Latest News – Page 598
-
News
New Executive Director of CFCA
The Administrative Board of the Community Fisheries Control Agency has announced the appointment of Pascal Savouret as Executive Director.
-
News
CFP must not be a ‘wasted opportunity’
The European Commission is set to reveal its plans tomorrow for a new Common Fisheries Policy with the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation warning that it must not prove a wasted opportunity.
-
NewsHigher catches in Bay of Biscay proposed
The European Commission has proposed fishing opportunities for anchovy fishing in the Bay of Biscay for the season 1 July 2011-30 June 2012.
-
NewsKinarca supplies one of the world’s biggest slurry installations
Spanish company Kinarca has recently completed one of the biggest slurry ice installations in the world, for Promarisco in Ecuador, part of the Pescanova Group.
-
News
Louisiana shrimp fishermen look to enzyme treatment to prevent blackspot
In an effort to bring top quality, more eco-friendly shellfish to market, Louisiana’s shrimp industry has begun testing an innovative sulphite-free liquid enzyme treatment to prevent melanosis, or black spot, in harvested shellfish.
-
NewsMarel focusing on complete fish processing lines
“We focus on providing companies with complete processing lines, not just individual pieces of equipment,” says Kristján Hallvardsson, director of product development for Marel. “We are a total solution provider. Processors are now looking for a single point of entry. They prefer one company to be responsible for the whole ...
-
News
Commercial shrimp fishery to re-open off Texas on 15 July
The federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, from 9 to 200 nautical miles off Texas, will open to commercial shrimp trawling 30 minutes after official sunset, local time, on 15 July 2011.
-
News
Norwegian seafood exports up by NOK1.9bn
The value of exports of Norwegian seafood in the first half-year of 2011 totalled NOK25.9bn, according to the latest figures from the Norwegian Seafood Export Council.
-
News
WaveSentry project launched
The WaveSentry project consortium has secured co-funding from the Technology Strategy Board to develop a new information and forecasting tool for managing the risks of marine operations in adverse sea states.
-
News
JNCC launches consultation on three MPAs
The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) launched a public consultation on the selection of three important marine protected areas for reef habitat and carbonate structures.
-
NewsSPECIAL REPORT: Limping fisheries management
It proved to be effective in fleets shrinking, consolidation of fishing rights and quotas in lesser hands, and in reducing employment onboard and in fishing communities. However, with only a few exceptions, its claims of improving safety, resource protection and rehabilitation have been straying in circles between imaginary and fallacious. ...
-
News
MSC products secure price premium
New research shows that UK retailers are achieving a price premium of over 14%, and achieving higher sales, for products bearing the MSC ecolabel, compared with their non-labelled equivalents.
-
News
NIWA Chairman: New Zealand urgently needs a National Oceans Strategy
Chairman of NIWA, the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Chris Mace says New Zealand urgently needs a National Oceans Strategy, to sustainably manage and use its extensive marine resources to boost the economy.
-
NewsChile applauded for banning shark finning
Yesterday, the Chilean National Congress passed legislation that completely bans shark finning.
-
NewsOcean Safety back in business after fire
Just four months a fire which destroyed the factory and offices of Ocean Safety’s depot in Port Glasgow, the company has opened its doors once again.
-
NewsGrowing interest in chain of custody programme
Commitment Fish retailer interest in the Chain of Custody (CoC) certification programme recently has extended to Australia where two supermarket chains, Woolworths and Coles, have started to sell MSC certified fishery products which is being advertised to consumers. The recent launch of MSC certified products under the CoC programme in ...
-
News
Marine farming in the world's oceans
Ocean Yearbook is a big volume, produced jointly by The International Ocean Institute (IOI), an NGO founded in 1972 by Professor Elisabeth Mann Borgese and based at the University of Malta, with 22 international Operational Centres all over the world, and the Marine and Environmental Institute at the Dalhousie University, ...
-
NewsISSF commits to tuna projects
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has launched the Make the Commitment project, the next phase of its effort to transform tuna fisheries.
-
News
Whale research vessel to take anti-whaling message to IWC meeting
A whale research vessel sets sail from London tomorrow in a symbolic journey to Jersey to take an anti-whaling message to this year’s meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
-
News
Shell and BP join World Ocean Council
Oil and gas industry majors BP and Shell have joined the growing number of leading companies from a range of ocean industries that are distinguishing themselves as members of the World Ocean Council (WOC).
