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  • Lords amend UK government’s Fisheries Bill
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    Lords amend UK government’s Fisheries Bill

    2020-06-24T10:46:00Z

    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.

  • Canada re-opens Opportunities Fund
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    Canada re-opens Opportunities Fund

    2020-06-24T10:38:00Z

    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.

  • The FFA discussed job safety and security at its 114th Forum Fisheries Committee meeting Photo: FFA
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    Safety and security on FFA’s agenda

    2020-06-24T10:12:00Z

    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).

  • Seafood is not connected to the Covid-19 pandemic, say experts Photo: Norwegian Seafood Council
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    Covid-19: Seafood is safe

    2020-06-24T09:29:00Z

    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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    Imported whiteleg shrimp quarantine success

    2020-06-23T13:13:00Z

    India''s Aquatic Quarantine Facility (AQF) has successfully quarantined 3,600 whiteleg shrimp broodstock imported from Hawaii by six shrimp hatchery operators in India.

  • Brixham’s brand-new beamer
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    Brixham’s brand-new beamer

    2020-06-23T11:17:00Z

    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.

  • Aqua Bridge’s hatchery is now producing sea bream and sea bass on a commercial scale Photo: Aqua Bridge
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    Commercial bream and bass in Saudi Arabia

    2020-06-22T10:09:00Z

    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.

  • Consumers value sustainability more than price Photo: OPAGAC
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    Sustainability more important than price

    2020-06-22T10:03:00Z

    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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    Cflow appoints new MD

    2020-06-19T13:44:00Z

    Cflow has appointed Stig Bjørkedal as its new managing director to focus on further industrialisation of the company.

  • BioMar Group CEO, Carlos Diaz Photo: BioMar
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    BioMar achieves FIFO ratio of 1:1

    2020-06-18T08:39:00Z

    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.

  • The Sperre SUB-Fighter 15K ROV Photo: AKVA Group
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    Second Sperre ROV for Nordlaks

    2020-06-17T11:53:00Z

    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.

  • Insurance broker Gallagher has launched a new aquaculture team Photo: Gallagher
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    New aquaculture insurance team

    2020-06-17T11:03:00Z

    Insurance broker Gallagher has launched a new aquaculture team, which has joined the business from Willis Towers Watson.

  • SNG gears up for tuna season
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    SNG gears up for tuna season

    2020-06-17T10:09:00Z

    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.

  • 2020 fishmeal and oil production prediction
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    2020 fishmeal and oil production prediction

    2020-06-17T10:06:00Z

    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.

  • Vónin hardware for high-energy sites
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    Vónin hardware for high-energy sites

    2020-06-17T10:00:00Z

    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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    Global growth rate of aquaculture declines

    2020-06-16T15:51:00Z

    The global annual growth rate of aquaculture has greatly declined over the last years and a new report outlines the reasons why.

  • UK firm wants more NE Atlantic quota
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    UK firm wants more NE Atlantic quota

    2020-06-15T12:05:00Z

    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.

  • Skipsteknisk secures new design contract
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    Skipsteknisk secures new design contract

    2020-06-15T12:01:00Z

    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.

  • The FAO has released its biannual report on sustainable fishing Photo: FAO
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    Management key to sustainability, says FAO

    2020-06-15T10:40:00Z

    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.

  • (l-r) Abongile Ngqongwa, acting director, Small-Scale Fisheries; Sue Middleton, acting deputy director general, Fisheries Branch and Dr Mark Botha, CEO, Fisheries Development Fund Photo: Fisheries Development Fund
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    Fisheries Fund donates masks to DEFF

    2020-06-15T10:36:00Z

    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.