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1. Pimmino 28 maart 2001 16:58

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   Gezien dit bericht moet voor Nutreco 2001 wel "het jaar van de kip" worden zoals de CEO gekscherend aangaf. Het lijkt de enige activiteit die op dit moment nog zonder duidelijk gevaar is. Poison Algae Threatens Norway's Salmon Farms Updated 12:17 PM ET March 27, 2001 By Jan Oscar de Besche OSLO (Reuters) - Poisonous algae in the sea off south Norway is endangering thousands of tones of salmon in another threat to European food production, Norwegian officials said on Tuesday. They said Norwegian-farmed Atlantic salmon were in danger of being engulfed by a giant swathe of slimy green algae that suffocates the fish and makes them inedible for humans. Olav Lekve, spokesman of the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, told Reuters that the algae has already killed 700 tones of salmon in recent days at farms on the southern tip of Norway. The country is the top world producer of Atlantic salmon, farming about 400,000 tones a year. "This could be the worst algae invasion ever for Norwegian fish farms," he said. He said the algae, apparently a Japanese strain that first appeared in the North Sea in 1996, could threaten farms with 4,000 tones if winds and currents sweep it westwards round the coast. The slimy algae stick to fish gills, causing the salmon to suffocate. The fish are then unfit for human consumption -- Arctic foxes and mink at fur farms end up dining on salmon. The same kind of chattonella algae killed 350 tones of fish off Norway in May 1998. In the worst case so far, about 800 tones of fish died in 1988 from a different type of algae when Norway only farmed a fraction of its current output. In the past fish farmers off south Norway have towed the farms -- giant nets containing thousands of fish -- away from the path of the algae into narrow fjords. Lekve said that one farm in Farsund said that 1,000 fish had died in the latest attack. Each fish weighs about four kg. Salmon prices have been underpinned in recent months by European consumers shifting to fish and away from meat in the wake of the foot-and-mouth epidemic and mad cow disease. Shares in Norway's biggest salmon producer, Pan Fish, were down 0.5 Norwegian crown ($0.055) on Tuesday afternoon at 62. Its shares have ranged from a low of 15 in January a year ago to a high of 81.5 in August. In another headache for the Norwegian fish farms, Russia banned imports of Norwegian fish as part of a three-week ban on meat imports from Europe aimed at preventing the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, Norwegian media said