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JOINT INTERNATIONAL DETECTION AND ENFORCEMENT OPERATION STEMS ILLEGAL FISHING IN NORTH PACIFIC
During the past three weeks, two Canadian Air Force CP-140 Aurora patrol aircraft have repeatedly scoured a 4.1 million square kilometre expanse of the North Pacific in search of vessels engaged in illegal, unregulated or unreported (IUU) fishing on the high seas. This year, the air patrols spotted and reported ...
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VIETNAM LEADS GLOBE IN NATIONAL COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABLE FISHING ON WORLD OCEANS DAY
In the first ever agreement between the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and a nation state, the Ministry of Fisheries of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the MSC will announce on World Oceans Day (Wednesday 8 June 2005) a joint commitment to promote sustainable fishing in the country.
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New Canadian Commissioner for the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization
The Minister of Fisheries and Oceans of Canada (DFO), Geoff Regan, announced the appointment of J.W. Bud Bird as a Canadian Commissioner to the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO). Mr. Bird will replace Chief George Ginnish.
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India produces global weave
Indian manufacturer Garware-Wall Ropes ltd, keeps its 2,000 employees busy by working at full steam to introduce a whole new range of quality ropes and nets into the market. Pilar Santamaria reports from Pune and at Wai, 300km South of Mumbai, in India.
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3X-Stal's new chiller
3X Stal has launched a new rapid chiller which its says offers: increased yield, firmer shrimp with netter texture, better colour and less tail breakage.
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Cheap labour
Foreign crew members on board fishing vessels should be assured decent minimum wages and employment conditions
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Norway in a fish stew - and tasty in parts...
It seemed the whole of the Norwegian seafood industry had turned up in the northern town of Tromsø to eat farmed halibut, chat and... celebrate at its annual, Spring get together. After three years of low prices, a strong Krone killing export markets and no profits in the fish bank, ...
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Norway's Triplex wins two Danes
Norway''s SM Triplex has won the contract to deliver the deck equipment for two purse seiner/ pelagic trawler to be built at Karstensens Shipyard in Skagen, Denmark, for Danish owners.
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Minister shoots out tentacles over seabird catch
In an unprecedented move, New Zealand''s Minister of Fisheries, David Benson-Pope has called the bulk of the country''s squid fishing fleet back to port to prevent seabird deaths.
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MasterCast from ORBIMAGE
ORBIMAGE has released version 6.0 of its software for its SeaStar Fisheries Information Service. It has its own satellite (OrbView-2), and the company says Captains can view the oceanographic maps created by its staff by installing the OrbMapâ„¢ software on a vessels PC. It says the new version allows a ...
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Prion hooked on nude snood
New Zealand-based Prion Technology says their new snood system is getting a positive response on the sea and they hope to sell it into a number of markets, according to director Andy P. Smith.
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Fishing boats go for 64 bar winches
By increasing the working pressure from 47 to 64 bar Rauma Brattvaag says its BRH64 winch technology provides 30-45% increase in power from the same frame size, together with simpler and cheaper installation.
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Karmoy winches in Canadian Lunar module via Scotland
Norway''s Karmoy Winch is delivering the deck machinery for a new, 38-metre, combined purse seiner / trawler for the Scottish, Peterhead-based Lunar Fishing company.
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Skipper scheme launched in the UK
A project to help the region’s fishermen net new business is being launched along the North East coast in the UK.
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Report shows substantial increase in breaches to CFP rules in 2003
The publication, yesterday, of the European Commission’s fourth annual report on serious breaches to the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), shows that the number of such detected breaches went up from 6,756 in 2002 to 9,502 in 2003.
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New Zealand Seafood Industry Serious About Reducing Impacts on the Seabed
Methods for protecting the seabed was one of the topics on offer at the New Zealand Seafood Industry conference.
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MIDWATER AND INSHORE ORDERS FOR SIMRAD AT FISHING 2005
Simrad Ltd reports a healthy order book after Fishing 2005, with orders taken across its ranges, but with an emphasis on the smaller midwater and inshore vessels.
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North Sea stocks head north
Fishermen in the North Sea could have to go further north in the future to catch certain species such as cod or haddock since almost two-thirds of 36 species studied in the area, have shifted north due to global warming.
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Pirates in Aussie searchlight & restuarants raided
The latest study of crime in Australia''s fishing grounds has simply reinforced the need for intensive crackdowns on the theft of stock from inshore waters and out to the 200-mile limit, according to the chair of the Australian Seafood Industry Council (ASIC) Bob Pennington.
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Consultation begins on regulations to reduce seabird deaths
Acting Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson has begun consultation on regulations that make compulsory the use of bird scaring devices on fishing trawlers.
