News

NEWS

NEWS

Fisheries production in coastal regions along Thailand’s eastern and western seaboards close to Bangkok has been badly affected since October by heavy flooding in central Thailand as the huge volume of floodwater…

12th January 2012

Thai fisheries target value added export processing

12th January 2012

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Clean Seas Tuna Limited has reported early progress with its strategy of bringing forward spawning from the company’s Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) broodstock.

11th January 2012

2012 SBT spawning season starts early

11th January 2012

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

BioMar’s new fish feed carrier, Høydal, is nearing completion, and should be ready to load its first cargo of feed from BioMar’s factories in Norway on 1 May.

11th January 2012

World’s largest fish feed carrier nearing completion

11th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has released its 2010 tuna fishery assessment report, which says that bigeye tuna continues to be overfished in the western and central Pacific tuna fishery.

11th January 2012

Bigeye not at risk, but still overfished

11th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Seafish has published a document comparing the TACs for 2012 agreed by the European Commission with the scientific recommendations made by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES).

11th January 2012

Seafish compares TACs with ICES advice

11th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Three fishermen have died in a fire onboard the Korean fishing vessel Jung Woo 2 near Antarctica on Wednesday.

11th January 2012

Three die in vessel fire

11th January 2012

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

One vital aspect of packaging is to label it so that it provides accurate information about the product inside.

10th January 2012

Spelling out the species

10th January 2012

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Funding has been announced for four innovative Vancouver Island aquaculture projects, including a project to develop closed-containment technology.

10th January 2012

Canadian government funds Vancouver Island aquaculture projects

10th January 2012

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Eric Schwaab is to leave his position as assistant administrator for NOAA Fisheries to serve as NOAA’s acting assistant secretary of commerce for conservation and management, starting on 17 January.

10th January 2012

New NOAA Fisheries head

10th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Following the ‘Discussion with Industry’ workshops last autumn on the future of Seafish, the four Fisheries Ministers will soon publish a summary of the discussion and high level outcomes.

10th January 2012

Update on the future of Seafish

10th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Marine Stewardship Council has announced that United Supermarkets of Lubbock, Texas is the first Lone Star State regional grocery chain to obtain MSC’s Chain of Custody certification.

9th January 2012

United Supermarkets in a Lone Star first

9th January 2012

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has joined forces with the International Labor Organization (ILO) to release draft guidance on tackling the contentious issue of child labour in fisheries.

5th January 2012

New report tackles child labour in fisheries

5th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A bluefin tuna has been sold for a record 56.49 million yen ($736,000) at the first auction of the year at Tokyos Tsukiji fish market.

5th January 2012

Tuna sold for record $736k

5th January 2012

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Last summer, Karstensens Skibsværft, based in Skagen, Denmark, delivered the new and innovative fishing vessels M/S Christina E to the Norwegian shipping company Eivik & Sævik, based in Torvik, Bølandet, Norway.

5th January 2012

MaK and Cat engines for Christina E

5th January 2012

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Pon Power Scandinavia recently delivered and installed two new gensets to Alsaker Fjordbruk AS, a Norwegian fish hatchery.

5th January 2012

CAT gensets for Norwegian fish hatcheries

5th January 2012

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Following a short trip to the North Sea fishing grounds, trawler skipper Sandy West successfully completed the first landing of 2012 of langoustines (prawns) into Buckie.

5th January 2012

First langoustine landed into Buckie

5th January 2012

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Quinlan Brothers Ltd., a Newfoundland fishing company, has been investing in leading edge technologies such as the Style International Grader and the Laitram Convection Cooker, in order to guarantee a consistent high…

5th January 2012

Deepchilled Canadian shrimp conquers Europe

5th January 2012

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Blue mussel fisheries representing the entire bottom grown mussel landings of Ireland have entered Marine Stewardship Council assessment.

4th January 2012

Irish mussel fisheries enter assessment

4th January 2012

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

World Health Energy Holdings, Inc. has signed a Letter of Intent with Prime Inc. India to develop a biodiesel production facility of up to 250 acres, with a budget of up to…

4th January 2012

Biodiesel company to develop algae farm

4th January 2012

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Tucal has recently launched its new vertical plate freezer, which includes an automatic unloading system.

3rd January 2012

Tucal launches new vertical plate freezer

3rd January 2012