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INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Food Safety Authority’s Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ Panel) has completed a risk assessment on norovirus in oysters.

18th January 2012

EFSA assesses norovirus in oysters

18th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Seniors in Thornton, Lancashire, has been named the best British fish and chip shop after beating rivals in the National Fish and Chip Awards 2012 on 17 January 2012.

18th January 2012

Seniors named UK’s best fish & chip shop

18th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Dartmouth’s RockFish Seafood & Chips, owned by food writer and restaurateur Mitch Tonks and business partner and long term friend Mat Prowse has achieved MSC certification.

17th January 2012

RockFish rolls MSC certified fish

17th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

AUT University researchers are touting Undaria pinnatifid, a type of seaweed, as the aquaculture sector’s ‘next big thing’ – despite it being a highly invasive and unwanted organism under New Zealand biosecurity…

17th January 2012

Seaweed the “next big thing”

17th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Mainstream Canada trial against anti-salmon farming activist Don Staniford began yesterday.

17th January 2012

Mainstream begins trial against activist

17th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The American Soybean Association’s (ASA) World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) programme and the Pakistan Fisheries Development Board have launched the ‘FEEDing Pakistan’ programme.

16th January 2012

‘FEEDing Pakistan’ programme launched

16th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new EU project will carry out environmental accounting for catch and production of cod and haddock.

16th January 2012

Enviro accounting for cod and haddock

16th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Two new ISO standards for traceability of fish products have been approved.

13th January 2012

New ISO standards for fish products

13th January 2012

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

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

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

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Funding has been announced for four innovative Vancouver Island aquaculture projects, including a project to develop closed-containment technology.

10th January 2012

Canadian government funds Vancouver Island aquaculture projects

10th January 2012

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Eric Schwaab is to leave his position as assistant administrator for NOAA Fisheries to serve as NOAA’s acting assistant secretary of commerce for conservation and management, starting on 17 January.

10th January 2012

New NOAA Fisheries head

10th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Following the ‘Discussion with Industry’ workshops last autumn on the future of Seafish, the four Fisheries Ministers will soon publish a summary of the discussion and high level outcomes.

10th January 2012

Update on the future of Seafish

10th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Marine Stewardship Council has announced that United Supermarkets of Lubbock, Texas is the first Lone Star State regional grocery chain to obtain MSC’s Chain of Custody certification.

9th January 2012

United Supermarkets in a Lone Star first

9th January 2012

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has joined forces with the International Labor Organization (ILO) to release draft guidance on tackling the contentious issue of child labour in fisheries.

5th January 2012

New report tackles child labour in fisheries

5th January 2012