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    Selex solution meets e-logbook requirement

    2010-09-06T09:15:00Z

    Selex Communications has started selling a solution to the UK’s e-logbook requirement for the recording and transmission of fishing activities data.

  • OSL’s farm will be developed over a number of years and initially, production will be aimed at the export market.
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    Offshore mussel farm lease granted

    2010-09-03T11:34:00Z

    Offshore Shellfish Ltd (OSL) has been granted a lease by The Crown Estate to develop a pioneering offshore, rope cultured mussel farm in Lyme Bay, Devon, UK. Work will soon start on a pilot project, and at its full development of 15.4sq km, the farm will be the largest of ...

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    Barnegat Light to recycle old fishing gear

    2010-09-03T11:00:00Z

    The New Jersey port of Barnegat Light is the latest addition to the Fishing for Energy initiative, the programme providing commercial fishermen a cost-free way to recycle old and unusable fishing gear.

  • Award-winning restaurateur and fishmonger Mitch Tonks worked with Young’s to develop the new Fishmonger’s Choice range.
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    Young’s unveils premium frozen fish line

    2010-09-03T01:15:00Z

    UK seafood giant Young’s has launched a new range of premium fish dishes for retail which the Findus company hopes will start the biggest category shake-up of the year.

  • HB Grandi‘s Vopnafjörður factory. (Photo/HB Grandi: Jón Sigurðarson)
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    HB Grandi triples pelagic production

    2010-09-03T01:00:00Z

    To date, HB Grandi’s pelagic vessels have landed 27,000 tonnes of Atlanto-Scandian herring and mackerel at its Vopnafjördur factory, representing a significant reduction in catch compared to last year, when 41,000 tonnes of mackerel and herring had been landed by this stage.

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    Aussies fear NZ will take rock lobster markets

    2010-09-02T17:31:00Z

    Tasmanian rock lobster fisherman are worried New Zealand could capitalise on Australia''s predicted rock lobster shortage next month.

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    Profits soar for Scots salmon company

    2010-09-02T17:28:00Z

    Edinburgh-based Scottish Salmon Company has seen its first-half pre-tax profits rise year-on-year from £1.7 million (€2 million/$2.6 million) to £12.1 million (€14.5 million/$18.6 million), while turnover has doubled to £42.6 million (€51.1 million/$65.6 million).

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    Beijing Culimer moves closer to seafood heartland

    2010-09-02T17:16:00Z

    Seafood supplier Beijing Culimer Seafood Im-Exporting Co Ltd has moved to a new, larger location to facilitate the company’s growth in China.

  • Professor Angela McLean's advanced computing helps gauge mutation of viruses and effects on DNA in local and global environments. (Photo: TW/EEC Photos)
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    Viruses, wildfowl, ice and the ‘African Sea’

    2010-09-01T01:00:00Z

    Professor Angela McLean's advanced computing helps gauge mutation of viruses and effects on DNA in local and global environments. (Photo: TW/EEC Photos)If fish farmers want to look into the near future to prevent the next ‘big issue’, they could do well to keep an eye on the work of Angela ...

  • McMurdo’s new Smartfind Navtex.
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    New Navtex receiver from McMurdo stable

    2010-09-01T01:00:00Z

    McMurdo has launched a new Navtex receiver, the Smartfind GMDSS Navtex.

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    NTSB to hold fishing vessel safety forum

    2010-09-01T01:00:00Z

    The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a forum on fishing vessel safety beginning Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 9am. The two-day forum will be chaired by NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt.

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    UK seafood training centre to shut

    2010-09-01T01:00:00Z

    A centre that has helped train hundreds of people for the UK seafood industry is set to close because its funding has been withdrawn.

  • Many Spanish fishing vessel operators are using OpenPort to comply with the new European Union regulations for electronic log keeping and reporting.
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    Iridium’s Openport proves popular with Spanish fleet

    2010-08-31T01:00:00Z

    US-based Iridium Communications has received orders for more than 100 Iridium OpenPort broadband satellite terminals for installation on Spanish commercial fishing vessels.

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    Ore supplies fish tracking project

    2010-08-31T01:00:00Z

    Ore Offshore recently completed a shipment of 100 long-life acoustic releases.

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    Benefits of Pacific tuna tagging being realised

    2010-08-31T01:00:00Z

    The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) said it is already seeing the benefits of the tuna tagging programme in the Pacific, which concluded at the end of last year.

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    Iceland minister: 'it’s our right' to fish mackerel

    2010-08-31T01:00:00Z

    Iceland''s fisheries minister told the UK’s Channel 4 News that his country''s trawlers have the right to fish greater quantities of mackerel from its waters, despite growing protests from Scottish fishermen.

  • Detective superintendent Gordon Gibson of Grampian police: “This was criminality at an extremely high level."
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    Boats landed €18m of illegal pelagics

    2010-08-31T01:00:00Z

    Six trawlermen from Shetland, UK, face unlimited fines and multi-million pound confiscation orders for illegally landing £15 million (€18.3 million/$23.2 million) worth of herring and mackerel.

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    Greenpeace urges NZ to help save Pacific tuna

    2010-08-30T21:08:00Z

    Greenpeace has called on the New Zealand government to support a plan to make the Pacific’s tuna fisheries sustainable following further reports of declining stocks.

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    Florida projects get BP funding for oil spill research

    2010-08-30T10:00:00Z

    Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is well represented among the 27 research projects selected by the Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) Council to examine the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Fishing boats on Lake Victoria, Uganda.
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    Getting East Africa back on track

    2010-08-30T01:00:00Z

    The World Bank has started a five-year series of initiatives that will lend financial support to sustainable fisheries development in Lake Victoria. David Hayes reports.