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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The complexity of the negotiations facing Britain following its expected departure from the European Union has been highlighted by solicitor Charley Hattersley, an expert in commercial marine law.

24th September 2019

Complex negotiations ahead as UK leaves EU

24th September 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Specialist ship designer, Vard, has announced that it has signed an agreement to provide a new stern trawler to Russian deepwater fishing company Luntos.

23rd September 2019

Vard supplies new trawler to Luntos

23rd September 2019

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The latest in a series of live fish carriers has been delivered by the Sefine Shipyard in Turkey to Norwegian company DESS Aquaculture Shipping.

23rd September 2019

Aqua Spa joins DESS fleet

23rd September 2019

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Norwegian shipowner Frøy Rederi has chosen Cflow Fish Handling AS (Cflow) to deliver a complete fish handling system to what will become the world’s largest wellboat.

20th September 2019

Cflow fish handling for largest wellboat

20th September 2019

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Kongsberg Maritime has expanded its Canadian operation by establishing a presence at COVE, the Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

20th September 2019

Kongsberg expands Canadian operation

20th September 2019

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Residents and local groups are being urged to join Scottish Sea Farms for a series of organised beach cleans, part of the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) Great British Beach Clean which takes…

19th September 2019

Join the Great British Beach Clean, urges SSF

19th September 2019

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

An agreement on the financing of the Russian Pollock processing plant has been signed Russian Fishery Company (RFC) CEO Fedor Kirsanov and Marina Perebeynus, Deputy Chairman of the Far Eastern Bank of…

19th September 2019

RFC signs finance agreement with Sberbank

19th September 2019

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Seafood lovers around the UK will have the opportunity to get behind the fish counter and practise their filleting skills with a certified Master Fishmonger during this year’s Seafood Week on 4–11…

19th September 2019

Practise your skills with a master fishmonger

19th September 2019

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In May and June this year around forty fishing boats from San Benedetto del Tronto, on Italys Adriatic coast, collected and brought ashore all the plastic recovered during fishing. A month after the…

19th September 2019

Fishing plastic from the Adriatic Sea

19th September 2019

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Organisers of the annual Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global events have announced that next year’s exhibition in Brussels will be the last one before the event moves to a new home in…

19th September 2019

Brussels becomes Barcelona

19th September 2019

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Australian kingfish producer, Clean Seas Seafood, has announced plans to expand sales volumes by 50% to 4000 tonnes a year by 2022 and 6000 tonnes by 2025.

19th September 2019

Clean Seas has ambitious plans for kingfish

19th September 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Marin Teknikk will design and engineer a longliner factory fishing vessel to be built by Tersan Shipyard for Ervik Havfiske to carry out fishery operations in the Atlantic.

17th September 2019

New longliner for Ervik Havfiske

17th September 2019

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Europêche has given full support to an ambitious World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement which aims to abolish fishery subsidies which the trade body says are contributing to overcapacity and overfishing.

16th September 2019

Europêche supports WTO IUU stance

16th September 2019

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT) has launched an online learning hub to showcase seafood traceability efforts around the globe and encourage collaboration across industry, governments and NGOs.

16th September 2019

Online hub unifies traceability efforts

16th September 2019

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The ‘Women in Seafood’ (WSI) video competition 2019 has enjoyed a record year with 32 entries from 14 countries, an 88% increase compared to last year.

13th September 2019

Record year for Women in Seafood video comp

13th September 2019

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Aquaculture feed company, Skretting, has developed a new grower diet aimed at providing farms with greater levels of flexibility.

13th September 2019

New Skretting feed gives farmers flexibility

13th September 2019

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute have completed sequencing the brown trout reference genome, helping settle a longstanding debate over whether the fish is a single species, or several.

11th September 2019

Brown trout genetic superpowers explained

11th September 2019

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Thai Union Groups global director of corporate affairs and sustainability has been recognised as one of Asia’s Top Sustainability Superwomen for encouraging positive change across the global seafood industry.

11th September 2019

Thai Unions Sustainability Superwoman

11th September 2019

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Scottish fishermen’s leaders welcomed Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Peterhead last week, while the Chair of the European Parliaments Fisheries Committee has branded the PM’s fisheries policies as hypocritical and out of…

10th September 2019

PM slammed for fisheries policy hypocrisy

10th September 2019

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Indias vice president has said that the countrys seafood industry needs renewed impetus in order to make growth sustainable, generate employment and to gain a competitive edge in internal markets.

9th September 2019

Fresh impetus for Indias seafood industry

9th September 2019