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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a forum on fishing vessel safety beginning Wednesday, 13 October 2010 at 9am. The two-day forum will be chaired by NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt.

1st September 2010

NTSB to hold fishing vessel safety forum

1st September 2010

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

A centre that has helped train hundreds of people for the UK seafood industry is set to close because its funding has been withdrawn.

1st September 2010

UK seafood training centre to shut

1st September 2010

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

US-based Iridium Communications has received orders for more than 100 Iridium OpenPort broadband satellite terminals for installation on Spanish commercial fishing vessels.

31st August 2010

Iridium’s Openport proves popular with Spanish fleet

31st August 2010

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Ore Offshore recently completed a shipment of 100 long-life acoustic releases.

31st August 2010

Ore supplies fish tracking project

31st August 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) said it is already seeing the benefits of the tuna tagging programme in the Pacific, which concluded at the end of last year.

31st August 2010

Benefits of Pacific tuna tagging being realised

31st August 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Icelands fisheries minister told the UK’s Channel 4 News that his countrys trawlers have the right to fish greater quantities of mackerel from its waters, despite growing protests from Scottish fishermen.

31st August 2010

Iceland minister: it’s our right to fish mackerel

31st August 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Six trawlermen from Shetland, UK, face unlimited fines and multi-million pound confiscation orders for illegally landing £15 million (€18.3 million/$23.2 million) worth of herring and mackerel.

31st August 2010

Boats landed €18m of illegal pelagics

31st August 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is well represented among the 27 research projects selected by the Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) Council to examine the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on…

30th August 2010

Florida projects get BP funding for oil spill research

30th August 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Scottish fishing communities can expect more hardship this autumn when Iceland increases its cod quota and floods the market, pushing down the price of fish, industry leaders have warned.

30th August 2010

UK fishing industry set for fish price slump

30th August 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation has called for a freeze on any further reductions in the number of days fishing vessels can put to sea and is warning that a significant proportion of…

29th August 2010

SFF: no more days at sea cuts

29th August 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

South African net manufacturing specialist Alnet has added to its range of nylon, knotless Kapenta nets with polyethylene knotless Kapenta nets.

29th August 2010

Alnet’s new polyethylene nets

29th August 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The rock lobster commercial catch quota in South Australias lower south east will be capped at 1,250 tonnes until stocks recover. And a month at each end of the southern zone rock…

27th August 2010

Quota tightened to save southern rock lobster

27th August 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The board of UK seafood authority Seafish has appointed Dr Paul Williams as interim chief executive with effect from October 2010.

25th August 2010

Seafish appoints interim CEO

25th August 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Rongfu Aquaculture Inc, one of Chinas leading companies in the cultivation, harvesting, and trading of tilapia, snakefish, and other aquatic products, has been designated by the local government to operate the 3,300-acre…

25th August 2010

Chinese tilapia giant wins park contract

25th August 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Gail Shea, Canadian minister of fisheries and oceans (DFO) has announced CAD 637,678 (€474,935/$600,830) in funding to support innovation and sustainability in the aquaculture industry in British Columbia.

25th August 2010

Canadians invest in BC aquaculture

25th August 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Fraser River sockeye salmon returns could reach between 20 million and 25 million fish this year, making it the second, possibly even the largest run in 60 years, according to independent fisherman…

25th August 2010

Record returns on Fraser River’s MSC salmon

25th August 2010

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

The new ‘aquaport’ in Urk in the Netherlands is now regularly receiving commercial shipments of live lobsters from Halifax in Nova Scotia. The first consignment arrived on 21 May, and they have…

24th August 2010

New live lobster terminal up and running at Urk

24th August 2010

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Funz San Industry is currently working on a project that includes two slipway winches with a capability of 150T@5m/min and two slipway winches with capability of 60T@5m/min. These winches are for a…

24th August 2010

Large order book for Taiwan winch manufacturer

24th August 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Clearwater Seafoods has reported second quarter EBITDA of $7.1 million (€5.5 million) on sales of $65.2 million (€50.6 million), a decrease on comparative figures for the same period of 2009 of $8.5…

20th August 2010

Clearwater Q2 profits dip

20th August 2010

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Dyrkorn has opened a new depot in the north Norway port of Båtsfjord to bring its services closer to the area where most of the country’s longlining activity takes place.

19th August 2010

Dyrkorn opens Båtsfjord depot

19th August 2010