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    Sea Pact opens 2016 Request for Grant Proposals

    2016-08-16T09:59:00Z

    Sea Pact has announced that its fifth Request for Grant Proposals (RFP) is now open.

  • Operation Nasse uncovered five serious and 13 minor violations of the WCPFC CMMs Photo: Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection
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    Combatting illegal fishing

    2016-08-15T11:24:00Z

    Australia has engaged with international partners to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing under Operation Nasse, a multilateral maritime surveillance operation involving France, New Zealand and the USA.

  • Geneticist Alan Tinch joins Benchmark
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    Geneticist Alan Tinch joins Benchmark

    2016-08-12T09:32:00Z

    Dr Alan Tinch has joined Benchmark’s breeding and genetics business as its new technical services director.

  • Benchmark is a leading provider of technical genetic services for all major farmed species Photo: Benchmark Holdings plc
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    Benchmark acquires South American shrimp breeding programme

    2016-08-11T17:41:00Z

    Benchmark Holdings plc has expanded its breeding and genetics offering through the acquisition of a South American shrimp breeding programme.

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    Greenland halibut to undergo MSC assessment

    2016-08-11T16:29:00Z

    An international group of scientists will arrive in Greenland this week to examine the sustainability of Greenland’s halibut fishery as part of the MSC certification process.

  • Organised by Seafish, the National Fish & Chip Awards will take place on 26 January 2017 in London
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    Top 10 young fish friers announced

    2016-08-11T15:06:00Z

    The 10 semi-finalists for the ‘best young fish frier’ award at the 2017 National Fish & Chip Awards have been announced.

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    NFI Crab Council announces first European member

    2016-08-11T11:19:00Z

    Netherlands-based Fisherman’s Choice has become the newest member of the National Fisheries Institute’s Crab Council.

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    First British certified sustainable plaice

    2016-08-11T10:29:00Z

    Direct Seafoods is set to be the first supplier to offer British certified sustainable plaice.

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    Three Western Australian fisheries enter assessment

    2016-08-11T09:58:00Z

    Three of Western Australia’s most commercially valuable finfish fisheries have entered Marine Stewardship Council full assessment - the Western Australia Kimberley and Pilbara demersal scalefish trap fisheries and the Gascoyne demersal line fishery.

  • 'Debra Marie'
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    ‘Debra Maria’ powered by JCB

    2016-08-10T12:39:00Z

    A new catamaran for UK fisherman Robert Mole is powered by twin Mermaid JCB engines.

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    Bakkafrost not associated with whaling

    2016-08-10T11:26:00Z

    Bakkafrost has issued a statement confirming that none of the company’s fish farming activates are associated with whaling, and that there is no whale meat in its feed.

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    Sites considered for oyster aquaculture in Mississippi

    2016-08-10T11:08:00Z

    The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is considering multiple sites for off-bottom oyster aquaculture.

  • PNA is confident it can retain its MSC certification for sustainably caught free school skipjack and yellowfin tuna Photo: Taro Taylor /CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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    MSC recertification for PNA's tuna fishery

    2016-08-10T10:03:00Z

    The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) tuna purse seine skipjack and yellowfin fishery is to undergo reassessment to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Fisheries Standard.

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    Still work to do to protect the deep sea

    2016-08-09T16:46:00Z

    The United Nationals General Assembly (UNGA) recently took part in a workshop to review the implementation of a set of landmark resolutions adopted by the General Assembly.

  • RPC Sæplast is introducing a new 750 litre container to its PE range
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    New size PE container

    2016-08-09T15:25:00Z

    RPC Sæplast is introducing a third size into one of its top-selling PE reusable plastic container ranges for food processing.

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    FIP Managers Meeting hosted by NFI Crab Council

    2016-08-09T13:57:00Z

    FIP leaders from China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam came together recently in Bangkok, Thailand, for the FIP Managers Meeting, a blue swimming crab sustainability symposium.

  • Thailand wants to become world leader in shrimp farming Photo: Philip Chou/SeaWeb/Marine Photobank
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    Nine Thai shrimp farms enroll in iBAP

    2016-08-09T13:48:00Z

    Nine shrimp farms in southern Thailand’s Surat Thani province have become the latest aquaculture facilities to enrol in the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) iBAP programme.

  • Deep-sea coral (Madrepora oculata) and crinoids (Leptometra phalangium). Credit: Oceana © LIFE BaHAR for N2K
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    Marine research in Malta concludes

    2016-08-09T10:09:00Z

    Oceana has concluded its at-sea research in Malta to explore deep-sea areas, underwater caves and sandbanks within the LIFE BaHAR for N2K project.

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    Mackerel season in full swing

    2016-08-09T08:36:33Z

    The mackerel season takes place at the height of summer, before the fleet switches its attention to herring in the early autumn. At present factories in the Westmann Islands, Vopnafjörður and several east coast ports are seeing regular landings of mackerel for processing, and the shore-based processing industry has ...

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    Industry support for IceFish

    2016-08-09T08:36:27Z

    Organisations that have already confirmed their support for the 2017 IceFish exhibition include those who have provided invaluable support in previous years, including the Ministry of Industry and Innovation and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, both of which are directly concerned with Iceland's fisheries.Recent re-confirmations include the National Association ...