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Oceana has launched a website to gather information on sick, dead and “disappearing” fish in the Baltic Sea in a bid to increase available knowledge and improve research and studies.

The environmentally friendly credentials of Scottish rope grown mussels were highlighted in a UK BBC Horizon programme screened on 20 August.

Simrad introduced the innovative new Simrad PX Trawleye at Nor-Fishing 2014.

The European Commission has lifted measures set against the Faroe Islands in August 2013 following their unsustainable fishery on Atlanto-Scandian herring, but the dispute continues.

Marels FleXicut has won the 2014 Nor-Fishing Innovation Award.

A collaborative experiment between Nofima and Nergård Havfiske AS has shown that pumping from the trawl’s cod-end is gentler for the fish than lifting the complete catch onto the deck.

The Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries Environment Prize for 2014 was awarded to the company Nofir AS during the first day of Nor-Fishing.

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has announced that more than 1000 products carrying the ASC logo are now available across 37 countries.

Seafood shoppers in Hong Kong can now buy Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certified fish in their local supermarket following Market Place by Jasons’ launch of ASC labelled responsibly farmed pangasius in its…

Oceana is joining a research expedition to study marine litter in the Baltic Sea, as the problem worsens.

Oceana is urging the Spanish government to put a stop to trawling in the Minorca Channel, which although banned in 2006, is still carried out with impunity.

International investment fund Hermes-Sojitz is funding the launch of a surimi factory in Senegal, Africa - said to be the worlds first high-tech factory of its kind.

Greenpeace says that new figures from the tenth meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission Scientific Committee (WCPFC), reveal that bigeye tuna is now officially overfished and is in danger…

The Newfoundland and Labrador government has announced $27,300 to the Association of Seafood Producers, to assist with development of an information booklet which will provide product handling guidelines to the shrimp industry.