Analysis – Page 12

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    Tra continues its fall from grace

    2011-01-18T10:08:00Z

    Not so long ago it was the toast of aquaculture, but today Vietnam’s tra (pangasius) industry finds itself in a quandary

  • Consumers need to be reassured that buying wild-caught fish is not environmentally wrong. Credit: OsvaldoGago
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    Why CFP 2.0 needs devolution

    2011-01-13T12:14:00Z

    Consumers need to be reassured that buying wild-caught fish is not environmentally wrong. Credit: OsvaldoGagoEurope’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has been widely criticised as being top down, over-centralised and having only at best a mixed performance in managing member states’ fisheries. Certainly it’s one of the longest-established and more controversial ...

  • Cobia in a cage which is being cleared for harvesting. The relatively large cages with deep nets are imported from Norway where they are used for farming salmon
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    Farmed cobia coming into its own

    2011-01-13T10:41:00Z

    Whole fish and loins were displayed by Sea Products of Scotland, also part of Marine Farms and in charge of marketing the fish in Europe. “We were very pleased with the interest,” says Bjørn Myrseth, managing director of Marine Farms ASA, the parent company of Marine Farms Vietnam which farms ...

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    US fisheries: Frustration, indignation, uproar

    2011-01-11T13:03:00Z

    I don’t remember such an upheaval in the American fisheries. Neither does Bob Jones, the Director of the Southeastern Fisheries Association.

  • Executives from the international salmon processing industry examine Marel salmon processing equipment at last year’s Salmon ShowHow
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    Marel shows how to process salmon

    2011-01-06T09:51:00Z

    Executives from the international salmon processing industry examine Marel salmon processing equipment at last year’s Salmon ShowHowThis year, the showhow celebrates its 10th anniversary and will be held at the Carnitech Salmon (now the Marel Salmon Division) premises in Nørresundby, Denmark, on 2 February. In addition to the presentation and ...

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    Deadly, deadlier, deadliest

    2010-12-21T01:00:00Z

    Commercial fishing is regarded as the most dangerous profession on the planet. But while Western authorities have been tightening safety regulations, flagrant risk taking with crews'' lives is still rife, writes Menakhem Ben-Yami.

  • IP is particularly popular in Spain because of the opportunities it offers for remote repair maintenance.
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    Special Report: EU failing to introduce electronic fishing records

    2010-12-21T01:00:00Z

    IP is particularly popular in Spain because of the opportunities it offers for remote repair maintenance.Many fishing companies looked to Inmarsat technologies when it came to e-Logs, partly because Inmarsat C is used widely in other areas such as vessel monitoring systems (VMS), or because, as in the case of ...

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    Women in fisheries: an issue, an agenda

    2010-11-22T01:00:00Z

    Jobs for the girls: while it''s entirely correct that gender no longer excludes women from the top jobs in seafood business and fisheries management, it seems it''s still a very hard struggle for women "downstairs" to even secure their basic rights as workers, writes Menakhem Ben-Yami.

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    Farmed fish in hot water

    2010-11-18T10:05:00Z

    It was a “good thing” European commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries Maria Damanaki invited the industry, scientists, fishermen’s associations, politicians, NGOs, the press and the public for “open discussions on the latest scientific research” on the state of the main fish stocks in European waters. The September meet might ...

  • A salmon purse seiner in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
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    Still fishin’

    2010-10-27T01:00:00Z

    Menakhem Ben-Yami looks at British Columbia''s fishing industry, which has endured some hard times but continues to thrive in the face of adversity.

  • Wild and farmed, live and chilled fish at Hong Kong's Mong Kok fish market. Daily arrivals by truck and ferry from small suppliers around the Pearl Delta and from across China in special luggage vans on passenger trains. (Image: TW/EEC Photos)
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    Nine billion customers for the ‘bank in the water’

    2010-10-13T12:29:00Z

    Wild and farmed, live and chilled fish at Hong Kong's Mong Kok fish market. Daily arrivals by truck and ferry from small suppliers around the Pearl Delta and from across China in special luggage vans on passenger trains. (Image: TW/EEC Photos)Beware of soothsayers predicting the future. But we can be ...

  • Professor Angela McLean's advanced computing helps gauge mutation of viruses and effects on DNA in local and global environments. (Photo: TW/EEC Photos)
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    Viruses, wildfowl, ice and the ‘African Sea’

    2010-09-01T01:00:00Z

    Professor Angela McLean's advanced computing helps gauge mutation of viruses and effects on DNA in local and global environments. (Photo: TW/EEC Photos)If fish farmers want to look into the near future to prevent the next ‘big issue’, they could do well to keep an eye on the work of Angela ...

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    Where management and safety come together

    2010-08-13T22:48:00Z

    Fisheries management systems are taking care of seafood resources, but are regulations forcing fishermen to take unnecessary risks?

  • Firefighting response vessels tackling the Deepwater Horizon blaze on 20 April.
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    Once again the oil flows free

    2010-08-03T09:06:00Z

    Menakhem Ben-Yami looks at the highly topical issue of ocean oil spills and their hugely damaging effects on the fishing industry.

  • Jerry Percy believes more local marketing and growing transparency in the buy and supply chain can boost "one-day" fishing boat incomes. (Image: TW: EEC Photos)
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    Cash in the consumer coastline catch

    2010-07-27T09:42:00Z

    Jerry Percy believes more local marketing and growing transparency in the buy and supply chain can boost "one-day" fishing boat incomes. (Image: TW: EEC Photos)Sir Angus Stirling kicked off June’s one-day Sustainable Inshore Fisheries workshop in London by saying that the Fishmongers’ Company (FC) might be centuries old but it ...

  • All those with a vested interest in the UK marine environment should participate in the MPA consultation process.
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    Time to contemplate incoming MPAs

    2010-07-15T08:21:00Z

    All those with a vested interest in the UK marine environment should participate in the MPA consultation process.The UK government's vision for its marine area was first published in the 2002 document ‘Safeguarding Our Seas’. This document established the UK's vision for "clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans ...

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    Kaliningrad revisited

    2010-07-13T16:18:00Z

    Kaliningrad has changed considerably in the last two decades but it remains a hub for fishing technology.

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    Filthy oceans and misinformation

    2010-06-02T11:13:00Z

    Highlighting the misinterpretation of commercial fishing data.

  • Longlining gives greater opportunities for selective fishing. Photo: Bjørn Tore Rotabakk. Copyright: Nofima
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    Nofima: Longline fishing smarter

    2010-04-29T09:46:00Z

    Longlining gives greater opportunities for selective fishing. Photo: Bjørn Tore Rotabakk. Copyright: NofimaThe project “From Seabed to Mouth” has been looking at the entire value chain of line-caught white fish. It has been a collaboration between Mustad, Domstein, Tracetracker, Østfoldforskning and Nofima. Whiter and firmer fish fillet “We have analysed ...

  • The drum used for tumbling pangasius fillets in STPP solution in a Vietnamese processing plant
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    Vietnam to abolish the use of polyphosphates in pangasius processing

    2010-04-23T10:14:00Z

    The drum used for tumbling pangasius fillets in STPP solution in a Vietnamese processing plantAs well as the tumbling, or soaking, of seafood in a solution of sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP), there is also the practice of adding extra water in the form of glaze. In fact, both practices are usually ...