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Scotland has a fantastic seafood future
The Scottish seafood industry has a fantastic future with huge potential for market growth, guests at the official opening of Macrae’s new £10m seafood processing facility at Livingston heard yesterday.
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SFF welcomes the new Fisheries Minister
Speaking yesterday on the appointment of Richard Lochhead as the new Minister of Rural Affairs and Fishing, SFF Chief Executive Bertie Armstrong said:
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NewsNew MD for Kelvin Hughes
Russell Gould has been appointed managing director of Kelvin Hughes Ltd, part of the Specialty Engineering Division of Smiths Group plc.
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Glasgow to host international inshore fisheries seminar
An international one-day seminar on North Sea Inshore Fisheries is to take place in the Glasgow Grosvenor Hilton Hotel on Wednesday, May 23.
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Icelandic USA plant to close sooner than planned
The Icelandic Group Board of Directors has decided to close the Cambridge plant of Icelandic USA in Maryland sooner than previously planned.
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Belgian beamer fined £20,000 for illegal fishing
A Belgian beam trawler which used ‘blinders’ - illegal linings in her trawl nets - to catch illegal undersized fish which were then kept, was forced to tie up four days while the skipper and owner faced prosecution by the UK Marine and Fisheries Agency.
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NewsAmerican Red Cross and FAO team up to restore fisheries and aquaculture in Indonesia
The American Red Cross and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have announced the launch of a new partnership to support the recovery of fishing communities in Indonesia’s Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province affected by the 2004 tsunami.
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EC welcomes port state control scheme
The European Commission has welcomed the new port state control scheme adopted in November last year by the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC).
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Australia: the illegal fishing package one year on
One year on, the Howard Government’s $388.9 million ‘tough on illegal foreign fishermen’ 2006 budget package is turning the tide on fish poachers in Australia’s northern waters, according to the government.
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Canada announces 55 new fishery officers
Yesterday, at a ceremony in Chilliwack, 55 new recruits graduated from the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) fishery officer training program.
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Aker Seafoods to purchase Fiskmästar’n in Sweden from Domstein Enghav
Aker Seafoods has entered into an agreement with Domstein Enghav Sweden to take over the activities connected to the wholly-owned subsidiary Fiskmästar’n. As a result, Aker Seafoods will play a considerable larger role in the Swedish markets of consumer pack products and expects to increase its revenue with close to ...
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Farmed fish sold as wild, reports FSA
A snapshot survey carried out by the UK Food Standards Agency has found that consumers are being sold farmed sea bass, sea bream and salmon as ‘wild’ fish.
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BIM appoints new Chief Executive
The Chairman of Ireland’s Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), Rose McHugh, has announced the appointment of Jason Whooley as Chief Executive of BIM to take effect from 1 July 2007.
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Regional Action Plan to fight illegal fishing in the South-East Asian region
Fisheries Ministers from 10 countries have endorsed a Regional Plan of Action to promote responsible fishing practices and combat illegal fishing in the South-East Asian region.
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EU must close tuna fishery
According to WWF, the EU has failed to grasp its final opportunity this year to save bluefin tuna from collapse in the Mediterranean.
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NewsMore US trawlers install Notus
For some time, the Notus Trawlmaster has been the trawl monitoring system of choice for several European and Canadian fisheries.
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NewsSuccess for the SP90 and an award for the ME70
Three Norwegian, six Faroese, four Danish and four Icelandic vessels have recently installed Simrad’s latest low frequency sonar SP90 and, according to Simrad, all have the same verdict: a very good all round sonar, both in shallow water (50-200m) fishing for herring, mackerel and horse mackerel and in deepwater fishing ...
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NewsNew portable VHF radio series
Thrane & Thrane is launching the first three products of the SAILOR SP3500 series.
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NewsVMS type-approved for US fisheries
Faria WatchDog®, Inc., has announced that its Iridium-based vessel monitoring system (VMS) has been type approved by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for installation on commercial fishing vessels in US waters.
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NewsPredicting future catch rates with Olfish-2007
The recently-launched Olfish-2007 electronic logbook system (see World Fishing February 2007) comprises two elements that manufacturer Olrac claims may well be the first of their kind – the Fishing Consultant and the Fleet Activity Optimiser.
