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    Optimal feed reduces mortality

    2016-01-14T17:08:00Z

    Pancreas Disease (PD) costs the Norwegian fish farming industry more than one billion NOK a year (approximately US$113m).

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    Aquaculture plan to expand soybean meal market

    2016-01-14T15:03:00Z

    The Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) has welcomed the federal rule published by NOAA implementing a marine aquaculture fishery management plan for the Gulf of Mexico, and says that it will grow the market for soybean meal.

  • Brothers George and Dino Papadamou “haven’t looked back” since taking over their family’s fish and chip shop business
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    Seafood industry provides new career opportunities

    2016-01-14T12:45:00Z

    The World is Your Oyster campaign is encouraging individuals who might be seeking a new challenge in 2016, to consider switching to a career in the seafood industry.

  • North Korea’s coastline is 2,100km long. Credit: Uri Tours/CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    'North Korean' fishermen die in a desperate fishery

    2016-01-14T12:01:00Z

    North Korea has made the global press headlines with its claim of detonating a hydrogen bomb, but Menakhem Ben-Yami reports on the fishing boats and bodies that have recently washed ashore in Japan, which appear to be North Korean.

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    Moroccan cannery achieves Friend of the Sea certification

    2016-01-14T10:01:00Z

    Sardines and mackerel from Moroccan fish cannery, Damsa, have obtained Friend of the Sea certification.

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    Tracing escaped salmon in Nova Scotia

    2016-01-14T09:39:00Z

    An advisory committee of industry and stakeholder representatives will provide advice on a practical way to trace the origin of escaped salmon, as part of the new containment management rules for finfish farms in Nova Scotia.

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    Calysta to open first R&D and market introduction facility in UK

    2016-01-13T14:42:00Z

    Calysta will develop the production process for FeedKind protein at its Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) in Teesside, UK.

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    €18m funding for Ireland’s fishery harbours

    2016-01-13T11:53:00Z

    An €18m Capital Investment Package for the development of Ireland’s fishery harbour network in 2016 has been announced by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney.

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    New IPNLF members

    2016-01-13T10:40:00Z

    The International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF) has started the New Year with growth in the form of new network members.

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    ICES opens call for papers

    2016-01-13T10:21:00Z

    The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has opened the call for papers for its Annual Science Conference (ASC) 2016.

  • Buus is now able to offer its customers a combined slurry and flake ice maker
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    Combined slurry and flake ice maker

    2016-01-13T09:46:00Z

    Traditionally Buus Refrigeration has always made flake ice machines, but now the company is able to offer its customers a combined slurry and flake ice maker.

  • Divers around the open-ocean aquaculture cage at the Cape Eleuthera Institute. Credit: Kelly Martin
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    NOAA expands US aquaculture opportunities

    2016-01-12T15:08:00Z

    NOAA has filed a final rule implementing the nation’s first comprehensive regulatory program for aquaculture in federal waters.

  • More than 200 farms are now ASC certified
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    ASC celebrates 200 certified farms

    2016-01-12T13:20:00Z

    Three bivalve farms belonging to Ria Austral South America in the Queilen, Pichicolu and Hudson Channel areas of Chile, have achieved Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification - taking the current number of ASC certified farms past the 200 mark.

  • Most of the world’s mussel stocks are in decline and some species face extinction
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    First study on freshwater mussel stocks in 26 European countries

    2016-01-12T12:50:00Z

    Scientists from 26 European countries have compiled the first comprehensive survey on the status quo of freshwater mussel species in Europe.

  • Ammonia compact plate freezer
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    Tucal freezers celebrate first year

    2016-01-12T12:36:00Z

    Tucal’s new compact plate freezers with ammonia flooded system will soon be successfully completing their first year of operation.

  • A five-year national fisheries plan will be launched in the Philippines in February. Credit: Judgefloro/CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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    Philippines to launch 5-year fisheries plan

    2016-01-12T11:39:00Z

    The Philippine Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) and the Philippine fisheries sector are welcoming the New Year with a five-year national fisheries plan.

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    New ‘Non-entangling FADs’ standard launched

    2016-01-12T10:14:00Z

    Friend of the Sea has recently introduced new criteria for the certification of tuna from sustainable fisheries, requiring the use of non-entangling Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs).

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    SWFPA to fund RFS certification

    2016-01-12T09:54:00Z

    The Scottish White Fish Producers’ Association (SWFPA) - the largest fishing association in Scotland, with approximately 200 members - has committed to supporting all of its members to apply for Responsible Fishing Scheme (RFS) certification.

  • Glamox LED floodlights save energy on Carica fishing vessel
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    Croatian fishing company installs energy-saving LED floodlights

    2016-01-11T10:21:00Z

    Jadran Tuna, a Croatian fishing company, has installed Glamox energy-saving LED floodlights on its Carica fishing vessel.

  • A Malaysian-led research group has successfully sequenced the genome of the Asian arowana
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    First Malaysian fish genome sequenced

    2016-01-08T11:44:00Z

    A research group from Monash University Malaysia has sequences the genome of a Malaysian fish, the Asian arowana.