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AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

SalMar’s Chief Financial Officer, Gunnar Nielsen, has resigned from his position, the salmon farming group has confirmed. Nielsen only joined SalMar in April this year.

30th September 2022

SalMar CFO resigns

30th September 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

UK government has announced an expansion to the autonomous tariff quota (ATQ) on imports of coldwater prawn products into the country.

30th September 2022

UK expands prawn tariff

30th September 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Alaska’s Bristol Bay’s 2022 inshore sockeye salmon run totalled 79 million fish – the largest run on record and some 81% above the 43.6 million average for the latest 20-year period (2022-2021). Additionally,…

30th September 2022

Bristol Bay salmon record

30th September 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The creation of a national seafood marketing council for the United States has moved a step closer with Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi introducing the Seafood Marketing Act of 2022, co-sponsored…

30th September 2022

US seafood council return

30th September 2022

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

The 17.4-metre length Euroclydon is the second crabbing fishing vessel built by the Macduff yard in the space of three years, following on from Levanter GY7. Both vessels belong to the same…

30th September 2022

New crabber for Scotland

30th September 2022

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Norway’s Brunvoll AS has signed a contract with Sefine Shipyard in Turkey for the supply of propulsion, manoeuvring and control systems for two large live fish carriers for Intership AS. The vessels…

30th September 2022

Brunvoll fish carrier contract

30th September 2022

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Researchers from a university on the UK’s south coast have released juvenile lobsters on 3D printed artificial reefs to find out more about their preferred habitats.

29th September 2022

3D printed reef study

29th September 2022

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Billed as a first for the aquaculture sector, a new digital platform inspired by virtual reality (VR) technology used in the subsea energy and oil and gas sectors is being developed to…

29th September 2022

New aquaculture VR tool

29th September 2022

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Shipbuilding group VARD has contracted Hydroniq Coolers to deliver the marine seawater cooling system to a newbuild stern trawler that it is designing and constructing for Deutsche Fischfang-Union GmbH & Co. KG (DFFU) in…

29th September 2022

German order for Hydroniq

29th September 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Government of Norway has proposed to introduce a new resource rent tax on aquaculture with effect from 1 January 2023.

29th September 2022

New salmon tax plans

29th September 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Mowi Scotland is appealing a recent refusal of planning permission for an additional pen at its Loch Hourn salmon farm which would increase production capacity by 10%.

28th September 2022

Salmon farm appeal

28th September 2022

FEED & NUTRITION

FEED & NUTRITION

The Chilean company FoodCrop has become the first pelagic fish producer to validate the traceability of the raw material used for its fishmeal production through ORIVO certification.

27th September 2022

Fishmeal validated

27th September 2022

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Spain’s Nodosa Shipyard has secured a contract to construct a new 85-metre factory trawler for the Petrel Fishing Company, part of Falklands-based Fortuna Ltd.

26th September 2022

Newbuild ordered for Petrel

26th September 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Scottish Sea Farms has been awarded Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification for the first time in Orkney.

26th September 2022

ASC approval for Orkney

26th September 2022

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Sea Grant has allocated approximately US$ 14 million in federal funding across four strategic areas for improving US aquaculture. 

26th September 2022

Millions for US aquaculture

26th September 2022

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

The development of Vónin’s Falcon and Falcon+ pelagic trawls has echoed the evolution of the mackerel fishery over recent years, most recently with the Faroese fleet switching to this type of gear…

26th September 2022

Fast, flexible pelagic trawls

26th September 2022

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Turkish shipyard confirms it is building a new factory freezer trawler for Nordbank Hochseefischerei GMBH from Germany, a subsidiary of Parlevliet & Van der Plas

26th September 2022

Tersan trawler order

26th September 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The first recipients of the Seafood Industry Climate Awards (SICA) have been announced, each winning a US$40,000 award to help lower the industry’s carbon footprint and/or promote underrepresented groups in the sector.

23rd September 2022

Climate grant winners

23rd September 2022

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

VARD has placed a contract with Hydroniq Coolers to deliver the marine seawater cooling system to a newbuild stern trawler that the shipbuilding group is designing and constructing for Norwegian fishing company Nergård…

23rd September 2022

Hydroniq lands VARD order

23rd September 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Following its annual general assembly, the Aquaculture Advisory Council (AAC) has confirmed that its members chose Brian Thomsen as the organisation’s chair for the next three years. 

23rd September 2022

All change at AAC

23rd September 2022