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NewsSmart Gear 2011 winners announced
WWF has announced the grand prize winner and the two runners-up of the 2011 International Smart Gear competition.
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NewsEC proposes full ban on shark finning
The European Commission has proposed to forbid shark finning aboard fishing vessels.
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NewsA fishcake sold every second
Fishcakes in Young’s Jamie Oliver range of frozen fish have beaten the chef’s fish fingers into second place in the first month since the range was lunched.
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NewsSouthern Ocean areas protected
At the beginning of November, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) adopted a conservation measure to establish marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean.
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Oceana applauds ICCAT silky shark decision
Oceana has applauded the 22nd Regular Meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) for establishing new protections for silky sharks.
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NewsICCAT meeting concludes
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) concluded its annual meeting on the 19th November 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey.
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NewsWWF criticises bluefin tuna measures
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has voiced disappointment over the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna''s (ICCAT) recent new measures to improve traceability of bluefin tuna and management of Mediterannean swordfish.
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Important warning to our clients and readers
It has come to the notice of Mercator Media, publisher of ‘World Fishing’, that bogus organisations are continuing to contact subscribers, advertisers and exhibitors, supposedly on behalf of Mercator Media.
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NZ’s largest fishery to be re-assessed
The New Zealand hoki fishery has entered re-assessment under the MSC’s program for well-managed and sustainable fisheries.
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NewsCall for action on IUU fishing
The EU must promote international action to fight IUU fishing, including stepping up inspections at sea, closing markets to illegal seafood and imposing sanctions on negligent states, says resolution voted by Parliament.
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Pascal Divanach recognised by highest EAS Award
At the final wrap up and closing session of the Aquaculture Europe 2011 in Rhodes, Greece, Dr Pascal Divanach, Director of the Institute of Aquaculture and member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR), was presented with an Honorary Life Membership of EAS.
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NewsGreenpeace releases tuna bycatch video
Video footage captured by a tuna industry whistleblower has been released by Greenpeace, showing the extent of the bycatch caught by purse-seine vessels deploying FADs in the Pacific Ocean.
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NewsMorgère introduces new doors
Morgère is introducing a new design of three foil trawl doors - the VO3 and PV3, which are bottom doors, and the SPF, a semi-pelagic door.
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Dracula, Lord Nelson and Cap’n Cook in TV fishing expedition
Whitby regularly hauls in a massive, capacity-busting catch with little effort, no loss of days at sea and zero fuel outlay. A calm sea and sunny weather on an August Saturday meant the haul of tourists jammed cobbled Church Street whose cod-end narrows at the start of the 199 stone ...
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NewsObituary: Dr James E. Kirkley, Fisheries Economist
Dr James Ellison Kirkley Sr., 65, died in September following a long struggle with cancer.
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Caviar producer confirmed Friend of the Sea
Calvisius Caviar and its farmed white sturgeon from Agroittica Lombarda have recently passed a second full Friend of the Sea audit since initial approval in 2008.
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Donation helps Freshwater grow salmon and trout
Water monitoring solutions provider YSI has donated technology and expertise to The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute.
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FAO publishes aquaculture papers
The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department has recently published seven technical documents on aquaculture.
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Fisheries management – the Japanese way
I last wrote on Japan in the World Fishing & Aquaculture May issue, following the series of disasters - earthquake, tsunami and the Fukushima meltdown. Since then, the surviving NE Japan''s fishermen and its fishing industry have been struggling to stay afloat and gradually return to anything that resembles normality.
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NewsGoing back to basics in chilling and freezing
Air Products, a global supplier of food freezing and chilling systems, has joined forces with the Grimsby Institute and university students from southern China on an international research project to investigate practices for freezing, chilling and cryogenic freezing.
