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ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

What made it different was the nature of the different participants who included experts from the Anglo-North Irish Fish Producers Organization (ANIFPO), the N. Irish Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD),…

27th October 2005

Fishermen and processors join scientists in management review

27th October 2005

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Those opposing subsidies argue that they distort trade by creating fishery overproduction which is then exported, so affecting fish prices and the fishing industry in other countries.Korean interestThe retention of fishing subsidies…

27th October 2005

$25 billion a year? Who gets it?

27th October 2005

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

C-MAP says its new MAX PC Planner version, will provide all the same features as its PC PlannerNT plus substantial improvements to the detail, information and colour representations of the cartography.

27th October 2005

C-MAP launches Max pc planner

27th October 2005

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

SmarterTrack has launched a new system combining a dual channel VHF Automatic Identification Service (AIS) decoder in a box about the size of a pack of cigarettes. It say its sophisticated PC…

27th October 2005

Digital Yachts smartertrack AIS solution

27th October 2005

SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

Simrad has launched the new SA50, what it claims to be the smallest SART (Search and Rescue Transponder) in the market. The Simrad SA50 can be used as a carry device or…

27th October 2005

Simrad latests safety device

27th October 2005

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Simrad and IFREMER (French Marine Institute) have developed a new multibeam echo sounder for fishery research purposes. The ME70 is a giant step forward in fish stock assessment technology and is set…

27th October 2005

Simrad develops new multibeam eco sounder for fishery research

27th October 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Optimar Iceland introduced a new Optim-Ice liquid ice machine at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 7-10. September, the BPH-105. It is hydraulic driven to meet the needs of all those without enough electrical…

27th October 2005

Optimar builds hydraulic ice machine

27th October 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Norways Teknotherm says it has a full line of Refrigerated Sea Water (RSW) and freezing plants starting at under 100kW per unit and ranging to pretty well unlimited capacity. That includes multiple…

27th October 2005

Teknotherms one for all and all for one

27th October 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Britains Starfrost says it has built its biggest yet Hybrid Tunnel (HT) system for Hollands Platvis in Edam. Platvis BV specialises in frozen fish products, including natural and breadcrumb-coated flatfish fillets.

27th October 2005

Brits build tunnel for Dutch

27th October 2005

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Hampidjan has introduced some new trawl products, aimed at lowering fuel costs, including Dynex warps, made from Dyneema to replace steel wire. It says the new rope is much lighter and Dynex…

27th October 2005

Trawl gear to save on fuel

27th October 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The proposed total ban on driftnets in the Baltic from Jan 2008 has effectively been blocked for the time being by the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament (EPFC) until there has…

17th October 2005

Europarl demands facts before driftnet ban

17th October 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Taiwan will be scrapping a total of 120 large-scale tuna long line vessels between 2005 and 2006 to follow the International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity adopted by…

17th October 2005

Taiwan to scrap longliners

17th October 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

What an exhibition and what a country! - Last month, at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition (7-10 Sept), Iceland demonstrated once more it still remains at the forefront of the fishing industry. Fishing…

10th October 2005

Icelandic Fisheries Awards Review 2005

10th October 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Icelandic company Valka had its patent-pending packing line on show at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition and says combining its Valka RapidFeed in-feed control and dispersion machine with its new Valka RapidWeigher multi-head…

10th October 2005

Valka boasts weighing, speed quality and economy

10th October 2005

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Icelandic company Nyherji used the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition to put its mySAP All-in-One Fish software on display, offering what it calls a state-of-the-art human resources and business solution for fishing companies.

10th October 2005

All for one and one for all – software

10th October 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Vónin in the Faroe Islands has introduced a new sorting system for blue whiting, made up of a four-sided net tunnel with a flexible grid fitted inside.

10th October 2005

New sorting system for blue whiting

10th October 2005

FISH HANDLING

FISH HANDLING

Saeplast presented at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition a number of new products.

10th October 2005

New products from Saeplast at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition

10th October 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

One of the interesting side events at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition was the opportunity for participants to do some fish tourism and head off to visit Baaders factory and see their Baader…

10th October 2005

Fish tourism: Smile! aaand…Cut!

10th October 2005

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

A guide to heartless, soulless cold strategies - Almost 30 years ago Prof. Lee G. Andersons wrote The Economics of Fisheries Management and it was then one of a kind in its…

10th October 2005

Management economics whats missing?

10th October 2005

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

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…

10th October 2005

Tuna in the eye of a storm

10th October 2005