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  • Northern Leader’s main deck was completed ahead of schedule
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    Northern Leader construction milestone

    2012-06-12T15:46:00Z

    One of the world’s largest commercial longliner fishing vessels has reached the important milestone of having the main deck completed ahead of schedule, only 10 weeks into the construction phase.

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    Coveney outlines approach to end discards

    2012-06-12T13:24:00Z

    The Irish minister for agriculture, food and the marine, Simon Coveney, has tabled an approach to end the current practice of discarding of fish at sea.

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    Oceana criticises stock overexploitation in the EU

    2012-06-12T11:49:00Z

    Last week, the European Commission unveiled an updated assessment of the status of fish resources and established guidelines for the allocation of next year’s fishing opportunities.

  • Lisbeth Berg-Hansen and the manager of cod farming company Skei Marinfisk AS, Knut Elling Bråthen, look at a fry tank during a tour of the National Cod Breeding Centre in Tromsø. Credit: Wilhelm Solheim © Nofima
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    Norway: Cod efforts to continue

    2012-06-12T11:36:00Z

    The Norwegian minister of fisheries and coastal affairs, Lisbeth Berg-Hansen, has promised further public investment in cod breeding, but only if the industry gets involved.

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    £3.5m boost for Scottish fishing

    2012-06-12T11:19:00Z

    The latest round of grants under the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) will give support to 68 projects across the Scottish sea fisheries, aquaculture and fish processing sectors.

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    MSC gets new Stakeholder Council members

    2012-06-12T10:52:00Z

    The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has welcomed five new members to its Stakeholder Council.

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    Scotland: Future of fishing to be decided

    2012-06-12T10:36:00Z

    The Scottish government has said that at today’s EU Council meeting “the fight to protect the future of Scotland’s fishing industry reaches boiling point”.

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    Ag & Fish Council meet today

    2012-06-12T10:30:00Z

    The Agriculture & Fisheries Council is meeting in Luxembourg today and is expected to reach political agreement on the two main proposals within the framework of the Common Fisheries Policy reform.

  • Shark fins. Credit: NOAA
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    Bill to ban shark fin trade in New York

    2012-06-11T05:30:00Z

    Last week the New York Senate Environmental Conservation Committee voted in favour of a bill to ban the trade, sale, possession and distribution of shark fins throughout the state.

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    EC: Improvements for some fish stocks

    2012-06-11T04:30:00Z

    The European Commission has set out its intentions for fixing fishing opportunities for 2013, which it says shows that improvements made to end overfishing are working.

  • Shop selling fishery products in Tamshui, northern Taiwan
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    Taiwan’s seeks closer cooperation with fishery-rich island nations

    2012-06-10T20:56:00Z

    The recent hijacking of the Naham 3 fishing vessel is the latest in a series of attacks by Somali pirates on Taiwanese boats fishing for tuna in the Indian Ocean, reports David Hayes.

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    Scots to benefit from new Omega 3 testing

    2012-06-10T20:32:00Z

    SNP MEP Alyn Smith has called for greater awareness of the benefits of Omega 3 after receiving his own test results at Stirling University''s world-leading Institute for Aquaculture.

  • Close up of the towed camer sled
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    Seafish trials automated system to monitor environmental conditions in MPAs

    2012-06-08T04:00:00Z

    A new underwater video system has been trialled by Seafish to see whether fishermen themselves can monitor environmental conditions in marine protected areas (MPAs).

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    European Fish Weeks raise awareness

    2012-06-08T03:30:00Z

    Today is World Oceans Day and OCEAN2012 is launching the third European Fish Weeks, when European citizens will organise public events to raise awareness of overfishing and of decision-makers’ responsibility to end it.

  • The EU-Norway fishing agreement for 2013 is up for discussion this week
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    EU-Norway fish talks in Orkney

    2012-06-07T14:37:00Z

    Representatives from the European Commission and Norway will be discussing the EU-Norway fishing agreement for 2013 and beyond in Orkney this week.

  • Icebergs in Disko Bay. Credit: Algkalv (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported)
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    Maria Damanaki visits Greenland

    2012-06-07T14:28:00Z

    European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Maria Damanaki, is visiting Greenland on 7-9 June 2012.

  • Cheap, sustainable, house roof fish ‘tanks’ in Xiangjiaba village above the Jinsha river, Sichuan Province, China. © TW : EEC Photos
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    Rio+20 - Turn off the lights?

    2012-06-07T14:04:00Z

    Fish, the oceans and secure jobs are core to a new ‘sustainable world’ plan, but there are worrying questions about the bill and cash to fund it.

  • The BAADER 582 at SPE 2012
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    BAADER 582 on its way!

    2012-06-07T13:47:00Z

    The prototype of Baader’s new filleting machine, the BAADER 582, was shown at SPE 2012 in Brussels.

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    Supply growth of farmed salmon in 2012

    2012-06-07T12:18:00Z

    The latest FAO May 2012 Food Outlook publication shows that the supply of farmed salmon is projected to grow around 12% in 2012, with exporters looking to new markets such as Brazil, Russia, China and India.

  • Iceland is determined to reach an agreement
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    Iceland appoints mackerel negotiators

    2012-06-07T11:33:00Z

    The Icelandic Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture has appointed Sigurgeir Þorgeirsson, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, to head Iceland''s team of negotiators during mackerel talks.