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UK-based Meercat Workboats has sold a third aquaculture vessel to Dawnfresh, a large player in the Scottish aquaculture business.

22nd August 2016

Newbuild aquaculture workboat

22nd August 2016

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Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress high-speed broadband is being extended in Northern Europe, in order to reach the fishing and offshore support vessel market.

17th August 2016

Inmarsat broadband extended in Europe

17th August 2016

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This year’s Nor-Fishing Innovation Award has been awarded to the Scantrol Deep Vision underwater camera system for fish measurement and sorting in the trawl.

16th August 2016

Innovation Award goes to Scantrol Deep Vision

16th August 2016

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Improving systems that underpin rights-based tuna management in the western and central Pacific, while identifying ways to add value to benefit the industry are twin goals of the new chief executive of…

16th August 2016

New PNA CEO focuses on governance

16th August 2016

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The International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) has announced that Caterers Choice has become the first company focussed on the UK foodservice sector to be named a member of the association.

16th August 2016

IPNLF names first UK foodservice supplier member

16th August 2016

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NOAA Fisheries has published a final rule which confirms that nations exporting fish and fish products to the United States must meet fishing standards for protecting marine mammals that are equal to…

16th August 2016

US establishes marine mammal bycatch criteria

16th August 2016

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Sea Pact has announced that its fifth Request for Grant Proposals (RFP) is now open.

16th August 2016

Sea Pact opens 2016 Request for Grant Proposals

16th August 2016

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Australia has engaged with international partners to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing under Operation Nasse, a multilateral maritime surveillance operation involving France, New Zealand and the USA.

15th August 2016

Combatting illegal fishing

15th August 2016

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Benchmark Holdings plc has expanded its breeding and genetics offering through the acquisition of a South American shrimp breeding programme.

11th August 2016

Benchmark acquires South American shrimp breeding programme

11th August 2016

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The 10 semi-finalists for the ‘best young fish frier’ award at the 2017 National Fish & Chip Awards have been announced.

11th August 2016

Top 10 young fish friers announced

11th August 2016

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Direct Seafoods is set to be the first supplier to offer British certified sustainable plaice.

11th August 2016

First British certified sustainable plaice

11th August 2016

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Bakkafrost has issued a statement confirming that none of the company’s fish farming activates are associated with whaling, and that there is no whale meat in its feed.

10th August 2016

Bakkafrost not associated with whaling

10th August 2016

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FIP leaders from China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam came together recently in Bangkok, Thailand, for the FIP Managers Meeting, a blue swimming crab sustainability symposium.

9th August 2016

FIP Managers Meeting hosted by NFI Crab Council

9th August 2016

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Oceana has concluded its at-sea research in Malta to explore deep-sea areas, underwater caves and sandbanks within the LIFE BaHAR for N2K project.

9th August 2016

Marine research in Malta concludes

9th August 2016

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Thai Union Group (TU) has reported a 16.9% on-year rise in the second quarter of 2016, with a net profit of THB1,527m.

8th August 2016

Record profit for Thai Union

8th August 2016

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UK authority, Seafish, is calling for vessel owners and skippers across the UK to participate in its annual economic survey of the UK fishing fleet.

4th August 2016

UK fishing fleet survey

4th August 2016

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China-based Pingtan Marine Enterprise Ltd. has announced that 13 of its fishing vessels have obtained fishing licenses from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and are…

4th August 2016

Pingtan vessels to operate in Timor-Leste

4th August 2016

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ASEAN-SEAFDEC have hosted a cooperative forum in Thailand to cooperate with other Asian countries to develop a joint declaration to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and enhance sustainable fisheries development…

4th August 2016

Asian cooperation to combat IUU fishing

4th August 2016

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The European Commission has proposed a new multi-annual plan for demersal fish stocks in the North Sea.

4th August 2016

EC proposes multi-annual plan for the North Sea

4th August 2016

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Quentin Bates looks at fishing gear patents and whether they help or hinder product development.

4th August 2016

Protecting or stifling a good idea?

4th August 2016