World Fishing News – Page 901
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Excess weight solution
Danish company Scanvaegt says that its ScanGrader can eliminate the 3-5 per cent excess weight contained in packaged fish products. The new solution is also programmed to automate and streamline the entire production at the same time, resulting in improved quality, lower production costs and higher earnings.
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Cabinplant develops roe seperator for shrimps
Cabinplant has developed a new machine, a so-called roe separator, to solve a seasonal problem faced by producers of cold-water shrimps. Using this roe separator, it is no longer necessary to employ extra staff in the shrimp factory during the spring spawning period, where the quality control of the mechanically ...
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Managing the conflict alone
A missed opportunity with missing stakeholders - One of several fashionable concepts that affects fisheries management and the fishing industry in many countries is "integrated coastal zone management" (ICZM). Born as a tool to prepare nations for a possible rise in the level of the sea, it is now being ...
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Catching poachers down south
Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing on the high seas is a worldwide problem. Fisheries authorities agree that managing fish stocks on a regional basis is an important first step towards curbing it.The fishing countries of Southern Africa have now taken that important step --- and are preparing to go ...
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New whitefish machine
FTC Sweden is working on a new design to replace its whitefish machine FDS3N. The idea came after building in 2004 a special FDS3N for I&J in Cape Town. The purpose was to increase yield compared to its existing machines.
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New 'Deli Area' brings factory to cutting edge
A new £1.5m added-value seafood speciality production facility is now fully operational at Macrae Foods in Fraserburgh.
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Tub vs box - size matters
The Icelandic Fisheries Laboratories is an independent state organisation, operating on behalf of industry under the Ministry of Fisheries. For 20 years it has worked to improve the humble containers which carry fish all over the word. Staff member Sigurjón Arason, a civil engineer with an MSc at Denmark''s Technical ...
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Machine needed to combat sardine waste
Too much sardine may be going down the waste chute and fisheries consultant Ulf Groenqvist, from the Island of Öland in Sweden, working for AB Seac, says the reason may be that there is no decent machine available to pre-sort the fish before the processing machines get hold of it.
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WF24: One-stop-shop
Transas says its new World Chart Folio Collection WF24 provides one-stop-shop solutions with a wide range of electronic charts with the emphasis on a high level of data accuracy. It says it updates the collection every three months from Notices to Mariners issued by authorities in different countries.
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ABP PLYMOUTH LANDS A BIG CATCH
Associated British Ports (ABP), owner and operator of Millbay Docks at Plymouth, has caught a new cargo in the form of 1,100 tonnes of frozen fish. The fish is being loaded at Millbay Docks today (Monday, 17, January) for local company Interfish.
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Kittiwake-up call on sandeel fisheries and climate change
Populations of the black-legged kittiwake will not recover unless the commercial sandeel fishery off the east coast of Scotland and north-east England remains closed indefinitely, ecologists have said. The stark warning comes from a paper published today in the British Ecological Society''s Journal of Applied Ecology. ...
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THE WAY AHEAD FOR THE GLOBAL FISHMEAL AND FISH OIL INDUSTRY
‘Partners in the Value Chain’ was the central theme of IFFO’s Annual Conference held recently in Buenos Aires and attended by nearly 300 delegates representing the global fishmeal and fish oil industry as well as related industries from 26 countries.
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Toothfish friends have poachers on the run
Scientists have released new data showing a dramatic decrease in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing for Patagonian and Antarctic toothfish, which are often sold as Chilean sea bass.
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Icelanders hook French with €332 million
Iceland''s international, financial acquisition expedition continues with moves by SÃF hf. which was hoping, as we went to press, to finalise the acquisition of French food producer Labeyrie for some €332.3 million. Labeyrie Group produces retailer, chilled foods. A statement said the takeover would produce a group with a turnover ...
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Farmed salmon rises 20% as UK families snub scientists
UK consumers have delivered a decisive snub to US scientists who tried to deter them from eating Scottish farmed salmon early in the year. Research results released in mid-November show farmed salmon consumption bounced rapidly back from January''s scare, with more than 86.4 million salmon meals eaten in the UK ...
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FAO catches Swedish Seafood Award
The UN''s Food and Agriculture Organization has been awarded the Swedish Seafood Award for its work with the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries.
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Volvo Penta engines in high-speed fishing boats
The fishing industry in Iceland is changing and the demand for high speed fishing boats is growing. Volvo Penta''s D12-650 engine provides these boats with ideal features for small-scale fishing: rapid acceleration, high top speed and high fuel efficiency.
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Normar offers full lifeboat range
Norwegian Maritime Equipment AS, a strong Norwegian supplier of offshore and maritime equipment, has developed a new, complete programme of lifeboats and rescue boats. The programme is currently on the market under the brand name NorMar, and embraces a full range of enclosed lifeboats, free-fall lifeboats, semi-enclosed lifeboats and rescue ...
