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A growing workforce and increased production per head have been highlighted in the 2008 Scottish Fish Farm Annual Production Survey of Scotlands fish farms.

17th December 2009

Scottish aquaculture stands strong

17th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, today announced that four B.C. businesses in the aquaculture industry will receive more than $271,000 in federal funding to help with innovative…

16th December 2009

Innovative aquaculture projects in B.C. receive federal funding boost

16th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Fisheries Council has reached a conclusion with Scottish fishermen making some gains but with reduced quotas in 2010 for many key species, which will present the industry with another set…

15th December 2009

Challenges ahead for Scottish fleet as downward trend in quotas continues

15th December 2009

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Shark Alliance has applauded the EU Council of Fisheries Ministers’ decision to end all fishing for porbeagle sharks and reduce by 90% fishing quotas for spurdog, in line with scientific advice…

15th December 2009

EU ends fisheries for endangered sharks

15th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

FAO experts have concluded that evidence shows the endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna meets the requirements for an international trade ban.

15th December 2009

UN experts back trade ban for bluefin tuna

15th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Seafish, the UK authority on seafood, has announced that its Chief Executive John Rutherford will be retiring by the end of June 2010.

15th December 2009

Seafish Chief Executive John Rutherford to retire

15th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Faroese freezer-trawler Skalaberg has been detained since mid-November at Murmansk, reports Menakhem Ben-Yami.

15th December 2009

The Skalaberg saga

15th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

An advisory panel of independent experts convened by FAO has issued recommendations regarding six proposals to limit international trade in a number of commercially exploited aquatic animals under the Convention on International…

14th December 2009

Panel offers recommendations on CITES proposals

14th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In order to document food safety, NIFES has analysed the content of illegal and legal pharmaceuticals and other undesirable substances in samples of Norwegian farmed fish sampled in 2008 in a new…

14th December 2009

New NIFES report

14th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In the run-up to next week’s EU fishing quota negotiations, the Shark Trust is calling on the UK and other EU Fisheries Ministers to protect critically endangered spurdog and porbeagle sharks, in…

11th December 2009

Decisions on EU shark fishing quotas have global implications

11th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In the run-up to the EU fishing quota negotiations, BLOOM Association is calling on the French government to give full support to the protection of the porbeagle shark, a close relative of…

11th December 2009

French fishery threatens critically endangered sharks

11th December 2009

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Agriculture & Fisheries Council will meet in Brussels on 14, 15 and 16 December.

11th December 2009

Preparation Agriculture/Fisheries Council of December 2009

11th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In the four months since its grand opening in July, Alaskas Kloosterboer Dutch Harbor has met with several major fishing companies that are seeking to use the facility as a one-stop logistical…

11th December 2009

Kloosterboer forecasts busy 2010 for Dutch Harbor

11th December 2009

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, today announced the Government of Canada has ratified the amended Convention of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO). Canada is the second…

11th December 2009

Canada ratifies amended convention of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization

11th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Aker BioMarine has been awarded a three-year NOK 8 million research grant from the Research Council of Norway’s Food Programme. The biotechnology company will use the funds to continue its ambitious documentation…

10th December 2009

Aker BioMarine awarded public grant for research on Superba™ Krill

10th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Ocean acidity has increased by 30 per cent since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and the rate of acidification will accelerate in the coming decades, according to a new guide launched…

10th December 2009

Ocean acidification: an underwater time-bomb

10th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Census of Marine Life aims to provide an authoritative snapshot of what inhabits our waters and where.

9th December 2009

Seeing through our waters more clearly

9th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The third round of negotiations between the EU and Norway to set total allowable catches and other fisheries arrangements for shared stocks such as North Sea cod and haddock have broken down…

9th December 2009

Breakdown in EU/Norway negotiations means further uncertainty for Scottish fleet

9th December 2009

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A twin-screw Clextral extruder at the Skretting plant in Vervins, France, is producing an advanced salmon starter feed with extremely regular pellets, even down to the smallest size.

9th December 2009

Skretting delivers superior salmon starter feed

9th December 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A trial of electronic monitoring has commenced in the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery (ETBF).

9th December 2009

E-monitoring trials begin

9th December 2009