Latest News – Page 647
-
NewsKing crab quotas down, snow crab up
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has released the total allowable catch (TAC) figures for the upcoming crab season and, as expected, the harvest level for Bristol Bay red king crab is lower than last season after summer surveys reported the stock remains in a declining trend.
-
News
Mackerel quota talks to get underway
Crucial talks between the EU, Norway, Iceland and the Faroes to discuss mackerel quotas for 2011 will commence in London on Tuesday 12 October and Scottish fishermen’s leaders say they will be pressing for a deal that does not jeopardise their share in the international fishery and which also protects ...
-
News
Survey: more consumers aware of MSC
Close to one in four adults are aware of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) eco-label – an increase of more than two and a half times since 2008, according to a survey carried out by AMR Marketing Research.
-
NewsNew Manoverboard and Buoysmoke products unveiled
Chemring Marine has launched its new Pains Wessex Manoverboard MK8 and Buoysmoke MK8 lifebuoy markers in Europe.
-
News
Cooke announces $150m expansion
Cooke Aquaculture is planning to spend $150 million (€107.4 million) over five years to expand its Nova Scotia operations.
-
NewsNew two-lane Easymatic pinboner
Kaj Olesen A/S, which manufactures pinbone removers under the name of ‘Easymatic’, has developed a two-lane pinbone remover.
-
News
Angola invests $62m in fishery protection
Angola’s government has spent $62 million (€44.4 million) on 10 new fishery and aquiculture monitoring boats to protect the country’s resources and to fight illegal fishing off the country''s coast.
-
News
Scots: blue whiting quota shows mackerel threat
The release of the latest scientific advice for the catch uptake of blue whiting recommending a 2011 quota of only 40,000 tonnes is a stark reminder of the threat facing the valuable mackerel stock if uncontrolled fishing by Iceland and the Faroes continues, claimed the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation this week.
-
NewsBP spill: NOAA reopens more fishing areas
NOAA has reopened 2,927 square miles of federal waters south of the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico to commercial and recreational fishing that it had previously closed in response to the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
-
News
Thai Union cleared to buy MW Brands
Thai Union Frozen PLC (TUF) has received clearance received from the UK’s Office of Fair Trading on its €680 million ($942.8 million) acquisition of MW Brands Holdings SAS.
-
News
Nutreco hosts Capital Markets Day in Italy
Nutreco on 6 October hosted a Capital Markets Day in Italy with a site visit to its fish feed plant and its recently inaugurated premix plant in Mozzecane. Next to the site visit Nutreco gave updates on the three divisions Agriculture, Specialties and Aquaculture.
-
NewsHigher 2011 quotas for Norway, Russia
The Joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission has increased the quotas on all the main commercially fished species in the Barents Sea. The Norwegian minister of fisheries called the quota level a “historical high”.
-
NewsThermoDrive’s breakthrough belting technology
ThermoDrive technology is a patented conveying solution that combines the benefits of positive drive, low-tension belting with a continuous, easy-to-clean surface, developed by Intralox.
-
NewsValue of UK catch rises, landings fall
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has published its annual UK Sea Fisheries Statistics for 2009. This fisheries management tool includes detailed data about the UK fishing fleet, the number of fishermen and the quantity and value of fish landings, imports and exports.
-
NewsUmami proceeds with tuna firm purchase
The board of directors with Umami Sustainable Seafood Inc have decided to move forward and complete the acquisition of Baja Aquafarms, a leading producer of bluefin tuna based in Mexico
-
News
Taiwan worried over plunging squid catch
The deepsea fishing industry in Taiwan is facing a crisis because of precipitous drops in its squid and saury catch. In 2009, the squid catch fell 71.4% and the saury catch fell 25.3%, dealing a harsh blow to a sector still suffering the impact of a 2005 cut in the ...
-
NewsIn it for the long haul
The five pillars of a Saudi Arabian desert shrimp farm are expanding in all directions. Velo Mitrovich reports.
-
News
Goa fishermen: trawlers violating fishing ban
Traditional fishermen from Cacra in St Cruz, Goa, India, have complained to the fisheries department, alleging that mechanised boats are violating the fishing ban near the coast in the Zuari bay.
-
News
UK fishermen admit £7m 'black fish' scam
Two UK fishermen have admitted making false declarations about fish worth more than £7 million (€8.1 million/$11.1 million) which they landed.
-
News
FAO proposes global guidelines for aquaculture certification
The Sub-Committee of Aquaculture of the Committee on Fisheries of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have adopted a set of global guidelines for the certification of aquaculture products.
