World Fishing News – Page 896
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Pacificic tuna faces new era
The initiative is due for implementation at a time when the European Union fishing fleet, in particular French and Spanish vessels, is about to enter western and central Pacific waters, increasing the number of fishers competing to catch valuable tuna stocks.Tuna fisheries have become of increasing importance to Pacific island ...
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Bunkering on the high seas
Per Funch-Nielsen, managing director of O.W. Icebunker Ltd., explains to Peter O''Neill how his company supplies vital fuel and provision to fishing vessels in some of the toughest conditions in the world.
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Sunwell brings flexibility
Commitment to quality is the foundation of the Kenai Peninsula''s regional salmon brand Kenai Wild. In August of 2004, Cook Inlet Salmon Brand, Inc. (CISB) of Alaska, a non-profit corporation shepherding the Kenai Wild‚ branding program, signed a grant agreement for US$725,000.
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Optimar cooling business gets hot
Optimar Iceland says that business is good and this has been reflected in its latest projects. On the Engey RE a pelagic vessel owned by Icelandic fishing company HB Grandi and 105m long, they are installing 20 units of semi-automatic vertical freezers, each with 12.5 tonnes a day capacity, giving ...
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3 in 1 self-contained unit
The fishing industry in Ghana and other areas at the West Coast of Africa is centred around small villages where domestic fishermen land their daily catch. There, fish is consumed locally as it is landed with no freezing or storage facilities or any means to serve people living further away ...
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Sonavision's Tiny Titan pings deep
Sonavision is offering its latest long-range Titan scanning sonar in titanium for operation at 6,000m and a stainless steel model for use at 1000m depths. The standard tiny TITAN measures 226mm x 90mm but has a range of up to 300m and the company claims it is the only sonar ...
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Faroese twins go walkie-talkie with Scantrol
The new Faroe pair trawlers ''Polarhav'' and ''Stjörnan'' are pioneering a new era of trawling with the installation of Scantrol''s new iSYM autotrawl system iSYM, according to a statement from Scantrol.
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Fish size and survey work together with FURUNO
FURUNO says it has set a new standard for the market in echo sounders with its ''innovative multi-/split-beam sounder'' the FCV-30. The FCV-30 facilitates optimal sounding searches for fishing operations as well as maritime survey activities by utilising its unmatched multi-/split-beam sounding systems, the company says.
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Australian tuna industry & scientists clash
The Australian fishing industry has criticised their national Bureau of Rural Sciences for issuing what the industry says is outdated data on tuna stocks
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Bowman to make Polar Heat Exchangers
Following the closure of Polar Engineering EJ Bowman have bought the majority of Polar Engineering''s pattern equipment together with the manufacturing rights.
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Volvo engine installed on new Turkish vessel
Volvo Penta has provided the Denizer with its most powerful diesel engine --a Volvo Penta D65A MT which has a strong performance already at low rpms and is well suited for a fishing boat weighing more than 240 tons.
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Spanish fuel crisis deepens
As we went to print, there was no solution in sight for the fuel crisis which has hit fishermen in Spain.
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SA boat gets new engines
A 16-metre squid-fishing boat operating out of Port St Francis, near Jeffrey''s Bay in South Africa''s Eastern Cape, has been repowered with a pair of Perkins Sabre M215C engines in a bid to achieve greater all-round
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CREATION OF THE BRUSSELS-BASED EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR FISHERIES TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT
At the initiative of the social partners in the European fisheries sector (Europêche and the E.T.F. ) representatives of the sector, training centres and competent national authorities met in Brussels for a Round Table aimed at setting up REFOPE, the European Network for Fisheries Training and Employment.
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Orders flow in for DSI
Danish manufacturer of plate freezers A/S Dybvad Stål Industri (DSI) will supply the Icelandic company SJOLASKIP H.F with 69 vertical plate freezers for its recently purchased vessels.
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New Clyde fisheries partnership launched at Fishing 2005
A major new cross-sector partnership aimed at building a sustainable future for the Clyde inshore fishery has been launched today by the Clyde Fisheries Development Project at the Fishing 2005 exhibition in Glasgow.
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EU/Fisheries : European ship owners deeply concerned about impact of high oil prices on fisheries sector
In a letter to the Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Joe BORG, the Chairman of the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament, Philippe MORILLON, and the President of the Council of the EU, Fernand BODEN, the Presidents of Europêche, Niels WICHMANN, and COGECA « Fisheries », José Ramon FUERTES ...
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EUROPEANS TEMPTED BY AUSTRALIAN SEAFOOD
The Australian seafood industry has again mounted a dominant presence at this year’s European Seafood Expo in Brussels.
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Scanvaegt tilts the scales
Scanvaegt has launched its new ScanWi 411 Weighing Indicator which its says is tough enough to withstand the harsh environment of food production processing in a fully waterproof stainless steel cabinet. Operators can be taught to use it in minutes.
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Sonavision launch RoxAnn GD
Sonavision, the manufacturers of RoxAnn announce that the new RoxAnn GD, successor to the RoxAnn Seabed Classification System will be launched by Sonavision’s UK Distributor at the UK Fishing Show in Glasgow 19 th –21st May. According to the company, the RoxAnn GD is not only technically superior ...
