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Flume tank comes to Fishing 2011
An interactive large-screen video display at Fishing 2011 in Glasgow will beam live images into the exhibition hall from one of the few remaining flume tanks in the world.
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Chemoil buys OceanConnect Marine for $25 million
Singapore-listed marine fuel supplier Chemoil has acquired OceanConnect Holding''s marine fuel business for approximately $25 million.
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NewsHB Grandi catch worth ISK3.4bn in 2010
HB Grandi’s pelagic vessel catch for 2010 totalled 96,400t, with a value of ISK3.4 billion.
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NewsIndonesia and Honduras tilapia “moving towards certification”
Tilapia produced in Indonesia and Honduras is to join the new WWF seafood guide category of “moving towards certification”.
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Admiral Makarov arrives in Sea of Okhotsk
Admiral Makarov, a Russian icebreaker has arrived to help ships frozen in the ice in Sakhalin Bay, in the Okhotsk Sea.
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NewsGreenpeace launches Ocean Defenders Tour
Greenpeace''s Rainbow Warrior arrived in Keelung port, Taiwan, today to launch its Ocean Defenders Tour of East Asia.
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UK: Weymouth RNLI volunteers assist sinking fishing vessel
Weymouth RNLI volunteers assisted the crew of a fishing vessel who reported their boat was sinking on 3 January. The fishing boat was towed to safety but only after the crew had been evacuated by helicopter.
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NewsPew hails new fish protection measures
Pew Environment Group''s project manager, Holly Binns has issued the following statement in response to the Department of Commerce’s final approval of Amendment 17B - a plan to save nine dwindling fish species in the US South Atlantic.
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NewsNOAA launches information website on Deepwater Horizon oil spill
NOAA has unveiled a web archive of the maps, wildlife reports, scientific reports and other previously released public information used by emergency responders, fishermen, mariners and local officials during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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NewsWWF: an up and down 2010 for Scots
Last year was a year of “ups and downs” for the Scottish fishing industry, according to WWF Scotland’s 2010 end of year assessment of the state of the country''s main whitefish stocks.
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NewsFishbam’s cooker-cooler with vacuum system
Designed for the automatic cooking of tuna and programmed with a vacuum cooling system by means of internal and external showers and a pump, the ‘Fishvac’ offers several advantages when compared with many other cookers available to processors, according to canning machinery manufacturer Fishbam.
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NewsNOAA assists entangled right whale
A team of state and federal biologists assisted a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale off the coast of Daytona, Florida, on 30 December.
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NewsSri Lanka to buy 400 deepsea fishing vessels in industry overhaul
Sri Lanka minister Rajitha Senaratne has revealed the country’s fisheries sector will be encouraged to upgrade in 2011 with measures introduced to increase both fish harvests and the prices of fish.
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NewsHB Grandi trawler catch value grows 12%
In spite of a reduction in quotas, the catch landed by HB Grandi’s eight trawlers came to approximately 51,500 tonnes with a value of around ISK 11.3 billion (€73.5 million/$97.9 million) in 2010.
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NIWA undertakes 20th Chatham Rise survey
On New Year’s Day, the New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research of New Zealand’s (NIWA) research vessel Tangaroa departed for its first voyage since its recent NZD 20 million (€11.7 million/$15.6 million) upgrade, making its 20th consecutive trip to the Chatham Rise to study the abundance ...
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Greenpeace applauds tuna no-take zone
Greenpeace has welcomed the entry into force on 1 January 2011 of a huge marine conservation area in the west and central Pacific. In an attempt to rescue the region''s declining bigeye and yellowfin tuna stocks, the no-take zone bans purse seine fishing from 4.5 million square kilometres over five ...
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NewsComplete conveyance solutions for seafood
The Seafood Team at US-based supplier of conveyance solutions and services Intralox develops handling systems for all types of fish processing operations, from onboard ocean-going factory trawlers through to the packaging end of a processing plant.
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NewsVietnamese tilapia farm deaths
More than 150 tonnes of red tilapia have died in the past week in Cao Lanh District in the southern province of Dong Thap, resulting in losses of VND35 billion (€1.3 million/$1.8 million) for fish farmers.
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Vietnamese shrimp region sets export target of $850m
Vietnam’s southern-most province of Ca Mau hopes to increase seafood exports by 11.8% to $850 million (€647.8 million) next year, local officials have said. To achieve the target, the province will zone 10,000 hectares of land for breeding tiger shrimp by 2015.
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Japan and Taiwan to resume fishery talks
Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has said that a 17th round of fishery talks with Japan will most likely take place in 2011 after a one-year hiatus.
