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ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

the pressure from the ‘green’ lobby on the catching and gear manufacturing sides of the industry remains relentless.In March Greenpeace took direct action against French and British vessels engaged in seasonal mid-water…

25th May 2005

Seabird and mammal bycatch still targeted

25th May 2005

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Joe Borg has already shown how a man from a small island, Malta, is particularly sensitive to what the sea can do to small coastal fishing communities. At the international Tsunami Rehabilitation…

25th May 2005

Small and local is powerful and persuasive in big EU

25th May 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Fishermen in ten of Scotlands fishing ports are set to back a new £200,000 three-year initiative, to cut the amount of marine litter around Scotlands coastline.

20th May 2005

SCOTTISH FISHING INDUSTRY TO TURN TIDE ON MARINE LITTER IN NEW £200,000 FISHING FOR LITTER INITIATIVE

20th May 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The progress of Canadas seal hunt has once again raised the complex scenario of fishermen trying to make up their income from out-of-season work and some long-term, unemployed Canadians hit by the…

20th May 2005

Seal hunt draws protests

20th May 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

New Zealand has announced it will be launching Ocean Survey 20/20, an ambitious survey, over the next 15 years to build up a comprehensive picture of its oceanic resources and ecosystems, reports…

20th May 2005

New Zealand to scan the massive deep

20th May 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Research by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has uncovered the molecular basis for resistance and accumulation of paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) in soft-shell clams. A reports in Nature magazine says…

20th May 2005

New toxin structures

20th May 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Great interest from the industrys global manufacturers and suppliers has been growing in the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2005 as Iceland is one of the few remaining nations in the European zone that…

20th May 2005

International interest grows in the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2005

20th May 2005

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Lack of regulations and the pressure to catch a boats allocated quota can lead to accidents at sea

20th May 2005

USA fisheries, too many casualties?

20th May 2005

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The initiative is due for implementation at a time when the European Union fishing fleet, in particular French and Spanish vessels, is about to enter western and central Pacific waters, increasing the…

20th May 2005

Pacificic tuna faces new era

20th May 2005

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Per Funch-Nielsen, managing director of O.W. Icebunker Ltd., explains to Peter ONeill how his company supplies vital fuel and provision to fishing vessels in some of the toughest conditions in the world.

20th May 2005

Bunkering on the high seas

20th May 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Optimar Iceland says that business is good and this has been reflected in its latest projects. On the Engey RE a pelagic vessel owned by Icelandic fishing company HB Grandi and 105m…

20th May 2005

Optimar cooling business gets hot

20th May 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

The fishing industry in Ghana and other areas at the West Coast of Africa is centred around small villages where domestic fishermen land their daily catch. There, fish is consumed locally as…

20th May 2005

3 in 1 self-contained unit

20th May 2005

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Sonavision is offering its latest long-range Titan scanning sonar in titanium for operation at 6,000m and a stainless steel model for use at 1000m depths. The standard tiny TITAN measures 226mm x…

20th May 2005

Sonavisions Tiny Titan pings deep

20th May 2005

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

FURUNO says it has set a new standard for the market in echo sounders with its innovative multi-/split-beam sounder the FCV-30. The FCV-30 facilitates optimal sounding searches for fishing operations as well…

20th May 2005

Fish size and survey work together with FURUNO

20th May 2005

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

The Australian fishing industry has criticised their national Bureau of Rural Sciences for issuing what the industry says is outdated data on tuna stocks

20th May 2005

Australian tuna industry & scientists clash

20th May 2005

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Following the closure of Polar Engineering EJ Bowman have bought the majority of Polar Engineerings pattern equipment together with the manufacturing rights.

20th May 2005

Bowman to make Polar Heat Exchangers

20th May 2005

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

As we went to print, there was no solution in sight for the fuel crisis which has hit fishermen in Spain.

20th May 2005

Spanish fuel crisis deepens

20th May 2005

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

A 16-metre squid-fishing boat operating out of Port St Francis, near Jeffreys Bay in South Africas Eastern Cape, has been repowered with a pair of Perkins Sabre M215C engines in a bid…

20th May 2005

SA boat gets new engines

20th May 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

At the initiative of the social partners in the European fisheries sector (Europêche and the E.T.F. ) representatives of the sector, training centres and competent national authorities met in Brussels for a…

20th May 2005

CREATION OF THE BRUSSELS-BASED EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR FISHERIES TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT

20th May 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Danish manufacturer of plate freezers A/S Dybvad Stål Industri (DSI) will supply the Icelandic company SJOLASKIP H.F with 69 vertical plate freezers for its recently purchased vessels.

19th May 2005

Orders flow in for DSI

19th May 2005