MAGAZINEBlue Frontier

The Global forum on Biotech in Vancouver, BC, takes a systematic look at whatmarine biotechnology can contribute to the grand challenges of food and fuelsecurity, population health, green growth and sustainable industries.

Algaemoonlanding

Themarinecross talk

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F irst priority when addressing the big chal lenges, l ikeworld food supply, is that we find ways to work to-gether cross sector, private-publ ic and cross borders.

Common chal lenges need common and concerted efforts.Akademia, management authorities, seafood producers,solution providers, NGOs, finance must real ize we are in thesame boat and therefore intensify cross talk to create newstandards and new ambitious goals for the “blue”bioeconomy. The "blue" part wil l play an increasing andmajor future role in the bioeconomy, outl ined in the OECDREPORT 2009: "The Bioeconomy to 2030 Designing aPol icy Agenda".

I n spite of the very diverse structure we have nowstarted a vibrant discussion across discipl ines and sec-tors to upgrade our common chal lenges and opportun-

ities: The master goal for the marine sector across al lfields is “smart and sustainable business” and this can bestbe achieved by systemic approach and solutions whichagain is best pursued by strengthening cross sector co-operation.

S upply of food, human health, energy, water can bestbe addressed by a strenthen ocean strategy apply-ing contemporary marine biotechnology and marine

sciences with corresponding great business potensials.When the OECD takes a systematic look at what marine bi-otechnology can contribute, it is a great step towards anew understanding of how to feed the world.

H opeful ly the Vancouver conference wil l make newwaves in the marine innovative industry, as wasalso the case at the North Atlantice Seafood Forum

2012 in Oslo earl ier this year: Marine biotech l ife scienceexpertise hand-in-hand with the private sector players andmanagement authorities. Al l "in the same boat" striving toadvance the field in the most sustainable and efficientway.

Prof. Øystein Lie,Executive Manager, Marel ifeProject Manager, Oslo Innovation Centeroystein.l ie@marel ife.org

Marine smartness

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Hanne Benjaminsen is sales manager atCape Fish in Honningsvåg. She is dealingwith new market orientation andbranding of bacalao, and she receivedThe NASF Innovation Award 201 2.Benjaminsen is one of the younginnovative marine solution providerseager to develop new strategies in themarine sector. Photo: Gorm K. Gaare.

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OSLO INNOVATION CENTER aims tobe one of the leading centers inEurope for innovation and industrialdevelopment. Oslo Innovation Centerhas an incubator that develops themost promising research and techno-logy projects into viable start-ups.Our management resources combinedwith equity have accelerated manystart-ups to become successful enter-prises over the past 15 years.Together with our investment partnerKistefos, Oslo Innovation Center man-ages a venture fund, Springfondet thatis an early stage investment vehicletaking positions in companies that ispast the business incubation. Close re-lations to the entrepreneur and activeownership best describes our level ofinvolvement.http://www.forskningsparken.no/

THE NORTH ATLANTIC SEAFOODFORUM is the world’s largest seafoodbusiness conference. The NASF drawsthe leading players in cold-water sea-food with more than 500 top execut-ive delegates from 300 firms and 30countries every year.CEO's of leading seafood companies inNorway and international ly take partto network, share their insights, dis-cuss threats and opportunities andcompare notes.The combination of science and sea-

food business makes the NASF confer-ence special – not only in the marineindustry, but in al l industries. TheNorth Atlantic Seafood Forum is amodel of how academia and businesscan come together to find solutions fortheir industry and the global respons-ibi l ity. The next NASF conference wil ltake place in Oslo on 5-7 March 2013and is the 9th NASF conference.http://www.nor-seafood.com/

MARELIFE is the first bio-marinemember organisation to mobi l ise trendsetters along the entire value chain. Itis an independent science-based mar-ine innovation network organized on amembership basis. MARELIFE is cover-ing al l three major industrial bio mar-ine fields: aquaculture, fisheries andmarine by-products. The stakeholdersrange from manufacturing and solu-tion providers, start ups and venturecompanies to R&D organizations andpubl ic sector faci l itators of innovationand commercial ization. MARELIFEworks along three major tracks: Pro-jects, Commercial ization and Publ ic fin-ancial framework. MARELIFE hasachieved increased awareness on theuse of instruments, especial ly thosegeared towards industry-defined pro-jects and towards col laborationbetween industry-academia.www.marelife.org

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Abluerevolution

in themaking

SAVING THE WORLD IS BUSINESS: Ablue, marine, revolution is in the making.It is the only way to meet a dramatic glob-al food shortage.

Norwegian professor Øystein Lie (64) is atrue blue revolutionaire. From his office inOslo Innovation Center, he manages theproject «Bioeconomy 2020». As thefounder of GenoMar, a world leading com-pany breeding and farming the no 1whitefish Ti lapia, executive manager ofthe innovation networkMareLife, chairman ofNorth Atlantic SeafoodForum, he is devoted tothe enormous chal lengeof finding solutions tocombat hunger andmalnutrition. And healso is a strong sup-porter of making it pos-sible to do goodbusiness in saving theworld.

- The bioeconomy

sector is regarded as a prime future growthindustry candidate. The “blue” part will playan increasing and major future role in thiseconomy, says Lie. He emphasizes that theglobal marine biotech and life science ex-pertise must go hand-in-hand with theprivate sector players and management au-thorities to advance the field in the mostsustainable and efficient way: we are all “inthe same boat”.

According to professor Lie, the globalmacro picture and mega trends support this

statement entirely: Supply of food, humanhealth (food shortage and malnutrition indeveloping countries and life style diseasesin industrial countries), energy, water is themost great challenges of mankind. It canbest be addressed by a strengthened oceanapproach applying contemporary marine bi-otechnology and marine sciences with cor-responding great business potentials.

The fast growing population will reach 9bill ion by 2050, and the marine sector is theanswer to meet the escalating food de-

mands. The vast majority ofglobal food raw materialproduction is stil l terrestrial(agricultural) based, givingapproximately 7,5 bill iontonnes. Marine based foodsproduction amounts to ap-proximately 140 milliontonnes, only.

READY FOR THE BLUEREVOLUTION: - We arejust in the starting blocksof the marine response to

We are just in the starting blocks ofthe “blue revolution” as a seriousresponse to global food supply.

Picture: Right: Arne E.Karlsen, CEO, FHF. Bottom:Thor Sigfusson. CEO, IOC.Photo: Gorm K. Gaare

Arne Røksund, Secretary Generalat the Norwegian Ministry of Fish-eries and Costal affairs:- Sea's and ocean's resources areuntapped. Seafood representsonly 1 ,8 % of the world's food pro-duction. The seafood industry ismore than food, it has huge poten-tial, value added can be multipliedand marine biotech plays an im-portant role to achieve smart andsustainable blue growth.

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global food supply. Global agriculture isfacing restrictions as of land and waterand has a fal l ing growth curve and canthus not meet with the above describedescalating needs, says prof. Lie.

Marine food has a series of advantagesin terms of: Lower carbon foot print, lessland or area needs, no water supply prob-lem, healthier foods to prevent coronary dis-eases, abundant feed raw material for thefast growing aquaculture, and not at least ifpursuing new marine sources at lowertrophic levels and by moving into algae pro-duction.

The “blue” opportunity is great, accord-ing to the Norwegian professor: More thanthree quarters of the globe is covered bywater and we have not been in the neigh-borhood of sustainably exploiting the oceanriches combined with the untapped poten-tials of cultivating aquatic and marine or-ganisms.

The ocean itself is the world largestaquaculture. Nothing that is implemented incaptivity can ever compare. Global ocean an-nual net biomass production amounts to at

least 100 bill ion tonnes.

THE MAIN NEW FOOD WAVE: - Weshould further develop aquaculture bothas a main new food wave and as a meanto lower the pressure on the wild re-sources. Hence, we should and need to doboth to be able to address the abovespeed of demands, sayes Lie.

Only a few species out of the potentialcandidates have been cultivated and stillonly 5 percent of globally farmed specieshave been subject to state of the art select-ive breeding and domestication. Also thereis a great untapped potential in farming andranching algae; macro algae (seaweeds)and not least microalgae. The latter also incontrolled reactor based production sys-tems, photo bioreactors.

According to Lie the list of challengesand corresponding opportunities are cur-rently all to some degree addressed by themanagement authorities, the scientific com-munity and highly competent commercialplayers.

These players ranges from classical fish-

eries (bony fishes and shellfishes) and newfisheries (kril l , calanus and other zooplank-ton spp, integrated seafood operators, tothe growing biomarine sector and not least:the solution providers (fishery technologies,aquaculture solutions to cope with all itschallenges: vaccines, feeds and feed re-gimes, breeding, engineering solutions etc).

The big common challenges and oppor-tunities (the macro picture), can only be metif we merger public-private forces in a morecomprehensive way and also optimize theframeworks and incentives. This is not anexercise of one party. We also need crosstalk and systems approach across scientificdisciplines and commercial .

NEW INDUSTRY R&D INITIATIVES: Thestrong growth in the biomarine and solu-tion provider sectors are supported bydedicated R&D funding, examplified bythe Norwegian Seafood Research FundFHF 28 mil l ion euro budget in 2012. OnDay Zero of the 2012 North Atlantic Sea-food Forum, FHF CEO Arne E. Karlsen out-l ined the funds priorities in col laboration

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with the industry itself. Use of total mar-ine raw materials as bi-products areamong these priorities, according toKarlsen. Genome sequenses are madeavai lable to industry for maximum uti l iza-tion to acieve better breeding programs,escapee tracing, vaccines and disease pre-vention as wel l as improved feed andknowlege of external factor influences.

According to Arne E. Karlsen we nowhave a unique R&D cooperation resulting inunique industry value. He emphasized theongoing projects on finding suitable prin-ciples for using roe, milt, viscera and bellyflaps as well as finding suitable processingprinciples for separation and extraction ofthe selected bi-product fractions.

- The impact is a potential for radicallyincreasing the profit margins for the pelagicprocessing industry and increasing thevalue of the current pelagic fish productionby introducing extracted high-quality bi-product fractions to existing and new mar-kets, the FHF-head concluded.

When talking about new and less util -

ized marine resources, Thor Sigfusson,founder and managing director of IcelandOcean Cluster, said that 45.000 tons of thecod is discarded each year. According to Sig-fusson it is possible to increase the value of"the EU cod" from 12 euros to 14-16 euroswith better cut, treatment, cooling etc. Ex-amples of bi-products from cod is: Marine-derived tissue regeneration product (Kere-cis), products from cod liver oil products(LÝSI), hand- & foot creams, containOmega3, suitable for diabetics (Kerecis) andnatural fish stock for food processing(Northtaste).

THE SUCCESS OF SALMON FARMING:- Since the beginning of salmon farming

around 40 years ago, technology develop-ment has contributed to making salmon oneof the top export articles out of Norway,says dr. Petter Arnesen, technical director,Marine Harvest ASA. Production is nowmore than 1 million tons and makes salmonfarming the biggest meat producer in Nor-way. Export value is more than 30 bill ion

NOK and together with exports from thetraditional fisheries Norway is now, in value,ranked as the second biggest seafood ex-porter in the world. Only beaten by China.

- Biotechnology has played an importantrole in development of effective vaccines,new feed formulations, and effective breed-ing programs, and further development ofthe industry will depend on continued ad-vances in biotechnology. The salmon gen-ome is currently being sequenced throughan international project with private andpublic funding, and represents an importantnew research resource.

According to dr. Arnesen, the continuedgrowth of the salmon farming industry is toa large degree dependent on solving envir-onmental challenges related to farmed/wildsalmon interactions and reduced use ofmarine raw materials (fish meal/fish oil) inthe feed. - Prevention of escapes throughconstruction of stronger farming cage struc-tures, more effective sea lice controlthrough non-medicinal treatments, and de-velopment of new feed resources, espe-

Be ready for theAlgaeMoon

Landing!

A pilot plant for industrial production of microalgae will givestrengthened and focused research on microalgae as marine

resource for the future, and will help developing a knowledgeplatform on upscale systems to support bioindustries.

Picture: Hans Kleivdal, UNI Research, Bergen.Photo: Gorm K. Gaare

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cially raw materials rich in omega 3, areamong the most important focus areas, saysArnesen.

READY FOR THE ALGAE MOONLANDING: Hans Kleivdal , senior research-er at UNI Research in Bergen, outl ines areal " moon landing" at Mongstad petro-leum refinery and CO2 plant on the NorthSea Coast of Norway: How to make useof CO2 sequestration and aquafeed pro-duction by industrial mi-croalgae production.

- We have the opor-tunity for a biotechnology"moon landing", saidKleivdal in his Day Zerospeech on the microalgaeproject. On the confer-ence in March Kleivdalgave many answers tothe question why estab-lish a pilot plant for indus-trial production ofmidroalgae at Mongstad.

It will give strenthened and focused re-search on microalgae as marine resource forthe future, and will help developing a know-ledge platform on upscale systems to sup-port bioindustries. Kleivdal emphasizeshow the utilization of CO2 as a resource willbe a proactive alternative to costly subsur-face storage. An industrial production willprovide omega-3-rich algae biomass foraquafeed to reduce effect of shortfall onfishoil, and not at least contribute to sus-

tainable growth of the aquaculture industry.Rene Wijffels, professor at Wageningen

University and science director at AlgaeP-ARC outlines the research objectives of theDutch algae program:

-First of all it is a question of developinga scalable algae technology to establishsustainable production of bulk products asbiofuels, food, feed, chemistry and materi-als. The AlgaePARC objectives is to be an in-ternational centre of applied research, and

to intermediate betweenbasic research and applica-tions. It is a hunt for devel-opment of competitivetechnology in terms of eco-nomis and sustainabilityand acquire informationfor full scale algae plantsto produce algal bioamassfor food, feed, chemicalsand fuels.

The "Moon Landing" in Nor-way refers to the NorwegianPrime Minister Jens Stolten-berg's (picture) New Yearspeech some years ago: "Ourmoon landing is establishingworld leading carbon capturetechnology at Mongstad". Theway to make sure Stoltenbergwill have a safe mooon land-ing is to support the CO2BIOproject at Mongstad.

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A significant proportion of the long-chain omega-3fatty acids in kri l l is in the phosphol ipid form. In con-trast, the omega-3 in dietary supplements derivedfrom cod l iver, seal , and/or fish oi l are almost exclus-ively omega-3 triglyceride fatty acids. Phosphol ipid-bound omega-3 fatty acids are water dispersible, un-l ike the omega-3 provided by fish oi l . This property isone of the factors favorably affecting the ways ourbody can absorb and uti l ize the omega-3 in Superba™Kri l l Oi l .

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MARINE INNOVATIONSSolutions for a blue frontier future!

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MARINE INNOVATIONSSolutions for a blue frontier future!

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The Cape Fish stockfish are dried outside in the tra-ditional way, by the wind and sun. Produced withvery high standards of hygiene and cleanl iness inthe handl ing of product at al l stages of the produc-tion process, and raw materials are fresh from thelocal inshore fishing fleet. The fishing grounds forthe local fishermen are situated about two hoursaway from the plants in Honningsvaag, the north-ernmost town in the world.

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Product: Fresh Atlantic SalmonCompany: Marine Harvest ASAContact: norway@marineharvest.com

Salmon has del icately flavoured red meat with large,moist flakes. It can be used raw for  carpaccioand  sushi or  cooked in a variety of ways. Atlanticsalmon is our leading fish product, being farmed touniversal ly high qual ity specifications and tighthusbandry standards across al l our salmon farmingoperations in Canada, Chi le, the Faroes, I reland, Nor-way and Scotland.

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Product: Smoked Salmon LoinCompany: Leroy Seafood ASContact: post@leroy.com

Smoked salmon loin is one of the latest productsfrom Hal lvard Lerøy AS (LSG). Loin is fi let of thebest part of the salmon. The LSG production systemrel ies on a wide variety of ski l ls, from practicalpersons who can handle boats and large marinestructures to veterinarians working withmicroscopic organisms. A traceabi l ity systemfol lows a salmon from roe stage to finished,packaged product.

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Product: Salmon RoeCompany: Aqua Gen ASContact: firmapost@aquagen.no

Aqua Gen owns and preserves the world’s most re-fined genetic material from Atlantic salmon andrainbow trout. Several selections of brood fish atdifferent levels before the final selection is al lowedto produce eggs for the farmers. The selection pro-cess occurs both at the family level and at the indi-vidual level . The salmon eggs that Aqua Gen wil ldel iver are the results of selective breeding for arange of important traits through 10 generations.

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Blue Frontier Magazine: What are themain objectives of the OECD Global For-um on Biotechnology in Vancouver?

Rachael Ritchie: This event is the firsttime the OECD has taken a systematic lookat what marine biotechnology can contrib-ute to the resolution of the “grand chal-lenges” of food and fuel security,population health, green growth and sus-tainable industries.

Thanks to advances in science and tech-nology over the last decade, our under-standing of the marine environment andmarine ecosystems is expanding rapidly.Technologies l ike metagenomics, arebridging the gap between those few mar-ine organisms we can culture and the vastmajority which we cannot. Early results ofmetagenomic studies attest to the bio-diversity of marine bio-resources, reveal-ing them to be a significant source of newbiological and chemical processes andproducts from which new bioactive com-pounds can be isolated, modeled or cre-ated.

In the past, marine biotechnology has

yielded some notable and wide-rangingadvances in fields as diverse as medicine,cosmetics, nutraceuticals and food produc-tion, and in industrial appl ication areas l ikebiorefining. Interest in this field as a newsource of innovation and economic growthin many countries is driving the develop-ment of government efforts to real ise thispotential . Whi le interest in marine bio-technology is increasing each year, thereis a growing recognition that the viabi l ityand diversity of marine bio-resources isthreatened by a number of direct and in-direct causes. These threats to ocean bio-resources are very real and, in most cases,the damage done is irreversible. Govern-ments have an interest in ensuring theocean resources are developed in a pro-ductive and sustainable manner.

We hope the Global Forum wil l provide aforum to discuss the potential of marinebiotechnology to provide solutions toglobal grand chal lenges and to identifyareas which may present a barrier to thedevelopment of marine biotechnology.

We hope also to consider the role of gov-ernment in creating an enabl ing environ-

ment for marine biotechnology, and theregulations and the treaties that can af-fect the large-scale appl ication of marinebiotechnology. Final ly we hope to identifythose areas in which the OECD can providefurther pol icy insight and expertise.

BFM: What are the main questions tobe answered during the two days inVancouver?

RR: There are two main questions wehope to consider during the Forum. Theyare interdependent, thought each may beviewed as a separate side of the samecoin.

The first is “what is the potential of theocean that can be real ised by marine bio-technology?” There have been great ad-vances in science and technology and inocean exploration in the last decade.These advances have improved our under-standing of marine bio-resources and areal lowing us to understand and access mar-ine ecosystems and bio-resources at themolecular level . Marine bio-resourceswhich have been remained difficult to

Expanding rapidlyourmarine

understanding

Early results of metagenomic studiesattest to the bio-diversity of marine bio-

resources, revealing them to be asignificant source of new biological andchemical processes and products from

which new bioactive compounds can beisolated, modeled or created, says

Rachael Ritchie, OECD.

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access and untapped, are now being usedto produce a rich source of innovativeproducts and services.

At the same time, marine bio-resourcesalso provide a number of important eco-system services for the planet and its in-habitants that must be maintained. So thesecond question relates to sustainabi l ity:“how can we extract value from resourcesthat are spread widely across a complexmarine ecosystem while maximising theintegrity and sustainabi l ity of that ecosys-tem for future generations?”

These two questions provide both theframework and title of our Forum: Enabl ingSolutions for Ocean Productivity and Sus-tainabi l ity.

BFM: How can this event address themain issues for the marine biotechno-logy?

RR: We bel ieve there are a number of is-sues that need to be addressed if we areto enable development of the field: for ex-ample, issues related to access to marineresources, issues related to benefit shar-

ing; and issues relating to the develop-ment of research infrastructures andgovernance of the field. Certainly, we can-not hope to address ful ly al l of the main is-sues for marine biotechnology.

We do hope, however, that -- in conven-ing experts and stakeholders from theprivate and publ ic sectors from around theworld -- we can begin to articulate thoseareas of the field which could benefit fromnew pol icy work to enable the use scienceand technology to benefit societies andeconomies in a sustainable manner. Theseareas wil l form a basis for new pol icy workat the OECD in the near future that wil l be-gin to address, in a systematic way, thosemost pressing issues identified at themeeting.

BFM: What can the participants anticip-ate to achieve from the conference?

RR: Participation at the Global Forum is byinvitation only. Our goal was to inivite adiverse range of individuals to participatein the meeting so as to have a wide rangeof perspectives and expertise. Participants

include pol icy makers and regulators, in-dustry leaders, academics, and social andnatural scientists from al l parts of theworld.

Participants wil l have an opportunity todiscuss the potential of marine biotechno-logy with other subject matter experts,with a view to elucidating both the poten-tial of and chal lenges to, the sustainabledevelopment of the field. Almost half ofthe participants wil l make formal presenta-tions, and al l participants wil l be invited tocontribute to thematic discussions to helpidentify areas that would benefit fromnew pol icy work.

We expect the meeting wil l raise aware-ness among pol icymakers about the po-tential of the marine environment that canbe real ised through marine biotechnology,and those areas where pol icy may be ableto influence positively the contribution ofmarine biotechnology to economic wel l-being and environmental sustainabi l ity.We bel ieve this wil l have a positive impacton the work and l ife of al l participants andothers working in the field.

Picture: Rachael Ritchie at OECD, expert inmarine biotechnology.

The OECD in partnership with Gen-ome Canada, Genome BritishColumbia, Genome Atlantic, HealthCanada, The Research Council ofNorway, the Norwegian Ministry ofTrade and Industry, and the KoreanMinistry of Land, Transport andMaritime Affairs are hosting the ma-jor conference on marine biotechno-logy: “OECD Global Forum onBiotechnology: Marine Biotechno-logy Enabling Solutions for OceanProductivity and Sustainability.”

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The North-Atlantic Seafood Forum inOslo has become the annual venue forindustry and policy makers related tothe marine sector. This year's event inMarch had an all-time high attendance.

- More delegates than ever came to NASF2012, with some 560 top-level delegatesfrom 32 countries and close to 300 com-panies attending the conference. This was18 percent above the 2011 delegate num-ber, states the conference founder JørgenJ . Lund.

Lund notes that the NASF event thisyear was in effect a 3-day event, startingMarch 6th with the well known Day Zeropreconference BioMarine seminar, organ-ized by the MareLife Association.

As the largest special session, the pre-conference Day Zero attracted around 170delegates to the crowded seminar room atRadisson Blu Scandinavia in Oslo.

- We managed to get the key playersfrom the solutions provider and the bio-

marine sector to set the agenda for marineinnovation, says prof. Øystein Lie.

Petter Dragesund, head of corporatefinance at Pareto Securties, says Pareto asa part-owner of the NASF wil l work to at-tract even more international seafoodcompanies to the meeting in the years tocome. The special session "Pareto Sea-food Finance and Investor Seminar"presented 17 companies.

- For our customers this is a good op-portunity to meet the companies and talkto the managment face-to-face, saysDragesund.

At the pre-conference Day Zero 20 in-novative cases from companies in the mar-ine solution provider sector where presented- out of which four cases were awarded.

One of the awarded projects was theGreen Fishing Vessels. John Roger Nesje,CEO at Rolls Royce Marine, introduced theproject initiated and run by Lie-gruppen withRolls Royce Marine AS, Telenor Maritime Ra-dio AS, NIVA, Det Norske Veritas and SINTEF

Fishery & Acquaculture as partners.The project overal l goal is to advance

fishery technology substantial ly forwardby adapting to contemporary demands andbui lding competitive edge within energyefficacy, emissions, green classification,smart communication systems and remotesensing of eocean environment paramet-ers.

Nesje pointed out the reduction of fuelan emissions trough novel propulsiontechnology by the Hybrid Shaft Generatoras goal no. one. The second goal of theproject is to create a more robust basis fordecisions on the bridge, with a "smart box"to engage the best carrier at anye timeand infomration processing from varioussources. The third goal is to monitorocean environment paramteters by theferry box device and the fourth goal is tointroduce a "green passport" as an envir-onment standard with accompanied certi-ficate.

Look to Oslo fornew solutions!

Last but not least:

Picture: John Roger Nesje, CEO,Rolls Royce Marine