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PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Following its best sales year ever, high pressure processing company Avure Technologies will expand its manufacturing capacity, bringing a new US facility online by the end of 2012.

6th June 2012

Avure to open new US manufacturing facility

6th June 2012

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The North East Arctic cod, haddock and saithe fisheries fished by UK Fisheries Ltd and the German companies DFFU and Doggerbank, have been MSC certified.

6th June 2012

Anglo-German fisheries MSC certified

6th June 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Reports about a number of vessels allegedly fishing illegally for bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean have propelled the European Commission into action.

6th June 2012

EC on illegal fishing alert

6th June 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A Papua New Guinean fisher has won US$500 for recovering a plastic tag that was attached to the back of a yellowfin tuna.

6th June 2012

PNG fisher recovers 50,000th tuna tag

6th June 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Nova Scotia has a new strategy for aquaculture development that the government says will help efforts to grow a sustainable industry and create wealth in rural and coastal communities.

6th June 2012

Nova Scotia launches aquaculture strategy

6th June 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Commission initialled a new Protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement (FPA) in Nadi, Fiji on 3 June.

5th June 2012

New Protocol to the EU-Kiribati FPA

5th June 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Macquarie Island toothfish fishery (MITF) – operated by Austral Fisheries and Australian Longline - has gained Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification.

5th June 2012

Toothfish fishery gains MSC certification

5th June 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Salmon and Trout Association Scotland (S&TA Scotland) is urging the Scottish Government to take action on coastal salmon netting.

5th June 2012

Demand to curb coastal salmon netting

5th June 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Peruvian scallop producer supplying Cornic, one of the key players in the French seafood industry, has become the first certified by Friend of the Sea.

5th June 2012

Cornic scallops win Friend of the Sea approval

5th June 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Keith Ashfield, Canadian minister of fisheries and oceans has announced that the Government of Canada will make a significant investment to protect Canada’s Great Lakes from the threat of Asian carp.

31st May 2012

Protecting Great Lakes from Asian Carp

31st May 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The 4th Offshore Mariculture Conference which takes place later this year, is a “must attend event for all fish farmers.”

31st May 2012

Offshore Mariculture Conference

31st May 2012

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Swedish ozone generator supplier Primozone has been selected to provide an ozone generator solution for Bell Aquaculture, for the second time.

31st May 2012

Primozone supplies ozone solution to Bell Aquaculture

31st May 2012

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

foodcareplus™ and Nova Fresh Logistics have announced an all-in-one logistics service for the seafood industry.

31st May 2012

All-in-one logistics service for seafood industry

31st May 2012

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Processing systems manufacturer Carnitech showed two new machines at Seafood Processing Europe in Brussels in April.

31st May 2012

New roller grader and SMARTloader from Carnitech

31st May 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The season usually lasts from 16 May-14 June but the purse seine quota allocated to both countries was exhausted on 29 May at 20:00.

31st May 2012

Spanish and French tuna fishery closed

31st May 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have tagged young bluefin tuna in Atlantic waters off New England to track migration patterns.

30th May 2012

Researchers track Atlantic bluefin tuna

30th May 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Recent surveys by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveal an unprecedented number of young scallops in two fishery management areas off the mid-Atlantic coast.

30th May 2012

Record level of mid-Atlantic scallop seed

30th May 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Argentine hoki trawl net fishery has been awarded MSC certification.

30th May 2012

Argentine hoki fishery MSC certified

30th May 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Bluefin tuna exposed to radioactivity that leaked into the Pacific Ocean after the earthquake and tsunami damaged Japan’s Fukushima power plants last year have carried that radiation to the waters off California.

30th May 2012

Bluefin tuna carry radiation from Japan

30th May 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Today EU Commissioner Maria Damanaki will welcome her US counterpart, Dr Jane Lubchenco, US Under-Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, to Brussels.

30th May 2012

EU/US cooperation against illegal fishing

30th May 2012