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    "The ocean of tomorrow"

    2009-08-09T11:04:00Z

    The European Commission has launched "The ocean of tomorrow" call for research proposals.

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    600,000 living salmon smolts transported from Iceland to Norway

    2009-08-09T11:02:00Z

    A week long process, of transporting the largest quantity of living smolts that has ever been transported from Iceland to Norway, came to an end recently for Islandsbleikja, Samherji´s subsidiary in fish farming.

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    MSC improves access for data-limited fisheries

    2009-08-09T11:00:00Z

    The Marine Stewardship Council has published Version 2 of its Fisheries Assessment Methodology (FAM).

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    Greenpeace blocks bottom trawler

    2009-08-09T10:59:00Z

    Greenpeace activists recently blocked a notorious bottom trawling fishing vessel, the Seamount Explorer, from leaving Auckland’s harbour in New Zealand, calling for an end to destructive deep sea bottom trawling.

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    Commission adopts plan to protect anchovy stock in Bay of Biscay

    2009-08-08T19:38:00Z

    The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a long-term plan to manage the anchovy stock in the Bay of Biscay.

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    SFF welcomes report on fish stock recovery but warns future management must ensure that industry remains viable

    2009-08-08T19:36:00Z

    Commenting on the publication of a study that appears in this week’s Science which says that some global fisheries are showing signs of recovery and the subsequent call by WWF Scotland for Scotland to keep up its efforts to protect fish stocks, Bertie Armstrong, chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen’s ...

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    Italian trout cooperative certified Friend of the Sea

    2009-08-08T19:33:00Z

    Trout is one of the oldest products offered by European aquaculture, being traditionally produced by small local farms that are firmly rooted in their home territory. Italy is one of the main producers, with an important internal market and exports to Germany and Switzerland.

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    Marport Signs MoU with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    2009-08-08T19:32:00Z

    Marport Deep Sea Technologies Inc. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding agreement with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

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    Admiral Gordon found not guilty

    2009-08-08T19:30:00Z

    The owners and master of the Plymouth beam trawler Admiral Gordon were found not guilty on three charges of failing to keep an accurate log book by magistrates on 28 July.

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    FAO releases review of world capture fisheries insurance

    2009-08-01T14:28:00Z

    The FAO has recently released FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No. 510, ''Review of the current state of world capture fisheries insurance''.

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    Tuna meeting failed to freeze fleet capacity

    2009-08-01T14:24:00Z

    Positive results include steps to accelerate the alignment of the regulation of these fisheries throughout the world on those standards which constitute current best practice. However, the Commission said that it regrets the fact that the representatives of contracting parties to the five tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) concerned ...

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    Plate freezer prices down 3-5%

    2009-08-01T14:21:00Z

    Due to raw materials falling in price and increasing production and assembly efficiency, DSI says it can now offer plate freezers at 3-5% lower prices from now and until further notice is given.

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    World's largest fish defrosting plant

    2009-08-01T14:17:00Z

    Peter Stette AS has delivered a top of the line defrosting plant. As far as the company knows, Brødrene Sperre in Ellingsøy outside of Ålesund in Norway, now has the world''s largest capacity in defrosting whitefish for production of salt fish.

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    Revolutionary quick thaw system

    2009-08-01T14:14:00Z

    Due to the growth in imports of deep frozen fish and fish products mainly from Asian countries, thawing in the processing industry has become a bigger issue. Innotec Systems B.V. has developed a quick thawer for this problem.

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    ADVANCED’s OPTI FREEZE™ ‘ALL IN ONE’

    2009-08-01T14:10:00Z

    ADVANCED FREEZERS from The Netherlands has designed a new spiral freezer concept with an integrated refrigeration system.

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    Kinarca supplies refrigeration equipment to new tuna vessel

    2009-08-01T14:05:00Z

    Kinarca is installing all refrigeration equipment, air conditioning and provision rooms in a new tuna vessel built at Astilleros de Murueta in Bilbao, Spain.

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    Hawco promotes hydrocarbon refrigeration system

    2009-08-01T13:00:00Z

    Hawco, an international controls and refrigeration engineering service provider and distributor, has directly assisted many companies in developing hydrocarbon refrigeration systems that reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint.

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    Innovations in freezing mean reduced downtime and more

    2009-08-01T12:58:00Z

    Traditionally, the downtime needed to defrost freezers has been an obstacle preventing processors from getting maximum efficiency out of their production lines. But recent advances in freezing technology can keep production lines running longer, resulting in greater throughput - and greater profitability.

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    Sunwell introduces new land-based Deepchill™ Mini-Plant

    2009-08-01T12:24:00Z

    Deepchill™ is an advanced cooling and preservation medium comprised of millions of micro-crystals suspended in a liquid solution to form an ice slurry.

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    Starfrost's Russian freezing revolution

    2009-08-01T12:22:00Z

    Starfrost has completed another large multi equipment installation project in Russia’s burgeoning seafood processing sector.