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ICELANDIC FISHERIES EXHIBITION

ICELANDIC FISHERIES EXHIBITION

With a month to go for the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition, World Fishing talked to Marianne Rasmussen-Coulling, events manager to find out why the show has become a reference for the fishing industry.

8th August 2005

Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2005

8th August 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Marel will be showing its Marel Vision Grader at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition. The unit utilizes dynamic weighing and laser vision to measure product features automatically. It grades products based on length,…

8th August 2005

Marel shows it all at IFE

8th August 2005

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

ICELANDIC company MARORKA, says it will be showing its latest, second generation Maren energy management at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition and says it can reduce fuel operating costs by up to 15…

8th August 2005

MARORKA claims 15-30% off

8th August 2005

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Japan Radio Co. (JRC) says it will be showing a new LCD Navtex, a compact Fleet F33 and three new Inmarsat C systems, at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition.

8th August 2005

Japan calling

8th August 2005

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

BRITTANY-based Morgère says it is doing well in Iceland with its oval foil door and has already put installations on more than 30 bottom trawlers there. Magnus Eyjolfsson, sales manager of Ã?sfell,…

8th August 2005

Oval Foil does the job in Iceland

8th August 2005

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

ICELANDIC company HAARSLEV has delivered its first HAARSLEV Twin Screw Press - the HM80C press - with a screw diameter of 800 mm and six-metres long. It can handle 70 tonnes of…

8th August 2005

You get a bigger squeeze with Haarslev!

8th August 2005

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

SCANMAR says that, following comprehensive trials of its Angle Sensor on doors, they are now moving to commercial production. It says it is the first sensor to feature brand new functionality since…

8th August 2005

Angle Sensor keeps the doors open

8th August 2005

FISH HANDLING

FISH HANDLING

BORGARPLAST says the European tub market is stagnant but its tubs are picking up good business in the Baltic states, and its reach now covers customers in Africa, especially Tanzania and Uganda.

8th August 2005

The Baltic states move to tubs

8th August 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Falch Marine A.S of Svolvær (Norway), reports that it has worked with Sunwell, the slurry ice people, to develop a new system to add onto their existing Deepchill(tm) set up and this…

8th August 2005

Three-in-one ice outside the box

8th August 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Swedish company Searef reports it has installed a cargo hold refrigeration unit for the Sea Hawke, owned by the new Zealands company Forty South Limited.

8th August 2005

Swedes delighted to freeze for Kiwi vessels

8th August 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Spains Kinarca claims its Frost-Free Airlock-Vestibule can save up to 40 per cent power and reduce the formation of fungus on-chill room products.

8th August 2005

Close the door! Its cold inside

8th August 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Danish plate freezer manufacture Dybvad Stål Industri says orders are very strong and that Icelandic company Sjolaskip H.F. has just order 28 vertical plate freezers on top of an earlier order of…

8th August 2005

Overflowing plates for DSI

8th August 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

The UKs Starfrost, which says it has been supplying bespoke mechanical freezing and chilling equipment since 1984, reports it has opened an office in Moscow to target the expanding frozen food market…

8th August 2005

Crabsticks tempt Starfrost into Russia

8th August 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Jacoba Prins has turned oyster laying and fishing back to front. Dutch builder Maaskant Bruinisse B.V., Bruinisse, Netherlands and owner Prins Oesterkweek b.v., Yerseke, Netherlands decided on a different approach for…

7th August 2005

Oysters fishing back to front

7th August 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

In his second article from Latvia, Peter ONeill reports on how he discovered that some of his new-fangled ideas about diversification do not always stand up. Aivars Lejietis, general manager of Gamma-A…

3rd August 2005

Bring in the old, throw out the new

3rd August 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces the commercial fishery for red snapper in Gulf of Mexico federal waters will open at noon, local time, on August 1, 2005, and will close…

3rd August 2005

RED SNAPPER COMMERCIAL FISHERY OPENS IN GULF OF MEXICO FEDERAL WATERS

3rd August 2005

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

“Seventy years of warming may be followed by cooling as it used to be before. …we should pay more attention to the relative influence of management steps and climatic variations on fish…

2nd August 2005

Fish scientists cast doubt on costly warming calls

2nd August 2005

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The world fishing industry ought to be shaking in its gumboots at the latest strategic moves by scientists on two areas - their estimates of the loss of global biodiversity and the…

2nd August 2005

Science flies kites over acid ocean & biodiversity

2nd August 2005

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Q: What are the main strengths of the industry today?It is diversity. Most of the Icelandic stocks are in a stable situation or growing. There is probably only one stock in trouble,…

1st August 2005

Robust Iceland will report pirates

1st August 2005

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

It has certainly won a lot of goodwill. However, there are critics, for example over exactly what the orange roughy situation is and will be in the future. New Zealand says it…

1st July 2005

New Zealand faces new challenges

1st July 2005