Industry News

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

UK Fisheries, DFFU and Doggerbank Group saithe fishery – an international grouping of fishing companies - has been certified as sustainable against the MSC standard.

11th January 2011

UK Fisheries, DFFU, Doggerbank Group saithe fishery certified as sustainable

11th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The AS do MAR brand of tuna and mackerel has been one of the first in Italy to be certified Friend of the Sea since 2006.

11th January 2011

AS do MAR excels in social responsibility

11th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Alvaro Jimenez, Managing Director of Marine Harvest Chile, has stepped down after holding the position since April 2008.

11th January 2011

New MD for Marine Harvest Chile

11th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Swedish Board of Fisheries has proposed that 50 of the country’s trawlers with a license to catch cod in the Baltic will have their quotas allotted for a whole year.

11th January 2011

Swedish fishermen may get longer TACs

11th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Top quality seafood products begins with properly chilling the catch aboard vessels at sea.

11th January 2011

Vessel refrigeration workshop for fishermen

11th January 2011

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Encouraging new evidence suggests that the bulk of the world’s fisheries – including small-scale, often non-industrialised fisheries on which millions of people depend for food – could be sustained using community-based co-management.

10th January 2011

Co-management holds promise of sustainable fisheries worldwide

10th January 2011

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Danish Fishermen’s Producers’ Organisation (DFPO) has entered the Danish hake, haddock and North Sea sole fisheries for formal MSC assessment.

9th January 2011

Danish fisheries enter MSC program

9th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Maryland Department of the Environment is investigating a fish kill in the Chesapeake Bay in which an estimated two million fish have died.

7th January 2011

MDE investigates large fish kill in Chesapeake Bay

7th January 2011

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The Grimsby based company PPS East recently secured a new contract to provide returnable plastic fish crates to Belgian company Levenstond Seafood, a supplier of Scottish salmon to Belgian supermarkets.

6th January 2011

PPS East wins new crate pooling contract with Levenstond Seafood

6th January 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

This year, the showhow celebrates its 10th anniversary and will be held at the Carnitech Salmon (now the Marel Salmon Division) premises in Nørresundby, Denmark, on 2 February. In addition to the…

6th January 2011

Marel shows how to process salmon

6th January 2011

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the propulsion equipment for a new, state-of-the-art, research vessel.

5th January 2011

Wärtsilä to power UK research vessel

5th January 2011

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Marine engine manufacturers MAN Diesel & Turbo and Wärtsilä Corporation have agreed to pursue a large joint research project, the HERCULES-C project, as a continuation of the HERCULES programmes for the research…

5th January 2011

Wärtsilä and MAN Diesel & Turbo continue HERCULES project

5th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Invergordon RNLI lifeboat was launched on yesterday to go to the aid of a fishing vessel that had broken down at the entrance to the Cromarty Firth.

5th January 2011

RNLI lifeboat tows fishing vessel

5th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

NOAA-funded scientists have found extensive and biologically diverse coral ecosystems occurring at depths between 100-500ft within a 12 mile span off the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico.

5th January 2011

Thriving middle light reefs found in Puerto Rico

5th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A bluefin tuna sold at an auction in Tokyo for a record 32.49m yen (nearly $400,000/£257,320), to a joint Japanese and Chinese bid.

5th January 2011

Record tuna sold in Tokyo

5th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

An interactive large-screen video display at Fishing 2011 in Glasgow will beam live images into the exhibition hall from one of the few remaining flume tanks in the world.

5th January 2011

Flume tank comes to Fishing 2011

5th January 2011

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Singapore-listed marine fuel supplier Chemoil has acquired OceanConnect Holdings marine fuel business for approximately $25 million.

5th January 2011

Chemoil buys OceanConnect Marine for $25 million

5th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Admiral Makarov, a Russian icebreaker has arrived to help ships frozen in the ice in Sakhalin Bay, in the Okhotsk Sea.

4th January 2011

Admiral Makarov arrives in Sea of Okhotsk

4th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Weymouth RNLI volunteers assisted the crew of a fishing vessel who reported their boat was sinking on 3 January. The fishing boat was towed to safety but only after the crew had…

4th January 2011

UK: Weymouth RNLI volunteers assist sinking fishing vessel

4th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Pew Environment Groups project manager, Holly Binns has issued the following statement in response to the Department of Commerce’s final approval of Amendment 17B - a plan to save nine dwindling fish…

4th January 2011

Pew hails new fish protection measures

4th January 2011