World Fishing News – Page 897

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    European Fishermen’s Leaders meet to agree Action Plan

    2005-04-28T18:02:00Z

    European fishermen’s leaders from France, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Belgium and the UK have met on April 21 and 26, in Brussels, to agree an action plan to address the fuel price crisis in fishing.

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    FAO report calls for more reductions

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    The FAO has called for a reduction or ban on fishing in fully or over-exploited stocks.

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    India ponders duty-free treatment for equipment imports

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    With tsunami damage to the Indian fisheries sector now estimated at more than 10 billion Rupees (Euro200 million) the government is looking at easing customs'' duty on some imported equipment, as part of a strategy to help boost seafood export figures.

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    EU to invest in Fiji

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    The European Commission is reported to invest $7.5 million to develop tuna fisheries in the Pacific Ocean, one of the world''s largest tuna fisheries which accounts for 1.8 million tones worth $3.5 billion in annual landings.

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    Top seafood businesses in the UK announced

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    The best seafood businesses in the industry gathered at an awards ceremony in London last month where the winners at the first ever Seafood Awards, organised by the Sea Fish Industry Authority (Seafish), wer

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    Asian tuna exports to EU to continue to have commercial advantages

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Philippines, Indonesia and Tailand will continue to receive commercial tariff advantages with the EU, the EU Court of Justice established last month.

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    North Atlantic's largest fish fair gets bigger and better

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    The North Atlantic Fish Fair (3-5 May 2005, http://www.fair.fo) will take place under much better circumstances than the two previous fairs because it will be held in Tórshavn and the organisers says this will bring everything under the same roof in the largest hall in the Faroes. The improved quality ...

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    Latest seafood technology to be unveiled in Brussels

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    More than 240 exhibitors from all over the world will meet at Seafood Processing Europe, which takes places in Brussels together with the European Seafood Exhibition between April 26-28.

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    New members join the ASIC

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    The Commonwealth Fisheries Association (CFA) and Southern Rock Lobster Ltd (SRL) have now full membership in the Australian Seafood Industry Council (ASIC).

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    Is selectivity wrong?

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Fisheries scientists now doubt that traditional selectivity fishing helps to improve fishing populations

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    GFC for the Med has new home

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    FAO's General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) announced that it has selected Palazzo Blumenstihl in Rome as the site of its new headquarters, following a decision during the GFCM's extraordinary session there in late February. GFCM is the intergovernmental organisation in which all the countries bordering the Mediterranean and ...

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    Canada

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    The Canadian fishing industry -- one of the oldest in the world -- is entering a new era, since the crisis in Atlantic ground fish in the 1990s. Shirley Kumar reports

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    Baader put on mini-skinner

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Germany''s Lübeck-based Baader will be showing its new generation of skinners with the ''54'' specially designed for Alaska pollack and hake at the Seafood Processing Europe. It says the machine can switch between shallow and deep skinning modes in minutes, keeping skinned fillet stretched out and separated from each ...

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    Scanvaegt brings Scandinavian fashion to batching

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Scanvaegt says it invented the multi-channel grader in 1978 and after selling ScanGraders and ScanBatchers to more than 2,000 plants worldwide it has now made a ''quantum leap'' with its ScanGrader/ScanBatcher 4700'' with a user-friendly, eye-catching Scandinavian design.

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    Air Blast Technology for Versatile Labeling from AEW Delford

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    AEW Delford Systems a UK manufacturer of weighing, grading, labelling, packaging and slicing equipment, has extended its labelling range with the launch of the Concept A500 Air Blast Label Applicator.

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    Fomaco needles Brussels

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Denmark''s Fomaco will be presenting its new M3 generation of fish injectors in Brussels, with two needle bridges for an ultra close needle pattern. It says this gives the best possible brine distribution in the fish at low brine pressure, so avoiding any damage to the delicate fish meat whether ...

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    Marel presents a full range of products at Seafood Processing Europe

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Marel will be introducing innovative new concepts at this year''s Seafood Processing Europe Exhibition. For the salmon industry, Marel will be showing the ITM, Intelligent Trimming Machine, and the Salmon Packing Grader. Also presented will be the Speed Batching system for whitefish, pelagic fish, and shellfish and a new QA ...

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    Automated Traymaster freezers

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    UK-based Jackstone Froster will be putting their ''Traymaster'' on show at Brussels International Seafood fair and the company says it is the only automatic plate freezer on the market that applies high pressure to the product during freezing. It ensures completely square blocks, avoiding offcuts which affect yield.

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    Starfrost tunnels into Brussels from UK

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Starfrost (UK) Ltd will be running a compact pre-assembled Starlite HT (Hybrid Tunnel) system at SPE.

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    Heinen shows its Polaric at Brussels

    2005-04-20T09:15:00Z

    Heinen will be showing at Brussels its first compact and completely on a sub-frame mounted freezer from the new polaric series, following one and a half years of development.