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    New members join the ASIC

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    The Commonwealth Fisheries Association (CFA) and Southern Rock Lobster Ltd (SRL) have now full membership in the Australian Seafood Industry Council (ASIC).

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    Is selectivity wrong?

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Fisheries scientists now doubt that traditional selectivity fishing helps to improve fishing populations

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    GFC for the Med has new home

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    FAO's General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) announced that it has selected Palazzo Blumenstihl in Rome as the site of its new headquarters, following a decision during the GFCM's extraordinary session there in late February. GFCM is the intergovernmental organisation in which all the countries bordering the Mediterranean and ...

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    Canada

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    The Canadian fishing industry -- one of the oldest in the world -- is entering a new era, since the crisis in Atlantic ground fish in the 1990s. Shirley Kumar reports

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    Baader put on mini-skinner

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Germany''s Lübeck-based Baader will be showing its new generation of skinners with the ''54'' specially designed for Alaska pollack and hake at the Seafood Processing Europe. It says the machine can switch between shallow and deep skinning modes in minutes, keeping skinned fillet stretched out and separated from each ...

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    Scanvaegt brings Scandinavian fashion to batching

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Scanvaegt says it invented the multi-channel grader in 1978 and after selling ScanGraders and ScanBatchers to more than 2,000 plants worldwide it has now made a ''quantum leap'' with its ScanGrader/ScanBatcher 4700'' with a user-friendly, eye-catching Scandinavian design.

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    Air Blast Technology for Versatile Labeling from AEW Delford

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    AEW Delford Systems a UK manufacturer of weighing, grading, labelling, packaging and slicing equipment, has extended its labelling range with the launch of the Concept A500 Air Blast Label Applicator.

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    Fomaco needles Brussels

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Denmark''s Fomaco will be presenting its new M3 generation of fish injectors in Brussels, with two needle bridges for an ultra close needle pattern. It says this gives the best possible brine distribution in the fish at low brine pressure, so avoiding any damage to the delicate fish meat whether ...

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    Marel presents a full range of products at Seafood Processing Europe

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Marel will be introducing innovative new concepts at this year''s Seafood Processing Europe Exhibition. For the salmon industry, Marel will be showing the ITM, Intelligent Trimming Machine, and the Salmon Packing Grader. Also presented will be the Speed Batching system for whitefish, pelagic fish, and shellfish and a new QA ...

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    Automated Traymaster freezers

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    UK-based Jackstone Froster will be putting their ''Traymaster'' on show at Brussels International Seafood fair and the company says it is the only automatic plate freezer on the market that applies high pressure to the product during freezing. It ensures completely square blocks, avoiding offcuts which affect yield.

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    Starfrost tunnels into Brussels from UK

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Starfrost (UK) Ltd will be running a compact pre-assembled Starlite HT (Hybrid Tunnel) system at SPE.

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    Heinen shows its Polaric at Brussels

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Heinen will be showing at Brussels its first compact and completely on a sub-frame mounted freezer from the new polaric series, following one and a half years of development.

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    Icebox Plastico becomes Saeplast Iberia

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    In order to strengthen its global presence Icebox Plastico has adopted this year the name of its parent company, Saeplast and becomes Saeplast Iberia, S.A.

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    Peterson Beck gets a new coat for Brussels

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Danish company Peterson Beck has developed what is says is a revolutionary new exterior coating for its Beck-liners®, which allows you to make sure your sticky labels do not fall off.

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    Weight solutions from Scotland

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Packaging Systems Scotland will be presenting its new packaging system SBin, designed for moving up to 320 kilogrames of farmed salmon in 180kg of ice slurry.

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    EU causes outrage

    2005-03-19T16:37:00Z

    The EU decision to implement safeguard measures to protect Scottish and Irish Salmon farmers is facing strong opposition from Norway, Chile and the Faroe Islands.

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    Good and bad times for NZ fishermen

    2005-03-19T16:37:00Z

    Strong demand and good prices for fish provided a good start for 2005 in New Zealand in spite of a rising Kiwi dollar, spiraling oil costs, and some operators in the local industry fearing they could be forced out of business, reports Paul Prince.

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    Iceland celebrates 100 years since first trawler

    2005-03-19T16:37:00Z

    A hundred years ago Glasgow was at its peak as the second city of the British Empire and its shipbuilding yards were equipping the merchant, naval and fisheries fleets of the whole world.

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    EU Fisheries Monitoring Agency ready in 2006

    2005-03-19T16:37:00Z

    The European Fisheries Monitoring Agency will come into effect in 2006, a year earlier than planned, announced Elena Espinosa, head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) last month.

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    EU could transfer fishing vessels to the areas affected by the Tsunami

    2005-03-19T16:37:00Z

    Decommisioned EU fishing vessels could be on their way to rebuild the tsunami hit fishing fleets of the countries around the Indian Ocean if a proposal from the European Commission is accepted.