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VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The first new beam trawler to join the UK fleet for almost twenty years has docked in Brixham after being handed over by its Dutch builders. Georgina of Ladram has been built…

23rd June 2020

Brixham’s brand-new beamer

23rd June 2020

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Aqua Bridge Farm’s Company hatchery in Al-Lith, Makkah Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has achieved an important milestone by becoming the first hatchery to produce the juveniles of European sea bream and…

22nd June 2020

Commercial bream and bass in Saudi Arabia

22nd June 2020

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Cflow has appointed Stig Bjørkedal as its new managing director to focus on further industrialisation of the company.

19th June 2020

Cflow appoints new MD

19th June 2020

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

High use of trimmings and the use of novel ingredients has enabled BioMar Group to achieve a five-year average of 1:1 or below Forage Fish Dependency Ratio for its raw material usage.

18th June 2020

BioMar achieves FIFO ratio of 1:1

18th June 2020

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Nordlaks has purchased a SUB-Fighter 15K remotely operated vehicle (ROV) from Sperre for securing mooring systems in addition to being available for operations on the Havfarm project.

17th June 2020

Second Sperre ROV for Nordlaks

17th June 2020

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Increasing the volume of mesh in the side wing panels of its trawls has paid off for Swan Net Gundry’s customers, and the response to these trawl designs for herring, mackerel and…

17th June 2020

SNG gears up for tuna season

17th June 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

IFFO’s market research director Enrico Bachis predicts that global marine ingredients supply should be just short of 5 million tonnes of fishmeal and around 1 million tonnes of fish oil.

17th June 2020

2020 fishmeal and oil production prediction

17th June 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The UK trawler operator holding the country’s remaining whitefish quotas in Nordic waters has called on the UK government to negotiate more access to these waters now that the UK is an…

15th June 2020

UK firm wants more NE Atlantic quota

15th June 2020

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Faroese fishing company Havborg has placed a design contract with Norwegian naval architect Skipsteknisk for a new factory trawler to be built at Tersan. The designer and yard have a strong relationship…

15th June 2020

Skipsteknisk secures new design contract

15th June 2020

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

The latest report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on fishing shows that the majority of landings come from biologically sustainable stocks and credits robust fisheries management…

15th June 2020

Management key to sustainability, says FAO

15th June 2020

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A government project in India is helping communities in Tamil Nadu empower themselves through seaweed and marine ornamental fish farming.

12th June 2020

CMFRI helps empower Tamil Nadu fishers

12th June 2020

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

CageEye has unveiled an autonomous feeding solution that helps fish farmers increase production, whilst lowering feed waste and improving animal welfare in aquaculture.

12th June 2020

Autonomous feeding improves welfare

12th June 2020

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Future of Fish has launched a new campaign in partnership with fishers from La Islilla, Peru, to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to fishers and seafood workers.

11th June 2020

PPE for fisheries in Peru

11th June 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Pronomar, supplier of drying systems, has noticed an increasing interest coming from fisheries and fish processors since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

11th June 2020

Pronomar helps COVID-19 hygiene measures

11th June 2020

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Icelandic high-tech company Valka has designed two new graders for batching and automatic packing IQF frozen products and, offering numerous new features compared to traditional graders.

11th June 2020

Valka launches new IQF graders

11th June 2020

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Albacora Group, operators of the largest tuna fishing fleet in the European Union, recently commissioned a new purse seiner to be built at Vigo-based shipyard Astilleros Armón, which will feature Schottel controllable…

10th June 2020

Albacora seiner features Schottel SCP

10th June 2020

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Ecuador’s new Fishing and Aquaculture Law, passed in April, is designed to toughen the existing system of sanctions and to improve surveillance, control and monitoring.

10th June 2020

Ecuador supports sustainable fisheries

10th June 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Dutch Seafood company, Crusta Oceans, has been certified as compliant with an international food safety standard.

10th June 2020

International safety certification for Crusta

10th June 2020

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Marine Stewardship Councils (MSC) CEO has called for an acceleration of the uptake of sustainable fisheries management globally in response to a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of…

9th June 2020

Sustainable fisheries management vital

9th June 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The UK government-sponsored Benyon Review that advocates banning fishing in a new set of areas known as highly protected marine areas (HPMA) is a hammer blow for fishing communities already ravaged by…

8th June 2020

Fishing review a ‘hammer blow’, says NFFO

8th June 2020