World Fishing News – Page 203
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NewsSustainability more important than price
For the first time, sustainable sourcing has become a more important factor than price for Europeans shopping for fish and seafood, according to a study conducted by Deloitte and released by the Spanish tuna fleet acting under the Europêche banner.
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NewsCflow appoints new MD
Cflow has appointed Stig Bjørkedal as its new managing director to focus on further industrialisation of the company.
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NewsBioMar achieves FIFO ratio of 1:1
High use of trimmings and the use of novel ingredients has enabled BioMar Group to achieve a five-year average of 1:1 or below Forage Fish Dependency Ratio for its raw material usage.
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NewsSecond Sperre ROV for Nordlaks
Nordlaks has purchased a SUB-Fighter 15K remotely operated vehicle (ROV) from Sperre for securing mooring systems in addition to being available for operations on the Havfarm project.
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NewsNew aquaculture insurance team
Insurance broker Gallagher has launched a new aquaculture team, which has joined the business from Willis Towers Watson.
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NewsSNG gears up for tuna season
Increasing the volume of mesh in the side wing panels of its trawls has paid off for Swan Net Gundry’s customers, and the response to these trawl designs for herring, mackerel and horse mackerel fisheries has been highly positive.
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News2020 fishmeal and oil production prediction
IFFO’s market research director Enrico Bachis predicts that global marine ingredients supply should be just short of 5 million tonnes of fishmeal and around 1 million tonnes of fish oil.
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NewsVónin hardware for high-energy sites
With high-energy aquaculture sites to oversee in Scotland’s Western Isles, Mowi Regional Seawater Manager Kris Laird wanted to see for himself how Faroese Fish Farmers operate in highly exposed environments that regularly withstand exceptional hostile conditions.
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NewsGlobal growth rate of aquaculture declines
The global annual growth rate of aquaculture has greatly declined over the last years and a new report outlines the reasons why.
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NewsUK firm wants more NE Atlantic quota
The UK trawler operator holding the country’s remaining whitefish quotas in Nordic waters has called on the UK government to negotiate more access to these waters now that the UK is an independent coastal state following its exit from the EU and CFP, reports Tim Oliver.
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NewsSkipsteknisk secures new design contract
Faroese fishing company Havborg has placed a design contract with Norwegian naval architect Skipsteknisk for a new factory trawler to be built at Tersan. The designer and yard have a strong relationship and have together delivered many new sophisticated factory vessels.
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NewsManagement key to sustainability, says FAO
The latest report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on fishing shows that the majority of landings come from biologically sustainable stocks and credits robust fisheries management for the successes.
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NewsFisheries Fund donates masks to DEFF
A donation of masks has been given to the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries’ (DEFF) Small-Scale Fisheries Directorate by the South African Fisheries Development Fund to protect small-scale and interim relief fishers in the Western and Northern Cape from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Síldarvinnslan fjárfestir í vigtunarbúnaði
Búnaðurinn er framleiddur af Marel og danska fyrirtækinu Hillerslev, en hann viktar aflann um leið og hann kemur í land og er sambærilegur búnaði sem notaður er í Noregi, Danmörku og á Færeyjum.„Með tilkomu þessa nýja vigtunarbúnaður verður fiskiðjuverið eina uppsjávarvinnslan á landinu sem vigtar allan afla áður en ...
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Síldarvinnslan invests in weighing technology
The system, delivered by Marel with Danish company Hillerslev, weighs fish as it comes ashore and the methodology is similar to systems already in use in Norway, Denmark and the Faroe Islands."This weighing system will make this the only pelagic processing plant in the country that weighs entire landings ...
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Icefish: Innan fjölskyldunnar
Þótt Polar sé með úrval af hefðbundnum toghlerum fyrir fiskiskip af öllum stærðum þá hefur fyrirtækið aldrei hikað við að verja tíma og fjármunum í rannsóknir og þróun. Fjarstýrði toghlerinn þeirra, Poseidon, hefur þegar reynst hafa mikla möguleika til bæði uppsjávar- og botnsjávarveiða.Poseidon hlaut nýsköpunarverðlaun Íslensku sjávarútvegssýningarinnar fyrir nokkrum ...
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IceFish: a family affair
While Polar Fishing Gear has its range of standard trawl doors for fishing vessels of all sizes, it has never been shy of putting time and resources into research and development, and its Poseidon controllable trawl doors have already been shown to have significant potential for both pelagic and ...
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Uppfærðar kórónaveiru-upplýsingar Íslensku sjávarútvegssýningarinnar
Í ljósi þessarar óvissu sem stafar af COVID-19 vinnur Mercator Media Limited áfram að því að undirbúa Íslensku sjávarútvegssýninguna (Icefish) sem haldin verður dagana 23.-25. september og fær ráðgjöf um til hvaða ráðstafana þarf að grípa til þess að halda þennan viðburð með öruggum hætti sem skilar árangri. Við ...
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Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition Coronavirus Update
In light of this ongoing uncertainty being caused by COVID-19, Mercator Media Limited continues its work to stage the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition (Icefish) taking place 23-25 September and is obtaining advice on the measures needed to safely and successfully holding the event. We know flights to Iceland recommence on ...
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NewsCMFRI helps empower Tamil Nadu fishers
A government project in India is helping communities in Tamil Nadu empower themselves through seaweed and marine ornamental fish farming.
