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NTSB to hold fishing vessel safety forum
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a forum on fishing vessel safety beginning Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 9am. The two-day forum will be chaired by NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt.
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UK seafood training centre to shut
A centre that has helped train hundreds of people for the UK seafood industry is set to close because its funding has been withdrawn.
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NewsIridium’s Openport proves popular with Spanish fleet
US-based Iridium Communications has received orders for more than 100 Iridium OpenPort broadband satellite terminals for installation on Spanish commercial fishing vessels.
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Ore supplies fish tracking project
Ore Offshore recently completed a shipment of 100 long-life acoustic releases.
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Benefits of Pacific tuna tagging being realised
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) said it is already seeing the benefits of the tuna tagging programme in the Pacific, which concluded at the end of last year.
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Iceland minister: 'it’s our right' to fish mackerel
Iceland''s fisheries minister told the UK’s Channel 4 News that his country''s trawlers have the right to fish greater quantities of mackerel from its waters, despite growing protests from Scottish fishermen.
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NewsBoats landed €18m of illegal pelagics
Six trawlermen from Shetland, UK, face unlimited fines and multi-million pound confiscation orders for illegally landing £15 million (€18.3 million/$23.2 million) worth of herring and mackerel.
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Greenpeace urges NZ to help save Pacific tuna
Greenpeace has called on the New Zealand government to support a plan to make the Pacific’s tuna fisheries sustainable following further reports of declining stocks.
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Florida projects get BP funding for oil spill research
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is well represented among the 27 research projects selected by the Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) Council to examine the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico.
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NewsGetting East Africa back on track
The World Bank has started a five-year series of initiatives that will lend financial support to sustainable fisheries development in Lake Victoria. David Hayes reports.
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NewsStark’s 16.8m steel trawler project
Stark Bros Ltd of Lyttelton, New Zealand, is well into the construction of its latest design and build project, a 16.8-metre steel fishing trawler.
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UK fishing industry set for fish price slump
Scottish fishing communities can expect more hardship this autumn when Iceland increases its cod quota and floods the market, pushing down the price of fish, industry leaders have warned.
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Vietnam submits shrimp lawsuit to WTO
Vietnam submitted its lawsuit documents against the US imposition of anti-dumping tariffs on its frozen shrimp to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel in Geneva, Switzerland, on 20 August.
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SFF: no more days at sea cuts
The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation has called for a freeze on any further reductions in the number of days fishing vessels can put to sea and is warning that a significant proportion of the demersal fleet is facing financial collapse unless there is an easing of the current management restrictions.
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NewsAlnet’s new polyethylene nets
South African net manufacturing specialist Alnet has added to its range of nylon, knotless Kapenta nets with polyethylene knotless Kapenta nets.
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Quota tightened to save southern rock lobster
The rock lobster commercial catch quota in South Australia''s lower south east will be capped at 1,250 tonnes until stocks recover. And a month at each end of the southern zone rock lobster season will be cut to help the industry become more sustainable.
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Indonesia to present higher oil spill claim
Indonesian negotiators are expected to soon formally present the amount of compensation the country will claim as a result of the Montara oil spill in the Timor Sea last year.
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NCL ramps up fish capacity on Norway-Germany service
North Sea Container Line (NCL), a Norwegian fish and industrial product transportation specialist based in Haugesund, has responded to increased demand by phasing in the 677 TEU vessel Celina between western Norway and Hamburg/Bremerhaven (Germany).
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Seafish appoints interim CEO
The board of UK seafood authority Seafish has appointed Dr Paul Williams as interim chief executive with effect from October 2010.
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MEP calls for blockade over mackerel row
A Scottish MEP has called for an EU-wide blockade of Icelandic and Faroese boats and goods amid a wrangle over mackerel quotas.
