All Industry News articles – Page 12

  • Fergus Ewing
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    Brexit fallout funding for ports and harbours

    2021-03-16T12:07:00Z

    Up to 20 Scottish ports and harbours that have lost income from landing fees due to the disruption caused by Brexit will receive a share of a GB£1.8m fund.

  • Yellowfin tuna Photo: NOAA
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    ISSF: IOTC failing to protect yellowfin tuna

    2021-03-15T11:27:00Z

    The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) has failed to introduce measures to help conserve the region’s overfished yellowfin tuna stock, says the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF).

  • CFPO CEO, Paul Trebilcock Photo: CFPO
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    Trade deal: CFPO sets out five year plan

    2021-03-12T13:41:00Z

    The Cornish Fish Producers'' Organisation (CFPO) has responded to the 5.5 year ''adjustment period'' within the Brexit trade deal by issuing a statement of policies and aims covering 2021 to 2026.

  • Netflix propaganda-spiracy?
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    Netflix propaganda-spiracy?

    2021-03-09T14:42:00Z

    The National Fisheries Institute has slammed the forthcoming Netflix offering Seaspiracy as outright propaganda by vegan activists, suggesting that the channel offer viewers a “propaganda” tab that reflects the content.

  • Aker BioMarine sets sustainability goals
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    Aker BioMarine sets sustainability goals

    2021-03-09T14:38:00Z

    Krill harvesting and processing company Aker BioMarine has announced some ambitious sustainability goals for the coming years, pledging to reduce its CO2 emissions per tonne of krill produced by 50% by 2030, and to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

  • Fishing into the Future
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    Charity partnership enables education scheme

    2021-03-09T12:06:00Z

    UK charity Fishing into the Future (FITF) has formed a partnership with the Fishmongers’ Company that includes a substantial grant to implement a three-year work programme.

  • Seafish is inviting industry responses about its future role and funding Photo: Seafish
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    Seafish consultation gets underway

    2021-03-08T11:11:00Z

    The public body that supports the seafood industry in the UK is asking the seafood industry to share views on the organisation’s future direction and funding as part of a strategic review.

  • Commission challenged on misinformation
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    Commission challenged on misinformation

    2021-03-05T12:00:00Z

    An “explanatory note” on the revision of the EU-fisheries control system reportedly circulated by the European Commission services to a few MEPs, mainly within the Committee on Environment, has come as a shock to fishing industry body Europêche.

  • Northern stocks of Pacific sardine are moving further north as the ocean warms
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    Climate change drives Pacific sardines north

    2021-03-05T09:25:00Z

    Pacific sardines may be moving north as the ocean warms, according to a new study conducted by the University of Santa Cruz and NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

  • The camera inside an electronic monitoring device used on fishing vessels Photo: Thai Union
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    Thai Union commits to onboard monitoring

    2021-03-04T12:11:00Z

    Thai Union has partnered with conservation organisation The Nature Conservancy (TNC) on a commitment to full transparency in its global tuna supply chains to help combat illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing.

  • Roe capelin on the way
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    Roe capelin on the way

    2021-03-03T19:23:00Z

    As Iceland’s capelin season approaches its end for this year, the high-value roe-bearing capelin are in the spotlight.

  • The IOTC must enforce a ban on driftnets in the Indian Ocean, says OPAGAC
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    OPAGAC: IOTC should enforce driftnet ban

    2021-03-03T09:42:00Z

    The Spanish tuna fleet is ‘perplexed’ that the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission intends to assign yellowfin tuna quotes to fleets that use driftnets despite their high bycatch of threatened species.

  • Revenue has grown at The Sea Harvest Group Photo: Sea Harvest Group
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    Sea Harvest Group weathers Covid storm

    2021-03-03T09:37:00Z

    The Sea Harvest Group has proved resilient despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, growing revenue in 2020 by 10% to R4.4bn and headline earnings by 3% to R421m.

  • MSC is making temporary requirements changes
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    MSC sets out temporary requirements

    2021-03-02T00:32:00Z

    The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is making temporary changes to its requirements to give assessors alternative ways of checking that fishers and suppliers have met its standards for protecting fish stocks and the environment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Falfish sold to Morrisons supermarket chain
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    Falfish sold to Morrisons supermarket chain

    2021-03-01T20:48:00Z

    UK supermarket chain Morrisons has acquired Cornish seafood wholesaler Falfish which operates from locations in Redruth and Falmouth. The two already have a longstanding relationship and around half of Falfish’s approximately £40 million turnover is with Morrisons.

  • Friend of the Sea recertifies Sapmer
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    Friend of the Sea recertifies Sapmer

    2021-03-01T20:45:00Z

    Friend of the Sea has renewed its certification of Sapmer’s purse seine fishery in Indian Ocean. The company can continue displaying the Friend of the Sea logo on its products.

  • KOSMOS can be used to help with the paperwork now required when exporting between the UK and the EU Photo: Aucxis
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    Digital solution helps with export paperwork

    2021-03-01T13:13:00Z

    Aucxis believes its cloud-based digital trading platform can help relieve the UK fishing industry of the significant burden of additional export paperwork now needed following Brexit.

  • Chile aims to produce 70% of energy from renewable sources Photo: Golden Omega
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    Golden Omega awarded green energy label

    2021-02-26T10:35:00Z

    Golden Omega has been certified by Green-e Energy, an independent programme in the United States for the verification of renewable energy and carbon offsets.

  • Redleg banana prawns are caught in the remote Joseph Bonaparte Gulf Photo: AFMA
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    AFMA welcomes prawn fishery closure

    2021-02-24T09:43:00Z

    The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) Commission has welcomed the news that the Redleg Banana Prawn sub-fishery in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf will close from April to mid-June each year to ensure profitability and sustainability.

  • Food and food packaging is not a likely source of Covid-19 transmission
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    Covid-19: food and packaging is safe

    2021-02-22T10:41:00Z

    Authorities in the United States are reassuring consumers that food and food packaging is not a likely source of Covid-19 infection.