World Fishing News – Page 734
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NewsAction on fish discards
Scotland''s fishermen should be ''suitably rewarded'' for adopting conservation methods, Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead has said.
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NewsCommissioner Borg receives maritime award
Last week in Kiel, the EU Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Joe Borg, received the Elisabeth Mann Borgese award from the Government of Schleswig-Holstein for outstanding achievements for the seas. This prize is awarded every year in recognition of figures whose work has contributed to protecting and preserving the ...
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News2010 fishing opportunities for the Black Sea
The European Commission recently adopted a proposal for fishing opportunities for the Black Sea for 2010. The Commission proposes a Total Allowable Catch (TAC) of 76 tonnes for turbot, a 25% reduction compared to 2009, and a TAC of 12,750 tonnes for sprat, unchanged from 2009. These proposals are based ...
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Croatian tuna farm takes step towards sustainable tuna farming
A vital step towards closed life cycle farming of the commercially valuable Atlantic Blue Fin Tuna (NBT) was achieved in the Adriatic farming sites of Kali Tuna, a Croatian tuna farming company and the laboratories of the University of Split. Marine scientists at Split University have confirmed that gametogenesis was ...
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New report highlights economic importance of salmon farming
Scotland’s salmon farmers injected £500m into the economy in 2008. The Highlands and Islands continue to be the most significant beneficiaries. When additional downstream added-value processing is considered, the economic benefits are likely to be far greater.
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WWF welcomes UK Ministers’ support for improving Europe’s fisheries
EU Fisheries Ministers from the UK, Scotland, Germany and Denmark yesterday put their support behind new measures that will improve the management of Europe’s fish stocks and reduce the wasteful practice of discards. In a joint statement, the Ministers call for a reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy that ...
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SFF statement on CCTV as a fisheries control measure
Speaking in response to Scottish Fisheries Minister Richard Lochhead''s announcement that CCTV on fishing vessels could unlock more quota and fishing time, Scottish Fishermen’s Federation Chief Executive Bertie Armstrong said:
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Down on the (fish) farm
Glasgow-based New Zealander Sunil Kadri scooped up the O2 X Male Entrepreneur of The Year Award in London recently. Co-founder of Optoswim Technologies, Mr Kadri is a marine biologist and fish behaviour expert who explores technologies to enhance fish farming. Straddling the realms of business and academia has paid off ...
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Irish Sea Conservation Zone launches next week
The Irish Sea Conservation Zone (ISCZ) will launch on Wednesday 14 October to help secure a healthy and productive future for the coast and waters of the Irish Sea.
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Federations to deliver stark message to UK fisheries ministers
At a joint meeting of UK fisheries ministers in Edinburgh tomorrow, the UK’s two principal fishermen’s organisations will deliver the stark warning that efforts must be stepped up to head-off devastating cuts proposed by the EC.
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NewsFirst fishing trawler to be fitted with SkySails
Parlevliet & Van der Plas has signed a purchase agreement with Hamburg-based manufacturer SkySails for the world’s first towing-kite wind propulsion system to be installed on a fishing trawler.
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Supplying the entire product range
Pon Power AS is the sole distributor of Cat engines and generators in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Faeroe Islands and Greenland, and is a MaK distributor in Scandinavia.
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New Dynamica ropes
Danish company Netmark A/S supplies twisted and braided TURBO nylon netting, polyester and Dyneema® netting with single and double knots for trawls, purse seines and aquaculture.
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NewsPresenting two new radars
At Danfish this year, Navteam will present the two new radars from Japan Radio Company Ltd (JRC), JRC JMA 5200MKII and 5300MKII.
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NewsMarel at Danfish
Marel Food Systems is inviting Danfish visitors to visit its stand at the show for "interesting news for fish processors onshore and onboard".
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NewsTraceability of Danish fish
In 2009, detailed plans for a general traceability system for the Danish fishing industry will be completed. The system will enable the industry to provide electronic traceability information in a standard form for all fish auctioned.
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NewsCDs for fishing plotters free at Kingfisher stand
For over 40 years Kingfisher, a department within the UK based Sea Fish Industry Authority, has supplied fishermen with seabed information. Kingfisher now produces charts and fishing plotter files containing positions of man-made offshore obstructions connected with the UK offshore oil and gas industry and the submarine telecommunications and power ...
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Making waves in sonar technology
eSonar Inc, a company based in St. John’s Newfoundland, Canada, has been developing sonar equipment for a diverse market. eSonar was formed early in 2009 as an underwater sonar service, development and manufacturing company specialising in high technology products for international marine markets.
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NewsDTU Aqua presents results
Staff from The National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua) in Denmark will be at The DTU Aqua stand to present and discuss the results of a recently completed project on electronic monitoring.
