Latest News – Page 283
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NewsSNG: Trawling for success
The Killybegs-based fishing gear designer and manufacturer Swan Net-Gundry Ltd continues to live up to its reputation, designing and manufacturing a full range of pelagic gear. With its constant investment in R&D and employing the latest technology into their trawls, the company continues to be one of the leading trawl ...
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NewsAlessandro Lovatelli: highlighting the future of aquaculture
This year''s Offshore Mariculture Conference Chairman was Alessandro Lovatelli, FAO Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Officer based at Santiago in Chile. He started his aquaculture career in Europe''s private sector when working on the artificial production of commercially valuable bivalve species and on-growing applications. Today he is based in the FAO ...
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NewsNew DKK90m factory line will enable BioMar to deliver 150,000t of feed a year
BioMar Group will invest in a new DKK90m highly specialised line dedicated to fry and RAS feed production to enable its Denmark-based factory to deliver 150,000t of feed per year.
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NewsDanish design, Irish build
Mooney Boats in Killybegs have delivered a new Vestværft-desiged multi-rig prawn (langoustine) trawler to Niall and Seamus Connolly’s Clogerhead-based Supreme Fishing Company, and the new Stella Nova is a sister vessel to the Patrick C which was delivered three years ago, reports Dave Moor
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NewsPresenting the Gear-Eye View
A revolution has taken place in the last few years in terms of the volume of data that can be transmitted from gear-mounted sensors back to the catching vessel, although there are still significant natural limitations to this and companies developing marine electronics are competing for bandwidth, according to Axel ...
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NewsOMC Asia: A highly successful event
The Offshore Mariculture Conference brought together attendees from a host of countries and aquaculture fields, and the conference made it clear that the future of aquaculture lies offshore.
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NewsOMC Asia: Biofouling – keeping it clean
Innovasea Systems'' Tyler Sclodnick opened Session 5 at OMC Asia and said that working with ocean systems is all about energy – currents, winds and waves. This, he stated, makes the theme of his talk, biofouling, all the more significant because forces inflicted on a pen are amplified when ...
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NewsOMC Asia: the shift offshore
Opening the second day of the Offshore Mariculture Conference 2018 by summarizing the first day, conference ?chairman Alessandro Lovatelli noted the large moves underway from small cages to bigger ones, and efforts to establish farms further offshore.
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NewsBrunvoll equipment for world’s first combined auto-line, potting and trawling vessel
Brunvoll has signed a contract with Baatbygg to provide a propulsion, manoeuvring and control system for the world’s first combined trawling, auto-line and potting fishing vessel.
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NewsNew tech lands premium fish in North America
The world’s largest full-cycle breeder of yellowtail kingfish has launched a plan to put its premium fish on the plates of top North American restaurants.
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NewsChannel fleet chooses Polar doors
Icelandic trawl door specialist Polar Fishing Gear has a growing presence on the UK market that began in Scotland and has since grown to include the Channel coast as well.
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NewsOMC Asia: successful zoning at sea
Although offshore aquaculture seems promising for Singapore and the rest of SE Asia, zoning, licensing and security aspects for planning and management of aquaculture are key to successfully farming fish at sea. The conference’s second session kicked off with a talk on zoning and how this could be applied to ...
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NewsOMC Asia: tackling the shift to offshore
Moving from inefficient nearshore production approaches to higher energy offshore industrial methods can be a success, according to the first session of this year''s Offshore Mariculture Conference. Erik Vis, Director of Farming Operations at cobia farm Ocean Blue began the session by introducing his company''s three-pillar approach to sustainability when ...
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NewsOMC Asia keynote; producing more with fewer resources
The Official Mariculture Conference 2018 began this morning with Conference Chairman Alessandro Lovatelli, Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Officer at the FAO beginning his introduction. Also on the podium were Lukas Manomaitis, Conference Chairman and USSEC Aquaculture Program Technical Contractor and Southeast Asian Technical Director at the US Soybean Export Council, ...
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NewsResearch shows New Zealanders value seafood sustainability
New research undertaken as part of New Zealand’s first Sustainable Seafood Day shows New Zealanders rate ocean pollution such as plastics as the highest perceived threat to ocean health, followed by overfishing and illegal fishing.
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NewsInterview: Dr. Guillaume Drillet, President, World Aquaculture Society Asia Pacific Chapter
A day before the Offshore Mariculture Conference kicks off in Singapore, World Fishing & Aquaculture sat down with Dr. Guillaume Drillet, Immediate Past- President of the World Aquaculture Society''s Asia Pacific Chapter, to discuss Singapore''s aquaculture industry and hear his expectations for this week''s conference.
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NewsVónin and Crosby join forces on cage hardware range
Vónin was involved early in the aquaculture business, drawing on its long background in many types of fishing gears, as fish farming grew rapidly in the Faroese fjords, and it wasn’t long before Vónin’s expertise was in demand across the rest of the Nordic region and in the UK.
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NewsNaust Marine sets up in Spain
According to the company’s sales and marketing director Helgi Kristjánsson, until they parted company a few years ago, Naust Marine had a long co-operation with a Spanish company sub-contracted to produce the deck hardware while Naust Marine in Iceland supplied the control and electrical systems.
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NewsHake longline fleet achieves certification
Spanish consumers can now enjoy more Friend of the Sea certified hake following the conclusion of the audit of the whole Puerto de Celeiro fleet of 22 longline vessels that supplies approximately 30% of the hake consumed in Spain.
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NewsMorgère opens vessel repair facilities in Brittany
French trawl door manufacturer Morgère has expanded its service portfolio for the fishing fleet by opening two new repair and maintenance facilities at St Brieuc and Perros-Guirec in Brittany.
