World Fishing News – Page 898
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Icebox Plastico becomes Saeplast Iberia
In order to strengthen its global presence Icebox Plastico has adopted this year the name of its parent company, Saeplast and becomes Saeplast Iberia, S.A.
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Peterson Beck gets a new coat for Brussels
Danish company Peterson Beck has developed what is says is a revolutionary new exterior coating for its Beck-liners®, which allows you to make sure your sticky labels do not fall off.
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Weight solutions from Scotland
Packaging Systems Scotland will be presenting its new packaging system SBin, designed for moving up to 320 kilogrames of farmed salmon in 180kg of ice slurry.
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EU causes outrage
The EU decision to implement safeguard measures to protect Scottish and Irish Salmon farmers is facing strong opposition from Norway, Chile and the Faroe Islands.
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Good and bad times for NZ fishermen
Strong demand and good prices for fish provided a good start for 2005 in New Zealand in spite of a rising Kiwi dollar, spiraling oil costs, and some operators in the local industry fearing they could be forced out of business, reports Paul Prince.
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Iceland celebrates 100 years since first trawler
A hundred years ago Glasgow was at its peak as the second city of the British Empire and its shipbuilding yards were equipping the merchant, naval and fisheries fleets of the whole world.
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EU Fisheries Monitoring Agency ready in 2006
The European Fisheries Monitoring Agency will come into effect in 2006, a year earlier than planned, announced Elena Espinosa, head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) last month.
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EU could transfer fishing vessels to the areas affected by the Tsunami
Decommisioned EU fishing vessels could be on their way to rebuild the tsunami hit fishing fleets of the countries around the Indian Ocean if a proposal from the European Commission is accepted.
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Australian Seafood Industry support Tsunami aid relief
Australia''s seafood industry has announced that it has access to a registration system for offers of support to rebuild the counterpart industries in tsunami devastated regions. Federal agencies will match offers from Australia to requests for assistance from countries including Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
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Agadir Fish Morocco gears up
North Africa''s premier international fisheries exhibition AGADIR FISH MOROCCO, will be staged for the third time from April 14-16 2005. The 2003 exhibition, the organisers say, was a real success for the many companies who struck business deals with local operators and suppliers.
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Twins via Poland to Faroes
The growing trend for hull building in Poland continues with two new pairtrawlers for Faroes home port Leirvik which have been fitted out by Faroes company Vónin Ltd., based in Fuglafjørdur .
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Ghostbusters needed
We know the seabed threatens trawlermen with mustard gas shells dumped after the war. Yet fishermen have now presented themselves with a serious problem of their own making. The number of lost and abandoned nets and pots which keep on "fishing" after the boats have gone home. - When the ...
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NewsTraceability means more demanding marketplace
Vigo Fish MarketAfter the European Union (EU) legislation on food traceability came into force on 1 January, fisheries, one of the last major remaining commercial hunter-gatherer activities, is now liable to the same legal food safety requirements as farming. It will also face the same pressures in the marketplace as ...
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Philippines
The Philippines looks to aquaculture for long-term growth. David Hayes reports. - Not only has farmed fish in the Philippines overtaken wild catch, as in China, Filipinos are generating valuable income from value-added in areas such as seaweed exports.
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Fish meal sector remains unstable
Over the past years, producers have been facing numerous challenges, one of which is production. Last year 2004 was not an exception, although globally it improved significantly compared with the previous year 2003. But, again, the challenges come from many fronts, both production and market wise. And contrasts between the ...
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Fishmeal plants inspected in Chile
The regional ministerial secretary of Health in Concepción (Chile) Patricia González, has filed an accusation against five fishmeal plants, after having detected serious defects in their production processes and in the handling and storage of their raw material, according to FIS.
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New 'sea wars light sabre'
US-based Omniglow says it is new 6" Flex-stick ultra lightstick outperforms any other commercial on the market. The company says that in the battle for fish all longliner fishermen know the secret to catching more is light.
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Yemen goes fishing for $30m harbour and new vessels
Work is well underway on a new industrial harbour at Dhabba in Yemen and it will be the largest facility of its kind on the Southern Arabian Peninsula. According to a Deutz Germany statement, the $30M project will house a state-of-the-art processing plant built to the latest ...
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Wesmar's new trawl sonar goes superlight
Wesmar unveiled a new trawl sonar system at the Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle which it says weighs less than any other trawl sonar on the market. The sled for the new system has an in-the-water weight of just 9.9lbs (4.5kg), a practical weight for the ground-fish industry.
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Nylon - small is strong and economic
Germany''s echanische Netzfabrik of Oldenburg, reports the recent introduction of a full range of nylon fishing nets with very small meshes and strong, heavy duty twine.
