All Industry News articles – Page 120
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NewsNomad acquires Iglo Group
Nomad Holdings Limited has completed its acquisition of European frozen food company Iglo Foods Holdings Limited - home of Birds Eye - for approximately €2.6 billion.
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NewsIPNLF warning over high levels of dFADs
The International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) says that the number of drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs) now permitted in the Indian Ocean is dangerously high, undermining the sustainability of tuna fisheries.
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NewsUS passes Magnuson-Stevens reauthorisation
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation reauthorising the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), the primary law governing fisheries resource management in offshore federal waters.
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Pentair opens aquaculture centre of excellence
Global water solutions expert, Pentair, has opened a new Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems'' World Aquaculture Technology Engineering & Research Center of Excellence in Florida, US.
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NewsEC plans for 2016 quotas
The European Commission has opened the online public consultation on its views and intentions for setting the annual fishing quotas for 2016.
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NewsWSC announces speakers
The World Seafood Congress has announced a programme of 96 speakers from 12 countries for the 2015 event.
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NewsThe need for corporate social responsibility
Just 13 corporations control 19 to 40% of the largest and most valuable stocks and 11 to 16% of the global marine catch meaning they have a huge effect on sustainability, says new research published in the journal PLOS ONE.
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Changes to demersal trawl regulations
The UK’s Marine Management Organisation has advised that from 29 May 2015 all vessels in the Celtic Sea using bottom trawls and seines of mesh size range between 70-119mm must insert a 120mm Square Meshed Panel (SMP), and the rear edge of the panel must be no further than 9m ...
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NewsPetition to stop Canadian “recklessness”
A petition has been signed by more than 100,000 people calling on the British Columbia (BC) government to stop federal government and industry plans for open-net salmon farming in BC, Canada.
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NewsTwo awards for SSC
The Scottish Salmon Company has won two Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards for ‘Export Business of the Year’ and overall ‘Business of the Year’.
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NewsSea Shepherd works hard to thwart illegal fishing
Sea Shepherd Global has launched Operation Siracusa 2015, a campaign which aims to defend the fragile ecosystem of the Plemmirio Marine Reserve, off Siracusa in Sicily, against illegal fishing.
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NewsCanadian lobster fishery MSC certified
With the certification of the Bay of Fundy, Scotian Shelf and Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence lobster trap fishery (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard, nearly all of Atlantic Canada’s lobster is now certified sustainable.
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NewsFirst German member of IPNLF
Germany''s supermarket chain, the EDEKA Group, has become the first German member of the International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF), for its sustainably caught tuna caught using the pole and line method.
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NewsSouth Africa celebrates MSC certification
This year marks the eleventh year of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) for South Africa’s hake trawl fishery, which has also just completed a third successful assessment.
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News£4m project to boost Scottish salmon farming
A £4m research project has been launched by the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) that aims to encourage the use of farmed wrasse as ‘cleaner fish’ in commercial salmon farms.
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NewsOman blocks suspect fishing vessels
Oman has been praised by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) for closing its ports to vessels suspected of engaging in Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing in Somalia.
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News‘Satisfactory’ financial results for Sanford
New Zealand’s largest commercial fishing and aquaculture company, Sanford Ltd, has recorded an 18.1% rise in its EBITDA in its interim report, but an 18.3% reduction in profits for the six months ending 31 March 2015.
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NewsBluefin tuna fishing season opens
The main bluefin tuna fishing season opened on 26 May, and purse seiners will be able to fish for bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean and the Eastern Atlantic until 24 June.
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Canada invests in facilities, research and protection
The Canadian government is investing over CAD57m in science facilities, marine protection and Pacific salmon research on the Pacific Coast.
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Greenpeace calls out Chinese IUU fishing
Greenpeace is calling for China’s fishing companies to be ‘reined in’ after research revealed at least 74 fishing vessels owned and operated by four Chinese Distant Water Fishing (DWF) companies have been exposed for fishing illegally in prohibited fishing grounds in West Africa.
