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    Avure’s new HPP system

    2010-03-19T11:17:00Z

    Avure Technologies’ new horizontal High Pressure Processing (HPP) system makes advanced food safety technology more affordable for small and mid-range processors.

  • One of AFOS’s large kilns
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    AFOS extends help to processors

    2010-03-19T11:13:00Z

    Smoking kiln manufacturer, AFOS, is continuing its support to help the hard pressed smoked fish and food industry by extending its offer to provide cost effective kiln upgrades to customers.

  • Baader 142 Princess-Cut Gutting Machine
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    Producing safe food safely

    2010-03-19T10:32:00Z

    Baader 142 Princess-Cut Gutting MachineThe company was started when Rudolph M J Baader developed a machine for filleting herring in 1919. This machine not only reduced the number of people required to fillet the species, it also saved time and money. The German company, now operating worldwide, still seeks to ...

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    Professionalism, recognition and growth

    2010-03-18T17:16:00Z

    A laboratory for analysis and study, inspection organisation and certification organisation – these are the three activities of Quality Partner.

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    Fishing coalition to fight marine Highland Clearance

    2010-03-18T17:10:00Z

    A Marine Protection Area Fishing Coalition has been set up to represent the entire UK commercial fishing industry in the face of a proliferation of designations and demands related to habitat protection issues, reports Stuart Fisher.

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    Barriers between Thailand and Indonesia

    2010-03-18T17:06:00Z

    Despite Thailand and Indonesia pledging to finalise a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on fisheries this year, the industry is critical saying the accord fails to address various fundamental problems, reports Michael Mackey.

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    Vietnam catch increases of up to seven times

    2010-03-18T17:01:00Z

    Michael Mackey reports that catch increases of up to seven times have been reported by Vietnam''s fishing vessels since the introduction of three different types of nets with some financial help from local authorities late last year.

  • Bluefin tuna. ©Greenpeace/Marco Care
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    Bluefin tuna ban rejected

    2010-03-18T15:55:00Z

    Trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna will not be banned, it was decided at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) today.

  • Cobia fingerlings. Credit: NOAA
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    Cobia set to make its mark at ESE

    2010-03-18T14:17:00Z

    Marine Farms is launching farmed cobia at the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels.

  • 5,000 fishermen and representatives of the fishing industry United States rallied in front of Capitol Hill
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    USA: Fishing industry and government on a colliding course?

    2010-03-18T14:06:00Z

    On 24 February 2010 a “United We Fish” Rally took place in Washington DC, reports Menakhem Ben-Yami.

  • The regulation of marine resources has passed into the hands of the Marine Management Organisation. Credit: Daplaza
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    Revised enforcement regime within English waters

    2010-03-18T13:59:00Z

    The regulation of marine resources has passed into the hands of the Marine Management Organisation. Credit: DaplazaThe regulation of marine resources has passed into the hands of the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) which will be based in Newcastle upon Tyne. The MMO has whole raft of new powers in respect ...

  • Netting kilo+ trout to weigh and sell to visitors at the Dachigam farm, Srinagar. Credit: TW: EEC Photos
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    India – farmed fish for peace

    2010-03-18T13:45:00Z

    For many small fishermen the invasion of the coast by prawn farms has been a 30-year battle.

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    Marine fish farming: solution or delusion?

    2010-03-18T13:33:00Z

    The question is not how to protect environment from aquaculture, but how to develop marine fish farming that’s environment friendly.

  • Some of the proposed/agreed areas before the undersea land grab. OSPAR (Oslo Paris Convention) began to emerge in 1972 to stop waste dumping in the Northeast Atlantic. Credit: TW : EEC Photos
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    Brain-storms and litmus tests for acidity with hot air pollution

    2010-03-18T13:25:00Z

    Some of the proposed/agreed areas before the undersea land grab. OSPAR (Oslo Paris Convention) began to emerge in 1972 to stop waste dumping in the Northeast Atlantic. Credit: TW : EEC PhotosPeter O’Neill reports that doubts are also coming in across all weather fronts about the quality of climate data ...

  • From left to right: TFA Director Peter Davey; PPS Director Iain McArthur and TFA's Steve Moore
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    PPS announces acquisition of TFA Box Company

    2010-03-17T13:41:00Z

    PPS Equipment Management Ltd, based in Measham in the Midlands, UK, has announced its successful acquisition of the Grimsby based TFA Box Company that has a long history of supplying the East Coast fishing industry with a wide selection of plastic fish boxes plus collection and hygienic washing services.

  • Pacific smelt. Credit: NOAA
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    NOAA lists Pacific smelt as threatened

    2010-03-17T13:36:00Z

    NOAA’s Fisheries Service is listing Pacific smelt as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

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    Norwegian farmed cod popular in France and Sweden

    2010-03-17T13:24:00Z

    Norwegian farmed cod is a good fish - that is the conclusion of a market test involving 32 chefs in France and Sweden.

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    SFF: Fishing must not be neglected

    2010-03-17T12:48:00Z

    Bertie Armstrong will today tell a major conference that the primary and sustainable harvesting of seafood must be considered in balance with the activities of other stakeholders such a the oil, gas and renewable energy sectors.

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    New recirculation contract for smolt facility in Norway

    2010-03-17T10:38:00Z

    AKVA group has signed a contract with Nordland Akva AS for delivery of a complete UNI Recirculation System for production of Atlantic Salmon smolts.

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    Indonesian fishing moratorium a small step to help save Coral Triangle

    2010-03-17T10:32:00Z

    WWF welcomes Indonesian moratorium on new trawl and purse seine fisheries licenses but says an immediate reduction in fishing efforts is needed in order to protect the Coral Triangle.