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    Report: Offshore aquaculture would benefit US economy

    2008-08-02T10:18:00Z

    Aquaculture shows significant economic potential and good prospects for success in the United States, according to a new report commissioned by NOAA.

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    The unavoidable trend

    2008-08-01T16:08:00Z

    Introducing Andrew Martin - World Fishing''s new processing columnist.

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    Wisdom from Russia - now in English

    2008-08-01T16:05:00Z

    In January 2007, I reviewed here (see Enlightenment from Russia) a Russian book by L B Klyashtorin and A A Lyubushin, published in 2005 by the Moscow VNIRO (the All-Russian Scientific Institute for Fisheries and Oceanography).

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    Licences and quotas: the legal ownership debate

    2008-08-01T12:08:00Z

    Devolution, and independent governance for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, has recently refuelled the debate within the United Kingdom regarding ownership of licences and fishing quota.

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    Conservation vital for tuna

    2008-08-01T11:57:00Z

    Cheap tuna is a thing of the past, the conference was told. Stocks are declining in all oceans and tuna is becoming more expensive to catch. Rising fuel prices and environmental pressures are taking their toll; climate change with increased water temperatures and rising sea levels is having a serious ...

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    Meeting emissions regulations

    2008-08-01T11:55:00Z

    Volvo Penta says that the excellent emissions performance of its engines meet both existing and proposed emissions regulations and all of the company''s gen-sets and propulsion engines are type approved by major classification societies.

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    More Cummins engines for Argentina

    2008-08-01T11:50:00Z

    At the end of May, the shipyard Astillero Naval Federico Contessi y Cia. S.A. christened and launched a new coastal fishing vessel.

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    Bio-lubes: myth and reality

    2008-08-01T11:45:00Z

    The fishing industry today faces many challenges. Increasing fuel costs, reduced quotas and depleted fishing grounds are just a few of the major headaches facing vessel owners and operators.

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    Countering soaring fuel costs

    2008-08-01T11:42:00Z

    With increasing fuel costs, vessel fuel efficiency is something that really needs to be considered. Fuel is a necessary ‘evil’ and is an essential commodity required to do the job.

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    New bunker facility in Faroe Islands

    2008-08-01T11:40:00Z

    O.W. Icebunker Ltd. A/S (OWI), part of the O.W. Bunker Group has announced the establishment of a new tank storage facility in the North Atlantic.

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    Frydenbø opens Bergen sales office

    2008-08-01T11:35:00Z

    Frydenbø Power is establishing a sales and service office in Bergen, in order to strengthen its services to customers in the marine industry along the western coast of Norway.

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    Centurion Del Atlantico returns to southern hemisphere

    2008-08-01T11:22:00Z

    MAN Diesel PrimeServ’s Service Center in Frederikshavn, Denmark, has successfully completed a large main engine repair and overhaul job aboard the Argentine fishing factory trawler Centurion Del Atlantico.

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    IQ freezing capacity boosted at Akranes factory

    2008-08-01T11:15:00Z

    HB Grandi has signed a contract with Skaginn to supply an IQ freezing system for the company’s processing plant in Akranes, which is expected to boost production of individually quick frozen products from 800kg to 2500kg per hour.

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    Grenco absorption refrigeration system

    2008-08-01T11:10:00Z

    For the first time ever an absorption refrigeration system is to operate onboard a large fishing vessel.

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    Fish and seafood sector warned "act now over banned refrigerant or risk meltdown"

    2008-08-01T11:01:00Z

    Fish and seafood processors with refrigeration systems running on the common HCFC R22 refrigerant have been urged to act now to secure the future of their businesses.

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    The Advanced way to success

    2008-08-01T10:48:00Z

    Recently Advanced Food Systems B.V. has had major sales success by selling a large number of machines in Australia, North America and Russia.

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    New freezer to revolutionise the food processing industry

    2008-08-01T10:34:00Z

    Singapore based Dantech Food Systems has developed a tunnel freezer which is easily movable, energy efficient, easy to install, easy to clean, easy to handle – and easy to sell again.

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    Malaysia

    2008-08-01T10:13:00Z

    Malaysia aims to increase fisheries production by one third - Malaysia’s fisheries industry has reached the half way stage in the government’s programme to increase the nation’s annual fisheries production by 600,000 metric tons (mt) or one third during the current Ninth Five Year Malaysia Plan (2006-2010).

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    Closing the gap between fresh and frozen seafood

    2008-08-01T10:05:00Z

    Lars Nannerup, CEO of Aqualife Logistics"The shellfish industry worldwide is growing dramatically. The whole aquaculture industry is now the fastest growing industry in the world and shellfish in particular is undergoing great developments," says Mr Nannerup."For enzymatic reasons, shellfish will deteriorate quite quickly after it is dead. Our objective is ...

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    Future of Scotland's fishing rights

    2008-07-31T20:51:00Z

    A review of the management of one of Scotland''s national assets - its fish quota - will be the focus of a consultation meeting in Eyemouth.