All Industry News articles – Page 305
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Australian tuna harvest nears end
Cooler September weather has helped maintain the quality of tuna with the 2010 harvest all but complete for another year.
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85% UK fishing vessels install e-Log from AST Marine
New figures published by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) show that AST Marine Sciences Ltd has installed more than 85% of all commissioned UK fishing vessels with their electronic logbook (e-Log) solution, which received approval from the UK Fisheries Authorities in May 2010.
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NewsHB Grandi: four weeks of mackerel left
This year''s season on mackerel and Atlanto-Scandian herring is coming to an end. At around the same time last year the herring had migrated out of Icelandic waters, although it was possible to continue some fishing in the international zone of the Herring Loophole and in the Norwegian EEZ, said ...
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Lerøy buys controlling stake of Sjøtroll
The boards of directors of Lerøy Seafood Group ASA (LSG) and BioMar AS have entered into an agreement to the effect that LSG will purchase 50.71% of the shares in Havbruk AS.
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NewsMaldon Oysters granted first use of ozone
Maldon Oysters has become the first UK shellfish producer to be allowed to use ozone as part of its purification system following the completion of four years of ground breaking research and development.
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NewsGrand Banks cod gets recovery pledge
The long-standing fishing moratorium on southern Grand Banks cod has been extended for at least another three years, member countries of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) have decided.
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NewsNew bass feed barges from Akva
Akva Group has delivered the first of several new feed barges designed for the Mediterranean seabass and seabream industry.
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New pump could save eel and salmon
Millions of migrating fish like eel and salmon could be saved by installing new water pumps at pumping stations all over Europe.
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Seattle to host symposium on energy use in fisheries
A new Seattle, US, conference, The Energy Use in Fisheries Symposium, has been created to provide a forum for commercial and recreational fishermen, processors, engineers, boat and engine developers, aquaculture ventures, fisheries managers, administrators, scientists, and others to address both the direct and indirect effects of energy costs related to ...
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NewsChina, Japan, US lead fish consumption
China is the largest consumer of seafood, but the environmental impact of countries like Japan and the US is magnified by a taste for fish at the top of the food chain, such as tuna or salmon, according to a new report.
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Papua New Guinea upgrades vessel monitoring system
VComms, a subsidiary of SatComms, a leading provider of satellite communication solutions based in Australia, has been selected by the National Fisheries Authority (NFA) of Papua New Guinea to provide a turnkey integrated vessel monitoring system (VMS) for fisheries management under a multi-year agreement.
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Orange roughy fishery reopens, hoki quota up
New Zealand’s fishing industry has welcomed an increase to this season''s hoki quota as well as the reopening of an orange roughy fishery on the north west of the South Island, which closed a decade ago due to dwindling stocks.
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Waitrose sells UK’s first Friend of the Sea mussels
Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group (SSMG) rope grown mussels are the first farmed seafood in the UK to be awarded Friend of the Sea (FoS) certification.
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Detained Chinese trawler captain back home
Chinese trawler captain Zhan Qixiong has been returned by charter plane to Fuzhou, capital of southeast China''s Fujian Province, following his high profile detention in Japan.
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Scots to urge action on mackerel at council
At the AgriFish Council meeting in Brussels on Monday 27 September, Scottish fishermen will be pressing the European Commission to give a clear signal of intent that strong action will be taken against Iceland and the Faroes if the two countries fail to reach an acceptable deal on international mackerel ...
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New species enter NZ fishing quota system
New Zealand’s Ministry of Fisheries has announced catch limits and other management controls for two new species - bladder kelp and Patagonian toothfish - that will become part of New Zealand''s internationally-recognised Quota Management System (QMS) on 1 October 2010.
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Italian caviar gains Friend of the Sea eco-label
Caviale srl’s Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baeri) and Adriatic sturgeon (Acipenser naccarii) have been certified by Friend of the Sea for being sustainably reared and managed.
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NewsCooking with Cobia arrives on the web
Following the launch of its Vietnamese-farmed cobia at Brussels’ European Seafood Expo (ESE) in April this year, aquaculture company Marine Farms has initiated a new UK website, www.cookingwithcobia.co.uk.
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$15m damage to Kaohsiung aquaculture
Aquaculture operations in southern Taiwan''s Kaohsiung County suffered combined losses of TWD 470 million (€11.2 million/$14.9 million) as a result of flooding caused by the recent Typhoon Fanapi, said the county government''s Agriculture Department.
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StarKist delivers first low sodium tuna pouches
To provide a solution to growing US consumer concern regarding sodium, StarKist Co, a leading US producer, distributor and marketer of seafood products, has launched Low Sodium Tuna in convenient ‘Flavor Fresh Pouches’.
