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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Arni Bergmann, the inventor of the elCorrectTM system, has been awarded the Environmental Reward of 2009 by the Federation of Icelandic Fishing Vessel Owners (LIU). The award is granted for his work…

4th November 2009

Environmental award granted for fuel saving technology

4th November 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Orolia, a high-technology group specialising in precise positioning, navigation and timing and Digital Angel, an advanced technology company in the field of animal identification and emergency identification solutions, have announced that they…

4th November 2009

Orolia announces agreement to acquire McMurdo

4th November 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Thrane & Thrane has joined forces with the fishing vessel Northwestern, one of the lead king crab boats in the smash hit Deadliest Catch television show.

4th November 2009

SAILOR® teams up with F/V Northwestern from Deadliest Catch

4th November 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Brits are getting hooked on fresh sardines as figures reveal consumers sent sales soaring last year.

4th November 2009

Brits send sales of fresh sardines soaring

4th November 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Atlantic bluefin tuna meets the criteria for a ban on international trade, according to global scientists of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). This official assessment of bluefin’s…

4th November 2009

Atlantic bluefin tuna trade ban supported by fishery’s scientists

4th November 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Last week the Pew Environment Group called on the worlds governing body for conserving Antarctic marine life to geographically spread out krill catches in the Southern Ocean. This would prevent the concentration…

4th November 2009

Pew urges for protection of whales, penguins, seals and krill

4th November 2009

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Rack Sentry LT® is a reformulation of the energy absorbing rack protectors pioneered by Sentry Protection Products that is specifically engineered to absorb collision impacts in colder environments.

1st November 2009

Cold room/freezer rack protection product introduced

1st November 2009

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Slurry Ice Systems, a cooperation between Slurry Ice Systems Ltd and Slurry Ice Systems Iceland, has recently secured its fourth order for another new vessel being built by Danish shipbuilder Karstensens Shipyard…

1st November 2009

Slurry Ice Systems secures fourth order from Karstensens

1st November 2009

NEWS

NEWS

South Korea faces challenges as fish imports grow - South Korea’s fishing industry faces numerous challenges over the next decade as the fisheries sector evolves to play a new role in the…

1st November 2009

South Korea

1st November 2009

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

“And you are crestfallen, no hope you can raise,Seawater will creep in your veins,But waves of the ocean forever will praiseYour glory, your death and your pains.”(After an old Russian naval song…

1st November 2009

Koenigsberg-Kaliningrad

1st November 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A significant number of the 300 or so participants at October’s meeting in Morocco of the International Association of Fish Inspectors (IAFI.net) were hit by severe food poisoning leading to vomiting and…

1st November 2009

Bugs hit fish health inspectors

1st November 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Thailands Fisheries Department plans to start certifying seafood products from non-IUU fishing for exports to Europe by December, one month ahead of schedule, Somying Piumsombun, the director general of the department has…

1st November 2009

Thailand to certify non-IUU products by December

1st November 2009

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Africa’s national fish inspectors and researchers have formed the first ever African Network for Fish Safety and Technology. It will ensure closer collaboration across the continent on issues from health controls to…

1st November 2009

Africas fish safety goes continental

1st November 2009

SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

A record number of visitors to the Cosalt stand at this years WFE helped to boost the number of orders and enquiries taken at the show.

1st November 2009

Cosalt order book boosted at WFE

1st November 2009

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The World Fishing Exhibition (WFE) and Aqua Farming International (AQA) Exhibition were held from the 16-19 September 2009 in Vigo, Spain. At the final press conference, Mr Paz-Andrade, surrounded by the Executive…

1st November 2009

The most professional and international WFE

1st November 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

McMurdo, the UK’s exclusive distributor of weather stations from Davis Instruments, has introduced the new Vantage Vue weather station.

1st November 2009

McMurdo introduces new Vantage Vue weather station

1st November 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Aucxis launched A-Fish in October, a back office package for fish auctions that not only covers the complete administration of invoices and payments, but also facilitates all other administrative and logistic tasks…

1st November 2009

Aucxis launches A-Fish

1st November 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

BlueFinger, the marine subsidiary of Cybit, has launched Saffire-ERS, a commercially available electronic catch reporting system to assist authorities to record, report and process catch-related fishing data in accordance with international fishing…

1st November 2009

BlueFinger launches web-delivered electronic catch reporting system

1st November 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

SELEX Communications, a Wired Ocean reseller, has reported the successful installation of the maritime broadband solution aboard three Scottish trawlers.

1st November 2009

Trio of trawlers get the Wired Ocean treatment

1st November 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Inmarsat and its service partner Satlink have won the first ever European contract to migrate those working in the fishing industry from a paper logbook system to electronic recording and reporting as…

1st November 2009

Inmarsat and Satlink win first European fishing eLogbook contract

1st November 2009