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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

30,000 new circular hooks distributed to fisherman in Sri Lanka

13th February 2007

ASDA casts out old fishing hooks in bid to save endangered turtles

13th February 2007

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Organisations and people with innovative ideas that could benefit the seafood industry have been invited to apply for the second round of funding from the Seafish Industry and Partnership Project Fund.

7th February 2007

Seafish offers further seafood industry project funding

7th February 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Commission has today published a Communication aimed at launching a debate on improving fishing capacity and effort indicators for the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).

5th February 2007

Commission launches debate on how best to measure fishing capacity and effort

5th February 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) has strongly criticised the decision by supermarket chain Asda to stop selling monkfish.

5th February 2007

SFF hits back at Asda monkfish decision

5th February 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Supermarket Asda has banned sales of monkfish from all of its stores across the UK.

2nd February 2007

Asda bans sale of monkfish

2nd February 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Parliament, on 1 February, adopted a report on the conclusion of a Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the EU and Gabon.

2nd February 2007

EP adopts report on EU-Gabon fisheries agreement

2nd February 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

An initiative to enlist more countries around the world to the anti-whaling cause has been launched by the UK government.

31st January 2007

Britain urges more nations to help save whales

31st January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A research boat named “Environment” was officially handed over to the Angolan National Institute of Fishing Research (INIP) by the Regional Programme of the Great Marine Ecosystem of Benguela’s Cold Current (BCLM)…

30th January 2007

Fishing Institute receives research boat

30th January 2007

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

A record number of entries for the Seafood Awards 2007 has underlined the innovation and dynamism that lies at the heart of the UK seafood industry.

30th January 2007

Record number of entries for Seafood Awards 2007

30th January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Commission has warned that reductions in catches of deep sea species are inevitable either through choice to conserve the stocks concerned or by force as they become fished to depletion.

30th January 2007

Commission: reductions in deep-sea fisheries are inevitable

30th January 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), over 50 per cent of the world’s fish stocks are fished to their biological limit and another 25 per cent…

29th January 2007

Securing fisheries for the future

29th January 2007

NEWS

NEWS

From family-run, lunch-time cafe to hotel private dining room, Peter O’Neill is amazed at how superb and varied fish cuisine in China’s eastern coastal and inland cities puts Europe to shame. He…

29th January 2007

China

29th January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The shortfall in pelagics allowed to be caught in EU waters in 2007 following the December EU Fisheries Council meeting has to be compensated in third countries, the president of the Dutch…

29th January 2007

PFA catch allowance down

29th January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

New Birds Eye Iglo Chief Executive, Martin Glenn, has made his first announcement on the company’s sustainability policy and its intention to develop it further this year.

29th January 2007

Birds Eye Iglos sustainability policy

29th January 2007

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Built in 1988, MV “Trygvason” is a single-screw trawler originally equipped with an open-type, 2600mm-diameter CPP.

29th January 2007

Nozzle improves fishing efficiency

29th January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Icelandic government has ordered an Oceanographic Patrol Vessel from ASMAR-Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Company, Chile, for the Icelandic Coast Guard. The vessel is designed by Rolls-Royce Norway for patrol operations in…

29th January 2007

New patrol vessel for Iceland

29th January 2007

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

The soaring price of fuel has become a major issue for the UK fishing industry in recent years, especially since it has come at a time of ever tighter quotas and other…

29th January 2007

The Seafish Fuel Efficiency Programme

29th January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Research conducted by scientists at the Pelagic Fisheries Research Program (PFRP) of the UH Mãnoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, and reported in a paper published in the December…

29th January 2007

New research refutes ocean ecosystems collapse claims

29th January 2007

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

The Marine Research Institute (MRI) of Iceland recently conducted a redfish tagging cruise using Underwater Tagging Equipment (UTE) from Star-Oddi.

29th January 2007

Redfish tagging cruise

29th January 2007

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Sonartron Limited has provided the full electronic equipment package to Irishman Patrick Friel’s latest vessel, the “Sanmar II”, making this latest edition to the inshore fleet the most technically advanced crabber built.

29th January 2007

Sonartron electronics for “Sanmar II”

29th January 2007