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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

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Olrac, the company that developed Olfish, the software for the collection, management and reporting of commercial fishing data, launched the new version of its software, Olfish-2007 in January 2007.

29th January 2007

New Olfish-2007

29th January 2007

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Next-generation trawl monitoring solutions will require a software defined architecture that supports multiple signalling protocols, is interoperable with competitor products, and provides flexible, reconfigurable functions – all while operating on fixed hardware,…

29th January 2007

Marport announces Software Defined Acoustics Platform

29th January 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

At the beginning of 2007, Scotsman launched the new Super-flake ice machine MF83 for fishery and food processing applications.

29th January 2007

New Super-flake ice machine MF83

29th January 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Equipment specialist Starfrost has developed a revolutionary freezing system for seafood products that could previously only be processed using nitrogen.

29th January 2007

CO2: an alternative fish freezing solution

29th January 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

At BUUS Ice A/S in Denmark, last autumn was much busier than usual, due to the fact that Sabroe ice flake machines have been produced at BUUS, instead of previous company York,…

29th January 2007

BUUS to produce Sabroe machines

29th January 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Carotti Ice was founded in 1960 and began the production of Ice Crush machines in 2001, in addition to its existing Ice Makers.

29th January 2007

Carotti’s ice machines

29th January 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

According to Fiskeriforskning, superchilling gives better quality compared with fillets that are chilled using the regular method.

29th January 2007

Better fish quality

29th January 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

In January 2006, Sunwell delivered a Deepchill™ Variable-State Ice System to The Plitt Company of Chicago.

29th January 2007

Second Deepchill™ for The Plitt Company

29th January 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

According to plate freezer manufacturer DSI there is an increased focus on the working environment onboard fishing vessels around the world.

29th January 2007

DSI frozen block handling

29th January 2007

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern T.D., along with Minister Noel Dempsey T.D. and Minister of State John Browne T.D., launched the Irish Government’s new National Seafood Strategy at a press conference on 28…

29th January 2007

Record investment package for Irish seafood industry

29th January 2007