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  • Osprey personal tracker
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    GeoEye wins VMS contract for Republic of Maldives

    2011-01-11T14:44:00Z

    GeoEye, Inc. has won a contract from the Republic of the Maldives for a vessel monitoring system that is being developed for fisheries management and safety.

  • Swedish fishermen may get longer TACs. Credit: Swedish Board of Fisheries
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    Swedish fishermen may get longer TACs

    2011-01-11T14:24:00Z

    The Swedish Board of Fisheries has proposed that 50 of the country’s trawlers with a license to catch cod in the Baltic will have their quotas allotted for a whole year.

  • Participants will learn how to maintain, operate, and troubleshoot onboard refrigeration equipment
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    Vessel refrigeration workshop for fishermen

    2011-01-11T14:02:00Z

    Top quality seafood products begins with properly chilling the catch aboard vessels at sea.

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    US fisheries: Frustration, indignation, uproar

    2011-01-11T13:03:00Z

    I don’t remember such an upheaval in the American fisheries. Neither does Bob Jones, the Director of the Southeastern Fisheries Association.

  • Construction of plate freezers (horizontal and vertical type) at Tucal’s factory in La Coruña
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    2010 a positive year for Tucal

    2011-01-11T10:42:00Z

    Tucal has informed WF that the company closed 2010 with a very positive balance of its activity, having carried out interesting projects for marine and on-shore applications.

  • The Glacier refrigeration plant
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    Cool stars unite to form Glacier

    2011-01-11T10:04:00Z

    Glacier is a new range of equipment for the food processing industry, combining a spiral freezer and refrigeration plant in one package.

  • Fishing boats at Punta del Diablo, Uruguay, where fishers, managers and scientists are cooperating in the multi-species fishery there to improve management and reduce discards and incidental catches of the endangered Franciscana dolphin
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    Co-management holds promise of sustainable fisheries worldwide

    2011-01-10T02:00:00Z

    Encouraging new evidence suggests that the bulk of the world’s fisheries – including small-scale, often non-industrialised fisheries on which millions of people depend for food – could be sustained using community-based co-management.

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    Danish fisheries enter MSC program

    2011-01-09T02:00:00Z

    The Danish Fishermen’s Producers’ Organisation (DFPO) has entered the Danish hake, haddock and North Sea sole fisheries for formal MSC assessment.

  • A new era of research has begun at the University of Essex
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    New era for coral research

    2011-01-08T02:00:00Z

    An exciting new era of research has begun at the University of Essex’s (UK) Coral Reef Research Unit.

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    MDE investigates large fish kill in Chesapeake Bay

    2011-01-07T02:00:00Z

    The Maryland Department of the Environment is investigating a fish kill in the Chesapeake Bay in which an estimated two million fish have died.

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    New EU fisheries protocol with Cape Verde

    2011-01-06T16:35:00Z

    On 22 December, the European Commission initialled a new three-year protocol under the Fisheries Partnership Agreement (FPA) with Cape Verde, setting fishing possibilities for EU vessels in Cape Verde''s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), along with other conditions.

  • The Grimsby wash plant
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    PPS East wins new crate pooling contract with Levenstond Seafood

    2011-01-06T16:22:00Z

    The Grimsby based company PPS East recently secured a new contract to provide returnable plastic fish crates to Belgian company Levenstond Seafood, a supplier of Scottish salmon to Belgian supermarkets.

  • Slurry Ice Systems recently delivered a S16 system to the Þórunn Sveinsdóttir
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    New S-1000 from Slurry Ice Systems

    2011-01-06T14:46:00Z

    Slurry Ice Systems is introducing the S-1000 machine for smaller vessels, which the company says has the same high quality generator as its other machines.

  • The new 6-ton RSW
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    IMS shows new RSW units at Pacific Marine Expo

    2011-01-06T13:37:00Z

    Integrated Marine Systems recently showed its new smaller, quieter RSW units, at the Seattle 2010 Pacific Marine Expo in November.

  • Ammonia Spray Evaporator delivered to Silver Bay Seafood last year
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    Ammonia spray chiller exceeds expectations

    2011-01-06T11:42:00Z

    Isotherm, Inc. a Texas based manufacturer of RSW evaporators, condensers and systems supplied a custom designed Ammonia Spray Evaporator last year to Silver Bay Seafood, an Alaska based herring processor.

  • Rapp Hydema’s electric motor
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    New Rapp Hydema electric motor

    2011-01-06T11:09:00Z

    The Rapp liquid-cooled electric motor is a first-of-its-kind design, to be used for powering winches or other machinery in demanding applications offshore and within the marine industry in general, says manufacturer Rapp Hydema.

  • Executives from the international salmon processing industry examine Marel salmon processing equipment at last year’s Salmon ShowHow
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    Marel shows how to process salmon

    2011-01-06T09:51:00Z

    Executives from the international salmon processing industry examine Marel salmon processing equipment at last year’s Salmon ShowHowThis year, the showhow celebrates its 10th anniversary and will be held at the Carnitech Salmon (now the Marel Salmon Division) premises in Nørresundby, Denmark, on 2 February. In addition to the presentation and ...

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    Prawn peeling technology trial for Royal Greenland

    2011-01-06T01:00:00Z

    The world’s largest supplier of coldwater prawns Royal Greenland has signed a trial collaboration with KM Fish Machinery on the development of a patented prawn peeling technique that works by vacuum.

  • Wärtsilä will supply the propulsion solution for the UK’s new research vessel to be operated by the NERC
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    Wärtsilä to power UK research vessel

    2011-01-05T17:35:00Z

    Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the propulsion equipment for a new, state-of-the-art, research vessel.

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    Wärtsilä and MAN Diesel & Turbo continue HERCULES project

    2011-01-05T16:55:00Z

    Marine engine manufacturers MAN Diesel & Turbo and Wärtsilä Corporation have agreed to pursue a large joint research project, the HERCULES-C project, as a continuation of the HERCULES programmes for the research and development of marine engine technology.