World Fishing News – Page 902

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    Russia sings to Rapp winches

    2004-12-01T13:46:00Z

    Rapp Hydema has begun to penetrate the Russian market, supplying complete winching systems for two 90-foot combination vessels from the Russian Astrakhan yard for Russia''s OPC FC Udarnik.

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    Nutreco maps out feeding menu

    2004-12-01T13:46:00Z

    Dutch-based Nutreco says it is adopting a two-pronged strategy to ''... regain solid profit growth, reduce earnings volatility and improve return on invested capital''. It has been affected by falling sales.

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    Kiwis help seabirds through French connection

    2004-12-01T13:46:00Z

    Money has been put up for New Zealander Malcolm McNeill and Jakob Hals from Norway to go to La Réunion in the Indian Ocean to work with French longline fishermen on techniques to reduce the number of seabirds killed by hooks in the Southern Ocean.

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    NZ's new value-added research strategy

    2004-12-01T13:46:00Z

    New Zealand''s Seafood Industry Council (Seafic) and the Crown Crop & Food Research agency have set up Seafood Innovations Ltd to develop the seafood industry''s value-added strategy.

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    NZ - changing vessels changing minds

    2004-12-01T13:46:00Z

    Stark Bros Ltd and Ocean Fisheries Ltd have launched their new FV Frontier and they say the build period which took 19 months has been an exciting time for them. More important, they say they believe the FV Frontier will revolutionise the mindset for small-boat fishing in New Zealand. It ...

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    VMK upgrade its processing machines

    2004-12-01T13:46:00Z

    Two Norwegian pelagic factory ships have installed monitor system to speed up the entry of fish into their filleting machine.

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    SAAB TransponderTech introduces GPS option with R4 AIS transponder

    2004-12-01T13:46:00Z

    Saab TransponderTech has introduced a new, type-approved GPS as an integrated part of the R4 ship AIS transponder system.

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    Trio and FTC Sweden join forces

    2004-12-01T13:46:00Z

    Trio from Norway has bought 60 per cent of the shares in FTC Sweden AB. The two companies see a major potential for synergy by combining technologies and offering new and more efficient solutions to the fish processing industry.

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    NZ boat chooses Swedish system

    2004-12-01T13:46:00Z

    Pacific Explorer is a commercial trawler owned by Forty South Ltd in Napier NZ.

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    Cuba

    2004-12-01T12:32:00Z

    Cuba has many foreign investment opportunities for fishing companies around the world

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    NZ slashes hoki by 44 per cent

    2004-11-01T09:04:00Z

    New Zealand has drastically reduced the total allowable catch (TAC) for hoki by 44 per cent from October 1, dropping it from 180,000 tonnes to 100,000, in an attempt to rebuild the deepwater hoki industry.

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    Sjóvá Almennar and Ãslandsbanki to sponsor the Icelandic Fisheries Awards

    2004-11-01T09:04:00Z

    One of Iceland''s biggest insurance companies Sjova Almennar and one of Iceland''s leading banks Islandsbanki have been confirmed as sole joint sponsors for the Icelandic Fisheries Awards 2005.

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    Flo-ice gives longer life

    2004-11-01T09:04:00Z

    Research on the advantages of flo-ice, presented at a Vigo conference has shown a number of advantages from the first comparative study with traditional ice methods.

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    Vonin completes a trawl for Holland

    2004-11-01T09:04:00Z

    The 120 metre long Dutch factory trawler Frank Bonifaas SCH 72 took onboard a new Herring -- Bluewhiting trawl this summer, after mounting a new crane on deck.

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    Let the cats guard the cream

    2004-11-01T09:04:00Z

    It is time for fishermen to be real partners in safeguarding the source

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    FT announces new services

    2004-11-01T09:04:00Z

    France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications has presented its new services developed for its free maritime software package, SkyFile.

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    French Government to help fishermen as oil price rise

    2004-11-01T09:04:00Z

    The Spanish Government has followed the French example and will be helping fishermen to face the rise in oil prices.

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    MaxSea 3D is reported to be working well

    2004-11-01T09:04:00Z

    Combined with its ability to show not only hardness, but also roughness of the bottom in relation to the contour, MaxSea has become an indispensable tool to many types of fishermen.

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    The evolution of Slurry Ice

    2004-11-01T09:04:00Z

    Sunwell Technologies Inc. of Canada has introduced Deepchillâ„¢ Variable-State Iceâ„¢: a Deepchillâ„¢ System that can deliver slurry ice in a complete range of ice-states: from very liquid ice, to a very thick paste, and even dry (liquid free) ice crystals; from salt-free slurry to salt water slurry; and from small ...

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    New bed freezer from Germany

    2004-11-01T09:04:00Z

    Heinen launched its new product, the freezelite, at the intercool show in Dusseldorf, Germany, last September. The freezelite is a small fluidized bed freezer/cooler with a large capacity. It is especially designed for freezing and cooling bulk-flow products such as shrimp, mussels and other seafood.