World Fishing News – Page 890
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Marport spreads its wireless doors
Iceland-based Marport is adding more features to its trawl monitoring system and increasing access to sensor information via broadband wireless.
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Blasted round fish
Skaginn put on show its Combined Blast and Contact (CBC) processing line at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition.
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New Marine Fisheris Agency in the UK
The executive agency has been created to deliver the Government''s services to the fishing industry and a number of marine environmental interests
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Weather eye on Mauritania after August coup
World Fishing is monitoring developments in Mauritania after Colonel Ely Ould took power on August 3 in a bloodless coup.
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Apocalypse now
Mega-hurricane Katrina was for many their Apocalypse. The affected area includes the Florida Keys and from Pensacola, FL, to the Texas border. There is a virtual fishery shutdown in the affected states due to major flooding, damage to fishing boats and fishing ports, waterways clogged with debris and closed processing ...
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Netherlands
Pressure on the dike - offshore and onshore. Pieter Tesch reports - The Dutch seafood industry is battling on a number of fronts. The flatfish sector is in crisis and nearly a third of beam trawler owners have applied to scrap their vessels. The fuel crisis has hit not only ...
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Europe - Anchovy under the hammer
The emergency closure of anchovy fishing in the Bay of Biscay (from July to October) was extended to 31 December by a decision of the EU Commission in mid-September and came up for intense debate at the fisheries council of ministers (19-20 September) reports Peter O''Neill.
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Maren controls the force
Icelandic energy management system company Marorka lunched its latest, second generation of Maren. - Maren 2 is a complete system based on advanced mathematical methods and algorithms allowing unsurpassed energy management. The company says that the system maximises energy efficentcy, minimizes negative environmental impact and cut costs.
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NAFO starts reforms
The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) has launched a review of the NAFO Convention, especially with a view to incorporating more integrated oceans management approaches, reforming decision-making processes, and examining the current structure of NAFO. The decision was made at the 27th Annual Meeting of NAFO held in Tallinn, Estonia, ...
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The Government is considering how the risk of pollution from submarine wreck can be eliminated
The Government is initiating field studies concerning the wreck of the submarine U-864, which was sunk off Fedje in Hordaland County in 1945. The purpose of the studies is to determine the best way to eliminate any future risk of pollution from the wreck. The Government will fund this effort ...
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Swordfish satellite tagging study under way
Scientists with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) are working with the Nova Scotia Swordfish Harpoon Association in a first-ever Canadian high-tech tagging study of swordfish to determine their migration patterns in the Atlantic Ocean. The three-year study is funded under DFO''s International Governance of High Seas Fisheries Program.
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All for one and one for all - software
Icelandic company Nyherji used the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition to put its "mySAP All-in-One Fish" software on display, offering what it calls a state-of-the-art human resources and business solution for fishing companies.
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Australia and Indonesia Tackle illegal fishing
Australian and Indonesian officials met in Jakarta last week (24-26 August) to discuss a better working relationship on marine and fisheries issues.
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More fish! Morocco-EU breakthrough
Morocco has finally done a deal with the EU to re-open the rich Moroccan fisheries to a starved EU capture and processing industry. It is five years since Morocco refused in November 1999 to renew its agreement with Brussels, hitting supplies for EU catching and processing industries and putting heavy ...
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Pirates 115 vessels caught in Oz waters
HMAS Geraldton has arrested the latest of 115 vessels caught fishing illegally this year, according to the Australian fisheries minister senator Ian Macdonald.
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Norway opens blue whiting fishery in anger
Norway''s fisheries and coastal affairs minister Svein Ludvigsen has used tough language to attack the EU and other states over their failure to agree on restrictions on blue whiting catches.
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UN says 30% at limit or beyond
Seven of the world''s top 10 marine fish species - approximately 30 per cent of all capture fisheries output - are fully exploited or overexploited, according to a UN State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) report.
