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AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Salmon farming giant Marine Harvest has filed an official complaint against rules that prevent the company from growing any larger in Norway, saying it wants to participate in the consolidation of the…

12th October 2010

Marine Harvest wants in on consolidation

12th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Chicken of the Sea (COS) International has transferred its closed tuna cannery in American Samoa to US-based Tri Marine International.

12th October 2010

Closed tuna cannery in American Samoa to reopen

12th October 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Akva Group has won a contract with the National Prawn Company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for delivery of a pre-grow-out system for the production of yellowtail kingfish.

12th October 2010

Saudi kingfish contract for Akva

12th October 2010

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

With its robot-supported processing and packing system for fish and shrimp, Cabinplant A/S claims it has followed a completely new path: products are no longer processed in individual, linked steps; instead, all…

12th October 2010

Robot-supported processing ‘follows new path’

12th October 2010

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

With its experience and expertise in the field of traceability, Marel Food Systems is helping companies to adapt their procedures to the European Union regulations on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

12th October 2010

Simplifying IUU compliance for exporters

12th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

An independent adjudicator has instructed the third-party certifier Moody Marine to amend the final report of the Ross Sea toothfish MSC assessment to take into account his decision to uphold four of…

11th October 2010

Ross Sea toothfish MSC assessment: objection upheld on four points

11th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has released the total allowable catch (TAC) figures for the upcoming crab season and, as expected, the harvest level for Bristol Bay red king crab…

11th October 2010

King crab quotas down, snow crab up

11th October 2010

SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

Chemring Marine has launched its new Pains Wessex Manoverboard MK8 and Buoysmoke MK8 lifebuoy markers in Europe.

11th October 2010

New Manoverboard and Buoysmoke products unveiled

11th October 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Cooke Aquaculture is planning to spend $150 million (€107.4 million) over five years to expand its Nova Scotia operations.

8th October 2010

Cooke announces $150m expansion

8th October 2010

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Kaj Olesen A/S, which manufactures pinbone removers under the name of ‘Easymatic’, has developed a two-lane pinbone remover.

8th October 2010

New two-lane Easymatic pinboner

8th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Angola’s government has spent $62 million (€44.4 million) on 10 new fishery and aquiculture monitoring boats to protect the country’s resources and to fight illegal fishing off the countrys coast.

8th October 2010

Angola invests $62m in fishery protection

8th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The release of the latest scientific advice for the catch uptake of blue whiting recommending a 2011 quota of only 40,000 tonnes is a stark reminder of the threat facing the valuable…

7th October 2010

Scots: blue whiting quota shows mackerel threat

7th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

NOAA has reopened 2,927 square miles of federal waters south of the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico to commercial and recreational fishing that it had previously closed in response…

6th October 2010

BP spill: NOAA reopens more fishing areas

6th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Thai Union Frozen PLC (TUF) has received clearance received from the UK’s Office of Fair Trading on its €680 million ($942.8 million) acquisition of MW Brands Holdings SAS.

6th October 2010

Thai Union cleared to buy MW Brands

6th October 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Nutreco on 6 October hosted a Capital Markets Day in Italy with a site visit to its fish feed plant and its recently inaugurated premix plant in Mozzecane. Next to the site…

6th October 2010

Nutreco hosts Capital Markets Day in Italy

6th October 2010

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

ThermoDrive technology is a patented conveying solution that combines the benefits of positive drive, low-tension belting with a continuous, easy-to-clean surface, developed by Intralox.

6th October 2010

ThermoDrive’s breakthrough belting technology

6th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has published its annual UK Sea Fisheries Statistics for 2009. This fisheries management tool includes detailed data about the UK fishing fleet, the number of fishermen and…

5th October 2010

Value of UK catch rises, landings fall

5th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The board of directors with Umami Sustainable Seafood Inc have decided to move forward and complete the acquisition of Baja Aquafarms, a leading producer of bluefin tuna based in Mexico

5th October 2010

Umami proceeds with tuna firm purchase

5th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The deepsea fishing industry in Taiwan is facing a crisis because of precipitous drops in its squid and saury catch. In 2009, the squid catch fell 71.4% and the saury catch fell…

5th October 2010

Taiwan worried over plunging squid catch

5th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Two UK fishermen have admitted making false declarations about fish worth more than £7 million (€8.1 million/$11.1 million) which they landed.

5th October 2010

UK fishermen admit £7m black fish scam

5th October 2010