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Mackerel talks break down
The latest round of talks to try and reach agreement with the Faroe Islands on mackerel catching arrangements for 2011 have broken down.
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NewsSodexo offers MSC fish to 1m Brits
More than one million people in the UK will be offered Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified sustainable fish in workplace restaurants, schools, hospitals and defence sites, thanks to foodservice provider Sodexo.
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EU urged to ban removing shark fins at sea
Shark fisheries experts say in a new report that to strengthen the European Union’s ban on shark finning, EU fishermen should no longer be permitted to remove shark fins onboard ships, and that loopholes in regulations make it possible for fishermen to fin an estimated two out of every three ...
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Cobia available directly to UK consumers
From January cobia will be available directly to UK consumers thanks to a new arrangement between Marine Farms and Regal Fish Supplies Ltd. Over the last six months, sales of cobia have gone from strength to strength, with Marine Farms receiving orders from across Europe, the US and South East ...
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Alaska shrimp fishermen could receive $12,000 grant to conduct training
Southeast Alaska commercial shrimp fishermen may have up to $12,000 (€9,080) available to them, but only if they sign up before 23 December for a free federal programme that provides training for people in industries suffering from foreign competition.
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NewsPacific Andes buys into salmon farming, Tassal
Pacific Andes Resources Development (PARD) has acquired a 19.8% stake in Australian salmon producer, Tassal. The Singaporean company paid AUD 51.7 million (€38.5 million/$50.9 million), or AUD 1.79 (€1.33/$1.76) per share, for the stake. Tassal recently rejected a hostile takeover bid from Pacific Equity Partners which was prepared to pay ...
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WireCo WorldGroup buys Grupo Oliveira
WireCo WorldGroup Inc, a leading producer and marketer of specialty wire ropes, has acquired Grupo Oliveira Sá and certain other assets comprising its worldwide business. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
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NewsQ&A with Tony Smith, Dragon Feeds
Dragon Feeds began looking at ways to produce sustainable aquaculture feeds around 10 years ago. Following five years intense research and development work, the UK company unveiled its unique fishmeal alternative, which combines its own farm-produced Nereis virens polychaetes, also known as ragworms, with vegetable proteins. Today, Dragon’s feed project ...
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NewsMarel launches weigh price labeller for small volumes of fish
New to the Marel fish processing range and launched at the Conxemar Seafoods Exhibition in Spain and IPA, Paris, the AEW Delford WPL9040 Weigh Price Labeller is targeted at smaller processors as well as for larger producers requiring lower volumes on a particular line.
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Supermarkets step up sustainable Pacific tuna sourcing
As governments meet in Honolulu to decide the future of Pacific tuna stocks at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), Greenpeace has applauded the decision taken by several German, Austrian and Australian retail chains to switch to tinned tuna containing Pacific skipjack tuna caught without the use of ...
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Alaska king crab research nets $460,000
Biologists developing science and technology to raise wild red and blue king crab in hatcheries as a way to rebuild collapsed stocks in parts of Alaska have received $460,000 (€347,966) in grants and support to assess how the crab may fare in the wild.
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NewsUnlikely alliance protects krill
Aker BioMarine dedicated five days this year to conducting research in on krill distribution and predator impacts as a result of its agreement with WWF Norway.
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NewsUS stands by taxes on Vietnamese shrimp
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced it will continue to levy anti-dumping taxes on frozen warmwater shrimp imported from Vietnam.
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WWF 'hurts' Vietnam pangasius industry
Vietnamese pangasius exporters are concerned European sales may be hurt after a guide by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) advised consumers not to buy the fish.
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Indonesia opens shrimp broodstock centre
Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono this week inaugurated a shrimp breeding centre in the Bugbug village in Karangasem Regency, Bali.
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Seafish appoints new deputy chair
Marine ecologist, professor Michel Kaiser, has been appointed to the role of interim deputy chair of the Seafish board until March 2012 by the UK seafood authority.
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NewsSales of Scottish mussels to soar
The Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group (SSMG) has predicted a 15% increase in the volume of mussels sold over Christmas compared with the same period last year, saying consumers have become increasingly adventurous in their tastes.
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Fusion Marine pens installed at new Ghanaian tilapia farm
Fusion Marine has completed the installation of a fish farm in Ghana for tilapia. Production on the farm on the Volta River is envisaged to be in the region of 275 tonnes of fish per year with output expected to increase further in a couple of years’ time.
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Norway’s north east Arctic coldwater prawn fishery enters MSC assessment
Following the certification of some of Norway’s saithe, cod and haddock fisheries, the Norwegian Seafood Export Council has entered the north east Arctic coldwater prawn fishery into assessment for MSC certification.
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Welsh mussel fishery secures MSC certificate
The Bangor Mussel Producers fishery has been certified as a sustainable and well-managed fishery by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).
