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SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

McMurdo, in collaboration with the UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) have launched their new Man Overboard (MOB) Guardian, a safety device which signals to the RNLI the position of a vessel…

27th February 2006

Calling in the MOB

27th February 2006

NEWS

NEWS

Value at home forces fishermen to distant climes. David Hayes reports.

27th February 2006

Thailand

27th February 2006

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Pirate fishing is now big business, involving the collusion of countries offering flags of convenience and catches which drive down income for legal fishermen.

27th February 2006

The Lawless Oceans

27th February 2006

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Unilever’s plans to sell off most of its European frozen food business is the latest writing on the global wall for embattled European fishermen and processors short of raw material.

27th February 2006

Unilever chill for workers in €2bn selloff

27th February 2006

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Danish Directorate of Fisheries used a DNA test of cod in a trial in January about illegal fishing and this helped the successful prosecution of the offender. The accused’s logbook stated…

27th February 2006

Danish Inspectors use fish DNA to prosecute

27th February 2006

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Fishermen charged with some fisheries offences could face fixed penalty fines rather than a court appearance, a consultation from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) suggested last month.

27th February 2006

Fixed penalties for fisheries offences

27th February 2006

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The detention of the Canadian anti-whaling vessel Farley Mowat in Cape Town harbour was being dealt with through “diplomatic channels”, according to spokesmen for the South African Department of Foreign Affairs and…

27th February 2006

Anti-whaling vessels arrested in CT

27th February 2006

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The EU Court of Justice has ruled against Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Finland and Sweden for “overshooting their quotas”, making illegal overfishing still the main cause of law infringement committed by…

25th February 2006

Ireland and Spain top illegal catch league

25th February 2006

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Reykjavik, Iceland February 1, 2006 Marport, a leading deep sea technology company that designs and manufactures a comprehensive range of sensing, processing and communications products today announced that it is enhancing its…

24th February 2006

Marport Developing New Broadband Acoustics Technology for Sonars and Echo Sounders

24th February 2006

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

PT MultiIntegra, a Transas Group distributor, has been chosen to supply the company’s Fishing & Navigational Simulator for Pariaman Fishing School & Medan Training Center in Sumatra.

30th January 2006

Transas to Supply for Indonesian Fishing School and Training Center

30th January 2006

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

After two years in the netting and marine electronics sector, trawl door specialist Atli Josafatsoon is back on the trawl door business and have now launched his own brand, the Polar.

25th January 2006

Atli launches new trawl doors

25th January 2006

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

MAN B&W Diesel Service Center Denmark says it has completed the refurb of engines on the factory-freezer trawler ship ‘Lazurnyy’, one of four large fishing vessels owned and operated by Westrybflot in…

25th January 2006

Danes refurb Russian factory-ship engines

25th January 2006

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

ET Marine has launched its own air quality monitor to measure sulphur dioxide (SO2) emitted by ships’ engines ahead of a new International Maritime Organisation (IMO) technical code for the emission of…

25th January 2006

New monitor to measure engines’ SO2 emissions

25th January 2006

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Latvian engineering company Peruza, has begun to break into the western European market with processing lines and equipment such as conveyors for tunnel freezers and canning lines. Information from the Latvian fisheries’…

25th January 2006

Latvia cans Cold War

25th January 2006

NEWS

NEWS

Is the glass half full or half empty? That is the question facing those who debate, and will sup from, the future of the Irish fishing industry. Pieter Tesch reports. - According…

25th January 2006

Ireland

25th January 2006

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The VMD's random tests include local and imported fish for residues of regulated or banned products and antibiotics. Where levels are breached, VMD reports to the country of origin for action, and…

25th January 2006

Partners in seafood quality not crime

25th January 2006

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

It all started with the decision of the South African Department of Environmental Affairs (SADEA) to issue long-term fishing rights for the first time, starting in 2006. Rights were to be issued…

25th January 2006

Licence application flood delays South African fishing season

25th January 2006

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

More than 70 per cent of all fish eaten by the Chinese will be from land, not sea, by 2010. Vice-Minister of Agriculture Niu Dun said China’s land production would rise to…

25th January 2006

China’s wild crackdown

25th January 2006

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Subsistence and growth of coral depends on a number of requirements, temperature, irradiance, calcium carbonate saturation, turbidity, sedimentation, salinity, pH and nutrients. The level of these variables determines the processes of photosynthesis…

24th January 2006

Fishermen, stakeholders in the future of coral reefs

24th January 2006

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Sixteen countries worldwide presented a formal diplomatic representation to the Japanese Government urging it to stop its Antarctic whaling programme last week.

24th January 2006

Japan urged to stop scientific whaling

24th January 2006