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An international aquaculture conference with more than 700 participants from 60 countries brought together to evaluate where fish farming stands today and to look at upcoming challenges and opportunities gets underway today…

22nd September 2010

Debate starts on aquaculture’s pros and cons

22nd September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The North Sea’s first ‘No Take Zone’ (NTZ) has been formally established to protect marine wildlife off Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire. This is the third NTZ to be designated in British waters…

21st September 2010

Flamborough Head named North Sea’s first No Take Zone

21st September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

China has stepped up its maritime dispute with Japan by halting high-level exchanges over the extended detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain.

21st September 2010

Detained skipper strains China-Japan relations

21st September 2010

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Vietnamese firms are unhappy that new food safety rules that took effect early this month have made it difficult for them to obtain seafood import licenses.

20th September 2010

New seafood import rules anger Vietnamese

20th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Norwegian aquaculture company Cermaq ASA sold all its shares in Marine Farms ASA (MAFA) to Morpol for NOK 18.50 (€2.32/$3.03) per share on Friday 17 September having only bought 24.6% of MAFA…

20th September 2010

Cermaq u-turn, sells MAFA stake to Morpol

20th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The value of fish landed by Scottish vessels increased by 10% in 2009, according to official figures published by Scotland’s Chief Statistician.

20th September 2010

Scots fishermen caught £443m in 2009

20th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

British tilapia, produced by The Fish Company on four fish farms across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, are now being sold in Tesco stores.

17th September 2010

Tesco sells first UK-grown tilapia

17th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Fishermen in the Baltic Sea should be allowed to haul in more cod next year but herring populations are in peril and quotas should be cut by nearly a third, said European…

17th September 2010

EU chief raises cod quota, warns on herring

17th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has appointed Accreditation Services International (ASI) as its independent accreditation body as it moves towards its core task of managing the ASC standards, developed by the Aquaculture…

17th September 2010

ASI named independent accreditation body for aquaculture eco-label

17th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Scottish fishermen have met with fisheries secretary Richard Lochhead to highlight serious problems currently facing the west coast fishing industry.

17th September 2010

Scots highlight concerns to government

17th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Salmon farming giant Cermaq ASA has acquired 26.4% of the shares in Marine Farms ASA at a price of NOK 18.25 (€2.31/$3) per share, and consequently controls 42.6% of the company.

16th September 2010

Cermaq buys further into Marine Farms

16th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Vietnam Association of seafood exporters and producers (Vasep) has confirmed the US Department of Commerce has issued a decision on anti-dumping tax on catfish imported from Vietnam, increasing the tariff on…

15th September 2010

US ramps up import tax on pangasius

15th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Scottish rope-grown mussels are at prime quality at this time of year and the Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group is predicting buoyant demand over the next few months as consumers increasingly recognise their…

15th September 2010

‘Buoyant demand’ for Scottish mussels

15th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Alliance Select Foods International has suspended negotiations for the acquisition of a Vietnamese fish and rice exporter due to “some issues that need to be addressed”.

14th September 2010

Alliance suspends purchase of Vietnamese pangasius exporter

14th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Scottish fishermen will continue to protest against any Faroese pelagic landings into Scotland until there has been a successful conclusion to the mackerel dispute, promised a fishing leader this week.

14th September 2010

Scots: well continue mackerel war with Faroes

14th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

There are just two months to go for sea users who have an interest in the North Sea to get involved and have their say in the identification and recommendation of Marine…

14th September 2010

Time running out to influence marine zones

14th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Toyota Tsusho Corp has confirmed it will jointly start a co-operation with Kinki University to farm fully-cultured juveniles of bluefin tuna to up to 30cm in length from 6cm and supply them…

14th September 2010

Toyota to enter tuna farming industry

14th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A team of US scientists and environmentalists have met with Cuban officials to discuss a proposed alliance, including Mexico, to protect the Gulf of Mexico’s declining shark population.

13th September 2010

US and Cuba start talks to save sharks

13th September 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Japan has released the 14 crew of a Chinese fishing trawler involved in a collision with two Japanese coastguard vessels in disputed waters last week, but kept its captain in detention.

13th September 2010

Japan frees Chinese trawler crew, holds captain

13th September 2010

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

OCEAN2012, the pan-European campaign to stop overfishing in Europe, has handed over 28,500 signatures to European fisheries and maritime affairs commissioner Maria Damanaki, calling on her to prioritise the health of the…

13th September 2010

28,500 people urge EU fisheries chief to put environment first

13th September 2010