World Fishing News – Page 893
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Angle Sensor keeps the doors open
SCANMAR says that, following comprehensive trials of its Angle Sensor on doors, they are now moving to commercial production. It says it is the first sensor to feature brand new functionality since the mid-90s.
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Hampidjan's latest at the IFE
ICELANDIC company Hampidjan will be showing its new Poly-Ice ''OPEX'' trawl door for the pelagic market at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition.
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The Baltic states move to tubs
BORGARPLAST says the European tub market is stagnant but its tubs are picking up good business in the Baltic states, and its reach now covers customers in Africa, especially Tanzania and Uganda.
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Three-in-one ice outside the box
Falch Marine A.S of Svolvær (Norway), reports that it has worked with Sunwell, the slurry ice people, to develop a new system to add onto their existing Deepchill(tm) set up and this has reduced time through more automation, and improved quality which has added two-days'' to retail shelf life.
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Swedes delighted to freeze for Kiwi vessels
Swedish company Searef reports it has installed a cargo hold refrigeration unit for the Sea Hawke, owned by the new Zealand''s company Forty South Limited.
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Overflowing plates for DSI
Danish plate freezer manufacture Dybvad Stål Industri says orders are very strong and that Icelandic company Sjolaskip H.F. has just order 28 vertical plate freezers on top of an earlier order of 69 vertical freezers for their new vessels. Fresh Catch in Scotland has put in another order following its ...
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Crabsticks tempt Starfrost into Russia
The UK''s Starfrost, which says it has been supplying bespoke mechanical freezing and chilling equipment since 1984, reports it has opened an office in Moscow to target the expanding frozen food market in Russia.
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Frozen fish get naval submarine tech
Belgian company International Quality Freezers (IQF) working with engineers from the Swedish naval and submarine industry, says they have produced the first freezer built in one piece -- using a tube instead of fixing panels together. It says the smooth, glossy finish and sloping floor means easy cleaning, top hygiene ...
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Oysters fishing back to front
The Jacoba Prins has turned oyster laying and fishing back to front. Dutch builder Maaskant Bruinisse B.V., Bruinisse, Netherlands and owner Prins Oesterkweek b.v., Yerseke, Netherlands decided on a different approach for this dedicated vessel. The wheelhouse is offset to the starboard side and gives a good overview of the ...
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Norway reopens the fishery for blue whiting
The Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal affairs Svein Ludvigsen has decided to reopen the Norwegian fishery for blue whiting in Norwegian and international waters as of July 18. The Norwegian total allowable catch (TAC) in 2005 is set at 890.000 tonnes.
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Bring in the old, throw out the new
In his second article from Latvia, Peter O''Neill reports on how he discovered that some of his new-fangled ideas about diversification do not always stand up. Aivars Lejietis, general manager of Gamma-A in Riga shows him that staying with a brand from the Middle Ages in the 21st century not ...
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RED SNAPPER COMMERCIAL FISHERY OPENS IN GULF OF MEXICO FEDERAL WATERS
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces the commercial fishery for red snapper in Gulf of Mexico federal waters will open at noon, local time, on August 1, 2005, and will close at noon, local time, on August 10, 2005.
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Vietnam tries to push the boat further out
Vietnam’s fishing and aquaculture industries have witnessed rapid growth during the past decade as Vietnam has developed into one of the world’s largest exporters of fishery products. David Hayes reports.
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Fish scientists cast doubt on costly warming calls
“Seventy years of warming may be followed by cooling as it used to be before. …we should pay more attention to the relative influence of management steps and climatic variations on fish stocks,” said Dr. Svein Sundby of the Bergen Institute of Marine Research, speaking on the long-term effects of ...
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Science flies kites over acid ocean & biodiversity
The world fishing industry ought to be shaking in its gumboots at the latest strategic moves by scientists on two areas - their estimates of the loss of global biodiversity and the suggestion that marine life is under threat from rising levels of acidity in the oceans caused by carbon ...
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NewsRobust Iceland will report pirates
Árni MathiesenQ: What are the main strengths of the industry today?It is diversity. Most of the Icelandic stocks are in a stable situation or growing. There is probably only one stock in trouble, the prawn stock. The part of the industry doing better is the pelagic fleet and the pelagic ...
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Garware-Wall India maximises with Maxilon, value-added and feedback
In this second report from India, editor Pilar Santamaria, reports how Garware-Wall Ropes, Pune, is counting on innovation, quality and price to keep growing in a difficult market.
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New Zealand faces new challenges
It has certainly won a lot of goodwill. However, there are critics, for example over exactly what the orange roughy situation is and will be in the future. New Zealand says it is one of the best managed, yet some suggest, for example, that there is a basic contradiction in ...
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Brave New World - from occupation to liberalisation
Peter O'Neill discussed the issues with Normunds Rieksti?š, Director of the National Board of Fisheries and finds that Latvia still leads with its most famous products, Riga sprats and herrings.Normunds has been in fish all his professional life. A biologist by education he began working in the fisheries regulatory board ...
