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PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

The TUNIPACK® tuna packing machine was launched in 2001 and today 100 units are used by 50 companies from all over the world.

23rd April 2007

Focusing on R&D

23rd April 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

For over 25 years since first introducing slurry ice technology to the seafood industry, Sunwell Technologies Inc. has worked with fishermen and companies in the seafood processing industry to achieve higher yields…

23rd April 2007

New Sunwell Fresh-water Chiller

23rd April 2007

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Organised in two distinct areas within the same exhibition centre, this combination approach places each sector under its own spotlight and gives buyers easy access to the products and services they are…

23rd April 2007

World’s largest seafood event

23rd April 2007

FISH HANDLING

FISH HANDLING

The Port of Tvoroyri is the co-ordinator of the Suðuroy-Tvoroyristand exhibition stand at NAFF that is being sponsored by the Municipality of Tvoroyri.

23rd April 2007

Combined fish & cargo centre

23rd April 2007

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

With design, development and production facilities and repair workshops in the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Newfoundland, Vónin® offers products and services for trawlers and purse seiners of every type, as well as…

23rd April 2007

New trawls add business value

23rd April 2007

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The Faroese stern trawler “Jens Leon” FD 830, recently returned home from Peterhead Maintenance Hall totally transformed after a 10 day tie up which involved new encasement of fish handling area steelworks,…

23rd April 2007

“Jens Leon” transformed

23rd April 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Recently the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) asked for public comment on the main criteria of its environmental standards for sustainable fishing. This was a good thing to do and I sincerely hope…

23rd April 2007

Comments for MSC

23rd April 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Last month sadly saw the loss of two industry figures who have been familiar faces at trade exhibitions and within the fishing industry for many years, Morgére’s Jean-Gabriel Podeur, 59, and Sicor’s…

23rd April 2007

Sad loss of two industry figures

23rd April 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

All 131 countries attending a high level FAO meeting on world fisheries in Rome agreed to start a process leading to the adoption of a legally binding international agreement establishing control measures…

23rd April 2007

Countries agree to strengthen port state control measures

23rd April 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

According to Oceana, discarded fish constitutes 8% of the total weight of the world’s captures, or more than 7.3 million tonnes of fish that are thrown away at sea.

23rd April 2007

Oceana: Discard statistics

23rd April 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The arrival of “Atlantic Dawn”, the world’s largest trawler, in the Dutch port of Velsen in March to join the Dutch fleet marked the end of Irish involvement in pelagic freezers and…

23rd April 2007

“Atlantic Dawn” goes Dutch

23rd April 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

It is now clearer than ever before that bad scientific data has unnecessarily poisoned and devastated the lives of tens of thousands of fishing families across Europe, and sent the careers of…

23rd April 2007

A shipload of cod

23rd April 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Major companies and organisations have joined WWF in a commitment to healthy oceans by signing an open letter appealing to the European Commission and Member States to take action, before it is…

13th April 2007

WWF: Companies rally to save Mediterranean bluefin tuna

13th April 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Canadian government yesterday announced details of six new vessels to be based in British Columbia as part of the Canadian Coast Guard’s modernisation of its fleet.

13th April 2007

Canada: six new Coast Guard vessels for Pacific Region

13th April 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Acting for Napier Brown Holdings, the Southampton office of Edward Symmons has sold the UK’s only barramundi farm, one of the largest farms in Europe.

13th April 2007

UK barramundi farm sold

13th April 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Atlantis Group has recently finalised the acquisition of a majority share in Coral Sea Fishing, a market leading company in food processing technologies.

12th April 2007

Atlantis acquires a majority share in Coral Sea Fishing

12th April 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) has said that the whaling industry in Iceland is inextricably linked to parts of its fishing industry.

12th April 2007

Some Icelandic fish linked to whaling

12th April 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

John Browne T.D., Irish Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources has announced that he proposes to appoint Kevin Bonnar, the former Secretary General of the Department…

12th April 2007

New marketing chair for Killybegs Fishery Harbour Centre

12th April 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Commission, on behalf of the Union, and the Ivory Coast has initialled a new fisheries partnership agreement which will cover a renewable six-year period, and will replace the current framework…

11th April 2007

EU/Ivory Coast partnership agreement

11th April 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Commission has adopted a report on the monitoring of the Member States implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) over the period 2003-2005.

11th April 2007

Commission: improvements still needed in fisheries control

11th April 2007