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Page 1: Marelife NEWS July 2012

NASF PRE-CONFERENCE • March 6 • 2012

TheMareLifeNews

Newsletter from Marel i fe • Ju ly • 2012

MOVING AHEAD!

MEETING POINTNASF2012(picture)wasagreatsuccess

andNASF2013 is inthemaking!

Carl Seip Hanevold (left) and Øystein Lie (right) reinforce the activities of Marelife

from the new headquarters in Oslo Innovation Center.

Foto: Gorm K. Gaare

TRACINGTHERUN-AWAYSTheMareLifeflagshipproject:genetic

fingerprint

Reinforcedstaff | Newchairperson | MarineNASFcross talk |A truetriplehelix | Shapingthemarinestrategy | Meets thelipids

need | Escapees'geneticfingerprint | Buildingnewmarinealliances | Valuecreationoflifescience | Newbiotechnetwork

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MOVING AHEAD- withreinforcedstaffandanew

chairpersonMarelife, the independent science-based marine innovationnetwork, has reinforced its staff and put in operation R&Dprojects initiated by experienced working groups coveringkey areas in marine innovation.

A strong and committed staff combined with highly experiencedpeople in our Board and core working groups, provides Marel ifewith a sol id foundation for moving forward, says Marel ifeexecutive manager Øystein Lie.

He also extends his acknowledgements to the resigning Boardmembers and Chair who helped developing the current MareLifeplatform and he welcomes onboard the new ones.

Extended staffThe staff now consists of Øystein Lie (Executive Manager), CarlSeip Hanevold (Cermaq) (Working Chairperson), Jon Aul ie (TheNorwegian Seafood Federation, Marine Ingredients), Paul J .Midtlyng (Aquamedic AS, Aquaculture disease control),SytseYbema (Sustainovate, Ocean Resources) and Erik Fedde Lopez,Fedde Consulting (Administrative matters)

Our five working groups.Marel ife has five working groups in the core areas fisheries,aquaculture, ingredients industry, commercial ization andreputation. These working groups have been initiating our R&Dprojects and strategic efforts l ike the Havlandet Norge report andare chaired by the fol lowing people:

Fisheries: Lars Olav Lie (Liegruppen AS),Aquaculture: Petter Arnesen (Marine Harvest ASAIngredients Industry: Jon Aulie (MARING Forum, the Norwegian

Seafood Federation, FHL)Commercialization: Knut Traaseth (Norwegian Venture capital

Association)Reputation building: Geir Myrold (TraceTracker AS)

New board of directorsMarel ife` s annual meeting May 25 elected Carl Seip Hanevold asnew chairperson of the board. The board now consists of:

* Carl Seip Hanevold (Cermaq), Chairperon* Live Haukvik Aker (Considium Consulting), deputy chairperon* Kjetil Jakobsen, University of Oslo* Odd Magne Rødseth, AquaGen* Dag Knappskog, MSD Animal Health* Ørjan Olsvik, University of Tromsø* Torstein Steine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, UMB* Espen Rimstad, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, NVH* Kristine Naterstad, Nofima* Jon Aulie, The Norwegian Seafood Federation (FHL) MARING

The Nomination CommitteeThe annual meeting reelected the Nomination Committee for

another two years. The committee consists of:Sissel Rogne, CEO, The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory

Board (Committee chairperson)Director General Arne Benjaminsen, Ministry of fisheries and

coastal affairs (FKD)Geir Andreassen, CEO, The Norwegian Seafood Federation (FHL)

Far-reaching networkMarel ife has grown its membership base from 17 foundingmembers to currently 48 members (see the member l ist here:http://www.marel ife.org/our-network/our-members.html) and hasa strong international network.

We are building an important and far-reaching network, on anational, Nordic and international level, and have several thousandcontacts, says Marelife general manager Øystein Lie.

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NASF DAY ZERO– pavingthewayformarine

cross talkThe owners of of the international seafood conference NASFAS and the organizers of NASF 2012 have big promises forthe next event in March 2013. New themes, new venue andmuch more are on the agenda in the run-up.

- Like al l the priorinnovation seminarssince 2009, theNASF 2012Preconference was again a new experimental concept althoughwe knew by experience that mobi l izing more commercial solutionproviders and the emerging biomarine sectors together withseafood, Academia and finance would be expected to enhancecross talk and make the arena more complete, said Øystein Lie inhis welcome address.

In spite of the very diverse structure of operators and delegateswe managed to execute a vibrant discussion across disciplines andsectors since you helped us to upgrade our common challenges andopportunities: The master goal for the marine sector across all fieldsis “smart and sustainable business” and this can best be achieved bysystemic approach and solutions which again is best pursued bystrengthening cross sector cooperation. The success of anyconference session is depending on a well coached discussion.Jostein Refsnes, chair MARING Forum, Norwegian Seafood Federationserved this task in a most excellent way and Karl Almaas, CEO SintefFishery and aquaculture and Douke Faber, Dutch Fish Product Boardco-chaired us safely through the session.

- More delegates than ever came to NASF 2012. In fact we hadan all-time high attendance with some 560 top-level delegates from

32 countries and close to 300 companies attending the conference.This was 18 % above the 2011 delegate number, states theconference founder Jørgen J. Lund in a communication to theconference delegates.

Lund notes that the NASF event this year was in effect a 3-dayevent, starting March 6th with the well known Day Zeropreconference BioMarine seminar, organized by the MareLifeAssociation.

As the largest special session, the preconference Day Zero(nicknamed "Day-Z") attracted around 170 delegates to the crowdedseminar room at Radisson Blu Scandinavia in Oslo, March 6th.

- We managed to get the key players from the solutions providerand the biomarine sector to set the agenda for marine innovation,says prof. Øystein Lie. It is the fourth year that he organizes this pre-seminar to the North Atlantic Seafood Forum.

Petter Dragesund, head of corporate finance at Pareto Securties,says to Oslo Business Memo that Pareto as a part-owner of the NASFwill work to attract even more international seafood companies tothe meeting in the years to come. The special session "ParetoSeafood Finance and Investor Seminar" presented 17 companies.

- For our customers this is a good opportunity to meet thecompanies and talk to the managment face-to-face, says Dragesund.

At the pre-conference Day Zero 20 innovative cases fromcompanies in the marine solution provider sector where presented -out of which four cases were awarded.

Link to program:http://issuu.com/businessmemo/docs/nasf_2012_day_zero/1

Link to the presentations:http://marelife.org/downloads/category/13-2012-nasf-

presentations.htmlLink to innovative cases: http://marelife.org/north-atlantic-

seafood-forum/innovative-case-portfolio.htmlLink to photo collection: http://obm.photoshelter.com/gallery-

slideshow/G00000eDvaBBuswQ/?start=

THE MARELIFE NEWS - NEWSLETTER TO MARELIFE MEMBERS

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Øystein Lie | oystein. l [email protected]

PRODUCED BY: Oslo Business Memo | [email protected]

Searching for new marine knowlegde at NASF Day Zero.

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MARELIFE- atruetriplehelix

The main “modus operandi” of MareLife is to fosterinnovation through facilitating cross talk between theprivate sector, the public sector and the R&D entities (thetriple helix).

MareLife is receiving critical important grants from ResearchCounci l of Norway, Oslo Municipal ity, and Akershus County Counci lthrough the so cal led VRI program to support this way ofadvancing innovation in the marine sector. The triple hel ix is themacro framework tool employed. Within this framework and at amore concrete level MareLife is employing three sets ofconsecutive tools in this order: dialogue conferences, competenceprocesses and pi lot projects.

The first is putting on the agenda and discussing majorchallenges and opportunities in the marine sector, the second isfollowing up by carrying out analysis and inventories and defininggoals and efforts to address the challenges (MareLife work groups inaction) and the third one is preparing and rigging pilot projects aspreludes to more extensive innovation projects.

The important and prestigious DNA tracing project described inthis Newsletter was conceived through the above flow of processes.In addition to this MareLife is involved in addressing several othertopics like microalgae as a new resource, test bed for marineingredients, fishery technology, vaccinology, aquagenomics, sea licecombating efforts and not least assisting moving R&D basedconcepts (innovative cases) with commercial potentials into newphases by rigging them and exposing them to industry players andcapital.

The finance and resource packaging of MareLife budget toundertake this massive work is constituted by the following sources:the VRI grants, the member fees, project and service incomes and notleast and the major components: in kind contribution from themembers involved.

OCEAN21- shapingthemarinestrategy

Ocean 21 is the Norwegian government's marine researchstrategy. Representatives from the industry, theadministrative authorities and the community are invited towork on Ocean21.

“The strategy shal l be tasked to draw up guidel ines as to howNorway should structure and manage the overal l marine researcheffort,” Norway’s Minister for Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, LisbethBerg-Hansen, said when she launched the strategy initiative in2011.

The Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs formulated amandate for the steering group and its composition, together withseven other involved ministries. The Research Council forms thesecretariat for this work.

An external steering group is established for Ocean21, withparticipants drawn from the industry, the administrative authoritiesand the community. The steering group is preparing a reportincluding recommendations for all the eight ministries involved.

Marelife is heavily involved with the strategy work in Ocean21and especially through the network Storby Marin has positionedmembers and allies in both the strategy group, which leads the workof Ocean21, and in working groups.

The four working groups (management, aquaculture, fisheriesand food) are central to develop proposals for priorities in key sub-areas. The working groups comprised of experts from industry,research organizations and other relevant stakeholders as members.

Professor Olaf Styrvold (University of Tromsø), CEO Alf HelgeAarskog (Marine Harvest), CEO Unni Steinsmo (SINTEF) and CEO Arne

Karlsen (The Norwegian Seafood Research Fund) are in the steeringgroup. CEO Lars Olav Lie (Liegruppen) is a member of the workinggroup for fisheries.

Ocean21 shall deliver a research and development strategy (R &D) by the end of 2012.

MICROALGAE-meets theneedforlipids

The marine industries has a series of grand challenges.Access to marine lipids is one of the most important tasks tobe solved.

The industries has comparatively low carbon foot print: Space andenergy efficiency, low feed conversion ratio. But a series of grandchal lenges, one of which is to secure proteins for feed, and l ipids,anti oxidants etc. in feed ingredients to the escalatingaquaculture.

One major bottle neck here is the access to marine lipids. Bothsalmon and people needs poly unsaturated fatty acids (PUFA likeDHA og EPA) to stay healthy. Hence, in the long run the demand forPUFA will become a major challenge. The current and growing futurepressure on world pelagic resources to cope with the increasedneeds of these ingredients to the aquaculture industries is a clearcut sustainability issue. At the same time this will also exert pressureon prices on these natural resources, a reason why lipids from farmedmicroalga may become price competitive not far from now. Hence,cultivation of microalgae, is by the sector now pointed at as one of afew major ways in addition to starting sustainable harvest at varioustrophic levels in the oceans (kril l and calanus spp etc).

MareLife members are involved in R&D, in pilot stages and inbusiness in these fields now.

MareLife has been involved in a series of workshops, conferencesat national, Nordic and international levels with microalgae on theagenda. Recently and currently we are also undertaking marketanalysis and inventories in the field within the framework of theBlue Bio project, together with Norwegian Seafood Federation andthe Storby Marin network.

The prices of algae based lipids (omega-3 etc) for feed andhuman consumption are still too high to be competitive, but there is adynamic developments in technology and scaling (Photobioreactors,dewatering, processing etc) which will make this approachcompetitive over time.

Moreover, the microalgae option contains a sustainabledimension by being socalled autotrophice (produce advancednutrional compounds: proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, essentialmolecules etc from inorganic matters) through energy efficientprocesses (photosynthesis, biophotolysis etc), spending waist andlight mostly, not least being carbon capturing “machines”.

GENETICFINGERPRINT

-AMareLifeflagshipprojectthatrevealsfromwherethesalmon

hasescapedBy combining DNA-based assignment analysis (parents vs.offspring) with information on logistics, it is possible in avery cost effective way for the industry, and withoutsignificant change in logistics routines to trace escapedsalmon back to farm.

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- El imination of fish farms among potential "suspects" candidateswhen it comes to escaped salmon is possible on the same basis.DNA-based parentage test connected with control led/documented logistics of genetical ly defined batches, is the mostrobust of al l strategies for the genetic tracking of farmed fish,says MareLife managing director Øystein Lie.

A study initiated and co funded by the Norwegian SeafoodFederation and VRI Oslo-Akershus and brought forward by MareLifeshows how DNA can help tracking escaped farmed salmon. The mainprinciple for DNA tracking of salmon consists of the following twocomponents:

1) DNA database of foodfish parents. All fish parents (eventually40-50 thousand annually) is tested and DNA-typed with geneticmarkers (SNP or microsatellites).

2) Logistics management and el-tracking of uniqe gentic batchesto the hatchery further on to grow out.

When an escapee case arise, the potential "runaway" isgenotyped with the same marker set as the parent panel. Withadequate software one can track the fish to the right parents andthe right fish farm is revealed.

These efforts will enhance the industry reputation, with thesignal that it has control of the biomass. It means also a safeelimination of players who cannot have caused salmon escape, butwho could have been under suspicion.

The method is also a new tool to generate completely newknowledge about the interaction between culture fish and wild fishand thus be able to mobilize more qualified data and facts, andpotentially reduce conflicts that can be established on the wrongbasis.

Based on a MareLife report by Sept. 2011, three newdevelopment projects have been initiated:

1) "Proof of concept - genetic tracking of escaped salmon."Supported by VRI and The Aquaculture Environmental Fund (projectmanager Sissel Kjøglum AquaGen and project coordinator/ownerMareLife)

2) "Tracing the Origin of Farmed Atlantic Salmon escapees byDNA parentage assignment: Optimizing Methods and Real-LifeValidation Studies." (R & D project with emphasis on SNP-chiptechnology for improved tracking to farm and to distinguish farmedsalmon from wild salmon. (Coordinating partner Norwegian School ofVeterinary Sciences)

3) "Trace Salmon - Industry wide Tracing of Norwegian FarmedAtlantic Salmon." (Microsatellite based tracking approach, leadpartner Nofima) the two latter project are supported financially bythe Norwegian Seafood Research Fund.

Internationally, there is nothing comparable to this project,intending to lay the foundation for an entire nationwide farmingindustry DNA based tracking of fish.

The value added of this project may embrace importantimplications like the following:

->Strengthened reputation->Safe elimination of innocent serious players-> Improved logistics control and batch identity/definition-> Improved alert capacity->Extended breeding tool (extended no of informants)->Protection of brands->Distinguishing between wild and cultured fish-> Improved knowledge about the interaction between cultured

and wild populations

GREEN VESSEL– aparadigmshiftinfishery

technology- NASF2012awardLiegruppen in collaboration with Rolls Royce, TelenorMarine, NIVA, IMR, SINTEF Fishery and Aquaculture andVeritas assisted by MareLife and Oslo Maritime network arejointly moving forward the fishery technology.

Together they are addressing the fol lowing key issues forenhanced sustainabi l ity in fishery: HSG (hybrid shaft generator forenergy effiency and reduced emission), (Two step ICT solution tostrengthen the decision base for the man on the bridge), Remotesensors to monitor ocean environmental parameters, multisiteacoustics, hol istic technology packaging, “green passport”. For thisforerunner concerted effort Liegruppen received NASF 2012Innovation award for best systems innovation.

Project manager SisselKjøglum, AquaGen,proofing the conceptof genetic tracking ofescaped salmon.

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BUILDINGALLIANCES

- OECDtakesalookatmarinebiotechnology

In May Øystein Lie was one of the keynote speakers at amajor conference on marine biotechnology in Vancouver,Canada: “OECD Global Forum on Biotechnology: MarineBiotechnology Enabling Solutions for Ocean Productivityand Sustainability.”

This event was the first time the OECD has taken a systemic lookat what marine biotechnology could contribute to the grandchal lenges of food and fuel security, population health, greengrowth and sustainable industries. The meeting aimed to increasethe awareness among pol icymakers on the food potential of themarine environment, a potential to be real ised through marinebiotechnology.

Lie participated in session 1: “Productivity and sustainability ofthe ocean”. The session discussed the potential contributions ofoceans to economic prosperity on a global level and to themaintenance or improvement (sustainability) of the planet’secosystem. Lie’s presentation was titled: “Preparing for global fooddemands by 2050 – living marine resources and marinebiotechnology response”.

The conference hostsThe OECD, in partnership with Genome Canada, Genome British

Columbia, Genome Atlantic, Health Canada, The Research Counci lof Norway, the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry, and theKorean Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, hostedthe conference.

Marelife published “Blue Frontier Magazine” to the conference inVancouver. The magazine was distributed to the invited participantsat the Global Forum.

You can read the magazine here:http://issuu.com/businessmemoLink to presentation from Global Forum on Biotechnology,

Vancouver:http://www.oecd.org/document/48/0,3746,en_2649_34537_49544368_1_1_1_1,00.html

Other allies:MareLife Hol land, Icland Ocean Cluster, the Nordic Center ofExcel lence for research on Cl imate Change and Ocean Resources,"NorMer" at University of Oslo (CEES).

BLUE BIO- TheBlueBioproject, EU

InterregIVAThis cross border project commenced January 1st, 2011 andwill be finalized Dec. 31st, 2012. The projects partners areUMB, Kjeller Innovasjon, Gothenburg University, Chalmersand MareLife as the Norwegian project owner.

The main issue is to assist commercial ization of marine conceptsand in this process Blue Bio has developed a manual for earlystage commercial ization. The project team col laborates tightlywith the NASF team for the purpose to rig and expose cases atthis major arena. Blue Bio assisted at developing the innovationsessions (Day Zero) at North Atlantic Seafood Forum (NASF),where a series of BlueBio´s cases were exposed at great success.The project has backed R&D based cases in theircommercial ization process, such as fi l ing for patents. Some ofthese cases are: Algae as high-grade feed components to fish,Algae and yeast to reduce enteritis in salmon and Fish vaccinesIPN and Winter Ulcer.

The project, which has received funding from EU (Interreg IVA),Oslo Municipality, Akershus County Council and Innovation Norway,has a broad marine technical and commercial sector approach andhas put the ’hot topic’ of micro-algae forward as a pilot by carryingout a market analysis for microalgae.

LONDON MEETING-MareLifeatBioMarine

ConventionMarelife collaborates with BioMarine Convention, aninternational platform dedicated to marine bio resources,that brings together executives and CEOs from marineingredients, marine cosmetics, marine nutraceuticals,aquaculture, aquafeed, marine bio energy, pharmaceuticalsand clean tech.

On 24 and 25 October 2012, Øystein Lie wil l be among the 250executives and CEOs meeting in London to share their experiencewhilst developing their business opportunities.

London 2012, The 3rd BioMarine International BusinessConvention is based on a new think tank approach, will focusessentially on constructive and practical exchanges. Every attendeewill take part of the discussions and become a real player of ourBioMarine community.

Link: http://ww.biomarine.org

Marel ife publ ished “Blue Frontier Magazine” to the conference inVancouver.

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BIO VALUE- Bioeconomy2020: Valuecreationoflifescience

"BioVerdi" (Bio Value) is the working title of a new jointproject that is expected to create added value of lifescience. The project has been very well received in allenvironments, from universities and industry to venturecapital sector. Top executives have expressed specificinterest in and support for the project

“BioVerdi” wi l l be a continuation of the "Bioeconomy 2020", aproject in Oslo Innovation Center that focuses on measures forinnovation for bio industries, and which, among other putsbiomarine innovation on the agenda.

In Vision 2020, bio-based industries are supposed to be a majorsource of value creation and business growth in the Oslo region andNorway, a development to which the project “Bio Verdi” will give animportant contribution.

“BioVerdi” is a cross field and trans boundary initiative to developa stronger "ecosystem" of innovation. The project will be establishedin partnership between leading R&D units, industry representativesfrom bio production and pharma, capital owners and with supportfrom public policy system and authorities.

The project owners are to discuss and agree on the final goal,vision and strategy for “Bio Verdi” and what the project is to beformally named. The partners commitment and ownership to theproject are based on a planning document written by Øystein Lie.Proposed ownership structure, steering committee and workinggroups will be available shortly.

The project aims to have drawn up an action plan for

implementation before year end.“Bio Verdi” seeks to establish an International Advisory Board,

represented by the Nordics, UK, USA and Singapore.“BioVerdi” intends to try to connect to “The Norwegian Industrial

Biotechnology Network”, as a possible pilot or demonstration project.

Top executives from the following companies andorganizations support fundamental principles in theplanning document:

R&D units:Oslo (UiO)University Hospital (OUS) – in progressNorwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB),Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (NVH)Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)NOFIMA – in progressNorwegian Business School (BI)

Industry:Human Health/Pharma/Nutrition: Pronova Biopharma, Algeta – in

progress, Clavis – in progress, Vitas – in progressMarine: AquaGen, the network MareLifeAgriculture: Nortura – in progress, Graminor – in progressManufacturing /bio refining: Agroplas, Borregaard – in reference

group

Finance/TTO/Commercialisation:Norwegian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (NVCA)Verdane CapitalInven2Kjeller Innovation – in progressOslo Innovation Center – incl. secretarial functions/project

management

The MareLife headquarter - at the Oslo Innovation Center.

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BIOTECH NETWORK- toadvanceNorway'sbiotech

industriesProfitable and sustainable business is the commondenominator for the 36 players, including several MareLifemembers, who have gathered in the recently establishednetwork: The Norwegian Industrial Biotechnology Network.They will cooperate to find solutions to the enormouschallenges and business potentials ahead in areas such asfood production, climate change and energy supply.

Fuel and plastic bottles from seaweed, biogas from waste,cosmetics from algae, artificial si lk from trees, “from wood tofood” (Borregaard slogan) or enzymes from shrimp water: Thepotential of appl ied biotechnology is enormous. Through long-term investments, Norway has already expertise inbiotechnology, which provides opportunities to bui ld newknowledge-intensive industries based on renewable resourcesfrom the marine sector, agriculture and forestry.

New technology, especially biotechnology, and the need toreplace oil with renewable raw materials are the main drivers behindthe emerging bio economy.

- The most important industrial revolution in the 21st century isthe transition from petroleum to renewable, bio based products.Today, oil is the basis of 90 per cent of the world chemical industry.The world must optimize the use of renewable resources while wedevelop environmental technology, says Gunn Ovesen, CEO ofInnovation Norway in a statement.

Innovation Norway, SIVA (The Industrial DevelopmentCorporation of Norway) and The Research Council of Norwegian arethe initiators of the new biotechnology network which had itsinaugural meeting in Oslo June 13.. The network has high ambitions:The goal is to find solutions to challenges in food production, rawmaterial shortages, environmental pollution, energy and climatechange. The world population is expected to increase to nine bill ionby 2050, and in the same period, the food needs increase 70 percentand energy demand by 100 percent.

The network's main task is to stimulate innovation throughcollaboration across sectors, knowledge sharing and to stimulatenew projects and industrial partnerships. The networks activitiesbring together academia and industry across research disciplines,industry sectors and geography.

- The network will be an instrument for realizing theGovernment's national strategy for biotechnology and make contactwith international research institutions and markets, says Ole JørgenMarvik of Innovation Norway, a driving force of this initiative, in thestatement.

MareLife and several of its members will contribute to the newindustrial network IBN. - The MareLife project portfolio is also linkedwith the networks projects, e.g. through algae activities. Also the

project BioValue will connected to IBN as a pilot, says Øystein Lie.The newly elected board consists of the following 9 persons:

Kjartan Sandnes (Marine Bioproducts AS), Ragnhild Borgrevink (VikenSkog AS), Hans Kristian Kotlar (Statoil), Johanne Brendehaug (TineSA), Jan Buch Andresen (Arcticzymes AS), Anne Hjelle (Iris), TrondEllingsen (Sintef), Hans Kleivdal (university of Bergen), VincentEijsink (University of Life Science).

SUMMER TIME-wewishyouaniceandrelaxing

summer!MareLife wishes you a relaxing summer, with lots of sunand nice seafood! Be prepared for an active MareLifeautumn, winter and spring season with a number of projectsand activities to be launced. Here are some main points forwhat is coming up:

* Late September. Aquaculture and environments: Seminar onthe new an reinforced environment responsibility program of theaquaculture sector. Overview talk by representative from theNorwegian Seafood Federation

*Late November: DNA-vaccines. International meeting incollaboration with the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board

*R&D and startups. Follow up on our R&D projects in operationand preparing for new: DNA tracing of escapees, Microalgae, testbedfor marine ingredients to address health claims, green fisherytechnology, preparing for NASF 2013. Assist startups and R&Dconcepts with commercial potentials

* Algae analysis and project preparation and preparatory phaseto reactivate former Marbed-concept: test bed to validate marineingredients for health claim approval.

Enjoying del icous seafood is never wrong - also in the summertime. Picture: Marine Harvest

Ole Jørgen Marvik (left) and Merl in Goldman (right) from theTechnology Strategy Board – British partner of Innovation Norway.

Carl Seip Hanevold, chairperson MareLife:

"Through my long standing career in the marine sector Ihave learned to focus on the main issues of the sector:disease control, escaped fish, enhanced broodstocks,feed resources, sustainable business in all phase and tocommunicate to the public that this is an industry forthe future, providing the most healthy food and that weare aware of our challenges and that we are addressingthem.

I am happy to confirm that Marelife is on the right trackand delighted and happy to be able to serve and to sharemy experience with this important organization."