All Industry News articles – Page 49
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NewsEU and China partner to protect oceans
The European Union has partnered with China to improve international governance of the oceans including combating IUU fishing and promoting a sustainable blue economy.
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NewsNew Responsible Fishing Ports Scheme
Seafish has launched the Responsible Fishing Ports Scheme (RFPS) to certify responsible food safety and operational practices within fishing ports and is calling on suitable ports to apply.
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NewsWastewater treatment plant offers biogas
Indian Ocean Tuna Ltd has installed a Global Water & Energy (GWE) aerobic and anaerobic digestion plant at its seafood processing operation in the Seychelles to process wastewater and depending on how it is utilised, to provide biogas, which has the potential to replace fossil fuels.
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NewsHB Grandi report good mackeral haul
HB Grandi vessel ‘Venus’ has docked in Vopnafjörður, Iceland, with around 750 tonnes of mackerel for production.
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NewsNor-Fishing’s 2018 Innovation Award finalists
This year the Nor-Fishing Foundation received fourteen applications for its Innovation Award; five more than for Nor-Fishing 2016. This year the focus is on safety and the reduction of harmful effects on the environment. There is also a focus on technology contributing to sustainable fisheries. The jury found that several ...
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NewsAustralia’s commitment to new long-term support for FFA
Forum Fisheries Agency director general James Movick and Australia’s Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Hon. Senator Anne Ruston, have signed a new 10-year partnership agreement at the annual Forum Fisheries Committee meeting in the Cook Islands.
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NewsNew research to profile UK fishing fleet
Vessel owners and skippers around the UK are being asked to participate in research to gather data on the financial and operational performance of the UK fishing fleet.
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NewsCollective call for safety roadmap
Industry players have called for development, in close cooperation with UN agencies, of an effective roadmap for the rapid worldwide implementation of the international agreements relating to work and safety in the fishing sector.
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NewsMinister urges UK fishermen to sign up for safety improvements
Fishermen across the UK have been urged to sign up to a new safety code, in a bid to make careers at sea safer for the UK’s fishing community. Transport Minister Nusrat Ghani met coastal MPs in the Houses of Parliament this week to discuss how the fishing industry can ...
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NewsKrill fishing companies back call to protect Antarctic Ocean
A Greenpeace campaign to protect the Antarctic Ocean, backed by 1.7 million people globally, has received the unprecedented support of the vast majority of krill fishing companies operating in Antarctic waters. The companies making the commitment, Aker BioMarine, CNFC, Insung, Pescachile and Rimfrost, represent 85% of the krill fishing industry ...
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NewsMoana New Zealand appoints CEO
Moana New Zealand’s new CEO has been named as Steve Tarrant, who has nine years’ experience within the company and more than 25 years’ experience in the industry in various companies across New Zealand.
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NewsCall for ID tagged fishing nets
World Animal Protection has called on the member states of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to ensure all fishing nets are ID tagged by 2025 to reduce the numbers of marine animals being killed by lost fishing nets.
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NewsKongsberg buy Rolls-Royce commercial marine
Rolls-Royce has sold its commercial marine business to Kongsberg for an enterprise value of GB£500m and net proceeds of around GB£350-400m.
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NewsCall for NARW protection collaboration
The Lobster Council of Canada (LCC) is calling on the Federal government to work with lobster harvesters and other stakeholders to ensure that the industry’s ongoing commitment to protecting the North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW) is addressing all issues.
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NewsNew workstream to help protect wild salmon
A new salmon interactions workstream to provide expert advice on mitigating pressures on wild salmon has been launched by the Scottish Government.
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NewsThai Union completes third-party vessels audit
Thai Union Group, with the support of several of its customers, recently completed its first industry collaborative third-party audit, conducted by global safety consulting and certification company UL, on some Thai commercial fishing vessels supplying the company’s business.
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NewsMandatory offshore rig removal needs a rethink, environmental experts say
?A survey of international environmental experts suggests that attitudes to the decommissioning of offshore infrastructure, such as oil platforms, have shifted. Almost 95% of the experts, drawn from 10 nations across academia, government and industry, believe that a more flexible, case-by-case, approach to equipment removal would be better for the ...
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NewsHB Grandi’s Viðey makes a great start
The latest issue to the HB Grandi fleet has performed perfectly during fishing trials and its first two full trips, according to skipper Jóhannes Ellert Eiríksson.
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NewsCanaries one-by-one tuna fishermen become part of the IPNLF Member network
Organización de Productores de Túnidos y Pesca Fresca (Optuna No 42), the non-profit tuna producer organisation based on the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands has become the latest member of the International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF), the non-profit association committed to developing and supporting responsible one-by-one tuna ...
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NewsMSC certification for Pacific tuna fishery
FCF Fishery Company (FCF) and the Western Pacific Sustainable Tuna Alliance (WPSTA) has announced that the Western and Central Pacific skipjack and yellowfin free school purse seine fishery has been granted Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Standard for Sustainable Fishing certification.
