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AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Fresh Direct Group’s M&J Seafood has announced that it is adding 18 new four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP)-certified prawn items to its product range.

20th May 2015

M&J Seafood commits to BAP

20th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Senator for Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, is urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change the legal market name of Alaska-caught pollock simply to ‘pollock’.

19th May 2015

Senator pushes for ‘Alaskan pollock’ name change

19th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Seafish is calling on the UK’s fishermen to think about their safety after research revealed 46% of commercial fishermen consider their job to be dangerous but 34% say they rarely or never…

19th May 2015

Seafish campaigns for fishermen’s safety

19th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Research led at the University of Strathclyde suggests that predatory seals are constraining the recovery of cod stocks in Scottish West coast waters.

19th May 2015

Scottish cod stock recovery threatened by seals

19th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Banff & Buchan MP Eilidh Whiteford and North East MSP Christian Allard have welcomed the news of record fish landings in Scotland.

19th May 2015

Record Scottish fish landings welcomed

19th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Norwegian company Nofir AS is organising an event to collect discarded material from fishing and fish farming (nets, ropes, fish farming cages, etc.) in Greece at the end of May.

19th May 2015

Marine litter clean up in Greece

19th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

On Friday 15 May 2015 three owners of 10m and under fishing vessels were sentenced by the Crown Court for exceeding monthly quota allocations.

19th May 2015

Vessel owners fined £13,150

19th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The latest survey results from the Scottish Government show that the value of the shellfish industry has increased by 18% to £10.5m at first sale value in 2014.

19th May 2015

Scottish mussel production reaches all time high

19th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The latest statistics published by the Scottish Government show that the value of fish landings is at a record high, having increased by 19% to £513 million in 2014.

15th May 2015

Record high Scottish catch value

15th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new website to support the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science’s (Cefas) development was launched last month, as part of the Centre’s strategy to expand into wider marine science and…

15th May 2015

Cefas launches new wesbsite

15th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Alexander Tkachev, Russia’s newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, plans to implement a package of reforms in the country’s fishing industry, reports Eugene Gerden.

14th May 2015

Big plans for Russian fishing industry

14th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Skansen zoo in Stockholm has become the first in Sweden to achieve the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification.

14th May 2015

Sweden’s first MSC certified zoo

14th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Scottish haddock fishermen are hoping to extend their MSC certified status through to 2020, as scientists gathered to examine the fleet’s performance on Tuesday.

14th May 2015

Scottish haddock certification

14th May 2015

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

A new report aims to increase the consciousness of business leaders and policy makers about the value that women bring to the seafood industry and not to overlook them when making new…

13th May 2015

The role of women in the seafood industry

13th May 2015

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

The new ‘RV Kronprins Haakon’ - the first Norwegian icebreaker built for polar research - will begin regular science cruises in 2017.

13th May 2015

New polar research vessel ‘Kronprins Haakon’

13th May 2015

OMM

OMM

The organisers of the Offshore Mariculture Conference taking place in Mexico are in the process of putting together a comprehensive list of technical visits to complement the conference.

13th May 2015

Planned technical visits

13th May 2015

OMMS

OMMS

Following last year’s popular and engaging visit to Piscicoltura del Golfo di Gaeta (P2G) fish farm, Naples, Mercator Media, the Conference organisers are working on a day and a half of technical…

13th May 2015

Planned technical visits

13th May 2015

OMA

OMA

The organisers of the Offshore Mariculture Conference taking place in Mexico are in the process of putting together a comprehensive list of technical visits to complement the conference.

13th May 2015

Planned technical visits

13th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

NOAA Fisheries scientists at the Alaska Fisheries Science Centre have developed a deeper understanding of cod development after successfully growing Artic cod in the laboratory.

13th May 2015

Arctic cod spawned and hatched in captivity

13th May 2015

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new policy agreeing to limit the number of Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) that can be used by any one vessel has been welcomed by the EU tuna fishing industry.

13th May 2015

Industry welcomes FAD limits

13th May 2015