The fishing industry is the most important source of income on the Faroe Islands, accounting for more than 95 per cent of our export volume. Faroe Seafood is the largest producer of fish products on the islands and buys approximately 38 per cent of the total Faroese catch.Our products are processed on the eight Faroe Seafood plants, all of which are HACCP-approved and certified by the Faroese Food and Environmental Agency.
MSC
In june 2009 Faroe Seafood got a Chain of Custody certificate from MSC. This means that Faroe Seafood are certified to process and sell MSC-fish.
Faroe Seafood will continue to extend its MSC participation and is working no full certification on catch and processing.
IUU
Faroe Seafood will comply to the EU IUU regulatitions on the 1st of January 2010. Faroe Seafood will rely on its internal digital traceability system, and will be able to produce the Catch Certificate automatically as a part of the shipment of goods.
For fish from Faroe Islands imported into EU via Hamburg following will apply.
1. Catch certificate for each shipment of fish has to be send by e-mail or fax to the ministry of agriculture and food this needs to be done three days before arrival of the vessel by the importer / consignee. Each catch certificate will then get a registration number which needs to be filled in the customs clearance documents.
2. 2009 Catch: A statement will need to be presented to the authorities in order to identity 2009 catch.
Faroe Seafood komið á rætta kós
Eftir eitt sera tungt ár í 2008 sær út til at Faroe Seafood í 2009 er komið á rætta kós. Felagið hevur megnað at fasthildið góðar sáttmálar við kundar ígjøgnum kreppuna og sær út til at samlaða virksemið so smátt er við at gerast lønandi aftur.
Ársaðalfundur hevur í dag verið í Faroe Seafood, og staðfestast kann, at Faroe Seafood, eftir eitt sera tungt ár í fjør, í 2009 er komið á rætta kós. Átøk hava verið sett í verk seinastu mánaðirnar, sum hava við sær betri lønsemi. Hesi fevna millum annað um at fáa virksemið at virka soleiðis, at fyrimunirnir av at hava eina samanhangandi virðisketu frá veiðu, framleiðslu og sølu koma fyritøkuni til góðar.
Samstundis hava prísir á marknaðunum og oljuprísirnir higartil verið til vildar.
