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AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Animal nutrition firm Biomin has recently announced two winners of the Biomin Aquaculture Sustainability Scholarship Award.

26th March 2020

Biomin sustainability scholarship winners

26th March 2020

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Tersan Shipyard has awarded Hydroniq Coolers a contract to deliver its Pleat seawater coolers to a wellboat the yard is building for Norwegian salmon producer Nordlaks AS.

26th March 2020

Seawater coolers to LNG-fuelled wellboat

26th March 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The full crew of 36 were rescued from Chinese longliner Shen Gang Shun 1, which had run aground on the west coast of Arutua atoll in the Tuamotu archipelago earlier this week.

25th March 2020

Crew lifted from wrecked longliner

25th March 2020

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

With restaurants, hotels and fresh seafood counters closing all around the world in the wake of the outbreak of the coronavirus, the demand for fresh fish has plummeted. As buyers’ patterns of…

25th March 2020

Investment in new tech as frozen sales surge

25th March 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Skaginn 3X has added two new regional managers to its sales team, Ágúst Ágústsson and Ingvar Vilhjálmsson.

25th March 2020

New regional managers at Skaginn 3X

25th March 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Sea Pact, a collaborative association of eleven leading American and Canadian seafood companies working to drive industry sustainability progress, have resolved to work together to face the unprecedented challenges of the Covid-19…

25th March 2020

Sea Pact members rally together

25th March 2020

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) is seeking clarification on which workers are to be classified as ‘key workers’ under the UK’s new lockdown measures announced last night in response to the…

24th March 2020

SPO seeks clarification on key workers

24th March 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

With the acquisition of Colley Brothers Ltd in Grimsby, DFDS is further strengthening its services to the UK Seafood Industry.

24th March 2020

DFDS acquires Grimsby fish delivery company

24th March 2020

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Launching in the face of the current coronavirus pandemic and co-ordinated by Seafood Cornwall, a new service is creating a register of would-be fish buyers and merchants across the UK.

23rd March 2020

Seafood Cornwalls #FishToYourDoor initiative

23rd March 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Europêche is urging the authorities to help mitigate the problems that the EU fishing sector will face as a result of measures taken to help halt the spread of COVID-19.

20th March 2020

COVID-19: Urgent measures needed

20th March 2020

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) has postponed a new public engagement initiative in an effort to help halt the spread of COVID-19.

20th March 2020

COVID-19: Scottish salmon open days cancelled

20th March 2020

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Fishing vessel owner Jérôme Cabaret, based at St Brieuc in the north of Brittany, has taken delivery of new trawler Anthémis from the Piriou yard in Concarneau.

18th March 2020

Piriou delivers 23 metre trawler

18th March 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The International Pole and Line Foundation has partnered with the Olive Ridley Project to collect and upcycle ghost gear, funded by the inaugural Joanna Toole Ghost Gear Solutions Award.

18th March 2020

IPNLF launches ghost gear initiative

18th March 2020

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A report concerning a recent lawsuit filed in the state of Washington’s King County Superior Court paints a false portrait of aquaculture in the Pacific Northwest, according to Innovasea’s Senior VP of…

18th March 2020

Puget Sound is an aquaculture success story

18th March 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Participants at an EU ministerial maritime conference including IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim have highlighted the urgent need to bring the Cape Town Agreement into force.

18th March 2020

Fishing vessel safety treaty gets boost

18th March 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Discussions have begun between the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations and the UK government on how best to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the fishing industry.

18th March 2020

COVID-19: NFFO and government discussions

18th March 2020

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Biomar Norway will appeal a court’s decision that it infringed a smoltification patent on the basis that a patent shouldn’t exist for the methodology concerned.

18th March 2020

Biomar to appeal against patent ruling

18th March 2020

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Hamish Macdonell, director of strategic engagement for the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) has issued a statement on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the sector.

16th March 2020

COVID-19: SSPO issues statement

16th March 2020

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Tersan Shipyard has signed a new contract for a second freezer stern trawler with JSC Okeanrybflot Russia.

16th March 2020

Second Tersan freezer stern trawler

16th March 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In a newly launched project, scientists from Nofima are hoping to find out how wild fish can be caught as gently as possible to safeguard fish welfare, good quality and financial gain.

11th March 2020

Conducting research into ethical fishing

11th March 2020