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    Chilean hake fishery enters MSC assessment

    2010-06-14T07:39:00Z

    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

    2010-06-14T07:34:00Z

    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.

  • John Whitehead has been appointed interim chair of Seafish following the completion of Charles Howeson’s three-year term.
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    Seafish appoints new interim chairman

    2010-06-10T11:51:00Z

    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.

  • Is fish trash like this across Asia for a great soup or blue skies science?
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    Blue skies research rises in the East

    2010-06-10T09:32:00Z

    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.

  • The European Commission stopped the bluefin fishery six days early, on 9 June rather than the scheduled date of 15 June.
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    EU stops bluefin fishing season early

    2010-06-10T09:14:00Z

    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.

  • Fishery closure boundary as of 7 June, 2010. Closure area may be updated daily as necessary. (Image: NOAA)
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    NOAA reopens fishing area in Gulf of Mexico

    2010-06-10T09:04:00Z

    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

    2010-06-09T09:23:00Z

    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

    2010-06-09T08:59:00Z

    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.

  • According to NOAA, 250 stocks or stock complexes have known overfishing determinations: 212 (85%) are not subject to overfishing and 38 (15%) are subject to overfishing. (Photo: NOAA)
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    NOAA: Slightly less overfishing in the US

    2010-06-08T09:06:00Z

    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

    2010-06-08T08:53:00Z

    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.

  • Findus’ Fish for Life programme scoops the Management prize at the European Business Awards for the Environment.
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    Findus wins top European environment award

    2010-06-07T10:50:00Z

    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.

  • NOAA officials assess how samples are processed aboard the research vessel Caretta and the chain of custody protocols used when handling specimens associated with the oil spill. (Photo: NOAA)
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    BP boss confident of Gulf clean-up

    2010-06-07T10:18:00Z

    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.

  • HB Grandi's Venus HF started fishing redfish at the beginning of May.
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    Trawlers fishing well on deep sea redfish

    2010-06-04T08:12:00Z

    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

    2010-06-04T08:03:00Z

    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.

  • Schwaab: Fisheries have been vital to the prosperity of US coastal communities for centuries.
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    Protecting US marine resources

    2010-06-03T09:05:00Z

    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 ...

  • The Gulf fishery closure boundary as of June 1, 2010. The closure area may be updated daily as necessary. (Image: NOAA)
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    One-third of Gulf of Mexico now closed

    2010-06-03T08:57:00Z

    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.

  • BAP certification standards for pangasius farms are also close to release.
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    Aquaculture programme achieves food safety benchmark

    2010-06-03T08:50:00Z

    The Global Aquaculture Alliance Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification programme has completed its benchmarking against the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) food safety requirements.

  • Herring production going well at Vopnafjördur. (Photo:HB Grandi/Jón Sigurðarson)
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    HB Grandi reports solid start to herring production

    2010-06-03T08:39:00Z

    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

    2010-06-03T08:33:00Z

    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

    2010-06-02T11:13:00Z

    Highlighting the misinterpretation of commercial fishing data.