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  • North Sea Cod is recovering well according to the ICES
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    Figures suggest UK cod quota increase

    2012-07-03T10:30:00Z

    The latest International Council of the Sea (ICES) report reveals that North Sea Cod stocks are on the increase for the sixth year in a row.

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    US tribal fishing rights under threat

    2012-07-02T13:38:00Z

    The Associated Press has reported that some US Indian tribes'' fishing rights under treaty rights with the federal government are at risk because of disappearing salmon habitats.

  • The current Cabrera boundaries and Oceana's proposal for enlargement
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    Oceana calls for Cabrera enlargement

    2012-07-02T13:17:00Z

    Oceana has raised concerns that more than half of fish species in Spain’s Cabrera National Park are not sufficiently protected against poachers and it wants an enlargement of the reserve.

  • Southern blue whiting stocks are at a historic high in NZ
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    Report reveals NZ stock status

    2012-06-29T11:00:00Z

    The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) in New Zealand has reported positive trends in fish stocks, especially the Southern blue whiting which is now at a historic high.

  • The Avure 100L HPP system with a basketful of oysters going in to the machine. The 100L can process 800-850kg of oysters or mussels per hour. Credit: Avure
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    Taking raw lobster out of is shell complete

    2012-06-28T15:46:00Z

    The culinary innovation of 2012 is how Chez Pascal of the Netherlands describes its high pressure processed (HPP) whole lobster.

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    Mussel fishery earns MSC certification

    2012-06-28T11:30:00Z

    Seafood Shetland and the Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group Limited (SSMG) have achieved Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for the Shetland and Scottish Mainland rope grown mussel enhanced fishery.

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    Canada takes steps to protect fisheries

    2012-06-28T11:17:00Z

    It has been announced that Fisheries and Oceans Canada is taking the next steps in its new approach to protect recreational, commercial and Aboriginal fisheries and the fish habitat on which they depend.

  • The Plan review will reassess natural and man-made risks facing Maui’s and Hector’s dolphins. Credit: NABU International
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    NZ sets restrictions to protect dolphins

    2012-06-28T10:42:00Z

    New Zealand Primary Industries Minister David Carter has announced measures to protect Maui’s dolphins.

  • EU fisheries chief Maria Damanaki wants to see more from European aquaculture
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    Future favourites

    2012-06-28T10:04:00Z

    Farmed fish is in demand like never before, but many new species are yet to make their mark

  • The newly discovered amphipod species. Photo: Nelson Boustead, NIWA
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    Divers discover new marine species in NZ

    2012-06-27T17:26:00Z

    In a recent diving expedition to one of the world’s deepest underwater caves near Nelson in New Zealand, Australian cave divers discovered three new marine species – a transparent amphipod, a worm, and a small snail.

  • Dr Ulrich Schwarz, creator of the D-San formula
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    DIS Cloud provides a safer and cleaner production environment

    2012-06-27T13:30:00Z

    Following several years of great performance and results, DIS is presenting the DIS Cloud cleaning system and the D-SAN disinfection product to the Norwegian market.

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    Faroese queen scallops enter assessment

    2012-06-27T10:59:00Z

    The M/V Nordheim fishing vessel, sole license holder for the Faroese queen scallop fishery, has entered the full assessment process within the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification program.

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    Scottish haddock on top according to consumer tests

    2012-06-27T10:44:00Z

    Consumer testing carried out by Consumer Panel Elite and England Marketing on behalf of Seafood Scotland has compared haddock from Scotland, Norway, the Faroe Islands and Iceland – with Scotland coming out on top.

  • Blue swimming crab. © State of New South Wales through Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services
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    Philippines adopt crab management plan

    2012-06-27T10:06:00Z

    The final version of a Philippine Blue Swimming Crab Management Plan has been agreed.

  • Atlantic mackerel. Credit: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center
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    Mackerel action plan welcomed

    2012-06-27T09:41:00Z

    The MSC has welcomed an action plan that is aimed at solving the ongoing mackerel dispute in the North East Atlantic.

  • Vónin’s connection plates
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    Connection plates for exposed aquaculture sites

    2012-06-27T08:54:00Z

    Vónin has reported that great interest was shown in the company’s connection plates at the recent Aquaculture UK exhibition, which was held in Scotland.

  • The BECK-Fish Cage
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    BECK-Fish Cage resists 26m waves

    2012-06-26T21:09:00Z

    Over a period of four years, GAATEM Consulting and Beck-Systems have developed and tested a mobile, submergible, cylindrical fish cage, called the BECK-Fish Cage.

  • Overfishing: what everybody needs to know
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    Overfishing? Not quite

    2012-06-26T20:45:00Z

    I don''t like the term overfishing. Not that overfishing doesn''t occur, but because this term is too often over-used and misused.

  • Live cod ready to be pumped onboard the fishing vessel. Photo by Kjell Midling © Nofima
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    Nofima’s Centre for Capture-based Aquaculture

    2012-06-26T15:32:00Z

    Capture-based aquaculture involves catching wild animals and then keeping them alive or feeding them until they are slaughtered.

  • Kingfisher will continue to promote the FishSAFE Information Project at Nor-Fishing
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    Kingfisher exhibiting at Nor-Fishing 2012

    2012-06-26T15:06:00Z

    This year’s Nor-Fishing sees the return of the Kingfisher Information Service division of Seafish.