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SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The UK’s Big Prawn Company and Globe Export have taken away top honours at the 13th Seafood Prix d’Elite new products competition at this year’s European Seafood Exposition in Brussels.

24th April 2013

Big Prawn wins Seafood Prix d’Elite

24th April 2013

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

At the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels, the organisers have announced that the name of the event will change in 2014 to Seafood Expo Global, and Seafood Processing Europe will become Seafood…

24th April 2013

Last year for European Seafood Exposition

24th April 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

During the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels, German retailer Kaufland presented the Gambian artisanal tonguesole fishery with a cheque worth €100,000 to improve the situation of Gambian fishers and to help finance…

24th April 2013

Kaufland donates €100,000 to Gambian fishery

24th April 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

UK seafood authority, Seafish, has launched a new schools’ programme to reinforce its work to educate children on the benefits of eating seafood and to address the lack of a formal framework…

23rd April 2013

First Seafish schools’ education programme

23rd April 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new study published in the ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA’ has revealed a new insight into the potential effects of ocean acidification on the sensory function of larval…

23rd April 2013

New ocean acidification study

23rd April 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Marine Scotland has announced this years days at sea allocations for West Coast fishermen and a new opportunity that it says will help to keep the fleet at sea throughout the whole…

22nd April 2013

Scottish days at sea allocation

22nd April 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Norwegian fishing company Strand Fiskelsrap has taken the delivery of a 69.9m state-of-the-art stern freezer trawler, built at Tersan Shipyard in Turkey.

21st April 2013

Tersan Shipyard delivers Havbryn

21st April 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Marine coatings company Jotun has announced that it plans to phase out lead chromates from all of its paint and coatings formulations.

21st April 2013

Coatings company to phase out lead chromates

21st April 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Greenpeace has urged the Mauritian government to refuse port clearance for a South Korean vessel accused of illegal fishing in order to protect the Indian Ocean.

19th April 2013

Mauritius urged to deny vessel entry

19th April 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Law enforcement crews from US Coast Guard Station Islamorada intercepted a fishing vessel fishing illegally in American waters this week.

18th April 2013

US Coast Guard intercepts illegal trawler

18th April 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The UK branch of Skretting, a leading supplier of feed for farmed fish and shrimp, is carrying out trials to identify the effects of low levels of dissolved oxygen in seawater at…

18th April 2013

Skretting investigates low oxygen levels

18th April 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The second round of negotiations between the EU and the Seychelles to agree a new Protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement took place this week.

18th April 2013

Progress on EU-Seychelles FPA

18th April 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The SEAFARE project held a two-day workshop on the status of the European smelt on 26 March 2013 in Bangor University, Wales.

18th April 2013

SEAFARE addresses the future of European smelt

18th April 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Sydney Fish Market (SFM) has lodged a development application for an AUS$3.8 million boardwalk upgrade, due to commence in August this year.

18th April 2013

Sydney Fish Market upgrade

18th April 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

French fishing cooperative Armement Coopératif Artisanal Vendéen (ACAV) has taken delivery of a new trawler, Cayola.

17th April 2013

New trawler delivered to France

17th April 2013

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

A major multi million pound investment programme currently underway at Associated Seafoods Ltd (ASL)’s shellfish and Scottish smoked salmon processing facility in north-east Scotland.

17th April 2013

ASL invests in processing

17th April 2013

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) is moving to a new web-based vessel monitoring system (VMS).

17th April 2013

New VMS system for AFMA

17th April 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The UK’s Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has announced an emergency bylaw prohibiting the use of bottom towed fishing gear within the Solent European Marine Site (EMS).

17th April 2013

Solent bylaw to protect seagrass

17th April 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

This week sees the European Association of Fisheries Economists (EAFE) conference visit Scotland for the first time, bringing together over 80 delegates travelling from as far afield as Japan and Alaska.

16th April 2013

EAFE Conference 2013

16th April 2013

SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

Former Gardenstown (Scotland) fisherman George West has developed the QUIKSLING - an easy-to-use device for man-overboard situations.

16th April 2013

QUIKSLING prototype success

16th April 2013