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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

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The EU and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have agreed to extend for up to one year the protocol governing the sustainable fisheries partnership agreement which was due to expire in November…

9th September 2019

EU and Mauritania extend partnership deal

9th September 2019

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

While EU seafood exports are in the ascendance, the growing appetite for seafood among European consumers continues to elevate the importance of imported products.

7th September 2019

Crossing borders

7th September 2019

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Scottish Sea Farms will lead an applied research project focused on increasing understanding of gill health in farmed salmon, part of its ‘prevention over cure’ approach to fish welfare.

6th September 2019

Salmon farmer doubles efforts in gill health

6th September 2019

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Commission has adopted a proposal for fishing opportunities for 2020 for the commercially most important fish stocks in the Baltic Sea.

5th September 2019

EC adopts Baltic Sea proposal

5th September 2019

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Water technology company, Xylem, has introduced a new ultraviolet disinfection system tailored for use in saltwater and other challenging water conditions.

5th September 2019

Xylem unveils new UV disinfection system

5th September 2019

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Shikotan fishing company JSC Gidrostroy had the honour of having Russian President Vladimir Putin press the start button to set its new 900-tonne/day pelagic processing plant rolling.

5th September 2019

Putin on the button for Gidrostroy

5th September 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has supplied several new vessels to UK customers this year, with Cleopatra 33s delivered to Fraserburgh and Barra, and a Cleopatra 32 to Whalsay.

4th September 2019

Cleopatras for Scotland and Shetland

4th September 2019

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA), the research wing of the Marine Products Export Development Agency (MPEDA), has standardised the production of quality live feed, stimulating India’s shrimp and fish seed…

4th September 2019

Artemia Pearl launched at Aqua Aquaria India

4th September 2019

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Satellite comms company, Inmarsat, together with the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, its Department of Fisheries, the UK Space Agency and other partners have successfully completed a three-year fisheries innovation…

4th September 2019

Satellite comms on smaller boats saves lives

4th September 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The first of a series of seven new trawlers for Icelandic owners, Vestmannaey VE-54, has docked in its home port for the first time, ahead of the remaining six trawlers for four…

3rd September 2019

Vestmannaey heads new trawler series

3rd September 2019