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Chilean salmon farming company, Blumar SA, has become the third in the country to achieve three star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification from the Global Aquaculture Alliance.

4th June 2013

Blumar earns three star BAP certification

4th June 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The UK’s Minister for Natural Environment and Fisheries, Richard Benyon, will present the details of the proposals for a discards ban as part of the Common Fisheries Policy to the House of…

4th June 2013

Richard Benyon to be quizzed on discard ban

4th June 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood has announced that Target and other large US grocery retailers have committed to not sell genetically engineered salmon if it is approved by the Food…

4th June 2013

US retailers say no to GM salmon

4th June 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In January this year Welsh fishing port, Milford Fish Docks, experienced the highest tonnage landed 15 in years, and the highest for more than 10 years in 2012.

4th June 2013

Record figures at Welsh port

4th June 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The latest figures on fish stocks in EU waters reveal the European Commission’s efforts to phase out overfishing are paying off, but more still needs to be done.

3rd June 2013

Fishing opportunities for 2014

3rd June 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In a bid to eliminate confusion for consumers and the industry over different certification standards, Seafish has launched a new web resource to provide information on standards which apply to fish and…

30th May 2013

Seafish sets out certification standards

30th May 2013

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Sirane’s food packaging division has designed and built a new machine for the production of absorbent liners for packaging seafood.

30th May 2013

New machine for absorbent liners

30th May 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new FAO report has found that jellyfish ‘blooms’ could be behind a drop in fish stocks in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

30th May 2013

Jellyfish ‘blooms’ endanger fish stocks

30th May 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

An agreement has been reached for a radical overhaul of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy, following nearly two years of negotiations.

30th May 2013

CFP reform agreed

30th May 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) has released the annual sustainability overview of fishmeal and fish oil fisheries covering the 28 principal reduction areas around the Atlantic Ocean and South America.

29th May 2013

Fishmeal and fish oil overview

29th May 2013

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Marel has launched a new intelligent portion loading (IPL) Robot that can be configured to virtually any application in the protein sector.

29th May 2013

New IPL robot from Marel

29th May 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In a bid to better understand the Atlantic Ocean and to promote the sustainable management of its resources, the European Union, the United States and Canada, have agreed to join forces on…

29th May 2013

Atlantic Ocean research alliance

29th May 2013

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Espersen Lietuva UAB, one of the most modern fish processing companies in Europe, has installed two printers from Linx Printing Technologies for labelling its boxes.

29th May 2013

Processing company chooses Linx printers

29th May 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

New Zealand seafood company Sealord has announced that its canned tuna products will soon be FAD-free – new supplies of Sealord Yellowfin Tuna will be FAD-free from July this year and the…

29th May 2013

Sealord tuna goes FAD-free

29th May 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Turkish shipyard Tersan has delivered the 69.9m stern freezer trawler ‘Havstrand’ to Norwegian fishing company Strand Havfiske.

29th May 2013

Tersan Shipyard announces delivery of ‘Havstrand’

29th May 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Oceana has filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for its “failure to require adequate observer coverage” for the New England groundfish fishery for cod, haddock and flounder.

29th May 2013

Oceana sues NMFS

29th May 2013

FISH HANDLING

FISH HANDLING

Grimsby, UK, based PPS East, supplier of plastic fish boxes, tubs and pallets to the seafood industry, has introduced an internet based fish box management system to all Humber fish merchants who…

28th May 2013

PPS East introduces fish box management system

28th May 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Overfishing has reduced fish populations and biodiversity across much of the worlds oceans causing fisheries to become over reliant on shellfish - but the University of York says this approach is extremely…

28th May 2013

Relying on shellfish – a risky business

28th May 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new collection of Fishlove images are now on display at the baudoin lebon gallery in Paris.

28th May 2013

Fishlove’s new collection

28th May 2013

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Ishida Europe is launching a new top-of-the range multihead weigher, which it says offers even higher speeds, improved user interface, ultra-efficient operation and exceptional robustness even in the harshest of factory environments.

28th May 2013

New Ishida RV multihead weigher

28th May 2013