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NewsNew sales director at AEW Delford
Joe Maudlin has recently been appointed Sales Director for end of line systems at AEW Delford.
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Fishing opportunities for the Baltic Sea for 2010
The European Commission has tabled its proposal on fishing possibilities for fish stocks in the Baltic Sea for 2010. Scientific advice has shown that cod stocks are recovering, but that the Western herring stock still gives rise to serious concern.
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Pew urges NMFS to ban longlining in Gulf of Mexico
The Pew Environment Group last week joined 14 fishing and conservation organisations and more than 55,000 members of the general public in urging the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to reject its current proposal to allow commercial longline fishermen to catch and sell more Atlantic bluefin tuna.
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NewsFranche Terre reaches Indian Ocean
In July 2007, SAPMER, based in La Reunion, ordered three tuna purse seiners from PIRIOU. Franche Terre, the first of these new generation tuna purse seiners, built in France, was launched end of February. Fitting out and sea trials were completed before delivery in July and the vessel arrived in ...
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NewsTaiwanese ships caught illegally transferring tuna at sea
Two Taiwanese longline tuna fishing vessels have been caught illegally transferring fish at sea by Greenpeace. Fishing vessels Her Hae and Jia Yu Fa were carrying tuna and shark fins, and were photographed while transferring tuna from one ship to another in a pocket of international waters between Papua New ...
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Fifteen commits to MSC
The global restaurant brand Fifteen and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) have received a grant to have all four Fifteen restaurants certified to sell MSC ecolabelled fish. The grant, from the Dutch Stichting Doen Foundation will also fund a training project which will see Fifteen’s chefs join with the MSC ...
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Morocco still using banned driftnets
Despite being banned in the Mediterranean since 2003, a large fleet of driftnets continues to operate in Morocco, targeting swordfish for the European market. This illegal fishing is likely to have caused the accidental deaths of as many as 20,000 dolphins and more than 100,000 sharks in the past five ...
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MSC appoints Pacific Fisheries Manager
Bill Holden has joined the Marine Stewardship Council''s (MSC) Asia Pacific office as the new Pacific Fisheries Manager. Mr Holden has a commercial fishing background, extensive experience in fisheries extension work and is the director of a tuna fishing company based in the Kingdom of Tonga.
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NewsNew electronic net gauges
New electronic net measuring gauges will be in use by UK Marine and Fishery Agency (MFA) officers from 1 September.
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NewsIrish meetings on CFP review
Tony Killeen, Irish Minister of State with responsibility for Fisheries in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, has begun a series of meetings with fishermen on the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
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Canada orders five new search and rescue vessels
Canada has awarded a contract valued at $19.6 million to a shipbuilding company in Victoria, BC to build five new 47-foot motor lifeboats for the Canadian Coast Guard. The new vessels will be used by the Canadian Coast Guard for search and rescue operations across the country.
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Seafood leaders unite in Canberra
Seventeen future seafood leaders will meet in Canberra from 8-10 September to speak with current leaders as part of the National Seafood Industry Leadership Program.
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NewsGOFish to go live
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority''s (AFMA) online business facility, GOFish, is due to go live on 21 September. GOFish will enable concession holders and their authorised agents to conduct most of their licensing business with AFMA online, and at a reduced cost.
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Greenpeace confiscates illegal tuna fishing device
Activists from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza have confiscated an illegal fish aggregating device (FAD) floating in international waters between the maritime borders of Micronesia and Papua New Guinea.
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Petition shows demand for sustainable Pacific skipjack tuna
Over 70 million tins of sustainable, pole-and-line-caught Pacific skipjack tuna have been pre-ordered as part of a Greenpeace online campaign to promote the development of sustainable and equitable pole-and-line skipjack fisheries in the South Pacific.
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Free WFE registration extended until 6 September
Following the large number of registrations submitted on the closing day by companies planning to visit the World Fishing Exhibition, organisers have announced that the free online registration period has been extended until 6 September.
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Greenpeace's response to port state agreement
Greenpeace has said that the FAO agreement to shut ports to pirate vessels is a welcome step forward but must be implemented without delay.
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NewsBorg's response to port state agreement
The European Commission says that it welcomes the FAOs agreement on port state measures. This is the first major international agreement on fisheries management since the UN Fish Stocks Agreement was established in 1996.
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NewsNew port state treaty to stop IUU fishing
A new treaty aiming to close fishing ports to IUU fishing vessels has been agreed upon by 91 countries. The "Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing" is the first ever global treaty focussed on IUU fishing.
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All Danish fisheries to be MSC-certified
The Danish Fishermen''s Association (DFA) plans to have all Danish fisheries MSC certified by 2012. At a recent meeting the DFA began the MSC assessment of North Sea plaice, saithe and Eastern Baltic cod. If all goes to plan, fish from these three fisheries will be sold with the MSC ...
