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AKVA group has signed a new contract with Clean Seas Tuna (Stehr Group) for the delivery of a complete UNI-recirculation marine hatchery for Southern Bluefin Tuna .The facility will be located at…

The 2009 World Fishing Exhibition and AQA Exhibition will be the most internationally diverse event yet in the series. Participants from more than 105 countries will be in attendance which will make…

The European Commission yesterday gave its backing for a suspension of international trade in endangered Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna. WWF welcomes the decision and now urges European Union national governments to…

A European Community and Norwegian delegation met in Brussels on 3 September to sign a record of conclusions of fisheries consultations between the European Community and Norway on the implementation of the…

The Spanish Association of Naval and Oceanic Engineers (AINE) has organised a seminar on Fishing Vessels Crews and Stability to take place on 16 September within the scope of the World Fishing…

More than 100 fishing boats, sail boats, skiffs and kayaks took to the waters of Homer Alaska recently as commercial fishermen, mariners and others from coastal communities spelled out an urgent message…

AKVA group have signed a Fishtalk agreement with Gratanglaks AS, Kleiva Fiskefarm AS and Astafjord Smolt AS. Gratanglaks and Kleiva Fiskefarm have used the production control software, Fishtalk Control, for a number…

The European Commission has tabled its proposal on fishing possibilities for fish stocks in the Baltic Sea for 2010. Scientific advice has shown that cod stocks are recovering, but that the Western…

The Pew Environment Group last week joined 14 fishing and conservation organisations and more than 55,000 members of the general public in urging the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to reject its…

The global restaurant brand Fifteen and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) have received a grant to have all four Fifteen restaurants certified to sell MSC ecolabelled fish. The grant, from the Dutch…

Canada has awarded a contract valued at $19.6 million to a shipbuilding company in Victoria, BC to build five new 47-foot motor lifeboats for the Canadian Coast Guard. The new vessels will…

Over 70 million tins of sustainable, pole-and-line-caught Pacific skipjack tuna have been pre-ordered as part of a Greenpeace online campaign to promote the development of sustainable and equitable pole-and-line skipjack fisheries in…