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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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Tuna in the eye of a storm
Tuna sandwiches are big in the US. The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC- www.spc.int), quoted Heinz North America in August saying Americans eat one third of the 2.2 billion cans of tuna sold each year around the world.The debate's elements are simple: tuna as a convenience food and containing ...
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Industry moving to pumps
Bedford-based Inventive Marine Products (IMP) in Canada is doing good business selling pumps, not just for unloading vessels and harvesting salmon but for shrimp, squid and sprat. It has just delivered a Twin Micro fish pump to a shrimp farm on the East Coast of Africa.
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Mobile Hands-free for tuna
US-based Lindgren-Pitman has launched a new electric fishing reel (LP S-1200) for artisanal boats targeting catch such as tuna in Ecuador.
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NOAA puts to sea Hurricane Katrina impact
The research vessel Nancy Foster of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the US Department of Commerce, has begun working off the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina on marine resources and the ecosystem.
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New Minister for Iceland
Einar K Guðfinnsson (pictured) has been named the new Minister of Fisheries of Iceland after the appointment of former Minister Árni M. Mathiesen to Minister of Finances last month.
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French models show style at sea
French twine, netting and fishing gear manufacturer Le Drezen told World Fishing how it has taken digital simulation software to successful level in its research and application strategies.
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Processing solutions at the show
Marel Scandinavia will be showing a range of solutions for the fish industry during Danfish 2005. On the Danfish stage area a turn-key project will be introduced, which Marel Scandinavia recently delivered to Hanstholm Fish Auction, covering grading, registering and packing fresh fish as well as box handling and ...
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Full ahead for Outsourcing Island
Globalisation of the world fisheries and not only in fisheries may take quite unexpected turns - If you’re an owner or executive operating a large, “vertically integrated” fishery enterprise in a rich region or country (e.g. Europe, North America, Japan, Australia or New Zealand), you may benefit from all sorts ...
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Marport spreads its wireless doors
Iceland-based Marport is adding more features to its trawl monitoring system and increasing access to sensor information via broadband wireless.
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Blasted round fish
Skaginn put on show its Combined Blast and Contact (CBC) processing line at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition.
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New Marine Fisheris Agency in the UK
The executive agency has been created to deliver the Government''s services to the fishing industry and a number of marine environmental interests
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Weather eye on Mauritania after August coup
World Fishing is monitoring developments in Mauritania after Colonel Ely Ould took power on August 3 in a bloodless coup.
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Apocalypse now
Mega-hurricane Katrina was for many their Apocalypse. The affected area includes the Florida Keys and from Pensacola, FL, to the Texas border. There is a virtual fishery shutdown in the affected states due to major flooding, damage to fishing boats and fishing ports, waterways clogged with debris and closed processing ...
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Netherlands
Pressure on the dike - offshore and onshore. Pieter Tesch reports - The Dutch seafood industry is battling on a number of fronts. The flatfish sector is in crisis and nearly a third of beam trawler owners have applied to scrap their vessels. The fuel crisis has hit not only ...
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Europe - Anchovy under the hammer
The emergency closure of anchovy fishing in the Bay of Biscay (from July to October) was extended to 31 December by a decision of the EU Commission in mid-September and came up for intense debate at the fisheries council of ministers (19-20 September) reports Peter O''Neill.
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Maren controls the force
Icelandic energy management system company Marorka lunched its latest, second generation of Maren. - Maren 2 is a complete system based on advanced mathematical methods and algorithms allowing unsurpassed energy management. The company says that the system maximises energy efficentcy, minimizes negative environmental impact and cut costs.
