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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Marine Harvest Canada has invested in netting to protect its fish farms from predators.

19th October 2011

Salmon farms to reduce predator kills

19th October 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Ramsey Bay has been designated as the Isle of Man’s first Marine Nature Reserve meaning the area will be protected from damaging activities and fisheries safeguarded.

18th October 2011

Marine protection for the Isle of Man

18th October 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The United States has said that it deeply regrets that Japan has decided to continue its controversial whaling in the Southern Ocean.

18th October 2011

US regrets Japan’s whaling decision

18th October 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

South African retailer Pick n Pay has announced that it intends to sell only sustainable products across its entire fresh, frozen and canned seafood range, by the end of 2015.

18th October 2011

Two firsts for MSC

18th October 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown has congratulated the NZ Ministry of Fisheries, MAF and the developers of a new smartphone fishing app, which has won the Wireless Government Award.

18th October 2011

NZ smart fishing solution praised

18th October 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Fisheries and Oceans Canada has reported that the value of snow crab landings for the 2011 fishing season in Newfoundland and Labrador surpassed $250 million, the highest recorded landed value since 2004.

18th October 2011

Canadian snow crab landings top $250m

18th October 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new analysis commissioned by the Pew Environment Group has found that the amount of eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna traded on the global market in 2010 exceeded the official quota by 141%.

18th October 2011

Tuna trading exceeds official quota

18th October 2011

ICELANDIC FISHERIES EXHIBITION

ICELANDIC FISHERIES EXHIBITION

The Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2011 has been described as the most successful edition of the show in many years.

18th October 2011

Optimism at IceFish 2011

18th October 2011

ICELANDIC FISHERIES EXHIBITION

ICELANDIC FISHERIES EXHIBITION

Local trawl door design and manufacturing company, Polar Fishing Gear, was very busy during the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition.

18th October 2011

Polar’s remote controlled trawl doors

18th October 2011

ICELANDIC FISHERIES EXHIBITION

ICELANDIC FISHERIES EXHIBITION

Icelandic company Hampidjan won the Icelandic Fisheries Award for Best New Product Launched at the Show for its Dynex Data headline sounder cable.

18th October 2011

Dynex Data – best new product

18th October 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Gail Shea, on behalf of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, attended the official opening of the new location of the Catch Certification Program Operations Centre (CCPOC) in Tignish, Prince Edward Island.

17th October 2011

Canada opens Catch Certification Program Operations Centre

17th October 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Scotlands salmon farming industry and wild fish organisations have agreed to enter a facilitated discussion process to support the development of a positive way ahead for both sectors.

17th October 2011

Encouraging interests to work together

17th October 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Scotland is about to enter a crunch and potentially historic year for its fishing industry, Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead said recently.

17th October 2011

Scotland: 2012 a pivotal year for fishing

17th October 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Tunasen Senegal fleet for skipjack tuna has been audited and approved according to Friend of the Sea’s criteria.

13th October 2011

Senegal tuna fleets become FoS

13th October 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A United Nations-backed treaty that seeks to slash the 24,000 lives estimated to be lost each year during fishing operations around the world will come into force next September.

12th October 2011

Treaty to save lives from next September

12th October 2011

NEWS

NEWS

Japan’s fishing industry is facing enormous challenges following the 11 March earthquake and tsunami disaster which seriously affected the Tohoku region in Northeast Japan and part of the neighbouring Kanto region that…

12th October 2011

Japan faces challenges recovering from disaster

12th October 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

New buying standards coming into force this autumn mean that all UK Government catering departments will need to source fish from sustainable fisheries.

12th October 2011

UK commits to sustainable sourcing

12th October 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

In the 1980s the National Fisherman, an American fisheries journal featured a column written by an East Coast fisherman Captain Perc Sane.

12th October 2011

Traditional management: can it be revived?

12th October 2011

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Hawaii Oceanic Technology, Inc., a Hawaii based open ocean aquaculture company has received a US patent for its Oceansphere™, Automated Positioning and Submersible Open Ocean Platform for Fish Farming.

12th October 2011

Oceansphere™ receives US patent

12th October 2011

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

AgriMarine Holdings Inc. has announced that it has signed an agreement with the People’s Government of Benxi County with the intent of developing two additional farm sites in Benxi County, Liaoning Province,…

12th October 2011

AgriMarine to expand into new Chinese salmon sites

12th October 2011