Industry News

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

El Corte Inglés has become the first Spanish distribution chain to offer canned and frozen fish bearing the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) ecolabel.

31st January 2012

First Spanish retailer offers MSC seafood

31st January 2012

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The recent change of ownership and a new identity has already started to pay off for Anglesey Aquaculture Ltd, the only producer of sea bass in the United Kingdom.

31st January 2012

Anglesey Sea Bass ready for business

31st January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

SFF Services Ltd has appointed John C Buchan to the role of Marine Assurance Officer in a move that it says will provide crucial support to the company’s Operations Team.

27th January 2012

SFF Services appoints John Buchan

27th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Norwegian fishermen do not want to fish or produce untraditional marine species, despite the fact that an overwhelming number of reports indicate that the species have great potential, reports Nofima.

27th January 2012

Are untraditional species profitable?

27th January 2012

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The MSC’s Sustainable Seafood Day in Australia will be held on 16 March and provides an opportunity for the fishers that fish sustainably to be celebrated and rewarded.

26th January 2012

Sustainable Seafood Day Australia

26th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A Maine food processing and storage company has destroyed its cold smoked salmon product after FDA inspectors found Listeria monocytogenes within the firm’s facility and on processing equipment.

26th January 2012

Salmon destroyed after Listeria found

26th January 2012

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Best Aquaculture Practices program has awarded its first certification of a salmon processing facility to Multiexport Foods S.A. in Puerto Montt, Chile.

26th January 2012

BAP certifies first salmon plant

26th January 2012

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Gail Shea, Regional Minister for Prince Edward Island (PEI) and Keith Ashfield, Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, have announced almost $970,000 of funding for three aquaculture projects in PEI.

26th January 2012

Canadian government funds PEI aquaculture projects

26th January 2012

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has welcomed the news that New Zealand was acknowledged as the leading country among 41 surveyed for the quality of its fisheries monitoring control and surveillance…

25th January 2012

NZ recognised for fisheries monitoring

25th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Sainsbury’s has announced the launch of its 100th MSC certified product, leading the way as the largest UK retailer of sustainably sourced seafood.

25th January 2012

Sainsbury’s launches 100th MSC product

25th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new WWF commissioned study strongly suggests that fisheries access agreements with developing countries and fuel subsidies have led to a ‘slash and burn’ attitude by European Union vessels fishing overseas.

25th January 2012

WWF report on ‘wild west’ fishing

25th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Seafish is seeking three charter vessels to trial five different highly selective TR2 gears operating on Irish Sea nephrops grounds, out of a port in Northern Ireland.

24th January 2012

Seafish seeking vessels for gear trials

24th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Discard Action Group (DAG) has written to Maria Damanaki to emphasise the importance of discard reduction, within long-term management plans, as a tool for achieving sustainable fishing.

24th January 2012

DAG calls for clarity on CFP proposals

24th January 2012

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

New Zealand’s Stabicraft Marine has delivered nine custom 659 Wheel House vessels to Alaska where they will be used to monitor the gill net fishery and the fishery’s interaction with sea mammals…

23rd January 2012

Fishery monitoring vessels for Alaska

23rd January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The SFF will underline today at the first 2012 FMAC meeting of the in Edinburgh that no stone must left unturned in finding ways to ensure that Scotland’s fishing fleet has enough…

20th January 2012

Scots fishermen call for government support on fishing days

20th January 2012

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

American Seafoods Group has acquired Good Harbor Fillet LLC from private equity group Creo Capital Partners LLC.

20th January 2012

American Seafoods buys Good Harbor

20th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Kefalonia Fisheries, a major Greek producer of Mediterranean sea bream, sea bass and meagre, has received Friend of the Sea sustainability certification.

19th January 2012

First Greek FoS aquaculture farm

19th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Spanish Association of Marine Aquaculture Producers (APROMAR) has begun working on a project to develop a technology capable of measuring fish biomass levels in offshore aquaculture cages.

19th January 2012

Spanish offshore aquaculture project

19th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation (AFDF) has announced that eight major primary salmon processors are backing out of the Marine Stewardship Council certification programme in October.

18th January 2012

Alaska salmon industry pulls out of MSC

18th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Fisheries Fund (EFF) has made £4.2m of funding available to help fragile fishing communities across Scotland.

18th January 2012

Scottish funding for fishing communities

18th January 2012