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fishing industry has criticised their national Bureau of Rural Sciences for issuing what the industry says is outdated data on tuna stocks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

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

In a letter to the Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Joe BORG, the Chairman of the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament, Philippe MORILLON, and the President of the Council of…

4th May 2005

EU/Fisheries : European ship owners deeply concerned about impact of high oil prices on fisheries sector

4th May 2005

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The Australian seafood industry has again mounted a dominant presence at this year’s European Seafood Expo in Brussels.

4th May 2005

EUROPEANS TEMPTED BY AUSTRALIAN SEAFOOD

4th May 2005

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Scanvaegt has launched its new ScanWi 411 Weighing Indicator which its says is tough enough to withstand the harsh environment of food production processing in a fully waterproof stainless steel cabinet. Operators…

1st May 2005

Scanvaegt tilts the scales

1st May 2005

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Sonavision, the manufacturers of RoxAnn announce that the new RoxAnn GD, successor to the RoxAnn Seabed Classification System will be launched by Sonavision’s UK Distributor at the UK Fishing Show in Glasgow…

28th April 2005

Sonavision launch RoxAnn GD

28th April 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

European fishermen’s leaders from France, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Belgium and the UK have met on April 21 and 26, in Brussels, to agree an action plan to address the…

28th April 2005

European Fishermen’s Leaders meet to agree Action Plan

28th April 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Commission is reported to invest $7.5 million to develop tuna fisheries in the Pacific Ocean, one of the worlds largest tuna fisheries which accounts for 1.8 million tones worth $3.5…

20th April 2005

EU to invest in Fiji

20th April 2005

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The best seafood businesses in the industry gathered at an awards ceremony in London last month where the winners at the first ever Seafood Awards, organised by the Sea Fish Industry Authority…

20th April 2005

Top seafood businesses in the UK announced

20th April 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Philippines, Indonesia and Tailand will continue to receive commercial tariff advantages with the EU, the EU Court of Justice established last month.

20th April 2005

Asian tuna exports to EU to continue to have commercial advantages

20th April 2005

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

More than 240 exhibitors from all over the world will meet at Seafood Processing Europe, which takes places in Brussels together with the European Seafood Exhibition between April 26-28.

20th April 2005

Latest seafood technology to be unveiled in Brussels

20th April 2005

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Commonwealth Fisheries Association (CFA) and Southern Rock Lobster Ltd (SRL) have now full membership in the Australian Seafood Industry Council (ASIC).

20th April 2005

New members join the ASIC

20th April 2005