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PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Cabinplant A/S has been awarded ‘The Danish Engineering Product Prize 2011’ for its patent-pending robot trimming and packing line, in the sub category ‘Production, Machinery, Transport’, by trade magazine Mediehuset Ingeniøren.

10th November 2011

Cabinplant wins engineering prize

10th November 2011

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

At the beginning of October, during the Conxemar exhibition in Vigo, refrigeration company Kinarca held a conference on ‘Energy efficiency for industrial refrigeration plants’, which received very good feedback customers old and…

10th November 2011

Kinarca holds refrigeration conference

10th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Vaagland Båtbyggeri shipyard in Norway has entered into a contract to build a new purse seiner for Norwegian fishing company Fiskebas AS.

10th November 2011

Fiskebas orders new purse seiner

10th November 2011

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Ishida Europe has launched a new generation of its QX-1100 tray sealer.

9th November 2011

Ishida Europe launches new tray sealer

9th November 2011

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Businesses in the Scottish fish processing sector could save more than 127,000 litres of water per employee per year and save thousands of pounds, according to Business Stream, a Scottish non-domestic water…

9th November 2011

Scottish fish processors could save water and money

9th November 2011

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

In June this year, Vónin delivered a new 2,048m pelagic trawl to M/V Jupiter FD42, for mackerel surface pair trawling.

9th November 2011

New Vónin pelagic multi-trawl

9th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Aquaculture is the worlds fastest-growing source of animal protein and currently provides nearly half of all fish consumed globally, according to a report published by FAO.

9th November 2011

Aquaculture meeting growing demand

9th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The US National Transportation Safety Board has issued five safety recommendations to the U.S. Coast Guard, regarding tougher standards for commercial fishing vessels, crew training and increased use of flotation devices.

9th November 2011

Calls for fishing safety improvements

9th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In a New Zealand first, the Ministry of Fisheries has reported that forensic paint sampling had been used to identify the location of a vessel where fish was illegally dumped.

9th November 2011

NZ fisherman fined after forensic investigation

9th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat certain ASSI Brand frozen oysters from Korea, following an outbreak of illness in Washington state caused by norovirus.

9th November 2011

ASSI Brand frozen oysters recalled

9th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Keith Ashfield, Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, concluded a trade and cooperation mission in China and Japan last week.

9th November 2011

Canada boosts cooperation in Asia

9th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Each fishing vessel has the potential to become a platform for research, says Mike Park, chief executive of the Scottish White Fish Producers’ Association.

8th November 2011

Scientists need to talk more to fishermen

8th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Union has officially extended measures to protect threatened porbeagle sharks from fishing.

8th November 2011

EU protects porbeagle sharks

8th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation is urging the UK and Scottish Governments to do all in their power to persuade the EC to ditch automatic cuts in the number of days that fishing…

8th November 2011

SFF urges governments to persuade EC to stop days at sea cuts

8th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Pioneering UK trials have shown that thousands of tonnes of fish could avoid being discarded, if fishermen are required to count all the fish they catch as part of their quota.

8th November 2011

Fishermen can reduce discards

8th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new sustainability policy will restrict the purchasing of female Blue Swimming Crabs bearing eggs or “berried females”

8th November 2011

Restrictions on buying crabs bearing eggs

8th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Australia’s MSC certified Spencer Gulf King Prawn has arrived in Europe.

8th November 2011

Eco-labelled King Prawn arrives in Europe

8th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In a recent meeting to the UK HoC Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, the EU Commissioner for Fisheries, Maria Damanaki, suggested that fish would be given to the poor instead of…

7th November 2011

EU reform will give fish to the poor

7th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Two men from New Brunswick have been fined $233,000 by fisheries and Oceans Canada for various offences.

4th November 2011

Major convictions in Canada

4th November 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

An additional condition has been added to the trawl fishing license in South East Australia.

4th November 2011

SE Australia trawlers to have SMPs

4th November 2011