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    Smith pledges to defeat "Alice in Wonderland' fisheries proposal

    2008-11-04T11:02:00Z

    Scotland''s only full member of the European Parliament''s powerful Agriculture Committee, Mr Alyn Smith has pledged to defeat new European laws regarding the treatment of diseased fish caught at sea.

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    Friend of the Sea certifies Irish troll tuna fishery

    2008-11-04T10:42:00Z

    Friend of the Sea announces recent certification of the first products from approved Irish troll fishery for Albacore Tuna (Thunnus Alalunga). This represents a further step of Friend of the Sea in the Irish, German and UK market.

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    Coral trout breeding a success - next it's rock lobsters and gropers

    2008-11-04T10:22:00Z

    As the coral trout project in Cairns reaches another milestone, researchers are getting closer to commercial captive breeding of two other iconic species - the tropical rock lobster and the giant Queensland groper.

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    Fisheries Council: Member States agree on fishing opportunities

    2008-11-04T10:11:00Z

    The Commission welcomes the outcome of last week''s Fisheries Council. Joe Borg, Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, said: "Discussions were very constructive and we managed to secure agreements on some important issues that will help us to move ahead with the European agenda for sustainable fisheries for the future".

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    Moratorium “not excluded” as option to save tuna

    2008-11-04T09:53:00Z

    WWF welcomes the strong potential of the European Commission’s negotiating mandate for this month’s meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in Marrakech Morocco, announced last week following EU Fisheries Council discussions in Luxembourg.

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    New handhelds to the SAILOR series

    2008-11-01T15:43:00Z

    Thrane & Thrane''s SAILOR SP3500 portable series is growing with the addition of three ATEX certified models, designed specifically for use in hazardous marine environments.

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    MaxSea launches newest version MaxSea X7

    2008-11-01T15:38:00Z

    MaxSea X7 is designed to work with Furuno’s FAR2xx7 radar series, providing radar overlay on the navigation charts and direct control of the radar from the navigation software.

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    New multi-function sounder for commercial fisheries and ocean research

    2008-11-01T15:35:00Z

    Marport has announced a patent-pending multi-function sounder - the CARUSO SF7.

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    New fish finder and sonar from JRC

    2008-11-01T15:31:00Z

    Life at sea revolves around the weather and how big the catch will be...

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    High prices on the market

    2008-11-01T15:29:00Z

    In the third quarter of this year, fishmeal prices tended downwards somewhat, but much less than the ones of soybean mealIn the third quarter of the year, fishmeal production was characterised by very limited catches, normal features for this period of the year. However, also the overall 2008 production was ...

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    Gel-Ice system certified by Bureau Veritas

    2008-11-01T15:27:00Z

    Kinarca SAU says it has been going further to give the best products and services for its present and future customers.

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    A force in refrigerated seafood logistics

    2008-11-01T15:26:00Z

    Samskip, with its worldwide network in seafood logistics and its partner Kloosterboer cold stores are a force in seafood logistics.

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    30 Years of Deepchill Ice for quality onboard

    2008-11-01T15:17:00Z

    2008 represents a milestone for Sunwell Technologies Inc. of Canada as it marks 30 years since the company first introduced its Deepchill Variable State Ice technology to the fishing industry.

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    Triple the catch with SuperSquall

    2008-11-01T15:15:00Z

    In 2006, according to an order by Murmansk Trawl Fleet, Fishering Service constructed and commissioned the ''SuperSquall'' mid-water trawl for the blue whiting fishery.

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    South Africa

    2008-11-01T15:13:00Z

    Focusing on business advancement and sustainability - South African fishing companies and fishermen have been grappling with tougher fishing policies, long term commercial fishing rights and reduced quantum, uncertain catches and depleting ocean stocks, and surging diesel prices, reports Tracy Chandler.

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    Packed stand at Icefish

    2008-11-01T15:13:00Z

    Furuno says that its stand was always packed with people during the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2008.

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    An X-ray system that goes right to the bone

    2008-11-01T15:11:00Z

    The modern, high-performance X-Ray Inspection Systems developed by Ishida have rapidly built a reputation for reliably detecting bone fragments in poultry fillets.

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    Climbing the €500-million dead fish mountain

    2008-11-01T15:08:00Z

    Michel Barnier gathers together his ministerial colleagues in Annecy France as Europe heads towards the autumn stock and quota battle. CREDIT: ©Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries France, Pascal XiclunaPeter O'Neill pulls in the lines from around Europe to gauge whether anything will really change in the ritual, autumn examination of ...

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    New film for the E-certificate

    2008-11-01T15:08:00Z

    A thumbs up signal from Icelandic fisherman Oddur Runarsson in a new audio visual presentation of sustainable fishing conveys an unplanned but timely approval of his government’s ground breaking environmental fish product certification announced at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition.

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    American assessment of offshore fish farming

    2008-11-01T15:05:00Z

    The US government must be taking offshore fish farming seriously.