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NewsOman blocks suspect fishing vessels
Oman has been praised by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) for closing its ports to vessels suspected of engaging in Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing in Somalia.
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News‘Satisfactory’ financial results for Sanford
New Zealand’s largest commercial fishing and aquaculture company, Sanford Ltd, has recorded an 18.1% rise in its EBITDA in its interim report, but an 18.3% reduction in profits for the six months ending 31 March 2015.
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NewsBluefin tuna fishing season opens
The main bluefin tuna fishing season opened on 26 May, and purse seiners will be able to fish for bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean and the Eastern Atlantic until 24 June.
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Canada invests in facilities, research and protection
The Canadian government is investing over CAD57m in science facilities, marine protection and Pacific salmon research on the Pacific Coast.
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New surveillance vessel for Nova Scotia
The Conservation and Protection Program in Nova Scotia has a new surveillance vessel - the first of 12 new vessels to be delivered to Fisheries and Oceans Canada for surveillance purposes.
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Greenpeace calls out Chinese IUU fishing
Greenpeace is calling for China’s fishing companies to be ‘reined in’ after research revealed at least 74 fishing vessels owned and operated by four Chinese Distant Water Fishing (DWF) companies have been exposed for fishing illegally in prohibited fishing grounds in West Africa.
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NewsBetter cod handling for profit
Major injuries from cod catches is costing the fishing industry, but profits could increase by hundreds of millions every year if cod was handled better, says Nofima scientists.
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NewsNRGene maps rainbow trout genome
Israel’s genomic big data company, NRGene, has mapped the rainbow trout genome in cooperation with scientists from the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Illinois.
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NewsOld data digitised for modern scientists
NOAA Fisheries'' Alaska Fisheries Science Center has been successful in translating old survey data into a form that could be useful to modern scientists.
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First two-star BAP mussels
Chile’s Pesquera Apiao S.A. has become the world’s first group to achieve two-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) status for mussels.
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NewsThe implications of climate change on aquaculture
A new WorldFish paper says that scientists need to better understand the impacts of climate change on aquaculture if we are to meet future seafood demand.
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Further sea bass measures proposed
The European Commission has announced the third package of measures to halt the decline of sea bass in the Celtic Sea, Irish Sea, Channel and North Sea.
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A strong start for SSC
The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has had a strong start to the year, recording revenues in Q1 of £27.3m and growing in international markets.
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NewsFishing apprenticeships in Scotland
An extra 500 Modern Apprenticeship places are being funded over the next year in Scotland, in the first step to expand the county’s current apprentice programme from 25,000 to 30,000 by 2020.
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NewsBig plans for HB Grandi vessels
HB Grandi’s CEO, Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson, has said that the sale of ‘Faxi RE’ and ‘Ingunn AK’, along with 0.67% of the capelin quota and trawl gear, is good for both the seller and the buyer, Vinnslustödin.
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M&J Seafood commits to BAP
Fresh Direct Group’s M&J Seafood has announced that it is adding 18 new four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP)-certified prawn items to its product range.
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NewsSenator pushes for ‘Alaskan pollock’ name change
Senator for Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, is urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change the legal market name of Alaska-caught pollock simply to ‘pollock’.
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NewsSeafish campaigns for fishermen’s safety
Seafish is calling on the UK’s fishermen to think about their safety after research revealed 46% of commercial fishermen consider their job to be dangerous but 34% say they rarely or never wear a Personal Flotation Device (PFD).
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NewsScottish cod stock recovery threatened by seals
Research led at the University of Strathclyde suggests that predatory seals are constraining the recovery of cod stocks in Scottish West coast waters.
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NewsRecord Scottish fish landings welcomed
Banff & Buchan MP Eilidh Whiteford and North East MSP Christian Allard have welcomed the news of record fish landings in Scotland.
