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NEWS

NEWS

Aquaculture is one of the Australias fastest growing sectors. While wild catch value fell last year, aquaculture production value increased. Pilar Santamaria reports. - Australias Economic Exclusive Zone (EEZ) is the largest…

13th April 2004

Australia

13th April 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS 26th March 2004

Prime Ministers Strategic Unit

26th March 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Union and the Solomon Islands have initialled a new bilateral Fisheries Agreement for a first period of three years running from 1 January 2005. It is exclusively for tuna fishing…

1st March 2004

Solomon and EU in wise tuna move

1st March 2004

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Europes biggest ever food research project, focusing on fish, kicked off in Denmark last month with a meeting to define what seafood means to different people in different countries.

1st March 2004

First cast of €26m net for healthy seafood and healthier people

1st March 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The soaring NZ dollar is causing major concern in the New Zealand seafood industry, according to the chief executive of Sealord Group, the countrys biggest seafood company.

1st March 2004

Fish prices down 50 per cent on soaring NZ dollar

1st March 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A somewhat different national competition has been launched by Seafish, Britains Sea Fish Industry Authority, to find the best of the best across the seafood industry and also boost standards.

1st March 2004

Fishermen frying chefs and trainees for new awards menu

1st March 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The issue of how to develop a viable and enforceable management policy for deep-sea fishing has become an important preoccupation for the industry, regulatory authorities and scientists.

1st March 2004

Managing the deep

1st March 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Britains Prince Charles led a number of restaurateurs and artists on 4 March at the Sea into the Future Gala to cook, to eat seafood and raise £250,000 to fund the Marine…

1st March 2004

Billingsgate goes Royal for Ocean fund-raiser

1st March 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

In spite of Mauritanian efforts to improve hygiene infrastructure and controls, there are still many obstacles to be overcome in order to have more joint ventures and collaboration between EU and Mauritanian…

1st March 2004

Spain for flamenco, not one-step, with Mauritania

1st March 2004

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Adrian Tatum charts the progress of the fishmeal industry over the past year

1st March 2004

Fishmeal industry stands firm

1st March 2004

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Quite often one side of the world does not know what the other is doing. That can be just as true of the European fishmeal industry which sources much of its product…

1st March 2004

Are you tricantering my man? Three-in-one for the price of two

1st March 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Trawling specialist Vónin Ltd has equipped the Finnur Fridi (see World Fishing, February), with toughened purse seining and pelagic trawling gear. Called the Blue Whiting trawl, it has a circumference of 2,048…

1st March 2004

Vónins Blue Whiting trawl goes on-board the Finnur Fridi

1st March 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Sicornete is about to launch a new, high-tenacity polyethylene product after three months of testing. It increases the strength of ropes and nets, using thinner ropes so it reduces trawl drag and…

1st March 2004

Sicornete — thinner and stronger

1st March 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Euronete, based in Oporto, and making heavy nets for bottom trawls and pelagic fishing, report they have opened a new braiding factory in the north of Portugal.

1st March 2004

Euronete factory

1st March 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Polish company Baltic Net says it is working on a prototype for a new pelagic trawl especially designed to operate in the Baltic pelagic fishery.

1st March 2004

Poles tailor Baltic trawl for pelagics

1st March 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Nets and ropes manufacturer, Quintas & Quintas, says it has not only seen an increase in its sales of nets to fish farms but this sector now represents 25 per cent of…

1st March 2004

Quintas & Quintas nets ponds

1st March 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

When a skipper or companys supply officer have to spend large sums of money on new nets, one of the problems they have is how do they decide which product is the…

1st March 2004

Fishnet tights: raw power, style or polyfibres?

1st March 2004

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Q. This year, 89% of the Irish Sea fleet will be free of the 'days-at-sea' system. The overall quota for Ireland has increased 8% over last year. All this seems to be…

1st March 2004

Balancing political fish logs at home and abroad

1st March 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

MAN B&W says that more than 100 of its new engines have now been ordered. The L21/31 orders are mainly for Holeby-GenSets for large vessels and Alpha propulsion plants for small and…

8th February 2004

New propulsion from MAN B&W

8th February 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

The Atlantic Enterprise (AE), now fishing prawns off Canada, is the worlds first trawler with a complete electrical AC winch control system, provided by Vacon, whose liquid-cooled NX system is controlling the…

8th February 2004

Sparks vs water power

8th February 2004