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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. ...
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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.
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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.
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NewsChile applauded for banning shark finning
Yesterday, the Chilean National Congress passed legislation that completely bans shark finning.
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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.
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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.
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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).
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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).
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£2.4m grant-funded harbour development gets underway
A significant grant from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) is being used towards the regeneration of Southwold harbour in east Suffolk.
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NewsISSF bycatch project cruise
A research vessel has returned safely to the Seychelles after a two week cruise in the Indian Ocean to study the behaviour of sharks and other fish species swimming around fish aggregating devices (FADs).
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NewsFastChill machines sail for Russia
Integrated Marine Systems, a US firm based in Washington State, first introduced its FastChill FC 80 slurry ice machine in autumn 2009.
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AgriMarine to rear bluefin Tuna in Japan
AgriMarine Holdings Inc. has entered into a Research & Development Agreement with Tokai University in Japan for a project to rear bluefin tuna on a commercial scale, using AgriMarine''s solid-wall closed containment systems.
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NewsTucal’s Russian project
Tucal is currently developing a project onboard a Russian fishing vessel.
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Europeans eating somebody else’s fish
A report by OCEAN2012 and the new economics foundation reveals that, as of 3 July, the EU will be dependent on seafood from elsewhere, six days earlier than last year.
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NewsNOAA sets fishing quotas for bluefin tuna
NOAA has announced quotas and other measures for bluefin tuna that underscore the nation’s commitment to sustainable science-based management of this vital fish stock.
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NewsRed rock lobster fishery re-certified
The Baja California red rock lobster fishery off the coast of Baja California, Mexico has been re-certified following an independent assessment.
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Newfoundland and Labrador: Fisheries science results
The Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research (CFER) has been effectively addressing the need for increased capacity in fisheries science in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Philippines shares innovative aquaculture ecosystem at Macau forum
The Congressional Commission on Science Technology and Engineering (COMSTE) presented a locally developed farm-to-market ecosystem for aquaculture at the 8th Asia Pacific Telecommunication and ICT Development Forum in Macau, China.
