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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

John West Australia and New Zealand has recently announced a new Sustainable Seafood partnership with the world’s largest conservation organisation, WWF.

16th February 2012

John West partners with WWF-Australia

16th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Indonesian fishing vessel Jimbar Wana was apprehended by AFMA on 10 December 2011, after it had been sighted by surveillance aircraft illegally fishing in the Australian fishing zone.

16th February 2012

AFMA destroys foreign fishing vessel

16th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Safeway Inc. has announced that its own brand skipjack (chunk-light) canned tuna will be responsibly caught using free-school purse-seine methods.

16th February 2012

Safeway announces sustainable sourcing

16th February 2012

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Iridium Communications Inc. has launched its second-generation maritime broadband platform, Iridium Pilot™, which will utilise the Iridium OpenPort® service.

15th February 2012

Iridium Pilot™ raises the bar for maritime communications

15th February 2012

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Orolia has announced that it has been awarded a contract worth around €500,000 for the supply of a Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) for the observation of fishing fleets.

15th February 2012

Orolia awarded €500,000 VMS contract

15th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Following a successful independent audit of the Alaskan and Canadian salmon fisheries, Calkins & Burke is now authorised to export Friend of the Sea labelled salmon.

15th February 2012

Calkins & Burkes salmon is FoS

15th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

One of the worlds largest freezer longliner fishing vessels has been ordered for Alaska fishing company Alaskan Leader Fisheries LLC.

15th February 2012

Worlds largest longliner for Alaska

15th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Canada’s University of Guelph has received nearly $1m from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) for two projects to benefit Canada’s aquaculture industry.

15th February 2012

U of G receives $1m from NSERC

15th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Duchy College has announced that it will deliver apprenticeships in fish and shellfish proficiency skills in Cornwall and Devon, with support from Seafood Cornwall Training and the Sea Fish Industry Authority.

15th February 2012

Skills boost for Cornwall and Devon

15th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Seafish continues to enjoy a superb response to its ‘Fish is the dish’ campaign.

14th February 2012

Seafish ‘Fish is the dish’ campaign enters top 10 of the Tots 100

14th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The EU and Greenland have reached an agreement on a new Protocol to implement the EU/Greenland Fisheries Partnership Agreement, which will enter into force on 1 January 2013 and will be valid…

14th February 2012

New Protocol to EU and Greenland FPA

14th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Research published by the new economics foundation (nef) finds that poor management of fish stocks is draining jobs and profits.

14th February 2012

£2.7bn and 100,000 jobs lost at sea

14th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Best Aquaculture Practices programme has withdrawn its certification of Cumbrian Seafoods Ltd.

14th February 2012

Best Aquaculture Practices defends brand

14th February 2012

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

Norway is a country that’s small in population but mighty in fish exports.

14th February 2012

A seafood superpower

14th February 2012

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

“There is a lot going on in Marel’s ‘innovation factory’,” says Stella Björg Kristinsdóttir, the company’s fish industry marketing manager. And much of this innovation will be on show at the processing…

14th February 2012

‘Innovation factory’ develops new salmon processing machines

14th February 2012

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

The bilateral fisheries agreements, known as Fisheries Partnership Agreements (FPAs), that exist between the EU and third countries have been providing the perfect cover for illegal fishing activities.

14th February 2012

Poor FPAs make illegal fishing easy

14th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The call for papers for the 4th Offshore Mariculture Conference, organised by Mercator Media Ltd, has now been released. The event is a must attend for all fish farmers.

9th February 2012

Call for papers – Offshore Mariculture 2012

9th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Pescafria-Pesquera Rodríguez has become the first Spanish and the first EU Barents Sea cod fishery to be awarded for sustainability under the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Programme.

8th February 2012

First Spanish fishery gets MSC cert

8th February 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The UK’s largest retailer of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified fish, Sainsbury’s, has announced the launch of its 100th MSC product, breaking the UK record for sustainably sourced fish.

7th February 2012

Sainsbury’s launches 100th MSC product

7th February 2012

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

There is real cause for optimism about the future of the world’s fish stocks, despite evidence of its continued decline, according to a new Royal sustainability report.

6th February 2012

Royal positivity towards sustainable fisheries

6th February 2012