Acronym NA
Category
Fisheries
Title Klassifisering av høsteområder for kongesnegl - Classification of harvesting areas for king snails Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Per Andersen Coordinator email marinkonsulent@flatanger.kommune.no
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
NFSA - The Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Norway) ,
NA - Val videregående skole AS (Norway) ,
Start year 2009 End year 2010 Funding (€) € 5,244 Website https://www.fhf.no/prosjekter/prosjektbasen/900358/ Summary In recent years, the LUR program for Little Exploited Marine Resources has funded several projects to map the distribution and number of king snails along the coast. So far, this may indicate that the area Vesterålen to Nord-Møre has the greatest potential. In i.a. In Outer Namdal, there are now several fishermen who are considering starting to catch king snails. Despite large deposits of king snails along the Norwegian coast, one has not yet succeeded in catching, processing and exporting king snails from Norway on a larger scale. A key reason for this is that unprocessed king snails often contain levels of cadmium that exceed the limit values. In addition, the practice and understanding of the regulations related to this has been unclear. Therefore, the modest export of king snails from Norway has now stopped completely. The LUR committee arranged a dialogue meeting with business actors and the Norwegian Food Safety Authority on 12 May 2009. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and clarify the framework for harvesting, receiving and exporting king snails, e.g. seen in the light of the high recorded deposits of cadmium. It was agreed to follow up the case further, so that the opportunities to continue investing in king snails in Norway are clarified as soon as possible. The challenges associated with the Norwegian Food Safety Authority's regulations are now being resolved. However, it is very important that a systematic survey is made of the content of cadmium in king snails. This project has been prepared in collaboration with the Norwegian Food Safety Authority. They used data from the tests as a basis for the design and practice of the regulations, so that a basis can be provided for the development of king snails as a commercial industry. The results from the project indicate that there are no significant differences in terms of cadmium content in snails in terms of size, localities and season. No significant differences were found in the amount of cadmium within a given number of snails. The content of cadmium in whole snails (incl. stomach / intestine) was higher than the limit value of 1 mg / kg wet weight, while the content in pure snail (muscle) was below 0.1 mg / kg wet weight. This indicates that the essential part of cadmium is found in the stomach / intestine of king snails, and that the cadmium content in the muscle itself is well within the limit values for king snails.
Keywords
Crustacean;
Gastropod;
Impacts;
Toxic substances;
Catch;
Mollusc;
Shellfish;
Food safety;
Marine Region
41
Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
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