Industry News

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Prins & Dingemanse and Grant’s Smokehouse were awarded the top prizes in the 10th annual Seafood Prix d’Elite new products competition at the European Seafood Exposition this week.

28th April 2010

Prins & Dingemanse and Grant’s Smokehouse take top honours at Seafood Prix d’Elite

28th April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

As part of its long-term ‘Fish for Life’ commitment to sustainable seafood, the Findus Group has announced its ambition to buy all the wild-caught fish for its Young’s and Findus retail brands…

28th April 2010

Findus Group boosts ‘Fish for Life’ programme with new MSC goal

28th April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

With over 50 years of experience in fish farming including two of the largest sturgeon farms in Europe, today PSN is one of the largest sturgeon farms in the world, the largest…

28th April 2010

Spanish sturgeon and caviar farm Piscifactoría Sierra Nevada certified by FoS

28th April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Despite the recession, volume sales of warmwater prawns have risen by 14% suggesting that their perceived image as a luxury item is changing, according to the latest retail figures from Seafish.

28th April 2010

Britons warm to prawns

28th April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

James Desloge OMalley, one of the most knowledgeable and persuasive representatives of the US fishing industry and one of its best thinkers, died suddenly on 26 March 26 2010, reports Menakhem Ben-Yami.

22nd April 2010

Obituary: James Desloge OMalley

22nd April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Seafish has announced the publication of new research into the supply of Icelandic cod and haddock to the UK.

22nd April 2010

Seafish publishes Outlook on supply of Icelandic cod and haddock to the UK

22nd April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Costa Rican government is supporting a proposed law that will allow construction in Las Baulas National Marine Park and destroy a critical nesting beach for endangered leatherback turtles, says WWF.

22nd April 2010

WWF: Costa Rica proposal would harm sea turtles

22nd April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

An Independent Adjudicator has asked third-party certifier Moody Marine Ltd to consider the information of an additional report in its scoring of 5 of the 31 performance indicators used to assess the…

22nd April 2010

Aker Biomarine krill objection

22nd April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, recently met with her provincial counterparts from Quebec, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island to discuss issues affecting the snow crab fishery in the…

22nd April 2010

DFO Canada meets with provinces on Southern Gulf snow crab fishery

22nd April 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

AKVA group has signed a new €6.8m contract for delivery of three complete turnkey fish farms to Cromaris in Croatia.

21st April 2010

Breakthrough for AKVA group

21st April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A strong Scottish contingent is heading for the worlds largest seafood show, the European Seafood Exposition (ESE) in Brussels (April 27-29), where companies exhibiting on the Scottish Pavilion expect to generate sales…

21st April 2010

Scotland at ESE

21st April 2010

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The UK Government has confirmed an unelected member of the House of Lords will represent Scotland at next months informal Fisheries Council.

21st April 2010

Scotland denied place at fisheries talks

21st April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

At 2.30pm on Saturday 17 April, Barrows Tamar class lifeboat Grace Dixon was launched to go to the assistance of a fishing boat in Walney Channel.

21st April 2010

Barrow lifeboat assists fishing boat in distress

21st April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Volunteer RNLI lifeboat crew at Penlee had their Saturday evening disrupted when they were called to tow home a trawler on 17 April 2010.

21st April 2010

Penlee RNLI volunteers tow trawler home

21st April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

This year Mars Petcare Europe will begin rolling out MSC certification across a selection of fish varieties in the SHEBA® and WHISKAS® brand portfolios across Europe, offering consumers a choice of more…

21st April 2010

Mars Petcare announces commitment to use only sustainable fish by 2020

21st April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Dutch North Sea plaice-directed fleet has entered full assessment in the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification programme.

21st April 2010

Dutch North Sea plaice fleet goes for MSC certification

21st April 2010

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Japanese scallop fisheries represented by Hokkaido Gyoren (Hokkaido Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations), with the largest scallop harvest in the world, are entering into Marine Stewardship Council full assessment.

16th April 2010

Japanese scallop fisheries enter MSC assessment

16th April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

For the krill fishing season in 2010, China sent two ocean-going fishing vessel Kai li and An Xin Hai to be involved in Antarctic krill fishing.

16th April 2010

Two Chinese vessels join in Antarctic krill fishing

16th April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Norway’s exports of groundfish including clipfish, salted fish and stockfish in the first quarter of 2010 totalled NOK 2.75 billion - an increase of 13% or NOK 323 million compared with the…

14th April 2010

Record exports of Norwegian cod

14th April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Ocean Conservancy has released Trash Travels: From Our Hands to the Sea, Around the Globe, and Through Time - a global snapshot of the marine debris problem facing wildlife, economies and…

14th April 2010

Report: Ocean trash one of the worst pollution problems we face

14th April 2010