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    Lykilvettvangur

    2016-09-14T10:19:35Z

    Viðskiptavini Hampiðjunnar er að finna á nær öllum helstu fiskveiðisvæðum heims og mikil eftirspurn er eftir vörum fyrirtækisins. Hampiðjan á sér langa og merkilega sögu um framleiðslu úrvals veiðarfæra, allt frá ofurköðlum og nýsköpun á sviði togveiðibúnaðar til þróunar á hágæðaefnum til framleiðslu á fjölbreyttu úrvali veiðarfæra.Hampiðjan hóf snemma ...

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    Íslensk tækniþróun í fararbroddi á heimsvísu

    2016-09-14T10:06:48Z

    Vörumerki Marel er nú orðið að finna því sem næst alls staðar, á vogum og flokkunarkerfum, í uppboðssölum, um borð í fiskiskipum og hjá fiskvinnslufyrirtækjum um heim allan. Marel hefur stækkað umtalsvert með árunum en höfuðstöðvar þess eru í Garðabær. Þar er að finna bæði skrifstofur fyrirtækisins og umfangsmiklar ...

  • Blue Harvest continues to strive into scallops market
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    Scallops business acquisition

    2016-09-13T12:45:00Z

    Blue Harvest Fisheries has acquired High Liner Food’s scallop and processing facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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    EU adopts new conservation measures

    2016-09-13T12:44:00Z

    The European Commission has adopted two regulations that will facilitate two Member States to comply with European environmental legislation to protect natural environments.

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    Mucosal Mapping Method wins award

    2016-09-13T11:31:00Z

    Norway’s Quantidoc AS has been announced as the winner of the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s fourth annual Preferred Freezer Services Global Aquaculture Innovation & Leadership Award.

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    ICES Annual Science Conference 2016 to be held in Latvia

    2016-09-13T10:30:00Z

    The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) will hold its Annual Science Conference (ASC) in the Latvian capital, Riga, for the very first time.

  • Quentin Bates is the new editor of World Fishing & Aquaculture
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    Quentin Bates takes over as WF&A editor

    2016-09-13T10:08:00Z

    Mercator Media Ltd has appointed Quentin Bates as the new editor of World Fishing & Aquaculture.

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    PNA Ministers Meeting on tuna

    2016-09-13T09:35:00Z

    Ministers and officials from eight Pacific islands met in Kiribati in July at the annual PNA Ministers Meeting to address conservation and business management issues for the multi-billion dollar western and central Pacific tuna fishery.

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    Blue Harvest Fisheries acquires seafood processor

    2016-09-13T09:35:00Z

    Blue Harvest Fisheries, LLC has announced the acquisition of Hygrade Ocean Products Inc., a New Bedford, Massachusetts, based processor and distributor of scallops, cod, and other premium fish products.

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    Union gives ‘guarded’ welcome to plans to tackle slavery

    2016-09-13T09:35:00Z

    New UK government plans to tackle substandard working conditions at sea by enforcing the provisions of the Modern Slavery Act came into force on 8 August.

  • The contract has been signed with DESS Aquaculture Shipping, a joint venture company established by Marine Harvest Norway and Deep Sea Supply
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    Kleven signs contract for fish harvesting vessel

    2016-09-13T09:35:00Z

    Kleven has signed a contract to build a fish harvesting vessel for carrying salmon from fish farms to processing plants for a joint venture between Marine Harvest Norway and Deep Sea Supply.

  • Conceptual drawing of the new processing facility by John Hearn Architect
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    Fish plant construction begins

    2016-09-13T09:34:00Z

    Work has begun on the new Quinlan Brothers Processing Facility, following the fire that destroyed the company’s fish plant in Bay de Verde in Newfoundland, Canada, on 11 April.

  • John Burton, chairman of IPNLF, at the FIS launch
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    IPLNF launches FIS for one-by-one tuna

    2016-09-13T09:34:00Z

    The International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) has launched a new Fisheries Information System (FIS) for one-by-one tuna fisheries in the Maldives.

  • Grupo Consorcio is implementing an eco-plan which focuses on reducing the water consumption used in albacore and tuna canning
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    Eco-plan reduces water consumption in fish canning

    2016-09-13T09:34:00Z

    Researchers from the AZTI technology centre have designed and implemented an Eco-Efficient Production Plan for canning company, Grupo Consorcio, which focuses on reducing the water consumption used in albacore and tuna canning.

  • IFFO commissioned scientists to quantify the potential volume of future global raw material supply
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    Increase in raw material from marine ingredient byproducts

    2016-09-13T09:34:00Z

    University of Stirling scientists have used models of current and future fisheries and aquaculture production to provide estimates for the future availability of raw material for marine ingredients.

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    Research into polymer coatings for food processing surfaces

    2016-09-13T09:34:00Z

    Researchers are investigating special new coatings that are more resistant to bacteria and other microbes than the food contact surfaces that are used now.

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    High Liner to sell scallop business

    2016-09-13T09:34:00Z

    High Liner Foods has reached an agreement with Blue Harvest Fisheries to sell its processing facility and scallop business in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA.

  • Fuelling a trawler in Iceland. The drop in fuel prices has been a huge boost to fishing companies
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    Make hay while the sun shines

    2016-09-13T09:34:00Z

    Fishing has emerged from a tough decade into a relatively bright landscape, and in many parts of the world, fish stocks are stronger than they have ever been.

  • A lumpsucker eats more or less whatever it comes across. Credit: Rune Stoltz Bertinussen/Krysspress
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    Nofima breeding lice-eating lumpfish

    2016-09-13T09:34:00Z

    Scientists at Nofima have begun breeding lumpsucker (lumpfish) families which have a special liking for consuming salmon lice.

  • Fishermen’s Wall of Remembrance at the Plymouth Barbican
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    Minimal safety training increases risk to fishermen

    2016-09-13T09:34:00Z

    UK authority Seafish has expressed grave concerns that not enough fully trained new blood is entering an industry with a fatality at work record 30 times greater than any other UK occupation, reports Bryan Gibson.