roe - Demersal fish Shell - Crustaceans Back/cut - Demersal fish Head and gut from foreign vessels 0 20000 40000 60000 80000 100000 tons Utilisation of marine by-products The available amounts of by-products have a wide range of applications. Some goes for direct human consumption as fresh or frozen seafood products, but the main volumes are used for further processing. 40 % of the volume is taken care of as silage and reprocessed into oils and fish protein concentrate (FPC). Traditional application through production of fish oil and meal is the second most important application in volume terms. 4 of 8
Production of fresh raw material of by-products from the aquaculture sector (salmon oil and fish protein hydrolysate (FPH) is the third most important, while approximately10 % of the volumes are used for human consumption, either directly as seafood products or more indirectly as cod liver oil or nutraceuticals for human applications. By-products used in different productions, % and tons 2013 21 600 t 4 % 45 900 t 8 % 3 300 t 0, 01 % 137 800 t 23 % Fishmeal and -oil production, traditional Refinement of silage 116 000 t 19 % 35 200 t 6 % 240 000 t 40 % Feed production to fur animals, frozen Oil- and proteinproduction based on fresh raw material (aquaculture) Consumption: Seafood products Consumption: Cod liver oil, extracts Source: Industry survey, SINTEF 5 of 8
Productgroups based on marine by-products, productweight 2013 Oil 63 600 t 20 % 21 300 7 % 76 000 t 24 % Consumption: Cod liver oil, extracts Consumption: Seafood products Meal 5 800 t 2 % Fishproteinhydrolysate (FPH) 68 500 t 22 % 32 900 t 11 % 32 000 t 10 % Fishproteinconsentrate (FPC) Fur animals feed Source: Industry survey data, SINTEF 13 000 t 4 % Energy A rough summarize of applications shows some 87 % of products ends up as various types of feed ingredients. 13 % - 38 000 tons in 2013- goes directly or indirectly to human consumption. A minor fraction not shown in the figure below is used to produce biogas-/energy. Markets, productweight 2013 38 000 t 13 % 254 000 t 87 % Feed ingredients (oils, proteins, premix/additions) Products for consumption A minor application as biogas-/energy,-/fertilizer is not marked in the figure Source: Industry survey data, SINTEF 6 of 8
The feed market consists of producers to fish feed, farm animal feed, pets and fur. The marine feed ingredient producers process (marine) oils, proteins and premixes to all of these types. All applications are valuable market segments to the total use of marine by-products, but the demand from fish feed producers have increased the most up to 2013. Both by-products from pelagic fishery and salmon oil have for many years had its best markets as fish feed ingredients, as feed to salmon-/trout and as feed to seabream/seabass, respectively. Feed distribution, productweight 2013 12 500 t 5 % 54 000 t 21 % 124 000 t 49 % Fish feed Fur animal feed Farm animal feed Petfeed 63 600 t 25 % Source: Industry survey data, SINTEF Therefore, marine by-products give a vital contribution to production of edible products for human consumption converted through applications as feed. Fish feed market takes close to half of the volume (49 %). Second in 2013 is feed to production of furs, while feed to agriculture accounts to 21 % of the feed application. Feed to pets take only some 5 %. The feed market has changed somewhat from 2012. In particular by fur production taking a substantially larger proportion of total volumes. This may be caused by a good demand from the Scandinavian fur producers, who both take frozen blocks of cuttings, raw silage and fish protein concentrate. A registered decrease to the fish feed market segment is mainly due to lack of herring oil and meal caused by decreased landings, rather than due to reduced demand. Marine lipids have their most important application as fish feed ingredient. Fish feed segment also takes most of the protein derived from other species than farmed salmon and trout. 7 of 8
tons Trends from 2012 to 2013 From 2012 to 2013 volumes of by-products from demersal fisheries increased, while volumes from pelagic fisheries and aquaculture decreased. Pelagic fisheries saw decreased TAC's and production from farming decreased slightly from previous year. There is also seen a slight decrease in shellfish sector. 400 000 350 000 300 000 250 000 150 000 50 000 0 Available by-products per sector 2012 2013 Demersal fish Pelagic fish Aquaculture Crustaceans The figure below shows trends in products produced from available quantities of raw material for the same period. As stated, decline in pelagic fisheries has led to less products available to the fish feed segment. There is also a decline in volumes produced for the purpose of biogas-/energy caused by a bigger proportion of "Category II" material from farming meant for fur production abroad. 350 000 Utilization categories in different sectors, 2012 og 2013 300 000 250 000 150 000 50 000 Crustaceans Aquaculture Pelagic fish Demersal fish - 2 012 2 013 2 012 2 013 2 012 2 013 Feed products Consumption: Seafood, cod liver oil, extracts Biogas/energy, volume in 8 of 8