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Oz puts half million into seafood future
The Australian government is putting $480,000 (Euro300,000) into a new project which aims to boost the long-term profitability, sustainability and competitiveness of Australia''s multi-million dollar seafood industry.
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Taiwan - from fishing boats to yachts
Poorer deep-sea stocks, reports David Hayes, have meant marine and freshwater aquaculture has grown, creating a new market for fishery equipment. There are more than 50 companies in this business today and many small firms act as subcontractors to larger companies. Some companies producing deck equipment and fittings for fishing ...
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Fishermen and processors join scientists in management review
What made it different was the nature of the different participants who included experts from the Anglo-North Irish Fish Producers Organization (ANIFPO), the N. Irish Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD), the Aquatic Systems Group, the Marine Fisheries Research Programme, Sea Fishery Policy, an Icelandic consulting fishery biologist, and ...
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$25 billion a year? Who gets it?
Those opposing subsidies argue that they distort trade by creating fishery overproduction which is then exported, so affecting fish prices and the fishing industry in other countries.Korean interestThe retention of fishing subsidies is of particular concern to South Korea, Japan and Taiwan; all of which have large domestic and distant-water ...
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C-MAP launches 'Max' pc planner
C-MAP says its new MAX PC Planner version, will provide all the same features as its PC PlannerNT plus substantial improvements to the detail, information and colour representations of the cartography.
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Digital Yacht's smartertrack AIS solution
SmarterTrack has launched a new system combining a dual channel VHF Automatic Identification Service (AIS) decoder in a box about the size of a pack of cigarettes. It say its sophisticated PC software gives the position, identity and heading information of nearby vessels equipped with AIS to be overlaid onto ...
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Simrad latest's safety device
Simrad has launched the new SA50, what it claims to be the smallest SART (Search and Rescue Transponder) in the market. The Simrad SA50 can be used as a carry device or fit in liferaft and uses non-hazardous battery, which has a shelf life of five years, reducing shipping costs.
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Simrad develops new multibeam eco sounder for fishery research
Simrad and IFREMER (French Marine Institute) have developed a new multibeam echo sounder for fishery research purposes. The ME70 "is a giant step forward in fish stock assessment technology and is set to become a key factor in the sustainable management of fish resources," according to a statement from Simrad. ...
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Sunwell deepchills for Japan
Sunwell Technologies of Canada reports good progress on the Deepchill Variable-State Ice System which it has supplied to the "Hiketa Fish Processing Center", (Kagawa Fishery Union) which claims to lead the market for sales of farmed fish in Japan.
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Optimar builds hydraulic ice machine
Optimar Iceland introduced a new Optim-Ice liquid ice machine at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 7-10. September, the BPH-105. It is hydraulic driven to meet the needs of all those without enough electrical capacity to run a liquid ice machine.
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Teknotherm's one for all and all for one
Norway''s Teknotherm says it has a full line of Refrigerated Sea Water (RSW) and freezing plants starting at under 100kW per unit and ranging to pretty well unlimited capacity. That includes multiple chiller installations, using reciprocating and screw compressors, depending on system capacity and a customer''s requirements.
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Brits build tunnel for Dutch
Britain''s Starfrost says it has built its biggest yet Hybrid Tunnel (HT) system for Holland''s Platvis in Edam. Platvis BV specialises in frozen fish products, including natural and breadcrumb-coated flatfish fillets.
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Trawl gear to save on fuel
Hampidjan has introduced some new trawl products, aimed at lowering fuel costs, including Dynex warps, made from Dyneema to replace steel wire. It says the new rope is much lighter and Dynex warp 36mm weighs 0.7 kg/m in air compared to 6.0 kg/m for steel wire. For 2x1,800 m the ...
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Europarl demands facts before driftnet ban
The proposed total ban on driftnets in the Baltic from Jan 2008 has effectively been blocked for the time being by the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament (EPFC) until there has been “an assessment of the effects of using driftnets and other entangling gear on the sea mammal population”, ...
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Taiwan to scrap longliners
Taiwan will be scrapping a total of 120 large-scale tuna long line vessels between 2005 and 2006 to follow the International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity adopted by the FAO in 1999 that called for a reduction of large-scale tuna longline fishing vessels by 20% to ...
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Icelandic Fisheries Awards Review 2005
What an exhibition and what a country! - Last month, at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition (7-10 Sept), Iceland demonstrated once more it still remains at the forefront of the fishing industry. Fishing is still a major contributor to the country''s GDP and people are well aware of that. Currently 64% ...
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Iceland's robots to challenge globe on price and labour
Iceland''s Marel says it believes it can introduce full robotics into food processing factories and beat the competition from cheap labour in low-cost countries.
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Valka boasts weighing, speed quality and economy
Icelandic company Valka had its patent-pending packing line on show at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition and says combining its Valka RapidFeed in-feed control and dispersion machine with its new Valka RapidWeigher multi-head weigher results in significant savings in terms of reduced product waste and give-away.
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All for one and one for all - software
Icelandic company Nyherji used the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition to put its "mySAP All-in-One Fish" software on display, offering what it calls a state-of-the-art human resources and business solution for fishing companies.
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New sorting system for blue whiting
Vónin in the Faroe Islands has introduced a new sorting system for blue whiting, made up of a four-sided net tunnel with a flexible grid fitted inside.
