Latest News – Page 547
-
News
Toothfish fishery gains MSC certification
The Macquarie Island toothfish fishery (MITF) – operated by Austral Fisheries and Australian Longline - has gained Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification.
-
News
Demand to curb coastal salmon netting
The Salmon and Trout Association Scotland (S&TA Scotland) is urging the Scottish Government to take action on coastal salmon netting.
-
News
Cornic scallops win Friend of the Sea approval
The Peruvian scallop producer supplying Cornic, one of the key players in the French seafood industry, has become the first certified by Friend of the Sea.
-
News
Protecting Great Lakes from Asian Carp
Keith Ashfield, Canadian minister of fisheries and oceans has announced that the Government of Canada will make a significant investment to protect Canada’s Great Lakes from the threat of Asian carp.
-
News
Offshore Mariculture Conference
The 4th Offshore Mariculture Conference which takes place later this year, is a “must attend event for all fish farmers.”
-
News
Primozone supplies ozone solution to Bell Aquaculture
Swedish ozone generator supplier Primozone has been selected to provide an ozone generator solution for Bell Aquaculture, for the second time.
-
News
All-in-one logistics service for seafood industry
foodcareplus™ and Nova Fresh Logistics have announced an all-in-one logistics service for the seafood industry.
-
News
New roller grader and SMARTloader from Carnitech
Processing systems manufacturer Carnitech showed two new machines at Seafood Processing Europe in Brussels in April.
-
News
SSC invests in new farm pens
Fusion Marine has secured an order for 14 Triton 400 farm pens for The Scottish Salmon Company’s newest site at Sgeir Dughall, Loch Torridon, Scotland.
-
News
Illegal tuna fishing suspected
According to WWF, two large non-Mediterranean fleets have been spotted in some of the main Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishing grounds over the last two weeks.
-
News
Spanish and French tuna fishery closed
The season usually lasts from 16 May-14 June but the purse seine quota allocated to both countries was exhausted on 29 May at 20:00.
-
News
From Doryman’s Days to great skipper’s life
A native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Captain R Barry Fisher (1928-2001) had been to me a sort of an overseas ‘alter ego’.
-
News
Researchers track Atlantic bluefin tuna
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have tagged young bluefin tuna in Atlantic waters off New England to track migration patterns.
-
News
Record level of mid-Atlantic scallop seed
Recent surveys by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveal an unprecedented number of young scallops in two fishery management areas off the mid-Atlantic coast.
-
News
NOAA increases Gulf of Mexico red snapper catch limit
NOAA is increasing the Gulf of Mexico red snapper limit, after the latest population assessment showed that overfishing has ended and the population is rebounding.
-
News
Argentine hoki fishery MSC certified
The Argentine hoki trawl net fishery has been awarded MSC certification.
-
News
Ghana to build 11 new fishing ports
Ghana will be getting 11 new fishing ports by 2017, constructed by Dutch engineering and consulting company DHV.
-
News
Bluefin tuna carry radiation from Japan
Bluefin tuna exposed to radioactivity that leaked into the Pacific Ocean after the earthquake and tsunami damaged Japan’s Fukushima power plants last year have carried that radiation to the waters off California.
-
News
EU/US cooperation against illegal fishing
Today EU Commissioner Maria Damanaki will welcome her US counterpart, Dr Jane Lubchenco, US Under-Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, to Brussels.
-
News
ISSF introduces new tuna vessel register
During the Infofish World Tuna and Trade Conference in Bangkok, International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) revealed its latest effort to bring more sustainable management practices to global tuna fisheries - a new vessel register.