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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Vietnam’s Anova Corporation has set up a joint venture with Norwegian fish feed producer EWOS Group, a division of Noway’s Cermaq ASA, to operate and expand a plant in the Mekong Delta.

16th February 2011

Anova sets up joint venture

16th February 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

RNLI lifeboat crews from Eyemouth and Berwick-upon-Tweed assisted a stricken fishing vessel after receiving a call from Forth Coastguard.

16th February 2011

RNLI lifeboat crews assist stricken Eyemouth fishing vessel

16th February 2011

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

TRAFFIC Japan today hosted a seminar, which was broadcast live online, entitled “Towards traceability and sustainable use of marine resources: international trends and activities in Japan”.

16th February 2011

TRAFFIC hosts online fisheries seminar

16th February 2011

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Marine Harvest, the worlds leading seafood company and largest producer of farmed salmon and processed seafood, has purchased two Aquaculture Net Cleaning Systems from Hughes Pumps.

16th February 2011

Revolutionary net cleaner chosen for Scottish salmon farms

16th February 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Scotland is expanding its catch quota trial in a bid to reduce discards.

16th February 2011

Scotland tackling discards

16th February 2011

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Communications supplier H2OSatellite says there’s no question that the FleetBroadband FB150 product from Inmarsat with its compact antennae and below decks equipment is bringing global, reliable maritime satellite communications within reach of…

15th February 2011

Making technology work harder and cheaper

15th February 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Marine Harvest Group has decided to change the organisation on group level from a geographic to a functional organisation with two business units; Farming and Global Sales and Marketing.

15th February 2011

Changes at Marine Harvest

15th February 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Wärtsiläs Board of Directors has appointed Björn Rosengren M.Sc. as the new President and CEO of Wärtsilä Corporation.

15th February 2011

Wärtsilä appoints new president and CEO

15th February 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

On 9 February, 15 fishery observers boarded tuna purse seiners owned by Spanish shipowners Atuneros Vascos, Inpesca, Pevasa and Seabreeze Ventures – all part of the Pevaeche group.

15th February 2011

Observers board Pevaeche’s tuna seiners

15th February 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Novartis Animal Health, Inc. has entered into an agreement with Intervet/Schering-Plough that grants exclusive rights to Novartis to potentially commercialise a new Pancreas Disease (PD) vaccine for use in farmed salmon.

15th February 2011

Novartis to develop vaccine to prevent Pancreas Disease in farmed salmon

15th February 2011

NEWS

NEWS

Fisheries production in the Philippines has achieved strong growth during the past decade in spite of the impact of overfishing on fish stocks in a number of important fishing zones.

15th February 2011

Philippines government urges fishermen to develop mariculture

15th February 2011

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Nutreco has announced that it has agreed to acquire 100% of the shares in Shihai Co Ltd., a reputable and profitable fish and shrimp feed company in China.

14th February 2011

Nutreco agreed to acquire Chinese company

14th February 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

No one can dispute the need for nature reserves or Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in certain marine and coastal habitats such as coral reefs, sponge and inshore seagrass beds, and some other…

14th February 2011

Marine Protected Areas: What do they do to fishermen?

14th February 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Deep-sea gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean’s Levant Sea are causing a scramble to start drilling – while concerns for irreversible damage to outstanding marine biodiversity are being ignored, says WWF.

14th February 2011

WWF: Gas drilling threatens marine life

14th February 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

On 17 February and for the second year running, Carrefour will host Les Jours Bleus – a high-impact in-store campaign organised in partnership with two leading seafood brands Findus and Labeyrie.

14th February 2011

Les Jours Bleus encore!

14th February 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The First Minister and Fisheries Secretary met with fishing leaders on11 February to discuss shared priorities for the Scottish fleet.

14th February 2011

Scotland: Fishing industry talks

14th February 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A coalition of fishermen’s groups set up to provide a united voice on how marine protected areas are established in UK waters has confirmed that it will be exhibiting at the Fishing…

14th February 2011

Fishing Coalition to highlight concerns over Marine Protected Areas

14th February 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Thousands of endangered marine turtles could be saved in the Coral Triangle region if the fishing industry started using innovative and responsible fishing gear, a WWF analysis shows.

13th February 2011

WWF: Gear changes can save turtles

13th February 2011

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Commission adopted, on 11 February, a proposal for a draft negotiating mandate, addressed to the Council for a transitional, time-limited renewal of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement Protocol.

13th February 2011

Proposal to extend fisheries partnership agreement with Morocco for one year

13th February 2011

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Third Meeting of Regional Fishery Body Secretariats Network (RSN 3) was held in Rome, Italy 7-8 February 2011.

13th February 2011

RSN addresses fisheries governance areas

13th February 2011