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The programme for the 7th Offshore Mariculture Conference, taking place 6th-10th March 2017, is nearing completion and is packed with industry leading speakers.

16th December 2016

Provisional programme confirmed: new speakers announced

16th December 2016

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Very few sponsorship packages remain for Offshore Mariculture 2017. Enquire now to promote your company to hundreds of key decision makers and industry leaders who will be in attendance from 6-10 March…

16th December 2016

BioMar confirmed as Gold Sponsor

16th December 2016

OMA

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Very few sponsorship packages remain for Offshore Mariculture 2017. Enquire now to promote your company to hundreds of key decision makers and industry leaders who will be in attendance from 6-10 March…

16th December 2016

BioMar confirmed as Gold Sponsor

16th December 2016

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Tyler Sclodnick has been working in research and development of offshore aquaculture systems for six years. His work focuses on optimal site selection and development of grow out technologies.

15th December 2016

Tyler Sclodnick

15th December 2016

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Mr. Perry is an entrepreneur with a decade of mariculture and business development experience in Mexico. In 2013 he founded multinational mariculture businesses Productos Marinos de las Californias (PROMAC) in Mexico, and…

15th December 2016

Beau Perry

15th December 2016

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

EU ministers have reached an agreement on fishing opportunities for 2017 in the Atlantic, North Sea and Black Sea, following discussions at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 12 and 13 December.

14th December 2016

EU ministers set 2017 catch limits

14th December 2016

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

MAN Diesel & Turbo has carried out a quick fix turbocharger retrofit on a North Sea trawler taking just five weeks from first enquiry to commissioning.

13th December 2016

Quick fix for North Sea trawler

13th December 2016

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INDUSTRY NEWS

The United Nations General Assembly has ratified the annual celebration of World Tuna Day, to become a globally recognised event.

13th December 2016

World Tuna Day ratified

13th December 2016

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The twelfth fishery research vessel of the South Korean National Institute of Fisheries Science will be fitted with Schottel Controllable Pitch Propellers (SCP), the second order received for the same operator.

12th December 2016

Schottel propellers for fisheries research vessel

12th December 2016

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) says many positive outcomes were achieved at the 13th Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission annual meeting in Fiji, including adoption of the observer safety measure.

12th December 2016

Positive outcomes from WCPFC 13

12th December 2016

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

It has been a turbulent few days with NGOs piling in to slam the MSC’s decision to certify the New Zealand orange roughy fishery as sustainable.

9th December 2016

Orange roughy furore

9th December 2016

INDUSTRY NEWS

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Based in Tholen in the south of Holland Job Schot and his family run the Belgian-flagged Eurocutter Job Senior Z-201. he’s an unlikely activist, but the apparently unending burdens being placed on…

9th December 2016

Dutch fleet says no to discard ban

9th December 2016

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Pingtan Marine Enterprise is set to deploy four tuna longline vessels to fish in the international waters of the Pacific Ocean

9th December 2016

Pingtan longliners head for the Pacific

9th December 2016

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A European Union funded research project is addressing the challenges of disease prevention and management to protect the European aquaculture industry.

8th December 2016

Tackling parasitic diseases in Europe’s farmed fish

8th December 2016

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

New Zealand based ENL Group, has received a NZD$15m R&D growth grant to assist with ongoing investment in its globally recognised WASSP Multibeam Sounder.

8th December 2016

Sounder technology receives R&D grant

8th December 2016

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Commenting at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission annual meeting taking place this week, Ludwig Kumoru of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) and others have slammed the refusal of…

8th December 2016

FFA slams lack of action on northern bluefin

8th December 2016

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Seafood Harvesters, the voice for American commercial fishermen, has called upon the new US administration to champion seafood as a national priority.

7th December 2016

Trump administration urged to champion seafood

7th December 2016

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Fishing operations for EU vessels in the Cook Islands fishing areas has been given the go ahead. This follows the Cook Islands and the EU agreeing on all elements of the Sustainable…

6th December 2016

Cook Islands strike deal with EU

6th December 2016

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

China’s Pingtan Marine Enterprise Ltd has completed construction on two squid jigging vessels which will go into operation in the Southwest Atlantic and Southeast Pacific Oceans by late December 2016.

5th December 2016

Pingtan launches new jigging vessels

5th December 2016

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Negotiations between Norway and the EU on fishing quotas in the North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat are now complete.

5th December 2016

Quotas up for cod, saithe and plaice

5th December 2016