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Longlining fishery gets MSC certification
The freezer longline Pacific cod fishery in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska has become, last month, the first cod fishery in the world to obtain the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification as a sustainable and well-managed fishery. Cod products of this ...
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From bare hands to global embrace
Today the seafood company, led by president and chief executive Yngve Myhre, is only part of Røkke’s industrial empire. Within that, Aker Seafoods remains one of Europe’s biggest fishing companies, with 1,350 employees and a capital base giving it the muscle to grow.Almost a year after Aker Seafoods ASA was ...
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The Lawless Oceans
Pirate fishing is now big business, involving the collusion of countries offering flags of convenience and catches which drive down income for legal fishermen.
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High support for NF
Approximately 80% of stand space has already been sold for the 21st edition of Nor-Fishing equating to more than 300 international exhibitors so far.
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Unilever chill for workers in €2bn selloff
Unilever’s plans to sell off most of its European frozen food business is the latest writing on the global wall for embattled European fishermen and processors short of raw material.
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Danish Inspectors use fish DNA to prosecute
The Danish Directorate of Fisheries used a DNA test of cod in a trial in January about illegal fishing and this helped the successful prosecution of the offender. The accused’s logbook stated that the cod had been caught in the Baltic Sea. But the DNA test showed that ...
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Fixed penalties for fisheries offences
Fishermen charged with some fisheries offences could face fixed penalty fines rather than a court appearance, a consultation from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) suggested last month.
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Anti-whaling vessels arrested in CT
The detention of the Canadian anti-whaling vessel Farley Mowat in Cape Town harbour was being dealt with through “diplomatic channels”, according to spokesmen for the South African Department of Foreign Affairs and the Canadian High Commission in Pretoria, writes Jean Le May in Cape Town.
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Ireland and Spain top illegal catch league
The EU Court of Justice has ruled against Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Finland and Sweden for “overshooting their quotas”, making illegal overfishing still the main cause of law infringement committed by EU Member States.
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Marport Developing New Broadband Acoustics Technology for Sonars and Echo Sounders
Reykjavik, Iceland February 1, 2006 Marport, a leading deep sea technology company that designs and manufactures a comprehensive range of sensing, processing and communications products today announced that it is enhancing its research and development efforts in the areas of software defined radio transceivers, visualization software and broadband acoustics.
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Transas to Supply for Indonesian Fishing School and Training Center
PT MultiIntegra, a Transas Group distributor, has been chosen to supply the company’s Fishing & Navigational Simulator for Pariaman Fishing School & Medan Training Center in Sumatra.
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NewsWal-Mart to source fish from MSC certified fisheries
Rupert Howes, Chief Executive of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), welcomed the recent announcement by Wal-Mart that the company is seeking to source all of its wild-caught fresh and frozen fish for the North American market from fisheries that meet the MSC’s independent environmental standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries.
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NewsAtli launches new trawl doors
After two years in the netting and marine electronics sector, trawl door specialist Atli Josafatsoon is back on the trawl door business and have now launched his own brand, the Polar.
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Danes refurb Russian factory-ship engines
MAN B&W Diesel Service Center Denmark says it has completed the refurb of engines on the factory-freezer trawler ship ‘Lazurnyy’, one of four large fishing vessels owned and operated by Westrybflot in Kaliningrad, Russia.
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GE to supply Peru’s Pesquera Diamante S.A.
GE Transportation, in conjunction with its distributor Marinsa Peru SA, is to supply Pesquera Diamante SA, of Peru, with 7FDM medium-speed diesel engines for powering newly constructed boats and repowering the company’s entire fleet of purseine net fishing boats
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New monitor to measure engines’ SO2 emissions
ET Marine has launched its own air quality monitor to measure sulphur dioxide (SO2) emitted by ships’ engines ahead of a new International Maritime Organisation (IMO) technical code for the emission of sulphurous gases.
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Germany bangs the drum twice
Heinen Freezing of Germany has introduced compactduo, a more powerful version of its compact. Rather than a single drum system (types c11, c15, c18 and c21), the compactduo has a double drum (types c22, c30, c36 and c42), three different layout versions and a capacity of up to 1.500 kg/h. ...
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Latvia cans Cold War
Latvian engineering company Peruza, has begun to break into the western European market with processing lines and equipment such as conveyors for tunnel freezers and canning lines. Information from the Latvian fisheries’ ministry shows Peruza was formally established in 1991 (after Latvia regained independence from ...
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NewsSunwell and Axima go into deep freeze clinch
Sunwell Technologies Inc. of Canada, who specialise in slurry ice, preservation and refrigeration, and Axima Refrigeration GmbH of Germany have agreed they will market jointly Sunwell’s patented Deepchill Variable-State Ice Technology throughout the EU, according to a company statement.
