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SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The UK’s authority on seafood, Seafish, has announced the date of the first annual ‘Humber Seafood Development Day’, which will provide the seafood industry with an overview and guide to trading opportunities.

23rd January 2013

Seafish seafood development day

23rd January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Six suspects were apprehended by the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) for fisheries violations in two separate incidents last weekend.

23rd January 2013

New Zealanders in trouble for fishery violations

23rd January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Pesqueras Echebastar tuna fishery has become the first Spanish tropical tuna fishery to enter into full MSC assessment.

23rd January 2013

First European tropical tuna fishery seeks MSC cert

23rd January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Commenting on the recent meeting concerning the Protocol between the EU and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Europêche President, Javier Garat, said that vessel owners represented by Europêche were very unhappy with…

23rd January 2013

Europêche unhappy with EU/Mauritania Protocol

23rd January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A salmon-processing plant in Norway has become the first in Europe to achieve Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification.

22nd January 2013

First European BAP salmon processing cert

22nd January 2013

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

South Korean engine manufacturer Hyundai SeasAll has introduced a heavy duty diesel engine aimed at semi-displacement work and fishing boats.

22nd January 2013

Larger engines from Hyundai SeasAll

22nd January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has removed mackerel from its ‘Fish to Eat’ list following worries that the stock is being overfished.

22nd January 2013

MCS downgrades mackerel

22nd January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The new Salmonid Rearing and Trials Centre at Sparsholt College in Hamphire, UK, will officially be opened on 31 January by Robert Hughes from aquaculture feed producer Skretting.

22nd January 2013

New UK educational and research facility opens

22nd January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The SFF is pleased with the outcome of EU-Norway negotiations to decide upon quotas for shared stocks in 2013.

22nd January 2013

SFF welcomes results of EU-Norway negotiations

22nd January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The third round of fisheries negotiations between the EU and Norway has secured a “positive result” for UK fishermen.

22nd January 2013

Positive result for UK fishermen

22nd January 2013

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

According to media reports, Oman’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has secured financial allocations close to OMR 500m (US$1.2m) to develop the countrys fisheries sector during 2013 to 2020.

22nd January 2013

Oman to invest in fisheries growth

22nd January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Certain restrictions on fishing in EU waters were removed by a European Parliament vote this week meaning that small-scale fishermen may be able to catch Baltic cod in coastal areas during closed-season…

17th January 2013

Baltic cod fishing restrictions may be reduced

17th January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Europe is gradually losing its position as the world’s leading centre of aquaculture research to China and the surrounding Asian countries, says Jean Dhont, secretary of the ASEM Aquaculture Platform, an EU…

17th January 2013

EU aquaculture research losing out to China

17th January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Oceana has described the Board of Trustees of the Archipelago of Cabrera Maritime-Terrestrial National Park in the Balearic Islands as inoperative, due to its almost total lack of activity in 2012.

17th January 2013

Oceana: National Park Board responsible for its deterioration

17th January 2013

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

After a successful year, plate freezer manufacturer Freezertech has expanded by adding a new CNC Machining Centre to its workshop.

17th January 2013

Freezertech expands manufacturing with new machinery

17th January 2013

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Just six months after Tucal launched the new model of its vertical plate freezer with automatic unloading system in January 2012, the Spanish company sent the first units to a Latin American…

17th January 2013

Vertical plate freezer shows immediate advantages

17th January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Fresh, frozen and canned albacore tuna from the American Albacore Fishing Association (AAFA), has achieved MSC certification for a second time for the North and South Pacific albacore fisheries.

16th January 2013

First MSC tuna fishery re-certified

16th January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) scientists have just released a spatial risk analysis identifying hotspots where lost fishing nets are threatening the country’s turtle population.

16th January 2013

Discarded net threat to Oz turtles

16th January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Australia’s Government has given the country’s marine users just 30 days to consult on its management plans for the newly created Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network, but there is a worry over the…

16th January 2013

Oz Government reveals marine reserve plans

16th January 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Tonga’s Minister of Fishery, Sangster Saulala, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the operation of 12 additional tuna fishing vessels which will operate in Tonga waters in 2013.

16th January 2013

12 more tuna vessels for Tonga

16th January 2013