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    Fish feed joint venture in Zambia

    2016-02-02T17:01:00Z

    Nutreco and African Century Foods (ACF) have entered into a 75/25 joint venture in Zambia - Skretting Zambia - for the production, sale and distribution of tilapia feed.

  • Morgère’s new Cyclops monitoring system
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    New Cyclops system from Morgère

    2016-02-02T17:00:00Z

    Morgère has launched an innovative new monitoring system called Cyclops that enables pair trawlers to optimise trawl performance.

  • EMS Camera on board a Ghanaian purse seiner. © J. Million
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    EMS systems trialled on tuna vessels in Fiji and Ghana

    2016-02-02T16:05:00Z

    The monitoring of fishing activities at sea is on the verge of making an important step forward with the development and deployment of Electronic Monitoring Systems (EMS).

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    Saint Lucia improves fisheries infrastructure

    2016-02-02T16:02:00Z

    A major fisheries infrastructure project valued at US$5.2 million has started in Saint Lucia.

  • The stakeholders involved hope the model created for farmed salmon feed can expand to other species
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    Cleaner, greener farmed salmon

    2016-02-02T15:31:00Z

    A group of companies have teamed up to create ‘In the Blue’ - an innovative farmed fish feed that conserves marine resources and reduces environmental contaminants in farmed salmon.

  • The three organisations are joining forces to seek MSC certification for their brown shrimp operations. Credit: Oxfordian Kissuth/CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Shrimp fleets join forces for MSC certification

    2016-02-02T13:58:00Z

    Three fishing organisations from Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have come together to seek Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for their brown shrimp operations.

  • The announcement was made at the Seaweb Seafood Summit in Malta during a workshop hosted by Seafish on Social Responsibility in Seafood.
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    First risk assessment tool for social responsibility in fisheries

    2016-02-02T12:50:00Z

    The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch programme, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) and the UK’s Seafish are partnering to scope out the development of a risk assessment tool for social responsibility in fisheries.

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    First farms complete multi-site zone cluster program

    2016-02-02T11:42:00Z

    Marine Harvest Chile has completed the Best Aquaculture Practices’ (BAP) new multi-site zone cluster program, resulting in nine of its salmon farm sites and two processing plants attaining BAP certification.

  • Saudi Arabia has signed an MoU which requires the country’s aquaculture facilities to earn BAP certification by the end of 2016
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    Saudi Arabia sets BAP as national standard

    2016-02-02T11:34:00Z

    The Global Aquaculture Alliance has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi Arabian Aquaculture Society (SAAS) which requires the country’s aquaculture facilities to earn Best Aquaculture Practices certification.

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    Thai Union acquires 51% of Rügen Fisch

    2016-02-02T11:10:00Z

    Thai Union Group has completed the acquisition of a 51% stake in Rügen Fisch.

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    New company to develop submersible fish-farming facilities for salmon

    2016-02-02T10:23:00Z

    AKVA group ASA has established the company Atlantis Subsea Farming AS with the purpose of developing submersible fish-farming facilities for salmon on an industrial scale.

  • News

    Looking into fish

    2016-02-01T12:22:00Z

    Researchers at Nofima have used a hyperspectral camera to uncover what lies beneath the skin of a cod, without putting them under the knife.

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    MOU to improve coordination for sustainable fisheries

    2016-02-01T11:43:00Z

    Three Regional Fisheries Bodies (RFBs) operating in the Western Central Atlantic have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to increase the sustainability of fisheries.

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    Report: Perceptions and misconceptions of aquaculture

    2016-01-29T11:06:00Z

    The FAO''s GLOBEFISH has produced a new report which aims to serve as the basis for arriving at recommendations for reducing uncertainty about its products and farming practices.

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    Maldives tuna workshop

    2016-01-28T16:27:00Z

    The Maldives will host a workshop to advance the understanding of Management Strategy Evaluations (MSE) on 3-4 February 2016.

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    Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet achieves MSC certification

    2016-01-28T14:00:00Z

    The Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet (ATF) - one of the biggest fisheries in Russia’s Pomorye region (White Sea coast and surrounding areas) – has been certified to the Marine Stewardship (MSC) Fisheries Standard.

  • ‘Cap Kersaint’
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    ‘Cap Kersaint’ delivered

    2016-01-28T13:11:00Z

    Shipyard Piriou has recently delivered a new 60m deepfreezer longliner, ‘Cap Kersaint’, to shipowner Cap Bourbon.

  • Ronan Orla being accompanied back to Rye Harbour by the RNLI inshore lifeboat
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    A salutary warning to all singlehanded fishermen

    2016-01-28T11:14:00Z

    New Year’s Day, 2.10pm, signalled the first callout of 2016 for RNLI lifeboats in Rye, UK, when rigid inflatable B-875 Alexander and Dungeness-based Shannon Class 13-04 Storm Rider were called to assist Faversham recently re-registered under 10m, Ronan Orla, reports Bryan Gibson.

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    How the RFS is changing the industry

    2016-01-28T10:33:00Z

    Seafish has released a new video explaining how the newly revised Responsible Fishing Scheme (RFS) is changing the fishing industry.

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    MoU to boost four-star BAP tilapia availability

    2016-01-27T15:42:00Z

    The Global Aquaculture Alliance has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with The Fishin’ Company, in an effort to grow the availability of four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) tilapia.