World Fishing News – Page 413
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News‘Thunder’ sinking could have been deliberate
Last week, Interpol-wanted vessel ‘Thunder’ was scuttled in the waters of Sao Tome and Principe off the West African coast, following 110 days of pursuit by the Sea Shepherd vessel ‘Bob Barker’.
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NewsDanish organic mussel production boom
There has been a boom in production of organic line mussels in Denmark, says Alfred Jokumsen, from the Danish research institute, DTU Aqua, at the Technical University of Denmark.
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Friend of the Sea leads the way to Omega-3
Friend of the Sea (FoS) is now the leading international standard for producers of fish oil, fishmeal, fish feed and Omega-3 supplements.
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Fishing causes forage fish stocks to drop
Fishing could be causing a collapse in species of forage fish including herring, anchovies and sardines, according to a new study published in the ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’.
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Virginia aquaculture reaches all-time high
Virginia shellfish farmers sold $55.9 million in oysters and clams in 2014, an increase of 14% total revenue for clam growers and 39% for oyster growers, according to an annual survey of shellfish aquaculture in the state.
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NZ mussel processing facility facing closure
New Zealand’s Sanford Ltd is looking to close its Christchurch mussel processing facility in response to a reduction in crop supply.
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Research to advance shellfish hatchery design
Vancouver Island University (VIU) is to receive $667,000 in government funding towards a project to undertake a comparative analysis of new technologies in shellfish farming.
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NewsChange of dates for Offshore Mariculture Conference
The dates of the 6th Offshore Mariculture Conference have been changed to 21-24 September 2015 – immediately before the annual three day Baja Seafood Expo which begins on 25 September.
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NEW CONFERENCE DATES!
The 6th Offshore Mariculture Conference has moved dates to 21–24 September 2015. The conference, being held in conjunction with Inapesca* and Sepesca*, and now with a side session by the FAO, will take place at the Marina Coral Hotel in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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Funding announced for tribal clean diesel projects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced over $925,000 in grant funds for tribes in Washington to remove older marine diesel engines that emit harmful air pollutants and replace them with newer engines for more efficient marine vessels.
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MSC certification for ‘Seafood Bowls’
US-based Artisan Bistro, creator of modern organic frozen entrées, burritos, bowls and breakfasts, has earned Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) ecolabel for its new line of Seafood Bowls, making it the first entrée frozen food line in North America to achieve the certification.
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Technologies for sustainable fishing
This more selective method of trawl-net fishing will make it possible for fishermen to both maximise their intended catch and minimise their harvesting of non-target species bycatch. SmartCatch’s first product, CatchCam, is a patent pending state-of-the-art video catch-monitoring and data-acquisition system that mounts inside of a trawl-net, allowing ...
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Slavery in fisheries: No longer ignored
Menakhem Ben-Yami looks at the latest report into slavery in the Thai fishing industry and what is being done to bring an end to it.
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Direct Seafoods joins Ethical Trading initiative
Bidvest Fresh, which trades as Direct Seafoods, has become the first supplier of seafood to the catering trade in the UK to join the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI).
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Fukushima traces found along BC shoreline
Small amounts of radioactivity from the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident have been found on the shoreline in British Columbia, but scientists say it’s “well below internationally established levels of concern to humans and marine life”.
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NewsVietnamese pangasius producers turning to tilapia
Pangasius is no longer the dominant force in the Vietnamese fish export trade. This is due to adverse publicity in European countries which has resulted in poor sales, and a lack of investment capital in Vietnam which has seen independent farmers forced out of business.
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NewsSri Lanka to install VMS
Sri Lanka is installing transponders for vessel monitoring systems (VMS) in its deep-sea fishing fleet, as it seeks to lift a European Union ban on fish exports which has been in place since January, reports Chandani Jayatilleke.
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NewsPSH has huge potential
After two years of testing of New Zealand’s new Precision Seafood Harvesting (PSH) method, scientists say they can already see that survival rates for fish are better than expected.
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Grants for Maryland aquaculture projects
Four projects that focus on aquaculture in Maryland have been approved by the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program, in which 15 collaborative technology product development projects team Maryland companies with university researchers.
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Funding to turn data into knowledge
International certification solutions company, Q-Validus, has secured €370,000 in funding as part of a €3.1 million AquaSmart project being funded through the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme.
