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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Following the surveillance audit carried out in December 2011, Moody Marine Intertek has suspended the MSC certification of the Portuguese sardine purse seine fishery.

12th January 2012

Portuguese MSC certificate suspended

12th January 2012

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Cooke Aquaculture, the largest Atlantic salmon producer on the East Coast, has invested in a state-of-the-art ice system that will boost the quality of its products while reducing energy consumption.

12th January 2012

Cooke Aquaculture invests in ice system

12th January 2012

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Global Aquaculture Alliance has announced the Best Aquaculture Practices certification of four salmon farms owned and operated in British Columbia, Canada, by Grieg Seafood B.C. Ltd.

12th January 2012

BAP certifies Skuna Bay Salmon Farms

12th January 2012

NEWS

NEWS

Fisheries production in coastal regions along Thailand’s eastern and western seaboards close to Bangkok has been badly affected since October by heavy flooding in central Thailand as the huge volume of floodwater…

12th January 2012

Thai fisheries target value added export processing

12th January 2012

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Clean Seas Tuna Limited has reported early progress with its strategy of bringing forward spawning from the company’s Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) broodstock.

11th January 2012

2012 SBT spawning season starts early

11th January 2012

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

BioMar’s new fish feed carrier, Høydal, is nearing completion, and should be ready to load its first cargo of feed from BioMar’s factories in Norway on 1 May.

11th January 2012

World’s largest fish feed carrier nearing completion

11th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has released its 2010 tuna fishery assessment report, which says that bigeye tuna continues to be overfished in the western and central Pacific tuna fishery.

11th January 2012

Bigeye not at risk, but still overfished

11th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Seafish has published a document comparing the TACs for 2012 agreed by the European Commission with the scientific recommendations made by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES).

11th January 2012

Seafish compares TACs with ICES advice

11th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Three fishermen have died in a fire onboard the Korean fishing vessel Jung Woo 2 near Antarctica on Wednesday.

11th January 2012

Three die in vessel fire

11th January 2012

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

One vital aspect of packaging is to label it so that it provides accurate information about the product inside.

10th January 2012

Spelling out the species

10th January 2012