Canada

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Inuit-owned fishing company Baffin Fisheries has chosen seafood processing equipment supplier Carsoe for the delivery of a complete onboard factory for its new coldwater shrimp and halibut freezer trawler.

4th July 2022

Carsoe for Canadian giant

4th July 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has announced a two-year renewal of licences for marine finfish aquaculture facilities outside the Discovery Islands in British Columbia, (BC) Canada.

27th June 2022

BC licences renewed

27th June 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Canada’s government has placed additional sanctions on Russian oligarchs in response to the continued aggression on Ukraine, alongside bans on imported goods, including fish and seafood, and on the export of luxury…

24th May 2022

Canada bans Russian fish

24th May 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Canadian salmon farmers are urging Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray to renew British Columbia’s open net licences and thereby help drive the country’s blue economy innovation.

14th March 2022

Canada salmon licence calls

14th March 2022

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Boston, US-headquartered aquaculture tech company Innovasea has begun installing a complete real-time environmental monitoring system at Grieg Seafood’s new remote Red Island salmon farming site in Newfoundland on Canada’s Placentia Bay.

11th March 2022

Real-time farm monitoring

11th March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A new national organisation that has been formed to promote the small and medium enterprises that stock and equip Canada’s growing aquaculture sector is calling on federal government to support the industry…

28th February 2022

Canadian aquaculture lift

28th February 2022

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Canada’s Niqitaq Fisheries has placed an order with Tersan Shipyard in Turkey for the construction of a new 80-metre-long stern trawler.

22nd February 2022

Niqitaq orders new trawler

22nd February 2022

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Canadian fishery officers have now completed their involvement in Operation North Pacific Guard, an annual international law enforcement operation in the high seas of the North Pacific with Canada’s counterparts from the…

5th November 2021

Canada wraps up Operation North Pacific Guard

5th November 2021