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Croatian tuna farm takes step towards sustainable tuna farming
A vital step towards closed life cycle farming of the commercially valuable Atlantic Blue Fin Tuna (NBT) was achieved in the Adriatic farming sites of Kali Tuna, a Croatian tuna farming company and the laboratories of the University of Split. Marine scientists at Split University have confirmed that gametogenesis was ...
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New report highlights economic importance of salmon farming
Scotland’s salmon farmers injected £500m into the economy in 2008. The Highlands and Islands continue to be the most significant beneficiaries. When additional downstream added-value processing is considered, the economic benefits are likely to be far greater.
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WWF welcomes UK Ministers’ support for improving Europe’s fisheries
EU Fisheries Ministers from the UK, Scotland, Germany and Denmark yesterday put their support behind new measures that will improve the management of Europe’s fish stocks and reduce the wasteful practice of discards. In a joint statement, the Ministers call for a reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy that ...
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SFF statement on CCTV as a fisheries control measure
Speaking in response to Scottish Fisheries Minister Richard Lochhead''s announcement that CCTV on fishing vessels could unlock more quota and fishing time, Scottish Fishermen’s Federation Chief Executive Bertie Armstrong said:
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Down on the (fish) farm
Glasgow-based New Zealander Sunil Kadri scooped up the O2 X Male Entrepreneur of The Year Award in London recently. Co-founder of Optoswim Technologies, Mr Kadri is a marine biologist and fish behaviour expert who explores technologies to enhance fish farming. Straddling the realms of business and academia has paid off ...
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Irish Sea Conservation Zone launches next week
The Irish Sea Conservation Zone (ISCZ) will launch on Wednesday 14 October to help secure a healthy and productive future for the coast and waters of the Irish Sea.
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Federations to deliver stark message to UK fisheries ministers
At a joint meeting of UK fisheries ministers in Edinburgh tomorrow, the UK’s two principal fishermen’s organisations will deliver the stark warning that efforts must be stepped up to head-off devastating cuts proposed by the EC.
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NewsFirst fishing trawler to be fitted with SkySails
Parlevliet & Van der Plas has signed a purchase agreement with Hamburg-based manufacturer SkySails for the world’s first towing-kite wind propulsion system to be installed on a fishing trawler.
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Supplying the entire product range
Pon Power AS is the sole distributor of Cat engines and generators in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Faeroe Islands and Greenland, and is a MaK distributor in Scandinavia.
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New Dynamica ropes
Danish company Netmark A/S supplies twisted and braided TURBO nylon netting, polyester and Dyneema® netting with single and double knots for trawls, purse seines and aquaculture.
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NewsPresenting two new radars
At Danfish this year, Navteam will present the two new radars from Japan Radio Company Ltd (JRC), JRC JMA 5200MKII and 5300MKII.
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NewsMarel at Danfish
Marel Food Systems is inviting Danfish visitors to visit its stand at the show for "interesting news for fish processors onshore and onboard".
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NewsTraceability of Danish fish
In 2009, detailed plans for a general traceability system for the Danish fishing industry will be completed. The system will enable the industry to provide electronic traceability information in a standard form for all fish auctioned.
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NewsCDs for fishing plotters free at Kingfisher stand
For over 40 years Kingfisher, a department within the UK based Sea Fish Industry Authority, has supplied fishermen with seabed information. Kingfisher now produces charts and fishing plotter files containing positions of man-made offshore obstructions connected with the UK offshore oil and gas industry and the submarine telecommunications and power ...
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Making waves in sonar technology
eSonar Inc, a company based in St. John’s Newfoundland, Canada, has been developing sonar equipment for a diverse market. eSonar was formed early in 2009 as an underwater sonar service, development and manufacturing company specialising in high technology products for international marine markets.
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NewsDTU Aqua presents results
Staff from The National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua) in Denmark will be at The DTU Aqua stand to present and discuss the results of a recently completed project on electronic monitoring.
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NewsCosmos ready for DanFish 2009
At Danfish, Cosmos will be presenting the latest developments in the Hampidjan Group’s Self-Spreading Helix trawls; latest updates and feedback from the Dynex Warps; and the latest developments of Poly-Ice Xstream trawl doors.
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NewsIt will pay to make more of what we catch
If we believe the more extreme environmental pressure groups, the world’s oceans are becoming so depleted of fish that there will soon be nothing left to catch. However, despite continuous arguments between scientists and fishermen on what can be caught, it is now obvious that some fish stocks are seriously ...
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