Due to its pristine waters and ideal farming conditions, Iceland’s aquaculture industry is experiencing rapid growth. However, one key challenge continues to slow the pace of expansion: the high cost of oxygen.
Sea-Flux Limited, a leading provider of Digital Vessel Management, has just been awarded the Innovation Award for Electronic and Electrical Systems at the European Commercial Marine Awards (ECMAs) at the Seawork Expo…
North-east Scotland based engineering specialists, Brimmond, have launched the NetJet™ high-pressure net cleaning pump as a rental option. They are the first and only company in the UK to offer a full…
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The Danish fishing industry is made up of various groups, all facing their own problems and challenges and with their own agendas for the future. However one common challenge for most of…
C.C. Jensen will be attending Danfish and their motto for the event is Can you afford to stay in harbour for even one day? They point out that their filter products are…
The Transas Group, which offers simulation software for skipper training, has now added new features to its fishing simulator as part of its Fishing Bridge package and says it also has all…
Denmarks Daconet has registered a patent on what it says is a revolutionary and simple way to assemble inner nets with wall meshes, using the already-known edgemesh twine.
Fort Lauderdale-based (FL) ACR Electronics says it has now put on sale one of the smallest, fully-functional radio beacons in the world and hopes it will help expand the market beyond its…
Despite all the gadgets and new services which the electronics industry throws at us there are certain basic things which you need and it is these which can save your life.
Online Telematics, in partnership with S M Group (Europe) Ltd, are offering a GPS-based intruder warning device linked to a mobile phone to provide alerts by automatic text message and also track…
The ADB recently awarded Indonesia a grant of US$880,000 towards the consultancy costs of a $1.18 million technical assistance study to help the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries prepare a national…
Squid, fish, crustaceans, plankton, larvae, marine mammals and the whole marine food chain are under threat from CO2 as the gas turns the oceans acidic, warns the worlds oldest scientific body, the…
Norways Domstein ASA, have sold off their holdings in salmon farming (Fjord Seafood) and will focus only on wild fish, industrial production and sales and distribution through Domstein Enghav.
Future changes in the global operation of the two large Dutch fishing firms Jaczon of Scheveningen en Vrolijk of IJmuiden might not be excluded in the longer term, writes Pieter Tesch, but…
The volume of the fish caught by tourists and sport fishermen in Norway, writes Hans Morten Sundness, may now be as much as 60,000 tonnes (t) a year and this may match…
The Dutch government has to grant Euro85m in compensation to cockle dredgers after the government decided to ban this year cockle dredging in the Waddenzee, an inshore stretch of the North Sea…
ICELANDIC Sæplast reports that is refurbishing its Norwegian factory which makes fenders and buoys, investing in new machinery and equipment, and is also the object of a reorganisation of a number of…
OPTIMAR Ice has installed an ice machine on the Sighvatur GK, making it the third for Grindavik-based Visirs vessels. The latest, a BP-120, has a capacity of 1,000 litres of 40% thick…
Lip service or reality? - For some time now, ecosystem management has become the fashionable phrase among fisheries scientists and managers. Soon everyone will be saying we must manage the whole ecosystem…