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First IceFish Bursary Awards set for this year
The bursary will be awarded at the end of this year with ISK 1 million available for two candidates to start their studies in January next year, with a second bursary to be awarded to two further candidates in 2017. Applications for the bursary are open to candidates who ...
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Planning well under way
The advisory board have already met to discuss plans for September 2017, including the creation of new Bursary Awards with 2,000,000 ISK put aside in 2014. A new high tech registration system is also planned to speed up registration and entry into Icefish.After listening to feedback from the last ...
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Why attend or exhibit at Icefish?
The 2017 show will be the 12th in the series and the previous event, held in 2014, saw an encouraging air of optimism as many exhibitors secured large orders. Not only was attendance up on the 2011 event by 12% to 15,219, but the number of countries ...
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Icefish Bursary Awards
Icefish's organisers strive to both improve Icefish from event to event, but also re-invest money into the local fishing sector, and the creation of a bursary award is a great example of this. The awards themselves will be aimed at people wanting to seek further education within the ...
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Attending Seafood Expo Global?
Marianne Rasmussen-Coulling, Events Director and Mark Saul, World Fishing Magazine will be in Brussels next week to promote Icefish 2017. If you'd like to meet with them whilst at the exhibition, then please email on: icefish@icefish.is The Icelandic fisheries sector is one of the mainstays of the ...
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Icefish - what's new in 2017?
Small Business Zone This new offering will be a showcase for up-and-coming companies and small businesses spanning the commercial fishing industry. These ready-made stands will be a cost effective way for first time exhibitors and smaller companies to attend Icefish, and experience the excellent networking opportunities ...
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World Seafood Congress to coincide with Icefish
The World Seafood Congress, previously held in Washington DC, US; St. Johns, Canada and Grimsby, UK, brings together a global audience of seafood processors and importers, academia, public and private organisations, fish inspectors and government. The Congress focuses on trading initiatives and developments in the seafood sector, and will ...
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New for 2017 - Small Business Zone
This new zone will comprise of ready-made stands, which will be a cost effective way for first time exhibitors and smaller companies to attend Icefish and experience the excellent networking opportunities the exhibition has to offer. To receive further information on taking a stand in the ...
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New for 2017 - Small Business Zone
This new zone will comprise of ready-made stands, which will be a cost effective way for first time exhibitors and smaller companies to attend Icefish and experience the excellent networking opportunities the exhibition has to offer. To receive further information on taking a stand in the ...
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Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition, Awards and Conference 2017 dates announced
IceFish celebrated its 30th anniversary during the 2014 exhibition, the 11th exhibition in the series, which has seen the event more than double in size over the past decade.The visitor attendance increased by 12% to 15,219 compared with the previous event in 2011 as a direct result of extensive ...
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Protecting the North-East Atlantic
The Allis Shad, Azorean Limpet, Sea Lamprey and Intertidal Mussel Beds all saw their protection extended. The meeting also agreed to adopt guidelines to reduce the impact of offshore installation lighting on birds in the OSPAR maritime area. Mr Victor Escobar, Chairman of the OSPAR Commission, said delegates should: ...
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Upcycling fisheries byproducts
The company launched The Salmon Leather Project on Kickstarter on 27 May, and passed its $17,500 funding goal within 24 hours. “Two billion pounds of seafood byproducts are thrown away each year in Alaska,” said Tidal Vision founder and CEO, Craig Kasberg. “By developing new technologies to upcycle these ...
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World's first industrial plant for copepods
C-Feed (a spin-off from SINTEF) has so far produced copepods on a small scale in Trondheim, Norway, but when the new plant opens in the autumn, the company will start by increasing its production by a factor of 10. Using unique technology from SINTEF, the new factory, which is ...
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MEPs delay discard sanctions
"The new rules oblige fishermen to land all fish caught during a fishing trip. It will be extremely difficult to implement, especially for multi-species and artisanal fisheries. Our common concern is to preserve fisheries resources while maintaining a viable economy. The agreement we have found helps mitigate some of ...
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Sustainable fish feed alternative unveiled
FeedKind Protein is a high quality microbial protein produced with minimal land and water use, is non-GMO and approved in the EU for all fish and livestock species, and is said to provide a cost-competitive alternative to conventional fishmeal. “FeedKind Protein can replace fishmeal and soy protein with ...
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Technologies for sustainable fishing
This more selective method of trawl-net fishing will make it possible for fishermen to both maximise their intended catch and minimise their harvesting of non-target species bycatch. SmartCatch’s first product, CatchCam, is a patent pending state-of-the-art video catch-monitoring and data-acquisition system that mounts inside of a trawl-net, allowing ...
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Russian salmon enters MSC assessment
The fishery is located in the western part of the Kamchatka Peninsula on the Sea of Okhotsk coast and the lower reaches of six large coastal rivers. The Vityaz-Avto - Delta group was founded in the late 1990s and its Ozernaya river sockeye salmon fishery was the first in ...
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ISSF reveals updated status of stocks
The report compiles the scientific records of the 23 stocks of the major commercial tuna species worldwide - six albacore, four bigeye, four bluefin, five skipjack and four yellowfin stocks - carried out by each of the Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs). It uses a colour rating system ...
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Downlighting and Upcycling at the Oddi Exhibition Stand
The company breakdown is 75% packaging and 25% print and they are continually looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint. Their stand at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition was a good example of this with the floor of the stand originating from wooden pallets made from sustainable wood. When ...
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Feeding a generation the Icelandic way
Traditionally, Icelandic people include a high percentage of fish in their diets, however changing behaviour and access to larger supermarkets has meant a decline in local fishmongers over the past 20 years. Children and teenagers are turning towards high sugar diets which is of concern to the Icelandic Government ...
