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  • Vard is designing and building a new stern trawler for Luntos Photo: Vard
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    Vard supplies new trawler to Luntos

    2019-09-23T11:48:00Z

    Specialist ship designer, Vard, has announced that it has signed an agreement to provide a new stern trawler to Russian deepwater fishing company Luntos.

  • No MSC certification for mackerel
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    No MSC certification for mackerel

    2019-09-23T10:16:00Z

    MSC certificates for the North East Atlantic (NEA) mackerel fishery will not be reinstated despite the latest scientific advice indicating that the stock is in a healthy condition. The MSC decision was determined by several teams of independent auditors and reflects the lack of comprehensive international agreement on quotas, threatening ...

  • Aqua Spa joins DESS fleet
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    Aqua Spa joins DESS fleet

    2019-09-23T09:20:00Z

    The latest in a series of live fish carriers has been delivered by the Sefine Shipyard in Turkey to Norwegian company DESS Aquaculture Shipping.

  • SSF production director John Rea to step down
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    SSF production director John Rea to step down

    2019-09-23T09:14:00Z

    Scottish Sea Farms’ long-standing Production Director John Rea is to step down in early 2020 to take his career in a new direction, the company has announced.

  • Cflow fish handling for largest wellboat
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    Cflow fish handling for largest wellboat

    2019-09-20T11:00:00Z

    Norwegian shipowner Frøy Rederi has chosen Cflow Fish Handling AS (Cflow) to deliver a complete fish handling system to what will become the world’s largest wellboat.

  • The Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship Photo: COVE
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    Kongsberg expands Canadian operation

    2019-09-20T09:48:00Z

    Kongsberg Maritime has expanded its Canadian operation by establishing a presence at COVE, the Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

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    Síldarvertíð að hefjast

    2019-09-20T09:36:29Z

    Theódór Þórðarsson, skipstjóri á Venus, sagði þegar hann landaði 600 tonnum af makríl hjá verksmiðju Brims á Vopnafirði að makríllinn væri á hraðferð en engin sérstök mynstur sjáist á ferðum hans.„Þeir virðast ekki hafa ákveðið hvert þeir ætla að fara. Við höfum séð þá taka skyndilega stefnuna til austurs ...

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    Gagnakapall Hampiðjunnar marker tímamót

    2019-09-20T09:34:30Z

    Fyrirtækið hefur ekki haft hátt um þróun DynIce ljósleiðarakapalsins undanfarin ár, heldur einbeitt sér að því að finna lausnir á því erfiða verkefni að hanna hlífðarklæðningu utan um viðkvæman þriggja þráða leiðarann í kaplinum til að verja hann fyrir öflum sem teygja hann og beygja.„Við hlökkum til að sýna ...

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    Eftirspurn eftir nýjum skipum

    2019-09-20T09:31:22Z

    Fyrirtækið hefur árum saman verið reglulegur þátttakandi, allt frá 1999 þegar BP Shipping gegndi lykilhlutverki við smíði hafrannsóknaskipsins Árna Friðrikssonar, sem Asmar skipasmíðastöðin í Chile afhenti Hafrannsóknastofnun Íslands. Allar götur síðan hefur BP Shipping tekið þátt í þróun á stórum hluta íslenska skipaflotans, og mörg nýsmíðaverkefni hafa farið af ...

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    Hampiðjan's fibre-optic breakthrough

    2019-09-20T09:30:06Z

    The company has been quietly developing its DynIce Optical Data cable for some years, focusing on overcoming the challenges of protecting the vulnerable fibre itself from elongation and bending forces in a protective jacket around three fibres within the cable itself."We look forward to showing the DynIce Optical Data ...

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    Herring season ahead

    2019-09-20T09:28:32Z

    Landing 600 tonnes of mackerel to Brim's factory in Vopnafjörður, skipper Theódór Thórðarson of pelagic vessel Venus said that the mackerel are moving fast, but with no clear pattern to their movements."They don't seem to have decided where they want to go. We've seen them shifting quickly eastwards for ...

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    Demand for new fishing capacity

    2019-09-20T09:27:45Z

    The company has been a regular participant over the years, going back to 1999 when BP Shipping was instrumental in building research vessel Árni Friðriksson, which was delivered by Asmar in Chile to Iceland's Marine Research Institute.Since then BP Shipping has been part of the development of much of ...

  • Scottish Sea Farms is urging people to join the Great British Beach Clean Photo: Scottish Sea Farms
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    Join the Great British Beach Clean, urges SSF

    2019-09-19T15:52:00Z

    Residents and local groups are being urged to join Scottish Sea Farms for a series of organised beach cleans, part of the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) Great British Beach Clean which takes place 20 - 23 September 2019.

  • RFC signs finance agreement with Sberbank
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    RFC signs finance agreement with Sberbank

    2019-09-19T13:10:00Z

    An agreement on the financing of the Russian Pollock processing plant has been signed Russian Fishery Company (RFC) CEO Fedor Kirsanov and Marina Perebeynus, Deputy Chairman of the Far Eastern Bank of Sberbank.

  • Budding fishmongers will have a chance to practise their skills at this year's Seafood Week Photo: Worship Company of Fishmongers
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    Practise your skills with a master fishmonger

    2019-09-19T13:05:00Z

    Seafood lovers around the UK will have the opportunity to get behind the fish counter and practise their filleting skills with a certified Master Fishmonger during this year’s Seafood Week on 4–11 October

  • Fishing plastic from the Adriatic Sea
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    Fishing plastic from the Adriatic Sea

    2019-09-19T13:03:00Z

    In May and June this year around forty fishing boats from San Benedetto del Tronto, on Italy''s Adriatic coast, collected and brought ashore all the plastic recovered during fishing. A month after the start of the activity, FPT Industrial and the Fishing for Plastic initiative partners took stock at the ...

  • Brussels becomes Barcelona
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    Brussels becomes Barcelona

    2019-09-19T12:55:00Z

    Organisers of the annual Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global events have announced that next year’s exhibition in Brussels will be the last one before the event moves to a new home in Barcelona in 2021.

  • Clean Seas Seafood has ambitious plans, hoping to expand sales volumes of its kingfish by 50% Photo: Clean Seas Seafood
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    Clean Seas has ambitious plans for kingfish

    2019-09-19T12:54:00Z

    Australian kingfish producer, Clean Seas Seafood, has announced plans to expand sales volumes by 50% to 4000 tonnes a year by 2022 and 6000 tonnes by 2025.

  • Tersan Argos Helena
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    New longliner for Ervik Havfiske

    2019-09-17T09:56:00Z

    Marin Teknikk will design and engineer a longliner factory fishing vessel to be built by Tersan Shipyard for Ervik Havfiske to carry out fishery operations in the Atlantic.

  • At a recent high-level event, Europêche gave its support to WTO plans to combat IUU fishing through the removal of damaging subsidies Photo: Europêche
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    Europêche supports WTO IUU stance

    2019-09-16T10:50:00Z

    Europêche has given full support to an ambitious World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement which aims to abolish fishery subsidies which the trade body says are contributing to overcapacity and overfishing.