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POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Baltic Marine Contractors’ (BMC) main office is located in Tallinn and offers mechanical and electrical services for MaK marine customers in The Baltic States and in Finland.

22nd January 2010

BMC establishes a new office in Rotterdam

22nd January 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Aqualine AS has developed a new generation of big and safe net cage systems and reports that the 500-series with floating tubes of 500mm have become a great success.

22nd January 2010

A new generation of net cage systems

22nd January 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Both sectors can be described as ‘traditional’ and are mostly comprised of small and medium sized companies, employing less than 10 persons or family businesses. With EU enlargement, an additional contribution of…

22nd January 2010

A new impetus for European aquaculture development?

22nd January 2010

DECK MACHINERY

DECK MACHINERY

Triplex AS has recently, through its Chilean branch, Triplex Chile Ltda., completed the first installation of one of its corkline stackers onboard a Chilean purse seiner.

22nd January 2010

Triplex innovates in Chile

22nd January 2010

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

A recent full-scale bollard pull test on the Esbjerg-based fishing vessel Jette Kristine showed an increase in bollard pull performance of an impressive 23.5%.

22nd January 2010

Jette Kristine gets 23.5% more bollard pull

22nd January 2010

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

The latest step in the evolution of the Cat® 3500 engine line is the launch of the Cat 3512C and 3516C Diesel Electric Propulsion (DEP) engines, to better meet critical customer requirements…

22nd January 2010

Caterpillar launches marine DEP engines

22nd January 2010

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

MAN Diesel recently entered a new industry segment with the launching of the tuna-freezing purse seiner Playa de Azkorri in Spain’s Basque Country.

22nd January 2010

MAN Diesel moves into specialist fishing segment

22nd January 2010

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

DSI has recently launched its newly developed system which precisely measures the core temperature of whatever the customers DSI vertical plate freezers are processing.

22nd January 2010

DSI presents CorePoint

22nd January 2010

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

At Pacific Marine Expo this year Integrated Marine Systems (IMS) unveiled a new refrigeration product.

22nd January 2010

Quality slurry ice for quality product

22nd January 2010

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

KER Services Ltd is based in Ireland’s premier fishing port of Killybegs and specialises in a wide range of services to the offshore industry, particularly the fishing, aquaculture and oil and gas…

22nd January 2010

KER upgrades Pacific Andes vessels

22nd January 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, has concluded a successful visit to the People’s Republic of China aimed at promoting new markets for Canadian fish, seafood and seal products.

22nd January 2010

Promising future for the Canadian fishing and sealing industry in China

22nd January 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new self-service fish concept for the grocery sector, an innovative cleaning robot, a fish that only recently appeared on the German market – the exhibitors at the 12th fish international will…

22nd January 2010

Fish industry meets to present innovations at fish international 2010

22nd January 2010

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The headquarters of P&D, which also include a fisheries documentation centre, is situated in Lorient in Brittany, France. Lorient is the second largest fishing port in France handling annually (2008) over 22,000mt…

21st January 2010

French fisheries and CFP discussed at Lorient workshop

21st January 2010

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

According to an official announcement by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in June 2009 President Obama committed his administration to “integrated and comprehensive national ocean policy, incorporating programs to…

21st January 2010

Obama, Lubchenko and catch shares: who benefits?

21st January 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A Vietnam Tuna Association will be established soon, Tran Cao Muu, General Secretary of the Vietnam Fisheries Association has said via official media, reports Michael Mackey.

21st January 2010

New Vietnam tuna association

21st January 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Alaska pollock, the largest US commercial fishery and one of the top five seafoods eaten in the United States, has been deemed sustainable under the criteria developed by the Marine Stewardship Council…

20th January 2010

Alaska pollock judged sustainable by MSC

20th January 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Svein Aaser, who has been Chairman of the Board of Marine Harvest since the inception of the Company in 2006, has told the Board of Directors that he wishes to step down…

20th January 2010

Board changes at Marine Harvest

20th January 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead has received the Shark Champion Award in recognition of Scotlands new ban on the removal of fins from sharks at sea which came into force on 1 January.

20th January 2010

Ban on shark finning

20th January 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Mussels caught in Denmark’s Limfjord by Vilsund Muslinge Industri (VMI) will be the first mussels in the world to carry the MSC ecolabel.

20th January 2010

Danish blue mussel fishery secures MSC certification

20th January 2010

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

An international conference for managers, scientists and the fishing sector on the collection and interpretation of traditional and non-traditional fishery dependent data in the context of the ecosystem approach will take place…

20th January 2010

International conference on fishery data

20th January 2010