All Industry News articles – Page 80

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    New PNA CEO focuses on governance

    2016-08-16T14:30:00Z

    Improving systems that underpin rights-based tuna management in the western and central Pacific, while identifying ways to add value to benefit the industry are twin goals of the new chief executive of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA).

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    IPNLF names first UK foodservice supplier member

    2016-08-16T12:33:00Z

    The International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) has announced that Caterers Choice has become the first company focussed on the UK foodservice sector to be named a member of the association.

  • US trade partners will need to show that killing or injuring marine mammals in their export fisheries do not exceed US standards
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    US establishes marine mammal bycatch criteria

    2016-08-16T10:49:00Z

    NOAA Fisheries has published a final rule which confirms that nations exporting fish and fish products to the United States must meet fishing standards for protecting marine mammals that are equal to those American fishermen follow.

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    Sea Pact opens 2016 Request for Grant Proposals

    2016-08-16T09:59:00Z

    Sea Pact has announced that its fifth Request for Grant Proposals (RFP) is now open.

  • Operation Nasse uncovered five serious and 13 minor violations of the WCPFC CMMs Photo: Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection
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    Combatting illegal fishing

    2016-08-15T11:24:00Z

    Australia has engaged with international partners to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing under Operation Nasse, a multilateral maritime surveillance operation involving France, New Zealand and the USA.

  • Geneticist Alan Tinch joins Benchmark
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    Geneticist Alan Tinch joins Benchmark

    2016-08-12T09:32:00Z

    Dr Alan Tinch has joined Benchmark’s breeding and genetics business as its new technical services director.

  • Benchmark is a leading provider of technical genetic services for all major farmed species Photo: Benchmark Holdings plc
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    Benchmark acquires South American shrimp breeding programme

    2016-08-11T17:41:00Z

    Benchmark Holdings plc has expanded its breeding and genetics offering through the acquisition of a South American shrimp breeding programme.

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    Greenland halibut to undergo MSC assessment

    2016-08-11T16:29:00Z

    An international group of scientists will arrive in Greenland this week to examine the sustainability of Greenland’s halibut fishery as part of the MSC certification process.

  • Organised by Seafish, the National Fish & Chip Awards will take place on 26 January 2017 in London
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    Top 10 young fish friers announced

    2016-08-11T15:06:00Z

    The 10 semi-finalists for the ‘best young fish frier’ award at the 2017 National Fish & Chip Awards have been announced.

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    NFI Crab Council announces first European member

    2016-08-11T11:19:00Z

    Netherlands-based Fisherman’s Choice has become the newest member of the National Fisheries Institute’s Crab Council.

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    First British certified sustainable plaice

    2016-08-11T10:29:00Z

    Direct Seafoods is set to be the first supplier to offer British certified sustainable plaice.

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    Bakkafrost not associated with whaling

    2016-08-10T11:26:00Z

    Bakkafrost has issued a statement confirming that none of the company’s fish farming activates are associated with whaling, and that there is no whale meat in its feed.

  • PNA is confident it can retain its MSC certification for sustainably caught free school skipjack and yellowfin tuna Photo: Taro Taylor /CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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    MSC recertification for PNA's tuna fishery

    2016-08-10T10:03:00Z

    The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) tuna purse seine skipjack and yellowfin fishery is to undergo reassessment to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Fisheries Standard.

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    Still work to do to protect the deep sea

    2016-08-09T16:46:00Z

    The United Nationals General Assembly (UNGA) recently took part in a workshop to review the implementation of a set of landmark resolutions adopted by the General Assembly.

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    FIP Managers Meeting hosted by NFI Crab Council

    2016-08-09T13:57:00Z

    FIP leaders from China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam came together recently in Bangkok, Thailand, for the FIP Managers Meeting, a blue swimming crab sustainability symposium.

  • Thailand wants to become world leader in shrimp farming Photo: Philip Chou/SeaWeb/Marine Photobank
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    Nine Thai shrimp farms enroll in iBAP

    2016-08-09T13:48:00Z

    Nine shrimp farms in southern Thailand’s Surat Thani province have become the latest aquaculture facilities to enrol in the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) iBAP programme.

  • Deep-sea coral (Madrepora oculata) and crinoids (Leptometra phalangium). Credit: Oceana © LIFE BaHAR for N2K
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    Marine research in Malta concludes

    2016-08-09T10:09:00Z

    Oceana has concluded its at-sea research in Malta to explore deep-sea areas, underwater caves and sandbanks within the LIFE BaHAR for N2K project.

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    Record profit for Thai Union

    2016-08-08T15:14:00Z

    Thai Union Group (TU) has reported a 16.9% on-year rise in the second quarter of 2016, with a net profit of THB1,527m.

  • Wimbledon Tennis will be one of the London venues to serve sustainable fish
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    London’s top sports venues will all serve sustainable fish

    2016-08-08T14:52:00Z

    Levy Restaurants UK and Delaware North, two of London’s largest sports caterers, have pledged to serve sustainable fish across their businesses.

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    UK fishing fleet survey

    2016-08-04T15:26:00Z

    UK authority, Seafish, is calling for vessel owners and skippers across the UK to participate in its annual economic survey of the UK fishing fleet.