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Salmon group changes name to reflect region
The New Brunswick Salmon Growers'' Association has changed its name and focus to better reflect the industry''s spread out of southwest New Brunswick.
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Tonka Seafoods looks into shrimp processing
Tonka Seafoods Inc is interested in restarting shrimp processing in Petersburg, Alaska, and last week approached the Petersburg Harbor Board seeking permission to build a two-story warehouse close to the Petersburg Community Cold Storage facility.
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NOAA reopens further 7,000 sq miles of Gulf
NOAA has reopened 6,879 square miles of Gulf waters about 180-200 nautical miles south of the Florida panhandle, between the Florida-Alabama state line and Cape San Blas, to commercial and recreational fishing.
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NewsMarelec marine scales and graders
The latest installations for marine weighing specialist Marelec NV include the Scottish prawn fishing vessels Achieve and Replenish, while Norwegian vessel Sunderoy installed a MS4/6 six-gate static grader for grading to size and Tosnes has installed a MS5/7 seven-gate grader.
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NewsFilleting the smallest fish
It took SEAC AB three years to overhaul its ARENCO SFD-300 to fillet smaller fish from 25 to 50 fish per kg and the result – the ARENCO SFD-300 XS was installed in Sweden, Finland, Latvia and Croatia to work on Baltic herring, sardines, anchovies, vendance, red mullet and horse ...
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NewsPeterhead’s new quay opens on time
Peterhead Port Authority’s new all-weather deepwater Smith Embankment quay has opened for business - on time and within budget.
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NewsNew rule denies IUU boats entry to US
A new federal rule is being introduced that will allow NOAA’s assistant administrator for fisheries to deny a vessel entry into a US port or access to port services if that vessel has been listed for engaging in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
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Sri Lanka lifts all fishing restrictions
The Sri Lankan government has lifted all restrictions that were imposed on fishing in the seas around the island due to LTTE terrorism, the Defence Ministry announced.
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US west coast fishermen sent catch share applications
NOAA’s Fisheries Service has mailed applications to almost 240 trawl fishermen and processors on the US west coast to invite them into what will be arguably the most important change in west coast trawl fisheries management in a generation
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Northrop Grumman introduces new-gen shipboard alarm
US-based Northrop Grumman Corporation has unveiled a new generation of marine alarm, monitoring and control solutions, designed to provide cost-effective solutions for small- to medium-size commercial and naval vessels.
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NewsContinuous volume dozing
Processing equipment manufacturer for small fish, Peruza said it has bucked the trend for cyclic weighing to introduce continuous volume dozing.
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Scottish Salmon Co appoints board members
The Scottish Salmon Company Ltd (SSC) has appointed three new non-executive directors to its board, Robert M Brown III, Merete Myhrstad and Viacheslav Lavrentyev.
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Norwegian skipper fined for illegal mackerel
A Norwegian fishing skipper who admitted trying to smuggle more than 70 tonnes of mackerel out of EU waters has been fined £20,000 (€22,745/$31,988) in Shetland, UK.
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Gulf of Mexico eyes ecosystem management
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene its Ecosystem Scientific and Statistical Committee and Socioeconomic Panel in Tampa, Florida, to discuss ways in which socioeconomic data can be integrated into fisheries science in moving toward ecosystem-based fishery management.
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Technology to probe deeper into oceans
Australian scientists will use the data from a new AUD 22 million (€15.6 million/$21.9 million) array of high-tech equipment to probe deeper into the nation’s surrounding oceans.
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West Coast Seafood Processors Association – looking to the future
The US west coast trawl groundfish industry – fishermen and processors – will experience a fundamental change in management in 2011. The change to catch shares or an individual quota system will likely create some temporary confusion but may lead to innovation and increased value-adding options for processors in subsequent ...
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NewsSmartfind S5 gets Danish approval
McMurdo’s new Smartfind S5 AIS SART (Automatic Identification System Search and Rescue Transmitter) has been authorised for installation onboard Danish-flagged vessels and in accordance with the requirements of the Danish Maritime Authority.
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Fast thawing
One of Innotec Systems’ “Speedy Thawing” systems has been put into action thawing whole frozen mackerel blocks at one of the biggest pelagic processors in the Netherlands.
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NewsNine billion customers for the ‘bank in the water’
Wild and farmed, live and chilled fish at Hong Kong's Mong Kok fish market. Daily arrivals by truck and ferry from small suppliers around the Pearl Delta and from across China in special luggage vans on passenger trains. (Image: TW/EEC Photos)Beware of soothsayers predicting the future. But we can be ...
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NewsEco-friendly EPS handling turns waste into money
On a good day as many as 1,000 boxes of salmon are fed into the production department at Danish smoked fish giant Norlax A/S. The huge quantity of expanded polystyrene (EPS) boxes used to fill four truckloads per day, which commuted constantly between the company''s premises and a waste handling ...
