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The largest seafood retailer in the US southwest, Santa Monica Seafood, a family-owned company based in Santa Monica, California, has made a donation to Alaska Sea Grant for its research programme aimed…

Hong Kong-based catching and processing giant Pacific Andes has extended its fishing operations to Mauritania in order to tap into one of the world’s major fishing grounds as well as to increase…

The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation will today (1 October) tell EU fisheries commissioner Maria Damanaki that the Scottish industry has made huge strides in ensuring the sustainable harvest of fish and that its…

Spanish pet food and fish feed manufacturer Dasy Organización is to invest more than €20 million ($27.2 million) in building a new plant for production of fishmeal for animal feed in Osuna,…

New figures published by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) show that AST Marine Sciences Ltd has installed more than 85% of all commissioned UK fishing vessels with their electronic logbook (e-Log) solution,…

Cooler September weather has helped maintain the quality of tuna with the 2010 harvest all but complete for another year.

The boards of directors of Lerøy Seafood Group ASA (LSG) and BioMar AS have entered into an agreement to the effect that LSG will purchase 50.71% of the shares in Havbruk AS.

Millions of migrating fish like eel and salmon could be saved by installing new water pumps at pumping stations all over Europe.

New Zealand’s fishing industry has welcomed an increase to this seasons hoki quota as well as the reopening of an orange roughy fishery on the north west of the South Island, which…

VComms, a subsidiary of SatComms, a leading provider of satellite communication solutions based in Australia, has been selected by the National Fisheries Authority (NFA) of Papua New Guinea to provide a turnkey…

Chinese trawler captain Zhan Qixiong has been returned by charter plane to Fuzhou, capital of southeast Chinas Fujian Province, following his high profile detention in Japan.

At the AgriFish Council meeting in Brussels on Monday 27 September, Scottish fishermen will be pressing the European Commission to give a clear signal of intent that strong action will be taken…

New Zealand’s Ministry of Fisheries has announced catch limits and other management controls for two new species - bladder kelp and Patagonian toothfish - that will become part of New Zealands internationally-recognised…

Aquaculture operations in southern Taiwans Kaohsiung County suffered combined losses of TWD 470 million (€11.2 million/$14.9 million) as a result of flooding caused by the recent Typhoon Fanapi, said the county governments…