World Fishing News – Page 884
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Transas to Supply for Indonesian Fishing School and Training Center
PT MultiIntegra, a Transas Group distributor, has been chosen to supply the company’s Fishing & Navigational Simulator for Pariaman Fishing School & Medan Training Center in Sumatra.
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NewsWal-Mart to source fish from MSC certified fisheries
Rupert Howes, Chief Executive of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), welcomed the recent announcement by Wal-Mart that the company is seeking to source all of its wild-caught fresh and frozen fish for the North American market from fisheries that meet the MSC’s independent environmental standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries.
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NewsAtli launches new trawl doors
After two years in the netting and marine electronics sector, trawl door specialist Atli Josafatsoon is back on the trawl door business and have now launched his own brand, the Polar.
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Danes refurb Russian factory-ship engines
MAN B&W Diesel Service Center Denmark says it has completed the refurb of engines on the factory-freezer trawler ship ‘Lazurnyy’, one of four large fishing vessels owned and operated by Westrybflot in Kaliningrad, Russia.
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GE to supply Peru’s Pesquera Diamante S.A.
GE Transportation, in conjunction with its distributor Marinsa Peru SA, is to supply Pesquera Diamante SA, of Peru, with 7FDM medium-speed diesel engines for powering newly constructed boats and repowering the company’s entire fleet of purseine net fishing boats
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New monitor to measure engines’ SO2 emissions
ET Marine has launched its own air quality monitor to measure sulphur dioxide (SO2) emitted by ships’ engines ahead of a new International Maritime Organisation (IMO) technical code for the emission of sulphurous gases.
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Germany bangs the drum twice
Heinen Freezing of Germany has introduced compactduo, a more powerful version of its compact. Rather than a single drum system (types c11, c15, c18 and c21), the compactduo has a double drum (types c22, c30, c36 and c42), three different layout versions and a capacity of up to 1.500 kg/h. ...
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Latvia cans Cold War
Latvian engineering company Peruza, has begun to break into the western European market with processing lines and equipment such as conveyors for tunnel freezers and canning lines. Information from the Latvian fisheries’ ministry shows Peruza was formally established in 1991 (after Latvia regained independence from ...
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NewsSunwell and Axima go into deep freeze clinch
Sunwell Technologies Inc. of Canada, who specialise in slurry ice, preservation and refrigeration, and Axima Refrigeration GmbH of Germany have agreed they will market jointly Sunwell’s patented Deepchill Variable-State Ice Technology throughout the EU, according to a company statement.
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Vikings go Dutch on slurry
Holland’s YORK International and Optimar Iceland have joined forces to introduce a new generation of slurry-ice machines called SABROE Optim-Ice.
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Partners in seafood quality not crime
The VMD's random tests include local and imported fish for residues of regulated or banned products and antibiotics. Where levels are breached, VMD reports to the country of origin for action, and to Brussels which passes on the information to all EU countries' inspectorates. Non-EU countries have to provide “equivalent ...
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NewsLicence application flood delays South African fishing season
It all started with the decision of the South African Department of Environmental Affairs (SADEA) to issue long-term fishing rights for the first time, starting in 2006. Rights were to be issued for between 10 and 15 years and the overall value of the rights in terms of catch has ...
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Who’s in Charge
Time to ask where? What? and Why? - The FISHFOLK Internet discussion list* is a stage on which current and not so current issues are often thrashed out. The focus is usually very American, reflecting where most of its aficionados come from. Recently, however, Bill Bartlett, one of the list’s ...
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China’s wild crackdown
More than 70 per cent of all fish eaten by the Chinese will be from land, not sea, by 2010. Vice-Minister of Agriculture Niu Dun said China’s land production would rise to 60 million tonnes from 51 million now.
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NewsFishermen, stakeholders in the future of coral reefs
Jamaican coralSubsistence and growth of coral depends on a number of requirements, temperature, irradiance, calcium carbonate saturation, turbidity, sedimentation, salinity, pH and nutrients. The level of these variables determines the processes of photosynthesis and calcification, and also the level of survival. In turn these requirements are affected by meteorological processes, ...
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Japan urged to stop scientific whaling
Sixteen countries worldwide presented a formal diplomatic representation to the Japanese Government urging it to stop its Antarctic whaling programme last week.
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Member States fail to stop overfishing
Overfishing is still one of the main law infrigment committed by the EU Member States, acording to the Common Fisheries Policy Scoreboard published last week by the European Commission
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NewsForget the shaft oil can for ever?
Sweden’s Hägglunds Drives AB sees a future where shaft drives are eliminated between engine and propeller on small to medium size vessels and replaced with hydraulic systems.
