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NewsMarine Harvest wants in on consolidation
Salmon farming giant Marine Harvest has filed an official complaint against rules that prevent the company from growing any larger in Norway, saying it wants to participate in the consolidation of the industry.
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Closed tuna cannery in American Samoa to reopen
Chicken of the Sea (COS) International has transferred its closed tuna cannery in American Samoa to US-based Tri Marine International.
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Handlined jumbo squid receives eco-label
Friend of the Sea has announced the certification of Seatec’s jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas). Seatec is a supplier of calamari products under the BelOcean brand based in Chile.
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Saudi kingfish contract for Akva
The Akva Group has won a contract with the National Prawn Company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for delivery of a pre-grow-out system for the production of yellowtail kingfish.
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New fish skinner with freeze drum technology
German manufacturer Nock has combined its competence in fish skinning technology with his refrigeration know-how from the manufacturing of its scale ice machines to create a fish skinning machine with freeze drum technology.
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NewsSimplifying IUU compliance for exporters
With its experience and expertise in the field of traceability, Marel Food Systems is helping companies to adapt their procedures to the European Union regulations on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
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NewsRobot-supported processing ‘follows new path’
With its robot-supported processing and packing system for fish and shrimp, Cabinplant A/S claims it has followed a completely new path: products are no longer processed in individual, linked steps; instead, all processing is performed on the path from the conveyor belt to the package.
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NewsRoss Sea toothfish MSC assessment: objection upheld on four points
An independent adjudicator has instructed the third-party certifier Moody Marine to amend the final report of the Ross Sea toothfish MSC assessment to take into account his decision to uphold four of the objections lodged by the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) against the certification.
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NewsKing crab quotas down, snow crab up
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has released the total allowable catch (TAC) figures for the upcoming crab season and, as expected, the harvest level for Bristol Bay red king crab is lower than last season after summer surveys reported the stock remains in a declining trend.
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Mackerel quota talks to get underway
Crucial talks between the EU, Norway, Iceland and the Faroes to discuss mackerel quotas for 2011 will commence in London on Tuesday 12 October and Scottish fishermen’s leaders say they will be pressing for a deal that does not jeopardise their share in the international fishery and which also protects ...
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Survey: more consumers aware of MSC
Close to one in four adults are aware of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) eco-label – an increase of more than two and a half times since 2008, according to a survey carried out by AMR Marketing Research.
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NewsNew Manoverboard and Buoysmoke products unveiled
Chemring Marine has launched its new Pains Wessex Manoverboard MK8 and Buoysmoke MK8 lifebuoy markers in Europe.
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Cooke announces $150m expansion
Cooke Aquaculture is planning to spend $150 million (€107.4 million) over five years to expand its Nova Scotia operations.
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NewsNew two-lane Easymatic pinboner
Kaj Olesen A/S, which manufactures pinbone removers under the name of ‘Easymatic’, has developed a two-lane pinbone remover.
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Angola invests $62m in fishery protection
Angola’s government has spent $62 million (€44.4 million) on 10 new fishery and aquiculture monitoring boats to protect the country’s resources and to fight illegal fishing off the country''s coast.
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Scots: blue whiting quota shows mackerel threat
The release of the latest scientific advice for the catch uptake of blue whiting recommending a 2011 quota of only 40,000 tonnes is a stark reminder of the threat facing the valuable mackerel stock if uncontrolled fishing by Iceland and the Faroes continues, claimed the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation this week.
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NewsBP spill: NOAA reopens more fishing areas
NOAA has reopened 2,927 square miles of federal waters south of the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico to commercial and recreational fishing that it had previously closed in response to the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Thai Union cleared to buy MW Brands
Thai Union Frozen PLC (TUF) has received clearance received from the UK’s Office of Fair Trading on its €680 million ($942.8 million) acquisition of MW Brands Holdings SAS.
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Nutreco hosts Capital Markets Day in Italy
Nutreco on 6 October hosted a Capital Markets Day in Italy with a site visit to its fish feed plant and its recently inaugurated premix plant in Mozzecane. Next to the site visit Nutreco gave updates on the three divisions Agriculture, Specialties and Aquaculture.
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NewsHigher 2011 quotas for Norway, Russia
The Joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission has increased the quotas on all the main commercially fished species in the Barents Sea. The Norwegian minister of fisheries called the quota level a “historical high”.
