On 28 April 2026, our CEO, Anne Mette Bæk, represented EFFOP at the IFFO The Marine Ingredients Organisation Members’ Meeting in Madrid. She shared perspectives on behalf of European producers and took part in discussions with colleagues from across the global value chain. The meeting highlighted that the marine ingredients sector is entering a more demanding phase, with tighter and less predictable supply, more integrated and strategic policy frameworks, and higher…

Fishmeal is recognized by nutritionists as a high-quality and very digestible feed ingredient that is favored for addition to the diets of most farm animals. Fishmeal carries large quantities of energy per unit weight and is an excellent source of protein, lipids (oils), minerals, and vitamins. Specifically, the high levels of lysine and methionine can be difficult to replace when using other feed ingredients. At the European fishmeal and fish oil producers (EFFOP) PFAS…

The EFFOP secretariat has prepared an overview of relevant EU legislation in the field of feed that has been published or amended in the second half of 2022. The overview will be updated in cases of new or changed legislation. Please see the latest version of the overview below. EFFOP – Overview of published EU Regulations in the feed area in the second half of 2022…

Last week of November EFFOP representatives were in Sevilla for the final meeting in the Technical Working Group on the so called BREF for Slaughterhouses and Animal Byproducts. The meeting was led by European IPCC Bureau and attended by government officials, member states and European industry representatives. The BREFs are a series of reference documents covering the industrial activities listed in Annex 1 to the EU’s IPPC Directive. They provide descriptions of a range…

The Market Advisory Council (MAC) has, in collaboration with the Long Distance Fleet Advisory Council (LDAC), prepared recommendations for the European Commission on China’s global distant water fleet activities implications for fisheries governance. The cooperation between EU and China in fighting IUU fishing is in progress, but the LDAC and the MAC are concerned that the rapid expansion of the Chinese distant water fishing fleet, numerous cases of illegal fishing…

After two days of council negotiations, the EU ministers of fisheries finalised an agreement on the EU fishing opportunities for 2023. The fishing opportunities are based on biological advices. Determining the fishing opportunities according to the biological advice has been supported during the process by European Fishmeal. The agreement includes catch limits, also known as ‘total allowable catches’ (TACs), for over 200 commercial fish stocks. The stocks…