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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Another new vessel in the Canadian Coast Guard fleet was named last week by the Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

20th September 2012

Canada names another Coast Guard vessel

20th September 2012

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

A new NOAA report shows that US seafood landings reached a 17-year high in 2011, thanks in part to rebuilding fish populations.

20th September 2012

US seafood landings reach 17-year high

20th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

NOAA has announced that three new research projects will receive funding totalling nearly $1.6m to examine the effects of ocean acidification on fisheries, and the coastal economies that depend upon them.

20th September 2012

Effects of ocean acidification researched

20th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Purse seine tuna fishers around the world are getting a real-time update on best practices to avoid bycatch thanks to a series of workshops facilitated by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF).

20th September 2012

Bycatch researchers work with fishers in Asia and South America

20th September 2012

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Linde Gases has opened its state-of-the-art Innovation Centre for Aquaculture, a pioneering R&D and testing unit located at Ålesund in Norway.

20th September 2012

Linde opens aquaculture centre in Norway

20th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The programme at the Offshore Mariculture Conference in Izmir, Turkey from 17-19 October will include an important plenary discussion on ‘The Governance of Mariculture in International Waters’.

19th September 2012

Shaping the future of mariculture

19th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament has supported a strict ban on shark finning in EU waters and on EU vessels worldwide.

19th September 2012

European Parliament supports finning ban

19th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) is participating in a new project to help secure a sustainable and profitable future for the European brown crab industry.

19th September 2012

SFF involved in new project to boost European brown crab sector

19th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

European fast food chain Quick has changed its white fish supply policy in support of the sustainable fishing industry by obtaining the MSC certification for its entire supply chain.

19th September 2012

Quick supply chain MSC certified

19th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Western Australian Government has partnered with the Western Australian Fishing Industry Council (WAFIC) to announce a $14.5m fund for Western Australian fisheries to gain MSC certification.

19th September 2012

Oz gets $14.5m fund for certification

19th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Ocean scientists are studying areas further north and eastward during this years Ecosystem Survey.

19th September 2012

Ecosystem Survey advances further

19th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

European fishing industry organisations, EAPO, Europêche and Cogeca, have launched a new and innovative proposal to address the issue of discards in an effective and workable manner.

19th September 2012

Alternative discards proposal launched

19th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Scientists have been studying the supposed effects of the ‘pelagic complex’ of the North Sea - that Norwegian spring-spawning herring, blue whiting and Northeast Atlantic mackerel, have significant effects on each other…

18th September 2012

Scientists study effects of Norwegian Sea fish

18th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

British Yukon Railway Company Limited was fined $100,000 in Yukon Territorial Court, Canada, on 12 September for depositing a deleterious substance in water inhabited by fish.

18th September 2012

British Yukon Railway fined $100,000

18th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

New research by the New Economics Foundation (nef) has found that restoring EU fish stocks could generate huge returns on investment.

18th September 2012

Investment could restore EU fish stocks

18th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) has now included Baltic salmon stocks in the joint deployment plan (JDP) in the Baltic Sea, in line with the control and inspection programme for cod…

18th September 2012

Baltic salmon included in JDP

18th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new partnership between fish producers and researchers heralds a more efficient and sustainable future for the European aquaculture industry.

18th September 2012

New project to make aquaculture more efficient and sustainable

18th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Oceana is urging the European Parliament Fisheries Committee to vote in favour of a strict European ban on shark finning tomorrow (19 September) in Brussels.

18th September 2012

EP to decide future of shark finning

18th September 2012

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Belgian company Marelec has introduced its modified weighing scale, new catch management software and new marine graders to the fishing industry this year.

18th September 2012

Marelec launches new equipment

18th September 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The first Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certificate for responsible Pangasius farming was awarded to Vinh Hoan’s Tan Hoa farm in Vietnam on September 11th.

17th September 2012

First ASC cert for Vietnamese farm

17th September 2012