Latest News – Page 209
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NewsLords amend UK government’s Fisheries Bill
In what is seen as a defeat for the UK government, the House of Lords has voted for an amendment to the Fisheries Bill aimed at ensuring environmental sustainability.
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NewsCanada re-opens Opportunities Fund
The Canadian Fish and Seafood Opportunities Fund (CFSOF) has been re-opened by Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard Bernadette Jordan, to support the industry in accessing new consumer markets.
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NewsSafety and security on FFA’s agenda
Initiatives to improve job prospects and safety at sea for fishing observers has been a key focus of the 114th Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC114) meeting which brings together the 17 members of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA).
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NewsCovid-19: Seafood is safe
The World Health Organisation, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and food safety agencies are seeking to reassure consumers that seafood is safe and is in no way related to the global Covid-19 pandemic.
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NewsImported whiteleg shrimp quarantine success
India''s Aquatic Quarantine Facility (AQF) has successfully quarantined 3,600 whiteleg shrimp broodstock imported from Hawaii by six shrimp hatchery operators in India.
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NewsBrixham’s brand-new beamer
The first new beam trawler to join the UK fleet for almost twenty years has docked in Brixham after being handed over by its Dutch builders. Georgina of Ladram has been built at Luyt Group in Den Oever for Waterdance, England’s largest fishing company.
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NewsCommercial bream and bass in Saudi Arabia
Aqua Bridge Farm’s Company hatchery in Al-Lith, Makkah Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has achieved an important milestone by becoming the first hatchery to produce the juveniles of European sea bream and European sea bass in the Kingdom at commercial scale.
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NewsSustainability more important than price
For the first time, sustainable sourcing has become a more important factor than price for Europeans shopping for fish and seafood, according to a study conducted by Deloitte and released by the Spanish tuna fleet acting under the Europêche banner.
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NewsCflow appoints new MD
Cflow has appointed Stig Bjørkedal as its new managing director to focus on further industrialisation of the company.
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NewsBioMar achieves FIFO ratio of 1:1
High use of trimmings and the use of novel ingredients has enabled BioMar Group to achieve a five-year average of 1:1 or below Forage Fish Dependency Ratio for its raw material usage.
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NewsSecond Sperre ROV for Nordlaks
Nordlaks has purchased a SUB-Fighter 15K remotely operated vehicle (ROV) from Sperre for securing mooring systems in addition to being available for operations on the Havfarm project.
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NewsNew aquaculture insurance team
Insurance broker Gallagher has launched a new aquaculture team, which has joined the business from Willis Towers Watson.
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NewsSNG gears up for tuna season
Increasing the volume of mesh in the side wing panels of its trawls has paid off for Swan Net Gundry’s customers, and the response to these trawl designs for herring, mackerel and horse mackerel fisheries has been highly positive.
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News2020 fishmeal and oil production prediction
IFFO’s market research director Enrico Bachis predicts that global marine ingredients supply should be just short of 5 million tonnes of fishmeal and around 1 million tonnes of fish oil.
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NewsVónin hardware for high-energy sites
With high-energy aquaculture sites to oversee in Scotland’s Western Isles, Mowi Regional Seawater Manager Kris Laird wanted to see for himself how Faroese Fish Farmers operate in highly exposed environments that regularly withstand exceptional hostile conditions.
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NewsGlobal growth rate of aquaculture declines
The global annual growth rate of aquaculture has greatly declined over the last years and a new report outlines the reasons why.
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NewsUK firm wants more NE Atlantic quota
The UK trawler operator holding the country’s remaining whitefish quotas in Nordic waters has called on the UK government to negotiate more access to these waters now that the UK is an independent coastal state following its exit from the EU and CFP, reports Tim Oliver.
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NewsSkipsteknisk secures new design contract
Faroese fishing company Havborg has placed a design contract with Norwegian naval architect Skipsteknisk for a new factory trawler to be built at Tersan. The designer and yard have a strong relationship and have together delivered many new sophisticated factory vessels.
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NewsManagement key to sustainability, says FAO
The latest report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on fishing shows that the majority of landings come from biologically sustainable stocks and credits robust fisheries management for the successes.
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NewsFisheries Fund donates masks to DEFF
A donation of masks has been given to the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries’ (DEFF) Small-Scale Fisheries Directorate by the South African Fisheries Development Fund to protect small-scale and interim relief fishers in the Western and Northern Cape from the COVID-19 pandemic.
