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SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

A new Launch and Recovery System (L&RS) developed by Supacat for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s (RNLI) new class of all-weather lifeboat (ALB) has successfully undergone a two year trial programme, culminating…

29th May 2008

Prototype lifeboat L&RS completes successful trials

29th May 2008

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Fighting to save the albatross from extinction, the RSPB and BirdLife International are to double the number of countries in which they work.

29th May 2008

Albatross Task Force doubles

29th May 2008

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Transas looks at the AIS Class B issue debate - can a compromise be found?

29th May 2008

To equip or not to equip?

29th May 2008

DECK MACHINERY

DECK MACHINERY

Tulsa Winch Group has announced the acquisition of Canadian-based LANTEC Winch & Gear, Inc.

29th May 2008

Tulsa Winch Group buys LANTEC Winch & Gear Inc.

29th May 2008

DECK MACHINERY

DECK MACHINERY

Triplex AS has been selected as supplier of deck equipment for the new Multipurpose Research Vessel that will be built by ASMAR for the Chilean Navy (for more information see http://www.worldfishing.net/product_library/product_library.ehtml?o=2158).

29th May 2008

Deck equipment package for Chilean oceanographic vessel

29th May 2008

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Sea trials to test a low impact ‘hydrodredge’ which uses a cup arrangement instead of scallop teeth to extract shellfish from the sea bed were completed last year by researchers at School…

29th May 2008

Isle of Man hydrodredge sea trials complete

29th May 2008

NEWS

NEWS

Drastic quota cuts shake Icelandic fishing industry - It came as a shock to the Icelandic fishing community when the Minister of Fisheries announced last summer that the cod quota would be…

28th May 2008

Iceland

28th May 2008

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The difficult relationship between fishermen and politicians and bureaucrats is well documented. At its heart has been the disagreement over the value and validity of the data on which so many political…

28th May 2008

Secret Albania

28th May 2008

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

According to U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, the waters of the Bering Sea are challenging for vessel operations and search and rescue missions. The stormy Bering Sea is notorious…

28th May 2008

The answer is blowing in the wind

28th May 2008

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The two main UK fishermen’s federations have joined forces to press for immediate government action to alleviate the sky-high high price of fuel which is threatening the future of the UK fishing…

28th May 2008

UK fishermen’s federations unite to tackle fuel costs

28th May 2008

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Salmon farming is to benefit from £400,000 investment in research and development projects over the next three years to help secure the long-term socio-economic and environmental sustainability of the industry.

27th May 2008

Salmon industry to invest £400k in research & development

27th May 2008

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Since the Mediterranean tuna fishing season opened at the beginning of May, over 10,000 breeding bluefin tunas are being caught every day by the industrial fishing fleet, according to WWF calculations.

27th May 2008

Close tuna fishery now, says WWF

27th May 2008

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Responding to the announcement by Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead of the Scottish Governments intended changes to the management of fish quota in Scotland, Bertie Armstrong, Chief Executive of the Scottish Fishermens Federation…

21st May 2008

SFF responds to fish quota management review

21st May 2008

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Improving fisheries management models, increasing the size of farm-raised oysters, and learning how to raise red and blue king crab in large-scale hatcheries are among the $1.5 million in new projects, activities,…

21st May 2008

Alaska Sea Grant announces 2008–2010 projects

21st May 2008

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A major review of the management of Scotlands fish quota was outlined today.

21st May 2008

Scottish fish quota review

21st May 2008

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, last week announced the graduation of 30 new Fishery Officers from the Fishery Officer training programme.

21st May 2008

30 new Fishery Officers set to take up duty

21st May 2008

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The skipper of a Belgian beam trawler who refused to be escorted to Harwich by a Fisheries Protection Vessel and instead steamed for Zeebrugge, was ordered to pay more than £31,000 in…

21st May 2008

Belgian beamer fined £31,000 after steaming for Zeebrugge

21st May 2008

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Last week the skipper and owners of the French trawler Keriolet were ordered to pay a total of £10,700 in fines and costs after each pleading guilty at Truro Magistrates Court, Cornwall,…

21st May 2008

French trawler fined for under-recording cod

21st May 2008

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

After a two year absence, Ireland’s leading trawler firm Atlantic Dawn Company of Killybegs is returning to Mauritania to fish under the 2006 EU fisheries treaty, reports Pieter Tesch.

20th May 2008

Atlantic Dawn returns to Mauritania

20th May 2008

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

At the beginning of May, the Bangladesh government and shrimp exporters strongly protested an American labour group claims of widespread violation of workers rights in the countrys processing plants, terming them false…

20th May 2008

Bangladesh labour abuse claims blasted

20th May 2008