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    Action plan adopted for Dutch fisheries control system

    2016-03-08T10:22:00Z

    An action plan has been adopted by the European Commission to boost fisheries control in the Netherlands.

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    GAA and IDH further collaboration

    2016-03-08T09:48:00Z

    The Global Aquaculture Alliance and IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative, are furthering their collaborative relationship.

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    £18m EFF funding for Fraserburgh

    2016-03-07T12:04:00Z

    The European Fisheries Fund (EFF) has funded 142 projects in Fraserburgh between 2008 and 2015.

  • Members of the IGAD and development partners approved a fisheries and aquaculture strategy
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    IGAD approves fisheries strategy

    2016-03-07T10:25:00Z

    The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a trade-bloc of eight African nations focused on development and environmental control, has approved a regional fisheries and aquaculture strategy to harness, review and develop practices in the IGAD region.

  • MSC certified fisheries aim to minimise environmental impact
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    MSC fisheries minimise impacts on the Arctic

    2016-03-04T11:26:00Z

    The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has released clarification of its requirements which ensure that MSC certified fisheries maintain the productivity, function and diversity of sensitive ecosystems.

  • ABI develops and manufactures IP69K stainless steel electric motors and gear motors for the food industry
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    Stainless motors for the industry

    2016-03-03T16:56:00Z

    ABI bv, located in Haarlem, Holland, has been developing and manufacturing IP69K stainless steel electric motors and gear motors for the food industry since 2004.

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    Girteka orders 1,000 new trucks to strengthen fleet

    2016-03-03T15:51:00Z

    Lithuanian logistics company Girteka Logistics has ordered 1,000 state-of-the-art tractor units with Euro VI engines from Mercedes-Benz – the largest purchase from Eastern Europe for Mercedes-Benz Trucks in its history.

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    Marine Harvest loses fish to algal bloom

    2016-03-03T14:03:00Z

    Marine Harvest has experienced a severe algae bloom in its Chilean operations in Region X.

  • Fish stocks are stable in some places, increasing in others and in some areas they are declining
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    Fishing down marine food webs?

    2016-03-03T13:41:00Z

    Menakhem Ben-Yami shares his opinion on Pauly and Zeller’s recent paper on fish catches.

  • Production is up at Vietnam's fisheries
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    Rise in Vietnamese fisheries’ production

    2016-03-03T12:32:00Z

    Vietnam’s fisheries are expected to have produced 827,000MT in the first two months of 2016, representing a 3.1% increase on the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

  • First Latin American company offers four-star BAP tilapia
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    First Latin American company offers four-star BAP tilapia

    2016-03-03T12:11:00Z

    The Global Aquaculture Alliance has announced that Paraiso Springs Aquaculture Guatemala has become qualified to offer four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) tilapia.

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    $20,000 prize for bycatch reduction solutions

    2016-03-03T11:43:00Z

    The NPF Industry Pty Ltd (NPFI) is offering $20,000 in prize money for skippers, owners or crew who can develop strategies to help reduce bycatch in the Commonwealth Northern Prawn Fishery by 30% within three years.

  • The Stalam RF machine
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    Rapid in line defrosting of fish and seafood

    2016-03-03T11:06:00Z

    Traditional defrosting methods introduce a number of difficulties directly related to the heat transfer mechanisms, says Stalam, a developer, designer and manufacturer of radio frequency (RF) equipment.

  • NOCK will exhibit two of is fish skinning machines at SPG
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    Fish skinning technology from NOCK

    2016-03-03T10:01:00Z

    At Seafood Processing Global, NOCK will exhibit two ‘highlights’ from its range of high quality fish skinning machines ‘Made in Germany’.

  • Lord Coe will be the keynote speaker at this year’s AquaVision conference
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    Lord Sebastian Coe to speak at AquaVision 2016

    2016-03-02T17:19:00Z

    Lord Sebastian Coe, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will be the keynote speaker at this year’s AquaVision conference.

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    Seafish responds to Greenpeace’s ‘arctic destruction’ report

    2016-03-02T16:52:00Z

    UK authority Seafish has responded to Greenpeace’s latest report which calls for UK seafood companies to stop buying cod from the Barents Sea or risk having it tainted with ''arctic destruction'', describing it as a ‘peculiar statement.’

  • 'Engey'
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    HB Grandi’s new trawler launched

    2016-03-02T13:52:00Z

    The first of HB Grandi’s new trawlers, ‘Engey RE’, has been launched.

  • The future of adult Tanner crab is uncertain Photo: NOAA Fisheries
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    Future of Alaska crab stocks uncertain

    2016-03-02T12:42:00Z

    The future of Tanner and blue king crab stocks in Alaska waters is uncertain, according to NOAA Fisheries.

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    Colombia signs aquaculture agreement with GAA

    2016-03-02T10:47:00Z

    The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) and the Federación Colombiana De Acuicultores (FEDEACUA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to ensure that Colombian aquaculture operations are able to access the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification program.

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    IUU vessel ‘Viking’ detained

    2016-03-02T10:18:00Z

    The Australian Government has welcomed news that the last active Southern Ocean illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing vessel, the ‘Viking’, has been detained by the Indonesian Navy.