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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A significant number of the 300 or so participants at October’s meeting in Morocco of the International Association of Fish Inspectors (IAFI.net) were hit by severe food poisoning leading to vomiting and…

1st November 2009

Bugs hit fish health inspectors

1st November 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Thailands Fisheries Department plans to start certifying seafood products from non-IUU fishing for exports to Europe by December, one month ahead of schedule, Somying Piumsombun, the director general of the department has…

1st November 2009

Thailand to certify non-IUU products by December

1st November 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Africa’s national fish inspectors and researchers have formed the first ever African Network for Fish Safety and Technology. It will ensure closer collaboration across the continent on issues from health controls to…

1st November 2009

Africas fish safety goes continental

1st November 2009

SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

A record number of visitors to the Cosalt stand at this years WFE helped to boost the number of orders and enquiries taken at the show.

1st November 2009

Cosalt order book boosted at WFE

1st November 2009

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The World Fishing Exhibition (WFE) and Aqua Farming International (AQA) Exhibition were held from the 16-19 September 2009 in Vigo, Spain. At the final press conference, Mr Paz-Andrade, surrounded by the Executive…

1st November 2009

The most professional and international WFE

1st November 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

McMurdo, the UK’s exclusive distributor of weather stations from Davis Instruments, has introduced the new Vantage Vue weather station.

1st November 2009

McMurdo introduces new Vantage Vue weather station

1st November 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Aucxis launched A-Fish in October, a back office package for fish auctions that not only covers the complete administration of invoices and payments, but also facilitates all other administrative and logistic tasks…

1st November 2009

Aucxis launches A-Fish

1st November 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

BlueFinger, the marine subsidiary of Cybit, has launched Saffire-ERS, a commercially available electronic catch reporting system to assist authorities to record, report and process catch-related fishing data in accordance with international fishing…

1st November 2009

BlueFinger launches web-delivered electronic catch reporting system

1st November 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

SELEX Communications, a Wired Ocean reseller, has reported the successful installation of the maritime broadband solution aboard three Scottish trawlers.

1st November 2009

Trio of trawlers get the Wired Ocean treatment

1st November 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Inmarsat and its service partner Satlink have won the first ever European contract to migrate those working in the fishing industry from a paper logbook system to electronic recording and reporting as…

1st November 2009

Inmarsat and Satlink win first European fishing eLogbook contract

1st November 2009