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INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A cooperative treaty between Australia and France has been signed to protect fisheries resources in the Southern Ocean.

10th January 2007

Australia and France sign treaty to combat IUU fishing

10th January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Oceana has published a report this week claiming to include evidence that swordfish caught illegally by Moroccan vessels is being sold in Spain.

9th January 2007

Oceana: Moroccan fleets using illegal driftnetters to catch swordfish

9th January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Seafish has announced that it is managing a project examining the potential of developing a sustainable squid fishery in UK waters.

9th January 2007

UK squid fishery project

9th January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

New figures out show that illegal fishing in northern Australian waters is significantly down since 2004.

9th January 2007

Australia: progress in the war against illegal fishing

9th January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Research published online in a paper at the end of December suggests that climate change has had little influence on adult cod movements in the North Sea.

8th January 2007

Climate change has little influence on cod

8th January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Lidl, one of the largest German retailers, has introduced a range of seven frozen and one smoked fish products carrying the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) blue eco-label.

4th January 2007

Lidl offers MSC-labelled products

4th January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Noel Dempsey T.D., Minister for Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Ireland, formally announced last week the establishment of the new independent statutory Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (S-FPA) as of the…

3rd January 2007

New Irish Authority

3rd January 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The UK competition authority, the Competition Commission, has authorised Pan Fish` acquisition of Marine Harvest.

19th December 2006

World’s largest aquaculture company

19th December 2006

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Aker Seafoods is selling its processing plant Aker Seafoods Ålesund (formerly known as West Fish Industrier) to family-owned fishery group, Brødrene Sperre AS.

18th December 2006

Aker Seafoods to sell plant

18th December 2006

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Scheduled to be released at the Atlanta IPE exhibition in January 2007, the all-new Marel ProLine Graders have already made a splash at the Nor-Fishing exhibition in Norway and the Polagra Expo…

18th December 2006

New Marel grader series – ProLine

18th December 2006

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

In just three years Acuimarca, of the Canary Islands, has become the single biggest supplier of farmed fish in Spain, and processing lines using ScanBatchers from Scanvaegt have played an important role…

18th December 2006

Quadrupling production in three years

18th December 2006

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

With the crucial EU Fish Council talks beginning on the 19 December, the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) is warning that any move by the European Commission to cut the catching opportunity for…

18th December 2006

Cuts in catching opportunity to be fiercely resisted

18th December 2006

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Populations of two species of shark, used for their meat and consumed mainly in the EU, are on the verge of collapse, according to a WWF release.

18th December 2006

The fate of spiny dogfish and porbeagle shark

18th December 2006

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

DPI&F senior fisheries biologist Neil Gribble said the vessel, which has been in service since 1984, has been fitted with a Kortz nozzle and a state-of-the-art propeller that would improve the vessel’s…

18th December 2006

DPI&F research vessel upgrade

18th December 2006

NEWS

NEWS

Tiny Malta, sitting astride the Med, is once again at the heart of a battle for a sustainable future. The island epitomises the challenge touching the modern fishing industry: how to produce…

18th December 2006

Malta

18th December 2006

SHIP DESIGN

SHIP DESIGN

Aker BioMarine and Aker Yards have agreed an option for building a vessel for harvesting krill.

18th December 2006

Aker’s new krill vessel

18th December 2006

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

The separation of Carnitech’s Salmon Division and its integration with CP Food Machinery and Geba in a new joint division means greater synergy for the Carnitech group.

18th December 2006

Carnitech Salmon boosts synergy

18th December 2006

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

This is the fourth edition of a volume first published in 1964, that details catching methods both commercial and subsistence, from around the world and over many many centuries. The basic concepts…

18th December 2006

Book review: Von Brandt’s Fish Catching Methods of the World

18th December 2006

DECK MACHINERY

DECK MACHINERY

Petrel Engineering, the Cape Town based deck machinery supplier, recently equipped local vessel “Castella” with her net handling gear.

18th December 2006

Innovative net handling gear for the “Castella”

18th December 2006

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

World Fishing: What are your most important projects and issues in your new role?Eskil Erlandsson: When it comes to fisheries in the European context I would like to be more influential than…

18th December 2006

Becoming a player in European fisheries

18th December 2006