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  • Baltic Workboats is building its first ever catamaran
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    Scientific cat for Lithuania

    2011-02-06T14:47:00Z

    Baltic Workboats is building its first ever catamaran, to be operated by Lithuania’s Ministry of Environment in the near-shore areas of the Baltic Sea.

  • Banrion Uladh
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    Baltic Workboats delivers patrol vessel

    2011-02-06T14:35:00Z

    The Northern-Ireland Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s (DARD) 25.9m Baltic Workboats-designed and built fisheries patrol vessel Banrion Uladh has achieved outstanding performance on recent sea trials.

  • Boxes of frozen fillets of catfish of the genus Pangasius that were imported into the United States from Vietnam falsely labelled as sole to avoid anti-dumping duties. These were seized upon entry into the United States, some by NOAA Office of L...
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    NOAA investigates seafood mislabelling

    2011-02-06T11:24:00Z

    Seafood consumers and the law-abiding fishermen who catch that seafood gained a victory last week when a NOAA investigation into conspiracy, misbranding and smuggling resulted in two guilty pleas in federal court.

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    Mackerel limit to remain at 50 per day

    2011-02-05T02:00:00Z

    The daily vessel trip limit will remain at 50 fish for commercial hook-and-line vessels fishing for Gulf group king mackerel in federal waters of the Florida east coast subzone.

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    Icelandic company signs up to Fishing ’11

    2011-02-05T02:00:00Z

    Polar Fishing Gear of Iceland is the latest company to confirm its attendance at the Fishing 2011 Expo in Glasgow.

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    Industry: Catch less, earn more

    2011-02-04T10:27:00Z

    The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) Seafood group met with EU Commissioner Maria Damanaki yesterday as part of an industry alliance pressing for radical reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).

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    Damanaki welcomes Industry Alliance input

    2011-02-04T10:14:00Z

    After meeting the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) – Industry Alliance at Europe House in London yesterday, EU Fisheries Commissioner Damanaki said:

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    Bids invited for fisheries research

    2011-02-04T02:00:00Z

    The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is inviting people with ideas to improve fisheries management to bid for funding towards its research.

  • Greenpeace’s report claims that most brands of Canadian canned tuna use fish coming from unsustainable and socially irresponsible fisheries
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    Canadian canned tuna report

    2011-02-02T10:24:00Z

    Greenpeace Canada has released its first sustainability ranking of 14 major tuna brands sold in Canada.

  • The Faroese mackerel fishery will not be MSC certified
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    Scottish welcome Faroese bid failure

    2011-02-02T09:33:00Z

    Scottish fishermen have welcomed the failure of a bid by the Faroe Islands to seek Marine Stewardship Council certification for their mackerel fishery.

  • Fisheries and aquaculture support the livelihoods of an estimated 540 million people
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    Fish consumption reaches all-time high

    2011-02-02T09:16:00Z

    The contribution of fish to global diets has reached a record of about 17kg per person on average, supplying over three billion people with at least 15% of their average animal protein intake.

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    Pascal processing becomes Avure HPP agent

    2011-02-01T16:11:00Z

    Holland-based Pascal Processing bv has been named the exclusive sales agent for Avure Technologies’ high pressure processing (HPP) equipment in Holland, Belgium, and the Westphalia region of Germany.

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    Nutreco invests EUR20m in Russian plant

    2011-02-01T13:35:00Z

    Nutreco is investing approximately EUR20m in a new factory in the Voronezh agricultural region in Russia.

  • ISSF has called for regional fisheries management organisations to take steps to address excess capacity in tuna fisheries
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    Nations must work to limit capacity

    2011-02-01T13:28:00Z

    The ISSF Board of Directors has issued the following statement regarding the urgent need for regional fisheries management organisations to take steps in order to address excess capacity in tuna fisheries.

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    Europe must lead overfishing turnaround

    2011-02-01T13:23:00Z

    The conflict between increasing demand for fish and failing fisheries has enormous implications for world food security and the state of our seas and oceans, WWF has said.

  • Valka has developed new, revolutionary pinbone removal technology
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    Revolutionary pinbone removal

    2011-02-01T11:37:00Z

    Valka has developed new, revolutionary pinbone removal technology in co-operation with Icelandic fish processing leader HB Grandi.

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    Seafood Champions finalists announced

    2011-02-01T11:24:00Z

    SeaWeb’’s Seafood Champions finalists were announced during the opening session of the Seafood Summit 2011, currently being held in Vancouver, Canada

  • Italy has banned plastic bags
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    Applause for Italy's ban on plastic bags

    2011-01-31T02:00:00Z

    On 1 January 2011 Italian government legislation introduced an outright ban on plastic shopping bags, which will have to be replaced by biodegradable alternatives.

  • Seaview has appointed Interform Marine as its UK and Ireland distributor
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    Seaview appoints Interform Marine

    2011-01-30T02:00:00Z

    Manufacturer of mounting solutions for marine electronics, Seaview, has appointed Interform Marine as its distributor for the UK and Ireland.

  • Ruth’s captains are very pleased with the codends
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    Successful codends from Vónin

    2011-01-30T02:00:00Z

    Vónin has received very good feedback on two codends that were made for Danish purse seiner/trawler Ruth HG264 last summer.