Interviews – Page 4
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From bare hands to global embrace
Today the seafood company, led by president and chief executive Yngve Myhre, is only part of Røkke’s industrial empire. Within that, Aker Seafoods remains one of Europe’s biggest fishing companies, with 1,350 employees and a capital base giving it the muscle to grow.Almost a year after Aker Seafoods ASA was ...
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Partners in seafood quality not crime
The VMD's random tests include local and imported fish for residues of regulated or banned products and antibiotics. Where levels are breached, VMD reports to the country of origin for action, and to Brussels which passes on the information to all EU countries' inspectorates. Non-EU countries have to provide “equivalent ...
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How the mighty fallen are rising
The declineI met Lech Kempczyski in his office in the massive stone building of the ministry. This is a man who knows the fishing world -- the Baltic, the Scottish lochs, the fish and fish-farming industry and he is a member of the commission forthe conservation of Antarctic marine living ...
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$25 billion a year? Who gets it?
Those opposing subsidies argue that they distort trade by creating fishery overproduction which is then exported, so affecting fish prices and the fishing industry in other countries.Korean interestThe retention of fishing subsidies is of particular concern to South Korea, Japan and Taiwan; all of which have large domestic and distant-water ...
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NewsFøroyar - explosively small!
Fisheries minister Björn KalsöWhat is troubling the Faeroese is not the stock (Björn says it is mostly all right apart from cod which he says has declined a little over the past three years) but the issue of sharing them. There is no agreement on blue whiting and herring and ...
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Borrowing from the bank
The ADB recently awarded Indonesia a grant of US$880,000 towards the consultancy costs of a $1.18 million technical assistance study to help the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries prepare a national long-term marine fisheries development strategy. Due for completion by the end of this year, the study will help ...
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NewsRobust Iceland will report pirates
Árni MathiesenQ: What are the main strengths of the industry today?It is diversity. Most of the Icelandic stocks are in a stable situation or growing. There is probably only one stock in trouble, the prawn stock. The part of the industry doing better is the pelagic fleet and the pelagic ...
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Brave New World - from occupation to liberalisation
Peter O'Neill discussed the issues with Normunds Rieksti?š, Director of the National Board of Fisheries and finds that Latvia still leads with its most famous products, Riga sprats and herrings.Normunds has been in fish all his professional life. A biologist by education he began working in the fisheries regulatory board ...
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NewsSmall and local is powerful and persuasive in big EU
European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Joe BorgJoe Borg has already shown how a man from a small island, Malta, is particularly sensitive to what the sea can do to small coastal fishing communities. At the international Tsunami Rehabilitation conference at FAO he said Brussel's "efforts will clearly be ...
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China's white fish exports force European processors to develop new products
Since the mid-1980s China has become the world's workshop with new factories being set up every year to manufacture toys, garments, textiles, consumer electronics and many other items for export. The vast army of low cost labour available to these factories has been a major factor supporting industrial growth in ...
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Fitting into the market
How would you describe the general state of the Norwegian fishing industry at the moment?In 2003, there was a decrease in the landings of fish by Norwegian registered vessels, and also in the first hand value. The landings totalled 2.5 million tonnes, down from 2.7 for 2002. The first hand ...
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Iceland claws back its lucrative cod empire
It is good news for a country that relies so much on fisheries. In 2003, total landings reached 1.98 million tonnes and fish products now represent 60 per cent of the country's export earnings. Cod holds pride of price and place, generating around 40 per cent of the total export ...
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Iceland claws back its lucrative cod empire
It is good news for a country that relies so much on fisheries. In 2003, total landings reached 1.98 million tonnes and fish products now represent 60 per cent of the country's export earnings. Cod holds pride of price and place, generating around 40 per cent of the total export ...
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Global fishing on a community level
World Fishing: How would you describe the general state of the Australian fishing industry at the moment?Ian Macdonald: The general state of the Australian fishing industry varies across the wide range of fisheries that exist in Australia. Broadly speaking the fishing industry has enjoyed the strong economic conditions that have ...
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Optimism still remains in UK
There were 220 white-fish trawlers registered in Scotland three years ago. There are now 120.The white fish fleet has strongly been affected by the long-term recovery plans for endangered stocks, specially cod, in the North Sea.Although North Sea haddock stocks are healthy and the total allowable catch (TAC) is up ...
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Balancing political fish logs at home and abroad
Q. This year, 89% of the Irish Sea fleet will be free of the 'days-at-sea' system. The overall quota for Ireland has increased 8% over last year. All this seems to be a successful achievement at a time when the trend in Europe is towards more cuts and restrictions. Were ...
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NewsBreaking away from scepticism
Brendan May (MSC)Fishermen could not believe that a organisation backed by one of the largest fish buyers in the world, Unilever and the WWF could actively launch a sustainability label which would attempt to make the world fisheries more sustainable. To them it seemed the MSC was tarnished too much ...
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Something to believe in
There is something to be said about being positive in times of crisis. It is far to easy just to give up or give in and far more harder to pick yourself up and try again, to battle against all odds.That thought must have crossed the minds of many British ...
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NewsAustralian industry to grow stronger
Australian Fisheries Minister - Ian MacdonaldHow has the Australian commercial fishing industry progressed in the past few years and how would you say it fits in with other world fishing nations?Over the past five years value of fisheries production in Australia has increased by 40% from $A1.77 billion to $A2.48 ...
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Canadian minister op timistic about future
I'm very optimistic about the current state of the Canadian fishing industry even though the past decade has been difficult. With the decline of groundfish stocks on the east coast and salmon stocks on the west coast, our industry has gone through enormous changes. But it has emerged as a ...
