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  • New CEO at Seafood Industry Australia
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    New CEO at Seafood Industry Australia

    2020-09-01T16:19:00Z

    An exhaustive executive search and interviewing process has culminated in Seafood Industry Australia naming Veronica Papacosta as its new Chief Executive Officer.

  • Annual exhibition celebrates the sea
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    Annual exhibition celebrates the sea

    2020-09-01T07:30:00Z

    Generations of artists have sought inspiration from the sea and that tradition continues today as the Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition features around four hundred paintings, with a large number documenting commercial fishing and fishermen at work.

  • Longline Survey goes to Plan B, then Plan C
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    Longline Survey goes to Plan B, then Plan C

    2020-09-01T06:30:00Z

    Scientists will install and test a new data collection system on two Massachusetts fishing vessels for the twice-yearly Gulf of Maine Bottom Longline survey. It’s a story of perseverance and flexibility in the face of difficult challenges.

  • Aquaculture vital for coastal communities
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    Aquaculture vital for coastal communities

    2020-08-31T10:36:00Z

    The aquaculture industry contributes to the long-term viability of many communities, according to a new report commissioned by Marine Scotland, which finds that the sector provides year-round, well-paid jobs and supports economic growth in rural, coastal and island areas.

  • Industry proves its resilience
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    Industry proves its resilience

    2020-08-31T10:22:00Z

    The marine ingredients industry has proved its resilience in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to IFFO president Anne Mette Baek.

  • A better take on toothfish
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    A better take on toothfish

    2020-08-31T07:30:00Z

    “?We are fishermen,” was the simple reply when asked why a group of Norwegians would go all-in for longline fishing in Antarctic waters, oceans apart from their North Sea home base.

  • Resuming Pacific aerial surveillance
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    Resuming Pacific aerial surveillance

    2020-08-28T07:30:00Z

    Fisheries ministers at their 17th Forum Fisheries Committee meeting earlier this month recognised the importance of aerial surveillance, including through the Pacific Maritime Security Program–Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (PMSP/FFA), after noting the increased risk of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

  • Sølvtrans adds third wellboat order
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    Sølvtrans adds third wellboat order

    2020-08-27T10:12:00Z

    Myklebust Verft has signed a deal with Sølvtrans for a the third in a series of Kongsberg-designed wellboats.

  • Grasshoppers and crickets: protein for salmon
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    Grasshoppers and crickets – protein for salmon

    2020-08-27T07:30:00Z

    Based in Norway, Salmon Group and Metapod are trialling a new, locally produced feed for salmon made from grasshoppers and crickets

  • Orkney Shellfish Hatchery
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    Native flat oysters to be produced on land

    2020-08-26T12:33:00Z

    Scotland’s Orkney Shellfish Hatchery plans to produce native flat oysters on land, as it completes the first translocation of native flat oyster broodstock from its offsite quarantine area, to its hatchery.

  • High-performance knotless UHMWPE netting
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    High-performance knotless UHMWPE netting

    2020-08-26T07:30:00Z

    With testing carried out, high-tech materials company Teijin and fishing gear manufacturer Kinoshita Fishing Net Mfg. Co are now making available the first high-performance knotless fishing net made with an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) film

  • Testing Thyborøn’s controllable Type 22 doors
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    Testing Thyborøn’s controllable Type 22 doors

    2020-08-26T07:00:00Z

    Pelagic trawler Themis S-144 has been the test bench for testing controllable pelagic trawl doors, and an initial round of tests earlier this year is now being followed up before the doors become available commercially.

  • Charisma completes herring survey
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    Charisma completes herring survey

    2020-08-25T14:57:00Z

    Shetland pelagic fishing vessel Charisma recently returned to its home port of Symbister on the island of Whalsay after carrying out acoustic survey work for west coast herring.

  • tilapia
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    Tilapia breeding centre construction begins

    2020-08-25T12:43:00Z

    The GenoMar Genetics Group has begun building a new tilapia breeding and genetics centre in the state of Tocantins, Brazil.

  • Reimagining fish
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    Reimagining fish

    2020-08-25T07:30:00Z

    Fisheries and aquaculture can lead the crucial overhaul of global food systems

  • Nuseed
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    Aquaterra trials show commercial viability

    2020-08-24T13:34:00Z

    Nuseed has completed three commercial-scale fish trials with industry, confirming the efficacy of Aquaterra Omega-3 canol oil as a partial replacement for fish oil in aquaculture feed.

  • Tersan launches Nordlaks live fish carrier
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    Tersan launches Nordlaks live fish carrier

    2020-08-24T12:11:00Z

    A second live fish carrier for Norwegian operator Nordlaks has been launched at the Tersan Shipyard in Turkey, built to an NSK design.

  • The first two Aquaculture Opportunity Areas in the US have been chosen Photo: NOAA Fisheries
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    US Aquaculture Opportunity Areas selected

    2020-08-21T11:56:00Z

    Federal waters off the coast of southern California and in the Gulf of Mexico will become the first two regions to host Aquaculture Opportunity Areas, confirms NOAA Fisheries.

  • Nelago Kwedhi Photo: Nueva Pescanova Group
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    Nueva Pescanova wins documentary award

    2020-08-21T11:52:00Z

    Nueva Pescanova Group has been awarded the IPRA Golden World Awards 2020 for its documentary about a community in Namibia transformed by the fishing industry.

  • Taking versatility to a new level
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    Taking versatility to a new level

    2020-08-20T14:47:00Z

    A unique new fishing vessel built to operate primarily as a longliner for Patagonian toothfish has been delivered by Båtbygg in Norway to Austral Fisheries. Cape Arkona also has capacity for pelagic trawling and for fishing with traps.