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    Responsible Sourcing Workshop in NI

    2016-01-19T15:14:00Z

    The Seafish Responsible Sourcing Team will travel to Northern Ireland in February to host an industry workshop and the official NI launch of the revamped Responsible Fishing Scheme.

  • The new krill fishing factory vessel, the largest of its kind in the world, to be built for Jiangsu Sunline Deep Sea Fisheries Co is designed by Wärtsilä
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    Wärtsilä to design world’s largest krill vessel

    2016-01-19T12:25:00Z

    Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to design the world''s biggest and most modern krill fishing factory vessel.

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    €240m development programme for Ireland launched

    2016-01-19T12:00:00Z

    Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney has launched eight schemes to commence implementation of Ireland’s new €240m EMFF Seafood Development Programme for the period up to 2020 and beyond.

  • New Thai Union employees, fully registered with legal work permits, ready to start work
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    Thai Union employs over 1000 pre-processing workers

    2016-01-19T10:31:00Z

    Thai Union has announced that it has employed over 1000 former employees from external pre-processing facilities in its factories.

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    MMO opens €243m EMFF in England

    2016-01-19T09:41:00Z

    The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has opened the European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF) in England.

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    Record amounts of fish in live storage in 2015

    2016-01-18T16:59:00Z

    There are record amounts of fish in live storage in Norway within the past year, according to Nofima scientist Oystein Hermansen.

  • Real-time management policies to regulate fisheries can reduce accidental bycatch
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    Real-time fishery management reduces bycatch

    2016-01-15T09:46:00Z

    A new study has found that using real-time management polices to regulate fisheries can reduce the accidental bycatch juvenile fish and endangered species with less economic impact on fishermen.

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    Optimal feed reduces mortality

    2016-01-14T17:08:00Z

    Pancreas Disease (PD) costs the Norwegian fish farming industry more than one billion NOK a year (approximately US$113m).

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    Aquaculture plan to expand soybean meal market

    2016-01-14T15:03:00Z

    The Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) has welcomed the federal rule published by NOAA implementing a marine aquaculture fishery management plan for the Gulf of Mexico, and says that it will grow the market for soybean meal.

  • Brothers George and Dino Papadamou “haven’t looked back” since taking over their family’s fish and chip shop business
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    Seafood industry provides new career opportunities

    2016-01-14T12:45:00Z

    The World is Your Oyster campaign is encouraging individuals who might be seeking a new challenge in 2016, to consider switching to a career in the seafood industry.

  • North Korea’s coastline is 2,100km long. Credit: Uri Tours/CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    'North Korean' fishermen die in a desperate fishery

    2016-01-14T12:01:00Z

    North Korea has made the global press headlines with its claim of detonating a hydrogen bomb, but Menakhem Ben-Yami reports on the fishing boats and bodies that have recently washed ashore in Japan, which appear to be North Korean.

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    Moroccan cannery achieves Friend of the Sea certification

    2016-01-14T10:01:00Z

    Sardines and mackerel from Moroccan fish cannery, Damsa, have obtained Friend of the Sea certification.

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    Tracing escaped salmon in Nova Scotia

    2016-01-14T09:39:00Z

    An advisory committee of industry and stakeholder representatives will provide advice on a practical way to trace the origin of escaped salmon, as part of the new containment management rules for finfish farms in Nova Scotia.

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    Calysta to open first R&D and market introduction facility in UK

    2016-01-13T14:42:00Z

    Calysta will develop the production process for FeedKind protein at its Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) in Teesside, UK.

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    €18m funding for Ireland’s fishery harbours

    2016-01-13T11:53:00Z

    An €18m Capital Investment Package for the development of Ireland’s fishery harbour network in 2016 has been announced by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney.

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    New IPNLF members

    2016-01-13T10:40:00Z

    The International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF) has started the New Year with growth in the form of new network members.

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    ICES opens call for papers

    2016-01-13T10:21:00Z

    The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has opened the call for papers for its Annual Science Conference (ASC) 2016.

  • Buus is now able to offer its customers a combined slurry and flake ice maker
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    Combined slurry and flake ice maker

    2016-01-13T09:46:00Z

    Traditionally Buus Refrigeration has always made flake ice machines, but now the company is able to offer its customers a combined slurry and flake ice maker.

  • Divers around the open-ocean aquaculture cage at the Cape Eleuthera Institute. Credit: Kelly Martin
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    NOAA expands US aquaculture opportunities

    2016-01-12T15:08:00Z

    NOAA has filed a final rule implementing the nation’s first comprehensive regulatory program for aquaculture in federal waters.

  • More than 200 farms are now ASC certified
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    ASC celebrates 200 certified farms

    2016-01-12T13:20:00Z

    Three bivalve farms belonging to Ria Austral South America in the Queilen, Pichicolu and Hudson Channel areas of Chile, have achieved Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification - taking the current number of ASC certified farms past the 200 mark.