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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

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

NOAA-funded scientists have found extensive and biologically diverse coral ecosystems occurring at depths between 100-500ft within a 12 mile span off the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico.

5th January 2011

Thriving middle light reefs found in Puerto Rico

5th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A bluefin tuna sold at an auction in Tokyo for a record 32.49m yen (nearly $400,000/£257,320), to a joint Japanese and Chinese bid.

5th January 2011

Record tuna sold in Tokyo

5th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

An interactive large-screen video display at Fishing 2011 in Glasgow will beam live images into the exhibition hall from one of the few remaining flume tanks in the world.

5th January 2011

Flume tank comes to Fishing 2011

5th January 2011

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Singapore-listed marine fuel supplier Chemoil has acquired OceanConnect Holdings marine fuel business for approximately $25 million.

5th January 2011

Chemoil buys OceanConnect Marine for $25 million

5th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Admiral Makarov, a Russian icebreaker has arrived to help ships frozen in the ice in Sakhalin Bay, in the Okhotsk Sea.

4th January 2011

Admiral Makarov arrives in Sea of Okhotsk

4th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Weymouth RNLI volunteers assisted the crew of a fishing vessel who reported their boat was sinking on 3 January. The fishing boat was towed to safety but only after the crew had…

4th January 2011

UK: Weymouth RNLI volunteers assist sinking fishing vessel

4th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Pew Environment Groups project manager, Holly Binns has issued the following statement in response to the Department of Commerce’s final approval of Amendment 17B - a plan to save nine dwindling fish…

4th January 2011

Pew hails new fish protection measures

4th January 2011

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Last year was a year of “ups and downs” for the Scottish fishing industry, according to WWF Scotland’s 2010 end of year assessment of the state of the countrys main whitefish stocks.

4th January 2011

WWF: an up and down 2010 for Scots

4th January 2011

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The Seafood Team at US-based supplier of conveyance solutions and services Intralox develops handling systems for all types of fish processing operations, from onboard ocean-going factory trawlers through to the packaging end…

31st December 2010

Complete conveyance solutions for seafood

31st December 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has said that a 17th round of fishery talks with Japan will most likely take place in 2011 after a one-year hiatus.

30th December 2010

Japan and Taiwan to resume fishery talks

30th December 2010

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Pakistan’s seafood exports increased by 37% to $96.9 million (€73.9 million) in the July to November period of the current fiscal year, according to provisional figures from the State Bank of Pakistan…

29th December 2010

Pakistans seafood exports value rises 37%

29th December 2010

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Triplex AS has announced a contract with Larsnes Mek Verksted AS for the delivery of a newly-developed Triplex Net Handling System for a built-in net bin to the new vessels Eros and…

29th December 2010

Pelagic pair fitted out with new Triplex net bins

29th December 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The value of shrimp exports from Vietnam will amount to more than $2 billion (€1.5 billion) this year, dramatically up on the $1.7 billion (€1.3 billion) recorded in 2009, said the Vietnam…

28th December 2010

Record exports for Vietnam shrimp

28th December 2010