World Fishing News – Page 883
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World's largest fish farming company formed
Norway’s Pan Fish ASA has acquired all the outstanding shares in Marine Harvest for E1,325 million (enterprise value). The combination of Pan Fish-Marine Harvest will become the world''s undisputed leader in the fish farming business, with an annual salmon production of 346,000 tonnes (wfe) in 2006. In addition, Pan Fish ...
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Bumper US highlights Europe’s woes
Exports of US seafood continue to grow dramatically in value and volume, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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Live fish carrier from and for Norway
Norway’s Aas Mek Verksted has delivered the live fish carrier M/V Ronja Pioneer to Sølvtrans AS of Ålesund on the west coast of Norway, and says this is the sixth such vessel it has built for Sølvtrans.
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FLOTTWEG offers a whale of a time
We have asked you before whether you are “tricantering or not my man” [WF March 2004] and Flottweg of Germany says it has now given a new twist to its helical products by tackling a whale’s favourite dinner -- krill, with alginates thrown in for flavour.
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Geonet for sharp shooting
Britanny''s iXTrawl reports that customers are happy about the reliability and robustness of its trawl sensors which work with Geonet to improve trawl positioning and allow the bridge to check if the trawl is working properly.
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Cosmos trawl gear on França Morte
Danish trawl specialist and Hampidjan Group partner, Cosmos Trawl A/S, has supplied the trawl gear for Portugal’s new 73.8-metre freezer/stern trawler the França Morte.
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Making pelagic fishing more efficient
Egersund Trawl from Norway, continues the development of equipment to make pelagic fishing more efficient.
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Survival suits boost
Strømme AS of Norway hopes to capitalise on new International Maritime Organization rules to sell more Helly Hansen surivival suits to the international merchant and fishing fleets.
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Calling in the MOB
McMurdo, in collaboration with the UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) have launched their new Man Overboard (MOB) Guardian, a safety device which signals to the RNLI the position of a vessel with the MOB on board.
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Longlining fishery gets MSC certification
The freezer longline Pacific cod fishery in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska has become, last month, the first cod fishery in the world to obtain the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification as a sustainable and well-managed fishery. Cod products of this ...
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From bare hands to global embrace
Today the seafood company, led by president and chief executive Yngve Myhre, is only part of Røkke’s industrial empire. Within that, Aker Seafoods remains one of Europe’s biggest fishing companies, with 1,350 employees and a capital base giving it the muscle to grow.Almost a year after Aker Seafoods ASA was ...
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The Lawless Oceans
Pirate fishing is now big business, involving the collusion of countries offering flags of convenience and catches which drive down income for legal fishermen.
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High support for NF
Approximately 80% of stand space has already been sold for the 21st edition of Nor-Fishing equating to more than 300 international exhibitors so far.
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Unilever chill for workers in €2bn selloff
Unilever’s plans to sell off most of its European frozen food business is the latest writing on the global wall for embattled European fishermen and processors short of raw material.
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Danish Inspectors use fish DNA to prosecute
The Danish Directorate of Fisheries used a DNA test of cod in a trial in January about illegal fishing and this helped the successful prosecution of the offender. The accused’s logbook stated that the cod had been caught in the Baltic Sea. But the DNA test showed that ...
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Fixed penalties for fisheries offences
Fishermen charged with some fisheries offences could face fixed penalty fines rather than a court appearance, a consultation from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) suggested last month.
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Anti-whaling vessels arrested in CT
The detention of the Canadian anti-whaling vessel Farley Mowat in Cape Town harbour was being dealt with through “diplomatic channels”, according to spokesmen for the South African Department of Foreign Affairs and the Canadian High Commission in Pretoria, writes Jean Le May in Cape Town.
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Ireland and Spain top illegal catch league
The EU Court of Justice has ruled against Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Finland and Sweden for “overshooting their quotas”, making illegal overfishing still the main cause of law infringement committed by EU Member States.
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Marport Developing New Broadband Acoustics Technology for Sonars and Echo Sounders
Reykjavik, Iceland February 1, 2006 Marport, a leading deep sea technology company that designs and manufactures a comprehensive range of sensing, processing and communications products today announced that it is enhancing its research and development efforts in the areas of software defined radio transceivers, visualization software and broadband acoustics.
