All Industry News articles – Page 308

  • HB Grandi‘s Vopnafjörður factory. (Photo/HB Grandi: Jón Sigurðarson)
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    HB Grandi triples pelagic production

    2010-09-03T01:00:00Z

    To date, HB Grandi’s pelagic vessels have landed 27,000 tonnes of Atlanto-Scandian herring and mackerel at its Vopnafjördur factory, representing a significant reduction in catch compared to last year, when 41,000 tonnes of mackerel and herring had been landed by this stage.

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    Aussies fear NZ will take rock lobster markets

    2010-09-02T17:31:00Z

    Tasmanian rock lobster fisherman are worried New Zealand could capitalise on Australia''s predicted rock lobster shortage next month.

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    Profits soar for Scots salmon company

    2010-09-02T17:28:00Z

    Edinburgh-based Scottish Salmon Company has seen its first-half pre-tax profits rise year-on-year from £1.7 million (€2 million/$2.6 million) to £12.1 million (€14.5 million/$18.6 million), while turnover has doubled to £42.6 million (€51.1 million/$65.6 million).

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    Beijing Culimer moves closer to seafood heartland

    2010-09-02T17:16:00Z

    Seafood supplier Beijing Culimer Seafood Im-Exporting Co Ltd has moved to a new, larger location to facilitate the company’s growth in China.

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    NTSB to hold fishing vessel safety forum

    2010-09-01T01:00:00Z

    The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a forum on fishing vessel safety beginning Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 9am. The two-day forum will be chaired by NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt.

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    UK seafood training centre to shut

    2010-09-01T01:00:00Z

    A centre that has helped train hundreds of people for the UK seafood industry is set to close because its funding has been withdrawn.

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    Iceland minister: 'it’s our right' to fish mackerel

    2010-08-31T01:00:00Z

    Iceland''s fisheries minister told the UK’s Channel 4 News that his country''s trawlers have the right to fish greater quantities of mackerel from its waters, despite growing protests from Scottish fishermen.

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    Benefits of Pacific tuna tagging being realised

    2010-08-31T01:00:00Z

    The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) said it is already seeing the benefits of the tuna tagging programme in the Pacific, which concluded at the end of last year.

  • Detective superintendent Gordon Gibson of Grampian police: “This was criminality at an extremely high level."
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    Boats landed €18m of illegal pelagics

    2010-08-31T01:00:00Z

    Six trawlermen from Shetland, UK, face unlimited fines and multi-million pound confiscation orders for illegally landing £15 million (€18.3 million/$23.2 million) worth of herring and mackerel.

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    Greenpeace urges NZ to help save Pacific tuna

    2010-08-30T21:08:00Z

    Greenpeace has called on the New Zealand government to support a plan to make the Pacific’s tuna fisheries sustainable following further reports of declining stocks.

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    Florida projects get BP funding for oil spill research

    2010-08-30T10:00:00Z

    Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is well represented among the 27 research projects selected by the Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) Council to examine the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico.

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    Vietnam submits shrimp lawsuit to WTO

    2010-08-30T01:00:00Z

    Vietnam submitted its lawsuit documents against the US imposition of anti-dumping tariffs on its frozen shrimp to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel in Geneva, Switzerland, on 20 August.

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    UK fishing industry set for fish price slump

    2010-08-30T01:00:00Z

    Scottish fishing communities can expect more hardship this autumn when Iceland increases its cod quota and floods the market, pushing down the price of fish, industry leaders have warned.

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    SFF: no more days at sea cuts

    2010-08-29T20:53:00Z

    The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation has called for a freeze on any further reductions in the number of days fishing vessels can put to sea and is warning that a significant proportion of the demersal fleet is facing financial collapse unless there is an easing of the current management restrictions.

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    Quota tightened to save southern rock lobster

    2010-08-27T00:15:00Z

    The rock lobster commercial catch quota in South Australia''s lower south east will be capped at 1,250 tonnes until stocks recover. And a month at each end of the southern zone rock lobster season will be cut to help the industry become more sustainable.

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    Indonesia to present higher oil spill claim

    2010-08-26T02:00:00Z

    Indonesian negotiators are expected to soon formally present the amount of compensation the country will claim as a result of the Montara oil spill in the Timor Sea last year.

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    NCL ramps up fish capacity on Norway-Germany service

    2010-08-26T02:00:00Z

    North Sea Container Line (NCL), a Norwegian fish and industrial product transportation specialist based in Haugesund, has responded to increased demand by phasing in the 677 TEU vessel Celina between western Norway and Hamburg/Bremerhaven (Germany).

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    Seafish appoints interim CEO

    2010-08-25T17:08:00Z

    The board of UK seafood authority Seafish has appointed Dr Paul Williams as interim chief executive with effect from October 2010.

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    MEP calls for blockade over mackerel row

    2010-08-25T16:49:00Z

    A Scottish MEP has called for an EU-wide blockade of Icelandic and Faroese boats and goods amid a wrangle over mackerel quotas.

  • Rongfu is one of China’s leading tilapia fry and adult fish producers.
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    Chinese tilapia giant wins park contract

    2010-08-25T14:33:00Z

    Rongfu Aquaculture Inc, one of China''s leading companies in the cultivation, harvesting, and trading of tilapia, snakefish, and other aquatic products, has been designated by the local government to operate the 3,300-acre Qingqi aquatic park.