All News articles – Page 6
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NewsNorth America
US exports rising again - According to the FAO, the United States exports $ 3.9 billion worth of seafood products and annually and the US’s northern neighbour, Canada, exports $3.5 billion in seafood every year
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NewsNew Zealand
Common sustainability challenges - New Zealand’s Fisheries Minister, Jim Anderton, updates World Fishing on the status of the country’s fisheries
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NewsNorway
From fish to finance - Over the last two years Norwegian seafood companies have grown bigger and found their way onto the Oslo Stock Exchange – now even the little herring has been merged. There is a lot to discuss about the Norwegian seafood business, reports Hans Morten Sundnes, and ...
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NewsIceland
Fisheries still the backbone of the economy - Not so long ago seafood amounted to 80-90% of Iceland’s total export value of goods, reports Gudjon Einarsson. The country’s economy and the rate of its currency depended, for the most part, on the fishing industry. No sovereign nation in this part ...
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NewsIndia
India coasts along – all 8,000km of them - When British Imperial Civil Service (ICS) officers left India in 1947, their Indian successors kept their immense power but inherited smaller fiefdoms. However, some officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) saw their reach grow. Peter O’Neill meets one of them ...
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NewsPhilippines
$62m fisheries investment - The Philippine government is to invest US$62 million implementing an integrated coastal resources management project aimed at improving the management of coastal marine and fisheries resources in selected targeted areas throughout the Philippines archipelago.
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NewsSri Lanka
Government to launch long term fisheries development plan - Sri Lanka is due to finalise a new long term fisheries development plan early in 2007 aimed at increasing domestic fisheries production and expanding processed fish exports to major international markets. The government is keen for the fishing industry to develop ...
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NewsIndonesia
Government to support fish processing industry expansion - Indonesia’s fish processing industry is expected to receive an important boost from new regulations the government is due to introduce, requiring all fish caught by foreign vessels fishing in the country’s territorial waters to be landed and processed in Indonesia.
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NewsChina
From family-run, lunch-time cafe to hotel private dining room, Peter O’Neill is amazed at how superb and varied fish cuisine in China’s eastern coastal and inland cities puts Europe to shame. He discussed the recipe for success with Yan Yuan Tian, Vice-Director of the Yantai Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee.
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NewsMalta
Tiny Malta, sitting astride the Med, is once again at the heart of a battle for a sustainable future. The island epitomises the challenge touching the modern fishing industry: how to produce the tastiest and most lucrative of fish stews, made up of the sea’s offerings, tourists, cruiseliners, low-cost flights, ...
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NewsMauritania
Following the announcement of the fisheries deal agreed between Mauritania and the EU, Pieter Tesch discusses the details with Mauritanian fisheries minister Sidi Mohamed Ould Sidina.
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North America
Hurricanes, salmon questions and huge volumes of pollock - With fisheries occurring from Davis Strait between Greenland and Labrador down the Atlantic coast to the Gulf of Mexico and up the Pacific Coast from the Mexican border to the Bering Sea, North America’s fishing industry is a mixing pot more ...
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France - Part 2
The economic role of France’s fisheries - Following on from last month’s Part One analysis of France’s fishing fleets, we now look at the economic impact of the industry.
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France - Part 1
French industry under threat - Dwindling marine catches, intense global competition and encroaching European Union restrictions has plunged the French fishing industry into disarray.
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