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Fiskekroken AS of Norway has installed a Sunwell Variable-State Ice system for its salmon-packing plant, part of Safish AS. The bulk of the company is now owned by Salten Aqua Invest, a…

Ice-maker machine company YORK Marine has opened a permanent office in Vigo (Spain).

US albacore tuna fishermen have asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test them and their wives and children for side effects from methylmercury. The move is seen as a strategic…

French company ACELMA has launched DATANET, a low-cost and simpler version of its wireless geometry and trawl-positioning system GEONET. The new software provides spread-door data and can be uprated by adding functions…

ARELEC says it has developed a unique, twin-rig control using precision warp-pull meters for additional control of the fishing gear.

UK-based McMurdo Pains-Wessex has now received full UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency approval for its F1 VHF radio with Class D Digital Selective Calling (DSC).

Norwegian director general of fisheries Peter Gullestad and director Odd Berg have been appointed Comendador and Caballero, respectively, of the Chilean Order of Bernardo OHiggins.

Spanish based company Nature Pack has launched the first plastic container on the market aimed at users selling one and two kilograms of frozen seafood.

After two years of intense research, the new model replacing Scantrols 2000 autotrawl system is ready to be introduced on the first vessels in January 2004. Scantrols new model is more intelligent…

Port of Hanstholm (Denmark) is investing over 40 millions in a project to improve its fish market. The work has just started last month and it is divided in three phases:

Consulting agency AENOR has issued the Coastal Fishery and Big Fish Market in Vigo (Spain)with a UNE ISO 9001/2000 quality certificate.

Scanvaegts new online trimming line is an integrated system for improving yield, performance, product quality, hygiene and traceability throughout the trimming and filleting process. It is a Turnkey fish process line with…

Lighthouse, a part of the giant Pan Fish Group, has farming and processing interests in Scotland. Sales manager Peter Bullock, from Marel UK, has been involved in long term discussions with them…

Longliner Breogan Uno, built by Astilleros Armón in Spain, is the first Spanish vessels to have an automatic Mustad Autoline System.

A fall in landings combined with increases in quota leasing, insurance and fuel costs have squeezed whitefish vessel profit margins, according to a new report published by the Sea Fish Industry Authority…