All Industry News articles – Page 190
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SEAFARE addresses the future of European smelt
The SEAFARE project held a two-day workshop on the status of the European smelt on 26 March 2013 in Bangor University, Wales.
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NewsSydney Fish Market upgrade
Sydney Fish Market (SFM) has lodged a development application for an AUS$3.8 million boardwalk upgrade, due to commence in August this year.
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NewsNFI wants answers from Greenpeace
The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) has come up with a set of 10 questions which it believes reporters should ask Greenpeace before publishing its impending press release about American retailers'' seafood sustainability practices.
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NewsSolent bylaw to protect seagrass
The UK’s Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has announced an emergency bylaw prohibiting the use of bottom towed fishing gear within the Solent European Marine Site (EMS).
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NewsHarnessing the power of fish by-products
Bryan Gibson looks into the issue of fish waste and alternative uses for fish by-products.
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NewsNMFS anchovy regulations illegal
A federal judge has ruled in favour of international advocacy group, Oceana’s, claims that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) illegally adopted new regulations governing the management of the northern subpopulation of northern anchovy.
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NewsEAFE Conference 2013
This week sees the European Association of Fisheries Economists (EAFE) conference visit Scotland for the first time, bringing together over 80 delegates travelling from as far afield as Japan and Alaska.
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NewsMEPs vote in favour of Skagerrak discard ban
MEPs have voted to adopt a ban on discarding unwanted fish of 35 species caught in the Skagerrak (between the North Sea and the Baltic), that will take effect gradually between 2014-2016.
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Illegal fishing threatens South Korea
Illegal fishing scandals and human rights abuses linked to South Korea’s fishing industry have earned the country a bad reputation that is jeopardising its fish trade with the US and the EU, says Greenpeace East Asia.
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NewsDNA tests of Greenland cod change history
New genetic analyses of fish samples from an old collection in Nuuk have revealed that the fish in Greenland’s ‘great cod boom’ in the 1960s did not come from Iceland but were as a result of a sharp increase in a local Greenland stock.
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NewsGreenpeace urges South Korea to control fish trade
The South Korean government should “prioritise stopping illegal fishing activities” to rescue its fish trade with the US and the EU, says Jiehyun Park, Greenpeace East Asia Oceans campaigner.
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NewsMinisters urged to end overfishing
More than 217 civil society groups have written to EU Fisheries Ministers urging them to support the European Parliament’s aim to restore fish stocks by 2020 and end overfishing by 2015.
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NewsFusion Marine fish farm pens for SCC
Scottish aquaculture equipment manufacturer, Fusion Marine Ltd, has delivered 16 fish farm pens to The Scottish Salmon Company’s (SSC) new site at Gometra, Mull.
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NewsNOAA tuna label misleads consumers
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) dolphin-safe label on tuna products fails to adequately ensure consumers that no dolphins were harmed in the capture of tuna, says international effort, Campaign for Eco-Safe Tuna.
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NFFO voices concerns over e-logs
The UK’s National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) and the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) held a meeting recently to discuss a range of problems with introducing electronic logbooks.
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NewsPrince Edward Islands declared a marine protected area
South Africa’s Prince Edward Islands have been declared a marine protected area (MPA) by Minister Edna Molewa, making them Africa’s first offshore MPA.
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Pacific Council adopts Ecosystem Plan
This week the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) voted to adopt its first ever Fishery Ecosystem Plan, a plan to successfully manage West Coast fisheries while maintaining the health of the ocean ecosystem.
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NewsNorway exports whale products to Japan
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has discovered that a Norwegian company has exported more than four metric tons of whale products to Japan – despite international trade of whale products being banned.
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NewsStock ‘recovery’ not enough for quota increase
In response to the article ‘Scottish fish stocks increasing’ published on www.worldfishing.net last week, Charles Millar, director of the Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust (SIFT) has said that any ‘recovery’ must be put into context.
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NewsOceana joins Cabrera National Park Board
Global conservation organisation, Oceana, has been chosen to represent Spanish conversationalist organisations on the Board of Trustees of Spain’s Cabrera Maritime Terrestrial National Park by Greenpeace, WWF, Amigo de la Tierra and Ecologistas en Acción.
