All Industry News articles – Page 420
-
News
FAO catches Swedish Seafood Award
The UN''s Food and Agriculture Organization has been awarded the Swedish Seafood Award for its work with the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries.
-
News
Icelanders hook French with €332 million
Iceland''s international, financial acquisition expedition continues with moves by SÃF hf. which was hoping, as we went to press, to finalise the acquisition of French food producer Labeyrie for some €332.3 million. Labeyrie Group produces retailer, chilled foods. A statement said the takeover would produce a group with a turnover ...
-
News
Farmed salmon rises 20% as UK families snub scientists
UK consumers have delivered a decisive snub to US scientists who tried to deter them from eating Scottish farmed salmon early in the year. Research results released in mid-November show farmed salmon consumption bounced rapidly back from January''s scare, with more than 86.4 million salmon meals eaten in the UK ...
-
News
Sjóvá Almennar and Ãslandsbanki to sponsor the Icelandic Fisheries Awards
One of Iceland''s biggest insurance companies Sjova Almennar and one of Iceland''s leading banks Islandsbanki have been confirmed as sole joint sponsors for the Icelandic Fisheries Awards 2005.
-
News
NZ slashes hoki by 44 per cent
New Zealand has drastically reduced the total allowable catch (TAC) for hoki by 44 per cent from October 1, dropping it from 180,000 tonnes to 100,000, in an attempt to rebuild the deepwater hoki industry.
-
News
Nor-Fishing up to expectations
Nearly 25,000 visitors from 45 nations attended the Nor-Fishing Exhibition held last August in Trondheim (Norway), according to organisers.
-
News
Eimskip to sponsor Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition party dinner
Icelandic freight carrier Eimskip has been confirmed as sole sponsor of the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2005 party dinner to take place on the Friday night of the show, September 9, in Hotel Ãsland.
-
News
Globalstar satellite chooses Wavecall
Globalstar says WaveCall 3000 and WaveCall MCM3 fixed maritime units will be its preferred products and will make them available in all areas served by the Globalstar satellite network.
-
News
Notus branches out to UK
Notus Electronics Ltd. of Canada, which manufactures wireless net monitoring equipment for the commercial fishing industry, including Trawlmaster single and twin rig trawlers and the Seinemaster for purse seiners, has opened a full sales and service depot to service the UK. Located in Fraserburgh, Northeast Scotland, the office is managed ...
-
News
New spiral belt from Intralox
Designed specifically for cooling, freezing, proofing and other spiral applications, Intralox''s new Series 2600 Spiraloxâ„¢ belt eliminates much of the labour and modifications associated with spiral retrofits. The new Series 2600 Spiralox features superior lateral beam stiffness, high curve belt strength, large open area and a tight, 1.6 turning ...
-
News
US backs proposals by pro-whaling nations
The US has thrown its weight behind a return to commercial whaling if the two decade long ban is lifted as expected in the near future.
-
News
Scottish farmed salmon wins European quality award
Scottish Farmed Salmon has been rewarded with a European seal of approval protecting its identity, quality and authenticity.
-
News
New antennae from Sea Tel
Sea Tel says it has introduced a new 04 Series of marine-stabilised TV antennae, offering greater range, higher performance and more accurate stabilisation.
-
News
All salmon safe to eat
A study was released last month using previously published data to report on levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) - acompound reported in increasing concentrations in the environment, according to a statement issued by the British Columbia Salmon Farmers Association.
-
News
World Fishing Exhibition Vigo: one year on
A year on from the Vigo World Fishing Exhibition we asked some of the participants how business had fared since then and this is what they had to tell us.
-
News
IWC agrees call to action on whale welfare
nternational agreement on the need to address the inherent cruelty of whaling was reached at the 56th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Sorrento, Italy. The Resolution by New Zealand, with 16 co-sponsoring countries, calls for action to stop the suffering involved in modern day whaling ...
-
News
UK seafood market worth £5 billion
The seafood market in the UK is estimated to be worth almost £5 billion, according to recent research by the Sea Fish Industry Authority (Seafish).
-
News
Zamakona delivers for Scotland
Spanish shipyard Astilleros Zamakona has recently delivered the mid-water trawler Challenge for Scottish Klondyke Fishing Company.
-
News
New Dawn for wooden trawler
Scottish Macduff Shipyards has completed wooden trawler New Dawn FR470 for Alistair Bruce and partners of Fraserburgh. Macduff said she is a very sturdy, versatile craft, and is laid out for a single and twin-rig trawling, to operate through Caley Fisheries in Fraserburgh.
-
News
Net sounder from Marport
Marport of Iceland''s new NC-42 Digital net sounder, with its latest transceiver, digital signal processing and software is due on the market this autumn. It combines a headrope-mounted transmitter, a hull mounted transducer and bridge instrumentation, displaying trawl opening, location, the presence of fish in and around the trawl and ...
