All Industry News articles – Page 295

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    EU Fish Council set to decide 2011 catch

    2010-12-13T11:14:00Z

    Negotiations to decide upon the final catching opportunity of the Scottish fishing fleet in 2011 got underway in Brussels on Monday 13 December. The majority of quotas have already been set at previous international talks but there will still be room to manoeuvre at the EU Fish Council to get ...

  • Product packed and ready for a major supermarket - the Ishida has brought a new precision to the pack weight.
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    New Ishida weigher flexes its mussels

    2010-12-13T10:34:00Z

    An Ishida RS-Series multihead weigher at leading French shellfish producer and processor Medithau Maree has increased production throughput and reduced giveaway for 1.4kg vacuum packed trays of ready-to-cook mussels supplied to leading supermarkets in France.

  • A new Salmon Business Confidence Survey reports that 78% of salmon companies plan to increase staff over the next five years.
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    Scottish salmon companies in the pink

    2010-12-13T10:27:00Z

    Scotland''s salmon industry has created hundreds of new jobs in the past year and is worth about £500 million (€595 million/$786.3 million) to the economy, according to a new report.

  • Endangered Steller sea lions. (Photo: NOAA)
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    Aleutian mackerel, cod fishing restricted

    2010-12-10T12:48:00Z

    NOAA’s Fisheries Service has issued its final interim rule to reduce commercial fishing for groundfish stocks in the Aleutian Islands in an effort to provide more food for the endangered western Steller sea lion.

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    Argentine anchovy fishery enters MSC assessment process

    2010-12-10T12:18:00Z

    The Argentine anchovy (Engraulis anchoita), management unit Bonaerense, semi-pelagic mid-water trawl net fishery operating in the area administrated by the Joint Technical Commission of the Maritime Front (CTMFM) and north of 41ºS in the Argentine Sea, has entered full assessment in the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) certification programme for sustainable ...

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    Mackerel talks break down

    2010-12-10T11:14:00Z

    The latest round of talks to try and reach agreement with the Faroe Islands on mackerel catching arrangements for 2011 have broken down.

  • Sodexo serves 123 tonnes of wild-caught MSC fish per year.
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    Sodexo offers MSC fish to 1m Brits

    2010-12-10T10:59:00Z

    More than one million people in the UK will be offered Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified sustainable fish in workplace restaurants, schools, hospitals and defence sites, thanks to foodservice provider Sodexo.

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    EU urged to ban removing shark fins at sea

    2010-12-10T01:15:00Z

    Shark fisheries experts say in a new report that to strengthen the European Union’s ban on shark finning, EU fishermen should no longer be permitted to remove shark fins onboard ships, and that loopholes in regulations make it possible for fishermen to fin an estimated two out of every three ...

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    Cobia available directly to UK consumers

    2010-12-10T01:00:00Z

    From January cobia will be available directly to UK consumers thanks to a new arrangement between Marine Farms and Regal Fish Supplies Ltd. Over the last six months, sales of cobia have gone from strength to strength, with Marine Farms receiving orders from across Europe, the US and South East ...

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    Alaska shrimp fishermen could receive $12,000 grant to conduct training

    2010-12-10T00:00:00Z

    Southeast Alaska commercial shrimp fishermen may have up to $12,000 (€9,080) available to them, but only if they sign up before 23 December for a free federal programme that provides training for people in industries suffering from foreign competition.

  • PARD is to buy a total of 28,910,367 shares in Tassal, which is the largest salmon producer in Australia.
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    Pacific Andes buys into salmon farming, Tassal

    2010-12-09T10:21:00Z

    Pacific Andes Resources Development (PARD) has acquired a 19.8% stake in Australian salmon producer, Tassal. The Singaporean company paid AUD 51.7 million (€38.5 million/$50.9 million), or AUD 1.79 (€1.33/$1.76) per share, for the stake. Tassal recently rejected a hostile takeover bid from Pacific Equity Partners which was prepared to pay ...

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    WireCo WorldGroup buys Grupo Oliveira

    2010-12-09T01:00:00Z

    WireCo WorldGroup Inc, a leading producer and marketer of specialty wire ropes, has acquired Grupo Oliveira Sá and certain other assets comprising its worldwide business. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

  • Dragon Feeds’ founder Tony Smith.
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    Q&A with Tony Smith, Dragon Feeds

    2010-12-09T00:15:00Z

    Dragon Feeds began looking at ways to produce sustainable aquaculture feeds around 10 years ago. Following five years intense research and development work, the UK company unveiled its unique fishmeal alternative, which combines its own farm-produced Nereis virens polychaetes, also known as ragworms, with vegetable proteins. Today, Dragon’s feed project ...

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    Supermarkets step up sustainable Pacific tuna sourcing

    2010-12-09T00:00:00Z

    As governments meet in Honolulu to decide the future of Pacific tuna stocks at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), Greenpeace has applauded the decision taken by several German, Austrian and Australian retail chains to switch to tinned tuna containing Pacific skipjack tuna caught without the use of ...

  • The new AEW Delford WPL9040 Weigh Price Labeller.
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    Marel launches weigh price labeller for small volumes of fish

    2010-12-09T00:00:00Z

    New to the Marel fish processing range and launched at the Conxemar Seafoods Exhibition in Spain and IPA, Paris, the AEW Delford WPL9040 Weigh Price Labeller is targeted at smaller processors as well as for larger producers requiring lower volumes on a particular line.

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    Alaska king crab research nets $460,000

    2010-12-08T16:58:00Z

    Biologists developing science and technology to raise wild red and blue king crab in hatcheries as a way to rebuild collapsed stocks in parts of Alaska have received $460,000 (€347,966) in grants and support to assess how the crab may fare in the wild.

  • Allies: Nina Jensen (WWF Norway) with Sigve Nordrum, executive vice president of Aker BioMarine.
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    Unlikely alliance protects krill

    2010-12-08T14:54:00Z

    Aker BioMarine dedicated five days this year to conducting research in on krill distribution and predator impacts as a result of its agreement with WWF Norway.

  • Vietnamese shrimp exporters will pay taxes ranging from 4.3% or 5.24% to as much as 25.76%.
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    US stands by taxes on Vietnamese shrimp

    2010-12-08T00:45:00Z

    The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced it will continue to levy anti-dumping taxes on frozen warmwater shrimp imported from Vietnam.

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    WWF 'hurts' Vietnam pangasius industry

    2010-12-08T00:15:00Z

    Vietnamese pangasius exporters are concerned European sales may be hurt after a guide by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) advised consumers not to buy the fish.

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    Indonesia opens shrimp broodstock centre

    2010-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono this week inaugurated a shrimp breeding centre in the Bugbug village in Karangasem Regency, Bali.