News

SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

Kannad Marine has introduced the SafeLink SOLO Personal Locator Beacon (PLB).

11th January 2011

Kannad Marine launches SafeLink SOLO PLB

11th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The AS do MAR brand of tuna and mackerel has been one of the first in Italy to be certified Friend of the Sea since 2006.

11th January 2011

AS do MAR excels in social responsibility

11th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Alvaro Jimenez, Managing Director of Marine Harvest Chile, has stepped down after holding the position since April 2008.

11th January 2011

New MD for Marine Harvest Chile

11th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Swedish Board of Fisheries has proposed that 50 of the country’s trawlers with a license to catch cod in the Baltic will have their quotas allotted for a whole year.

11th January 2011

Swedish fishermen may get longer TACs

11th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Top quality seafood products begins with properly chilling the catch aboard vessels at sea.

11th January 2011

Vessel refrigeration workshop for fishermen

11th January 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

I don’t remember such an upheaval in the American fisheries. Neither does Bob Jones, the Director of the Southeastern Fisheries Association.

11th January 2011

US fisheries: Frustration, indignation, uproar

11th January 2011

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Tucal has informed WF that the company closed 2010 with a very positive balance of its activity, having carried out interesting projects for marine and on-shore applications.

11th January 2011

2010 a positive year for Tucal

11th January 2011

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Glacier is a new range of equipment for the food processing industry, combining a spiral freezer and refrigeration plant in one package.

11th January 2011

Cool stars unite to form Glacier

11th January 2011

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Encouraging new evidence suggests that the bulk of the world’s fisheries – including small-scale, often non-industrialised fisheries on which millions of people depend for food – could be sustained using community-based co-management.

10th January 2011

Co-management holds promise of sustainable fisheries worldwide

10th January 2011

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Danish Fishermen’s Producers’ Organisation (DFPO) has entered the Danish hake, haddock and North Sea sole fisheries for formal MSC assessment.

9th January 2011

Danish fisheries enter MSC program

9th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Maryland Department of the Environment is investigating a fish kill in the Chesapeake Bay in which an estimated two million fish have died.

7th January 2011

MDE investigates large fish kill in Chesapeake Bay

7th January 2011

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The Grimsby based company PPS East recently secured a new contract to provide returnable plastic fish crates to Belgian company Levenstond Seafood, a supplier of Scottish salmon to Belgian supermarkets.

6th January 2011

PPS East wins new crate pooling contract with Levenstond Seafood

6th January 2011

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Slurry Ice Systems is introducing the S-1000 machine for smaller vessels, which the company says has the same high quality generator as its other machines.

6th January 2011

New S-1000 from Slurry Ice Systems

6th January 2011

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Isotherm, Inc. a Texas based manufacturer of RSW evaporators, condensers and systems supplied a custom designed Ammonia Spray Evaporator last year to Silver Bay Seafood, an Alaska based herring processor.

6th January 2011

Ammonia spray chiller exceeds expectations

6th January 2011

DECK MACHINERY

DECK MACHINERY

The Rapp liquid-cooled electric motor is a first-of-its-kind design, to be used for powering winches or other machinery in demanding applications offshore and within the marine industry in general, says manufacturer Rapp…

6th January 2011

New Rapp Hydema electric motor

6th January 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

This year, the showhow celebrates its 10th anniversary and will be held at the Carnitech Salmon (now the Marel Salmon Division) premises in Nørresundby, Denmark, on 2 February. In addition to the…

6th January 2011

Marel shows how to process salmon

6th January 2011

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

The world’s largest supplier of coldwater prawns Royal Greenland has signed a trial collaboration with KM Fish Machinery on the development of a patented prawn peeling technique that works by vacuum.

6th January 2011

Prawn peeling technology trial for Royal Greenland

6th January 2011

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the propulsion equipment for a new, state-of-the-art, research vessel.

5th January 2011

Wärtsilä to power UK research vessel

5th January 2011

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Marine engine manufacturers MAN Diesel & Turbo and Wärtsilä Corporation have agreed to pursue a large joint research project, the HERCULES-C project, as a continuation of the HERCULES programmes for the research…

5th January 2011

Wärtsilä and MAN Diesel & Turbo continue HERCULES project

5th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Invergordon RNLI lifeboat was launched on yesterday to go to the aid of a fishing vessel that had broken down at the entrance to the Cromarty Firth.

5th January 2011

RNLI lifeboat tows fishing vessel

5th January 2011