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Chilean hake fishery enters MSC assessment
Sociedad Nacional de Pesca has entered its Chilean hake (Merluccius gayi gayi) trawl fishery into the independent, third-party assessment under the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) certification programme.
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New almanac for UK and Irish fishing fleets
In August this year, book publisher A&C Black will launch the only almanac available in the UK and Ireland that is solely oriented towards the fishing industry.
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NewsSeafish appoints new interim chairman
UK seafood authority Seafish has announced the appointment of John Whitehead as interim chair of the organisation following the completion of Charles Howeson’s three-year term as chair.
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NewsBlue skies research rises in the East
Fish R&D in East Asia has put much of its past effort into promoting standards to meet ‘Western’ import health and quality regulations. Peter O’Neill finds signs of a significant value shift upwards on the lucrative bio and innovation fronts.
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NewsEU stops bluefin fishing season early
The European Commission brought an early end to the Atlantic bluefin tuna purse seine catching season saying that the quota allowed to be caught had already been fulfilled.
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NewsNOAA reopens fishing area in Gulf of Mexico
NOAA has opened 339 square miles of previously closed fishing area off the Florida panhandle – the northern boundary now ends at the Florida federal-state water line on the east side of Choctawhatchee Bay.
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Russian giant trawl nets go global
The recent international fisheries conference at the Kaliningrad technical university gave attendees the rare opportunity to visit Fishering Sevice, a local, family-owned company and manufacturer of some of the world’s largest trawls, reports Menakhem Ben-Yami .
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Pew urges ‘thoughtful approach’ to catch shares
The Pew Environment Group has voiced its concern about the proposed US west coast trawl fishery catch share programme, following the publication of a new study by Ecotrust.
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NewsNOAA: Slightly less overfishing in the US
There has been a small reduction in the number of US fisheries that are deemed as being overfished, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Fusion wins Ghana aquaculture contract
Fusion Marine has won an order to supply aquaculture equipment for a new tilapia farm in Ghana in the first modernisation project of this type for the West African country.
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NewsFindus wins top European environment award
At a prestigious ceremony in Brussels, Belgium, on 2 June, European Environment Commissioner, Janez Potocnik, announced the Findus Group/Young’s Fish for Life programme for seafood sustainability was the overall winner of the ‘Management’ category of the European Business Awards for the Environment.
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NewsBP boss confident of Gulf clean-up
BP said its latest efforts to tackle the Gulf of Mexico crisis are likely to capture the "vast majority" of the oil spewing out into the ocean.
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NewsTrawlers fishing well on deep sea redfish
The four HB Grandi’s factory trawlers that have been fishing on deep sea redfish for the past few weeks have reported good catches and that all four vessels have been able to maintain close to full production of 40-50 tonnes of raw fish per day.
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Clearwater secures Canada’s first MSC-certified lobster fishery
Eastern Canadian offshore lobster has become the latest addition to Clearwater Seafoods'' Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified offerings, joining Canadian sea scallops, Argentine scallops and Canadian coldwater shrimp.
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NewsProtecting US marine resources
Schwaab: Fisheries have been vital to the prosperity of US coastal communities for centuries.WF: How are you planning to implement policies such as catch shares, which seem to have sparked significant controversy in the US fishing industry ES: Catch share programmes, which include individual fishing quotas and limited access ...
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NewsOne-third of Gulf of Mexico now closed
NOAA has again extended the northern and southern boundaries of the closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico in an attempt to limit the impact of the spreading BP oil spill.
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NewsAquaculture programme achieves food safety benchmark
The Global Aquaculture Alliance Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification programme has completed its benchmarking against the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) food safety requirements.
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NewsHB Grandi reports solid start to herring production
Herring production got underway at HB Grandi‘s Vopnafjördur factory on 31 May when Lundey NS arrived with 300 tonnes of herring on board.
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Publix works on improved seafood grading system
Publix Super Markets Inc is embarking on a new seafood grading system. The US company, which failed Greenpeace’s Sustainable Seafood Scorecard for the second year, has hired a conservation group to assess seafood sold at its stores.
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Filthy oceans and misinformation
Highlighting the misinterpretation of commercial fishing data.
