All Industry News articles – Page 315
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Obama: BP will pay for ‘oil spill epidemic’
In his first national address from the Oval Office, President Barack Obama vowed to make BP pay for the damage caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Devalued euro rocks Vietnamese exports
The ongoing economic turbulence in Europe is setting up problems for Vietnamese seafood exporters.
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Seafish launches free Hygiene ELearning Programme
UK seafood authority Seafish has launched a Hygiene ELearning Programme (HeLP) suitable for seafood food handlers. Access to the new programme is free of charge and the registration process is informal to encourage more seafood handlers to participate in food safety training.
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Lobster fishers face potential five-year ban
Lobster populations in a large area of the Atlantic Ocean have shrunk so much that biologists have recommended a five-year ban on catching to allow stocks to bounce back.
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Chilean hake fishery enters MSC assessment
Sociedad Nacional de Pesca has entered its Chilean hake (Merluccius gayi gayi) trawl fishery into the independent, third-party assessment under the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) certification programme.
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New almanac for UK and Irish fishing fleets
In August this year, book publisher A&C Black will launch the only almanac available in the UK and Ireland that is solely oriented towards the fishing industry.
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Seafish appoints new interim chairman
UK seafood authority Seafish has announced the appointment of John Whitehead as interim chair of the organisation following the completion of Charles Howeson’s three-year term as chair.
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EU stops bluefin fishing season early
The European Commission brought an early end to the Atlantic bluefin tuna purse seine catching season saying that the quota allowed to be caught had already been fulfilled.
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NOAA reopens fishing area in Gulf of Mexico
NOAA has opened 339 square miles of previously closed fishing area off the Florida panhandle – the northern boundary now ends at the Florida federal-state water line on the east side of Choctawhatchee Bay.
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Russian giant trawl nets go global
The recent international fisheries conference at the Kaliningrad technical university gave attendees the rare opportunity to visit Fishering Sevice, a local, family-owned company and manufacturer of some of the world’s largest trawls, reports Menakhem Ben-Yami .
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Pew urges ‘thoughtful approach’ to catch shares
The Pew Environment Group has voiced its concern about the proposed US west coast trawl fishery catch share programme, following the publication of a new study by Ecotrust.
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NOAA: Slightly less overfishing in the US
There has been a small reduction in the number of US fisheries that are deemed as being overfished, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Fusion wins Ghana aquaculture contract
Fusion Marine has won an order to supply aquaculture equipment for a new tilapia farm in Ghana in the first modernisation project of this type for the West African country.
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Findus wins top European environment award
At a prestigious ceremony in Brussels, Belgium, on 2 June, European Environment Commissioner, Janez Potocnik, announced the Findus Group/Young’s Fish for Life programme for seafood sustainability was the overall winner of the ‘Management’ category of the European Business Awards for the Environment.
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BP boss confident of Gulf clean-up
BP said its latest efforts to tackle the Gulf of Mexico crisis are likely to capture the "vast majority" of the oil spewing out into the ocean.
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Trawlers fishing well on deep sea redfish
The four HB Grandi’s factory trawlers that have been fishing on deep sea redfish for the past few weeks have reported good catches and that all four vessels have been able to maintain close to full production of 40-50 tonnes of raw fish per day.
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Clearwater secures Canada’s first MSC-certified lobster fishery
Eastern Canadian offshore lobster has become the latest addition to Clearwater Seafoods'' Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified offerings, joining Canadian sea scallops, Argentine scallops and Canadian coldwater shrimp.
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One-third of Gulf of Mexico now closed
NOAA has again extended the northern and southern boundaries of the closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico in an attempt to limit the impact of the spreading BP oil spill.
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Aquaculture programme achieves food safety benchmark
The Global Aquaculture Alliance Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification programme has completed its benchmarking against the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) food safety requirements.
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HB Grandi reports solid start to herring production
Herring production got underway at HB Grandi‘s Vopnafjördur factory on 31 May when Lundey NS arrived with 300 tonnes of herring on board.