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    International interest in Australian e-monitoring program

    2016-04-28T10:29:00Z

    The Australian Fisheries Management Authority’s (AFMA) electronic monitoring program is continuing to draw international interest, most recently from Taiwan.

  • Tropical Aquaculture has expanded its tilapia network with the addition of GeneSeas and Netuno to its farming cooperative
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    Tropical Aquaculture expands tilapia network

    2016-04-28T10:27:00Z

    Tropical Aquaculture Products, the US-based operator for a growing cooperative of aquaculture farms, has expanded its tilapia network with the integration of Brazilian seafood specialist, GeneSeas Aquacultura.

  • GLOBALG.A.P. has introduced the GGN consumer label
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    GLOBALG.A.P. introduces GGN consumer label

    2016-04-28T09:57:00Z

    GLOBALG.A.P. has introduced the GGN consumer label for fish and seafood from certified aquaculture at Seafood Expo Global in Brussels.

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    FoS suspends Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna certification

    2016-04-28T09:28:00Z

    Friend of the Sea’s certification of yellowfin tuna from the Indian Ocean will be suspended in consideration of the latest IOTC stock assessment which concludes that the species is overfished.

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    Saithe fishery recertified

    2016-04-27T15:49:00Z

    The UK Fisheries, DFFU and Doggerbank Group saithe fishery has been recertified against the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard for environmentally sustainable fishing.

  • Kagerer & Co. and Freshpack were awarded the top prizes at the Seafood Excellence Global awards
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    Seafood Excellence Global awards winners announced

    2016-04-27T14:59:00Z

    The top prizes at the Seafood Excellence Global awards at Seafood Expo Global have been awarded to Kagerer & Co. of Munich, Germany and Freshpack of San Martin les Boulogne, France.

  • The artwork is inspired by the fish-featuring mosaics from ancient times and is meant as a reminder of how deeply fish and fishing are rooted in European culture
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    #MedFish4ever strategy launched

    2016-04-27T11:57:00Z

    European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella, has launched #MedFish4ever - a new Mediterranean strategy to improve the state of the stocks in the Mediterranean.

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    EU works to prevent unregulated fisheries in Arctic high seas

    2016-04-27T11:19:00Z

    The European Union has participated in the first round of international negotiations on measures to prevent unregulated fisheries in the Arctic high seas.

  • ASC made its announcement after Seafood Expo Global 2016 in Brussels
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    ASC releases ToR for marine finfish standard development

    2016-04-27T10:41:00Z

    The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has announced its first Terms of Reference (ToR) for the development of new marine finfish standards.

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    Santa Monica Seafood now BAP certified

    2016-04-27T10:03:00Z

    Seafood distributor Santa Monica Seafood has received Best Aquaculture Practices certification for its Rancho Dominguez, California facility.

  • Atlantic salmon are to be protected from a serious infectious disease through the licence of new gene therapy
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    Gene therapy to protect EU salmon

    2016-04-27T09:42:00Z

    The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting a marketing authorisation in the European Union for Clynav, a DNA vaccine to protect Atlantic salmon from a life-threatening infectious disease.

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    Undirbúningur vel á veg kominn

    2016-04-27T09:24:51Z

    Ráðgjafanefndin hefur þegar fundað til þess að fjalla um áætlanir sínar fyrir september 2017, meðal annars nýjan námssjóð sem úthlutað verður úr tveimur milljónum króna en þær voru lagðar til hliðar árið 2014. Tekið verður í notkun nýtt hátæknikerfi sem ætlað er að flýta bæði skráningu og aðgang að ...

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    Hvers vegna að sækja Icefish eða sýna þar?

    2016-04-27T09:24:35Z

    Sjávarútvegssýning ársins 2017 verður sú 12. í röðinni en á síðustu sýningunni árið 2014 ríkti mikil bjartsýni og margir sýnendur tryggðu sér stórar pantanir. Það var ekki nóg með að sýningargestum fjölgaði um 12% og urðu samtals 15.219, þeir komu frá fleiri löndum en nokkru sinni fyrr eða 52 ...

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    WSC haldin samtímis Íslensku sjávarútvegssýningunni

    2016-04-27T09:24:19Z

    Á World Seafood Congress ráðstefnunni, sem áður hefur verið haldin í Washington DC í Bandaríkjunum, St. Johns í Kanada og Grimsby í Bretlandi, mætast framleiðendur og innflytjendur sjávarfangs hvaðanæva að, vísindamenn, samtök á vegum bæði opinberra aðila og einkaaðila og fulltrúar eftirlitsstofnana og yfirvalda. Á ráðstefnunni er áherslan einkum ...

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    World Seafood Congress to coincide with Icefish

    2016-04-27T09:24:10Z

    The World Seafood Congress, previously held in Washington DC, US; St. Johns, Canada and Grimsby, UK, brings together a global audience of seafood processors and importers, academia, public and private organisations, fish inspectors and government. The Congress focuses on trading initiatives and developments in the seafood sector, and will ...

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    New aquaculture barge boosts local businesses

    2016-04-26T16:46:00Z

    A $2 million aquaculture barge for Marine Harvest Canada has been completed in Campbell River, BC.

  • The new containers can transport live lobsters in their natural water
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    New live lobster transport container launched

    2016-04-26T15:59:00Z

    A new generation of containers has been launched which allows live lobsters to be transported in their original water in conditions that maintain their natural habitat.

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    Untreated Premium Pangasius fillets to be introduced in Brussels

    2016-04-26T14:56:00Z

    Vinh Hoan will introduce its untreated Premium Pangasius fillets at Seafood Expo Global in Brussels this week, to meet the growing consumer demand for more natural, minimally processed foods.

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    Significant improvement in northern cod stock

    2016-04-26T14:32:00Z

    Members of the Northern Cod Fisheries Improvement Project (FIP) Working Group met on Monday, on the eve of the Brussels Seafood Global exhibition, to advance work related to the northern cod stock complex, located in the Northwest Atlantic in the waters of Canada.

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    Nav-Tracker to protect Maldives fisheries

    2016-04-26T12:46:00Z

    Global Ocean Security Technologies (GOST) has announced that its Nav-Tracker 3.0 VMS has been adapted for use by the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of The Maldives.