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Aussies fear NZ will take rock lobster markets
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
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
Seafood supplier Beijing Culimer Seafood Im-Exporting Co Ltd has moved to a new, larger location to facilitate the company’s growth in China.
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NewsViruses, wildfowl, ice and the ‘African Sea’
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 ...
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NewsNew Navtex receiver from McMurdo stable
McMurdo has launched a new Navtex receiver, the Smartfind GMDSS Navtex.
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NTSB to hold fishing vessel safety forum
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
A centre that has helped train hundreds of people for the UK seafood industry is set to close because its funding has been withdrawn.
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NewsIridium’s Openport proves popular with Spanish fleet
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
Ore Offshore recently completed a shipment of 100 long-life acoustic releases.
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Benefits of Pacific tuna tagging being realised
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
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.
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NewsBoats landed €18m of illegal pelagics
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
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
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.
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NewsGetting East Africa back on track
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.
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NewsStark’s 16.8m steel trawler project
Stark Bros Ltd of Lyttelton, New Zealand, is well into the construction of its latest design and build project, a 16.8-metre steel fishing trawler.
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UK fishing industry set for fish price slump
Scottish fishing communities can expect more hardship this autumn when Iceland increases its cod quota and floods the market, pushing down the price of fish, industry leaders have warned.
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Vietnam submits shrimp lawsuit to WTO
Vietnam submitted its lawsuit documents against the US imposition of anti-dumping tariffs on its frozen shrimp to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel in Geneva, Switzerland, on 20 August.
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SFF: no more days at sea cuts
The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation has called for a freeze on any further reductions in the number of days fishing vessels can put to sea and is warning that a significant proportion of the demersal fleet is facing financial collapse unless there is an easing of the current management restrictions.
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NewsAlnet’s new polyethylene nets
South African net manufacturing specialist Alnet has added to its range of nylon, knotless Kapenta nets with polyethylene knotless Kapenta nets.
