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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Barry Group Inc. (BGI) has entered its herring purse seine fishery into assessment under the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) certification program.

28th April 2010

Newfoundland herring purse seine fishery enters MSC assessment

28th April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada has announced that the Government of Canada will invest $67 million to improve small craft harbours in communities throughout Canada.

28th April 2010

Canada announces $67m investment in fishing harbours across Canada

28th April 2010

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

WWF and the leading associations for European seafood processors and retailers are to work together to push for solutions to the crisis of European seas and fisheries.

28th April 2010

WWF and industry leaders join forces to save European fisheries

28th April 2010

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Bertie Armstrong, chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation will today tell a meeting in Brussels on the future of the Common Fisheries Policy that a regional approach to management is vital…

28th April 2010

Regional control of fisheries is vital, SFF will tell CFP seminar

28th April 2010

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Prins & Dingemanse and Grant’s Smokehouse were awarded the top prizes in the 10th annual Seafood Prix d’Elite new products competition at the European Seafood Exposition this week.

28th April 2010

Prins & Dingemanse and Grant’s Smokehouse take top honours at Seafood Prix d’Elite

28th April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

As part of its long-term ‘Fish for Life’ commitment to sustainable seafood, the Findus Group has announced its ambition to buy all the wild-caught fish for its Young’s and Findus retail brands…

28th April 2010

Findus Group boosts ‘Fish for Life’ programme with new MSC goal

28th April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

With over 50 years of experience in fish farming including two of the largest sturgeon farms in Europe, today PSN is one of the largest sturgeon farms in the world, the largest…

28th April 2010

Spanish sturgeon and caviar farm Piscifactoría Sierra Nevada certified by FoS

28th April 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Despite the recession, volume sales of warmwater prawns have risen by 14% suggesting that their perceived image as a luxury item is changing, according to the latest retail figures from Seafish.

28th April 2010

Britons warm to prawns

28th April 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A recent study funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has identified investment opportunities in the aquaculture sector in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.

23rd April 2010

US identifies aquaculture opportunities in Sri Lanka

23rd April 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Americas Mazzetta Company will cooperate with a Vietnamese firm to train fish breeders to sustainably farm and process pangasius (tra and basa fish) in accordance with US standards, according to Vietnams official…

23rd April 2010

Pangasius breeding cooperation

23rd April 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

R&D Manager Hans Otto Sørensen expects TripleNine’s products to be IFFO certified within a couple of months.

23rd April 2010

TripleNine ready for IFFO certification

23rd April 2010

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Tucal is preparing for its participation at the coming edition of Navalia in May.

23rd April 2010

Tucal prepares for Navalia

23rd April 2010

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Kaelismidjan Frost ehf is an Icelandic based refrigeration company with its headquarters in Akureyri, northern Iceland.

23rd April 2010

Busy time for Kaelismidjan Frost

23rd April 2010

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Scottish langoustine are the mainstay of the Braehead (SFO Enterprises) Ltd processing unit in Fraserburgh, Scotland, where business has gone from strength to strength in the past three years, thanks to the…

23rd April 2010

Premium frozen langoustine

23rd April 2010

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Cummins Inc. has received a statement of compliance from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) certifying the QSK60 HPI auxiliary engine to IMO Tier II emissions standards.

23rd April 2010

Cummins QSK60 HPI certified to IMO Tier II

23rd April 2010

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

The first model in an entirely new generation of Perkins marine diesel engines has been unveiled by the Wimborne Marine Power Centre.

23rd April 2010

Perkins unveils new marine diesel engine

23rd April 2010

HEME

HEME

Final sessions at the 2010 conference

22nd April 2010

2010 Conference Programme

22nd April 2010

NEWS

NEWS

More than 70% of Chile’s central-south coastal fishing fleet was destroyed by the violent earthquake and following tsunami on 27 February, reports Peter J. Neilson.

22nd April 2010

Tsunami destroys Chile’s fishing industry

22nd April 2010

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Global warming is here to stay and there is no shortage of scientific evidence to show increased carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is to blame, reports Bryan Gibson. Whether or not…

22nd April 2010

Understanding ocean acidification

22nd April 2010

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

I have on my desk two superbly illustrated publications representing a joint effort by the Polish Sea Research Institute (MIR, www.mir.gdynia.pl) and the Polish branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature…

22nd April 2010

Poland and the EU’s fisheries policy

22nd April 2010