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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new federal rule is being introduced that will allow NOAA’s assistant administrator for fisheries to deny a vessel entry into a US port or access to port services if that vessel…

15th October 2010

New rule denies IUU boats entry to US

15th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

NOAA’s Fisheries Service has mailed applications to almost 240 trawl fishermen and processors on the US west coast to invite them into what will be arguably the most important change in west…

15th October 2010

US west coast fishermen sent catch share applications

15th October 2010

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Processing equipment manufacturer for small fish, Peruza said it has bucked the trend for cyclic weighing to introduce continuous volume dozing.

15th October 2010

Continuous volume dozing

15th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Scottish Salmon Company Ltd (SSC) has appointed three new non-executive directors to its board, Robert M Brown III, Merete Myhrstad and Viacheslav Lavrentyev.

15th October 2010

Scottish Salmon Co appoints board members

15th October 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Australian scientists will use the data from a new AUD 22 million (€15.6 million/$21.9 million) array of high-tech equipment to probe deeper into the nation’s surrounding oceans.

14th October 2010

Technology to probe deeper into oceans

14th October 2010

SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

McMurdo’s new Smartfind S5 AIS SART (Automatic Identification System Search and Rescue Transmitter) has been authorised for installation onboard Danish-flagged vessels and in accordance with the requirements of the Danish Maritime Authority.

14th October 2010

Smartfind S5 gets Danish approval

14th October 2010

FISH HANDLING

FISH HANDLING

On a good day as many as 1,000 boxes of salmon are fed into the production department at Danish smoked fish giant Norlax A/S. The huge quantity of expanded polystyrene (EPS) boxes…

13th October 2010

Eco-friendly EPS handling turns waste into money

13th October 2010

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