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  • Carsoe’s workshop in Aalborg, Denmark Photo: Carsoe
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    Breakthrough year for Carsoe

    2017-05-16T16:03:00Z

    Carsoe has won six out of seven new building contracts for processing equipment for shrimp trawlers during the last year with its overall market share in equipment supply for the sector rapidly on the increase.

  • Aqua Aquaria India
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    Indoor environments best for healthy shrimp

    2017-05-16T11:27:00Z

    Disease and market prices are the two main problems in shrimp farming, experts have declared at the Aqua Aquaria India (AAI) 2017 show.

  • The measures aim to facilitate what ISSF calls continuous improvement across global tuna fisheries
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    ISSF extends tuna conservation measures

    2017-05-15T12:55:00Z

    The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has adopted three new and two amended conservation measures to facilitate what it calls continuous improvement across global tuna fisheries.

  • Scottish Fishermen’s Federation
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    Coastal MP candidates urged to support CFP exit

    2017-05-15T11:03:00Z

    General election candidates in coastal communities are being asked to support a pledge to exit the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) ahead of Brexit.

  • Samherji Dalvík
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    Samherji puts its investment into northern Iceland

    2017-05-15T09:47:00Z

    Icelandic fishing company Samherji has signed an agreement with local authorities in Dalvík in the north of Iceland for a 23,000 square metre plot of land where the company plans to erect its new processing factory.

  • Krill
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    Optimar to build Aker BioMarine krill factory

    2017-05-12T13:07:00Z

    Optimar will supply a complete krill factory for Aker BioMarine''s new krill fishing vessel as part of a contract worth approximately NOK300m.

  • IPLF
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    Partnership advances traceability in Indonesian tuna fisheries

    2017-05-12T09:07:00Z

    USAID Oceans is partnering with IPNLF to introduce a catch documentation and traceability system that will support the sustainable management of artisanal coastal fisheries and deter illegal fishing.

  • AMFA
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    Guilty plea in Darwin court

    2017-05-12T09:03:00Z

    Fifteen Vietnamese fishermen pleaded guilty to charges this week in an Australian court. The master and fourteen crewmen were convicted of illegal fishing and environmental protection offences for fishing in a Commonwealth Marine Reserve.

  • Belgium and Germany will work to improve data management
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    Belgian and German fisheries control

    2017-05-11T15:54:00Z

    The European Commission has adopted two action plans setting out how Belgium and Germany can overcome identified shortcomings in their fisheries control systems.

  • feeding software
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    AKVAconnect boosts integrated feeding

    2017-05-11T12:41:00Z

    An integrated feeding software solution released late last year has seen a strong market response according to its Norwegian manufacturers.

  • Seabird safe tech
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    Investing in seabird safe tech

    2017-05-11T09:19:00Z

    With Australia’s 2017-18 Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) season having just started, the South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association (SETFIA) and the Great Australian Bight Industry Association (GABIA) are pleased to see the start of new seabird mitigation arrangements.

  • Cleaner Fish Summit
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    First Cleaner Fish Summit takes place

    2017-05-11T09:17:00Z

    The first ever International Cleaner Fish Summit saw attendees focus on efficient use of biological control against sea lice and the benefits that cleaner fish will bring to the salmon farming industry.

  • All seven fishing vessels in the Co-op have signed up to the FFL programme
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    Foyle fishermen sign up to litter intiative

    2017-05-10T13:00:00Z

    Fishermen from Foyle Fishermen’s Co-op based in Co. Donegal, Ireland, have become members of the BIM Fishing For Litter (FFL) programme.

  • Vordur
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    Committee to examine resource levy options

    2017-05-10T09:30:00Z

    Iceland’s Ministry of Fisheries has appointed a cross-party committee to examine new approaches to levies on marine resources.

  • Therney
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    Redfish season opens today

    2017-05-10T06:30:00Z

    According to the regulations, Icelandic vessels are allowed to start fishing for Irminger Sea redfish from today, but so far there are no Icelandic trawlers out by the 200-mile limit on the Reykjanes Ridge. Thirteen foreign trawlers are fishing just outside the EEZ limits and Russian vessels have been fishing ...

  • Seafood Expo
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    IRF promotes GSSI at Seafood Expo

    2017-05-09T14:10:00Z

    Iceland Responsible Fisheries Foundation (IRF) has reported it saw a rise in demand for information about the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI) during the Seafood Expo Global in Brussels last month.

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    Denmark’s fishing industry focus

    2017-05-09T10:00:00Z

    Every two years the Danfish Exhibition brings together global fishing industry representatives to do business in Aalborg, Denmark.

  • Tórshavn
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    Changes to Faroese fisheries management

    2017-05-09T09:08:00Z

    All three parties forming the Faroese government have reached agreement on a new Parliamentary fisheries management bill, with the new regime slated to begin on the first of January of next year.

  • BareFLEET can issue daily or weekly vessel and fleet reports
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    Reygar fleet monitoring system

    2017-05-08T16:11:00Z

    Marine innovation company, Reygar, has launched BareFLEET, a new fleet monitoring system that offers an unparalleled level of insight into all aspects of fleet performance and health.

  • EU fishing quotas
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    Europêche rejects EU lobbying claims

    2017-05-08T11:09:00Z

    Europeche has dismissed accusations that fishing industry representatives influenced the EU Council’s (EC) negotiations on total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas and that the Fisheries Ministers subsequently set the level of TACs above that advised by scientists.