All Industry News articles – Page 56

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    MacGregor acquires Rapp Marine

    2018-01-12T09:31:00Z

    MacGregor will acquire Rapp Marine Group (RMG) from Nord Kapitalforvaltning to strengthen its fishery and research vessel segment.

  • Optimar generated a revenue of around €115 million in 2017
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    Optimar acquired by investment firm

    2018-01-08T14:26:00Z

    A global investment company has acquired Optimar a leading provider of automated fish handling systems from its Norwegian financial investors Credo Partners.

  • Vardin Pelagic's new factory
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    Skaginn 3X to deliver new Vardin Pelagic plant

    2018-01-08T10:19:00Z

    Skaginn 3X will design a new automated Vardin Pelagic plant, which allows for initial capacity of 1300t per day.

  • Pingtan’s fish products on JD.com
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    Pingtan’s fish products on JD.com

    2018-01-05T07:00:00Z

    Pingtan Marine Enterprise has announced that its fish products have gone online on JD.com and will be available to consumers. The Company has first launched three of its fish products including pomfret, yellow croaker and ribbon fish cuts on JD.com, and it expects to launch more products in the future.

  • Eisei Maru No 8
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    Japan’s pole-and-line fishery gets MSC assessment

    2018-01-03T12:04:00Z

    Japanese fishing company Ishihara Marine Products Co. Ltd. has entered its pole-and-line skipjack and albacore tuna fisheries for assessment against the MSC Fisheries Standard. The Ishihara company caught 1780 tonnes of skipjack and albacore tuna in 201

  • Broodstock Capital
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    Broodstock Capital expands with new investment fund

    2018-01-03T11:46:00Z

    Seafood investor Broodstock Capital has raised NoK200 million for another dedicated investment fund for the seafood and aquaculture industries.

  • Marin Teknikk's new Russian Ice-Class vessels will be of the MT1112 XL design
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    Marin Teknikk secures contracts for Russian Fishery companies

    2018-01-03T10:46:00Z

    Marin Teknikk has achieved what it calls a break-through in the Russian market by securing design and engineering packages for four new long-line vessels.

  • European vessels
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    Europêche appoints managing director

    2018-01-02T14:11:00Z

    Europêche has appointed its five-year policy advisor Daniel Voces de Onaíndi as managing director.

  • Dr Darian McBain: "We will continue to do our part to uphold human rights, and we remain committed to providing safe, legal and freely-chosen employment"
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    Thai Union looks to its workers’ rights

    2018-01-02T10:35:00Z

    Thai Union Group has launched a Vessel Code of Conduct and vessel improvement programme to help improve ethical labour in the fishing sector.

  • Record year for Bergur-Huginn
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    Record year for Bergur-Huginn

    2017-12-22T08:00:00Z

    Icelandic fishing company Bergur-Huginn is celebrating its 45th anniversary, as well as a record year for its two trawlers Bergey and Vestmannaey.

  • Evidence is mounting that fish is a solid investment choice, in particular for reducing global undernutrition
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    Workshop seeks to address global undernutrition

    2017-12-21T11:47:00Z

    Participants at the Global Workshop on Nutrition-sensitive Fish Agri-food Systems agreed that evidence is mounting for fish as a solid investment choice for helping to reduce global undernutrition.

  • Season's Greetings from World Fishing & Aquaculture
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    Season’s Greetings

    2017-12-20T10:37:00Z

    World Fishing & Aquaculture would like to wish all of our supporters and readers season’s greetings and send our very best wishes for a happy and successful 2018.

  • Collaboration to achieve MSC certification for the North Sea brown shrimp fishery started in 2015
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    First brown shrimp fishery gets MSC certified

    2017-12-20T10:32:00Z

    A North Sea brown shrimp fishery operating in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands has achieved MSC sustainability certification.

  • In 2018, the number of stocks fished at Maximum Sustainable Yield levels will be increased to 53
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    Atlantic and North Sea catch limits set

    2017-12-18T12:28:00Z

    The Fisheries Council has upped catch limits in the Atlantic and North Sea for 2018, but introduced stricter controls for seabass and eels.

  • IOTC
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    Silicon Valley comes to the Indian Ocean

    2017-12-18T07:30:00Z

    The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission''s (IOTC) has hosted a workshop in Cape Town to present its proposed e-MARIS electronic monitoring and reporting information system, and to provide an opportunity for experts to discuss and assess its features.

  • The FIP will cover the catches of skipjack, yellowfin and bigeye tuna from purse seine vessels Photo: Wibowo Djatmiko/CC BY-SA 3.0
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    East Atlantic Purse Seine tuna FIP launched

    2017-12-13T14:55:00Z

    A tuna Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) for the Eastern Atlantic Ocean has been formally launched, with the signing of an agreement and approval of an action plan between 15 organisations.

  • Cod
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    Quota increases for UK fisherman

    2017-12-13T13:24:00Z

    UK fisherman will benefit from significant quota increases for key stocks following UK Government negotiations with the EU.

  • Jarred tuna
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    IPNLF grows Spanish supply chain network

    2017-12-12T12:22:00Z

    Spain-based Conservas Emperatriz has become the latest member of the International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF).

  • Illegal Vietnamese fishing vessels continue to be sighted in Australian waters
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    Australia and Vietnam work together to combat illegal fishing

    2017-12-12T10:22:00Z

    Australia and Vietnam are to commence an in-country public information campaign to educate Vietnamese fishers about the consequences of illegally fishing in Australian waters and the Pacific.

  • Adam and Tommy Waller
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    Help for hurricane-stricken oysterman

    2017-12-07T09:29:00Z

    A sustainable cookware company has partnered with the Gulf Seafood Foundation to hep oystermen affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.