World Fishing News – Page 899
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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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The ETF meets Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
On February 17th, the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) General Secretary Doro Zinke and the President of the ETF Fisheries Section, Peter Sand Mortensen, met EU Commissioner Joe Borg. During the meeting, the ETF representatives had the opportunity to express to the Commissioner the European fishermen’s concerns with respect ...
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Positive Trends in Whitefish landings
The tonnage of whitefish landings at Lerwick Harbour increased by more than a quarter in the first nine months of this year, with the successful "Land in Shetland" campaign making an important contribution to the rise.
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EC backs down over drastic cuts
There is to be a 10 per cent reduction in fishing possibilities for European vessels in 2005.
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Namibian Minister tells industry to fight crisis
The Namibian Minister for Fisheries and Labour has described the industry''s current crisis as a ''wake-up'' call, after the partial closure of a black empowerment fisheries company, according to FIS.
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Tsunami hits fishing sector
Asia''s Tsunami disaster has had a devastating impact in the area. Fishermen from some affected countries such as Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand have witnessed a decline in their catch report.
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Pesca Sur opens its doors
Pesca Sur will be held from 9-12 March this year, at the new Sur Activo Convention centre in Concepción -- Talcahuano, Chile. This will be the first time that this new exhibition will take place.
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Amethyst new jewel for West and Johnston
Macduff Shipyards has completed the building of the Amethyst BF19 which replaces the previous Amethyst 11, for partners David West and Ralston Johnston. The new vessel is a stretched version of the ''Excel'', also built by Macduff.
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Largest Danish fishing vessel ever
Rolls-Royce has sealed a NOK 30 million contract with Danish fishing company Niels Jensen & Co AS to provide the design and major equipment for a new purse seiner/pelagic trawler type NVC 354l. With a gross tonnage of 2,300 and at 76m, the Isafold will be the largest fishing vessel ...
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North American seafood producers prepared for EU tracability laws
Torunn Halhjem at Trident Seafoods Corp, a Seattle, Washington based company processing primarily Alaskan seafood products says that companies have already been providing virtually all the required information."It didn't have much impact. We only had to add two lines to our invoice and on the label that the product was ...
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China's white fish exports force European processors to develop new products
Since the mid-1980s China has become the world's workshop with new factories being set up every year to manufacture toys, garments, textiles, consumer electronics and many other items for export. The vast army of low cost labour available to these factories has been a major factor supporting industrial growth in ...
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Mauritania
Having some of the richest fishing grounds in the world is a blessing and a curse for Mauritania, reports Shirley Kumar.
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Deepchill success in Norway
For over 25 years since first introducing slurry ice technology to the seafood industry, Sunwell Technologies Inc. of Canada has worked with fishermen and companies in the seafood processing industry to develop and implement total quality control processes using Deepchill Variable-State Ice.
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Ice machine cuts turnaround time
Ziegra Ice Machines (UK) Ltd., has made Sandy West a happy customer with a StreamIce system on his vessel ''Virtuous''. His earlier problem had been buying ice before each trip.
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York & Optimar Iceland launch new slurry ice business
York and Optimar have joind forces and will be manufacturing slurry ice units in Iceland to be sold worldwide. The Slurry Ice machines will be marketed under the joint brand name Sabroe Optim-Ice.
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Pinging all tuna
MAQ says its triple frequency sonar is helping Albacore and Benito fishermen detect individual fish at 400m with its 90KHz transducer while Bigeye and Yellowfin fishermen are detecting schools at 1,500m and 4,000m with the 45KHz and 22KHz transducers respectively.
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Olfish's New Year resolution
South Africa''s Olrac has developed a Traceability module at its Scottish-based subsidiary OLRAC-UK which it hopes to sell as an enhancement of its Olfish fisheries management for automated catch traceability down to bin level. It aimed the launch to coincide with new EU traceability rules that came into force on ...
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Lloyds worldwide certificate for Radio Holland Group
Radio Holland Group has announced it has received the ISO 9001:2000 multi-site certificate from Lloyds Register Nederland B.V. (Rotterdam) for its Quality Management System. Almost all Radio Holland''s 51 subsidiaries are mentioned in certificate annex.
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Newage goes up a gear
Newage Transmissions of the UK launched their latest marine gearbox, the PRM 1750 at the London Boat Show. A statement from the company said it has a maximum torq ue of 1,750Nm and suitable for engines rated up to 457kW (620 bhp), coming in shallow or deep gear casing configurations, ...
