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NewsMaersk equipment aids container loading
Tri Marine Group, Maersk Line and Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) have announced the addition of two Maersk Line Star Loaders at SIPA’s wharf in Noro, Solomon Islands to maximise efficiency in new reefer container loading operations for tuna.
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NewsKuldeteknisk and FrioNordica to merge
Perfect Temperature Group AS (PTG) has entered into an agreement to acquire Norway’s FrioNordica company and is combining ownership of this company and Kuldeteknisk in a new group.
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NewsSustainable progress for MSC ‘Leaders’ group
12 companies in the ‘Leaders for a Living Ocean’ group have reported on their sustainability work as they work towards the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) ‘20 by 2020’ goal.
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NewsIllegal activity on Taiwanese vessel highlighted
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has documented gross human rights violations and serious illegal fishing offences aboard the Taiwanese ‘Fuh Sheng 11’ following a ‘botched investigation’ by Taiwan into ILO violations.
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NewsHuge increase in sustainable fish oil supply
The size of the global omega 3 supplement industry has grown enormously in recent years with an increase of over 400% in companies compliant with the Friend of the Sea standard within the last three years.
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NewsSmoltification feed patent near completion
The European Patent Organisation (EPO) has issued an ‘Intention to Grant’ relating to the smoltification feed known as SuperSmolt FeedOnly, developed by Europharma.
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NewsRussia seeks to boost domestic aquaculture
Over the past decade Russian aquaculture has doubled its output from 105,000 tonnes in 2007 to 219,000 tonnes in 2017, much of the credit for which can be attributed to successful government policies supporting fish farming
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NewsNew 1,274t Orkney salmon farm
Scottish Sea Farms (SSF) has been granted approval for a new GB£3m salmon farm in Orkney waters with consent to grow 1,274t of salmon and jobs for six skilled workers.
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NewsSMS win Malta aquaculture workboat contract
Southampton Marine Services (SMS) has won a contract to build a 24m aquaculture workboat for tuna farm operator Fish and Fish Ltd in Malta.
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NewsHB Grandi to buy Ögurvík
HB Grandi hf has agreed to buy the entire shareholding in fishing company Ögurvík ehf from Brim hf. A correction is expected to be applied to the €95 million purchase price once the results of the company’s financial performance to 31st August 2018 is available.
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NewsSiam Canadian aims for new markets with meat division
Siam Canadian, which has a thirty-year track record as a frozen seafood supplier has now upped its interest in the frozen meat business and officially established a new entity, Siam Canadian – Meat Division, headed by Justyna Popielska and managed from Szczecin.
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NewsTradewind provides credit facility for Peruvian fishmeal producer
Tradewind has announced the closing of a $2.5 million export factoring facility for a producer of fishmeal based in Peru. The aquaculture company sells to buyers in Asia, Europe, South and North America. Tradewind finances the client’s sales on 30 to 60-day terms.
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NewsGael Force Group starts recruitment drive
Gael Force Group’s Fusion Marine aims to expand its workforce with the recruitment of up to 12 positions, with at least six of these jobs newly created as the Scotland-based company prepares for growth.
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NewsSeafood coalition target sustainability
Cermaq and nine other of the world’s largest seafood companies will increase their efforts to strengthen sustainable practices in the seafood industry.
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NewsCould this Cornish beauty spot be a new dawn for UK aquaculture?
It’s 10pm and shellfish entrepreneur Gary Rawle should be relaxing after a day battling the wind, rain and swell, but even after dark, he is still peering through binoculars, watching over his offshore mussel farm at St Austell Bay in Cornwall, a trailblazer for sustainable shellfish farming.
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NewsRenovated research vessel set for action
Renovated marine research vessel ‘Aranda’ has been delivered to the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE ready for use following work carried out by Rauma Marine Constructions Oy at its shipyard in Rauma.
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NewsAFMA project targets Pacific illegal fishers
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and its international partners have wrapped up an operation focusing on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Pacific Ocean on the high seas outside Australian waters.
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NewsVónin pelagic gear scores on mackerel
Greenlandic trawler Markus took delivery of its 1680 pelagic trawl from Vónin last year, ahead of the mackerel fishery, and finished the season as the top catcher, and since then Vónin has supplied the same trawl type to Russian company Dobroflot for fishing mackerel and herring.
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NewsPacific leaders welcome aerial surveillance
Pacific Forum leaders have welcomed the increased air surveillance capacity of the new Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) Aerial Surveillance Program funded by Australia under the Pacific Maritime Security Program, PMSP.
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NewsNew NFD pole and line vessel
National Fisheries Developments (NFD) has added a 37m long 107t pole and line vessel with a Nigata 6MG 25BX engine to its Solomon Islands flag fleet.
