World Fishing News – Page 755

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    Get found with FAST FIND

    2009-06-01T21:14:00Z

    The new FAST FIND Satellite Personal Location Beacon (PLB) range was recently unveiled - the most compact, waterproof and versatile 406 MHz emergency location beacon available on the market today, says manufacturer McMurdo.

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    Seabird tracking to reducing longline bycatch

    2009-06-01T21:12:00Z

    BirdLife''s Global Seabird Programme is supporting a series of satellite tracking projects to minimise the amount of seabirds caught on longlines.

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    Longlining restrictions in the Gulf of Mexico

    2009-06-01T21:09:00Z

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has restricted longline fishing in the Gulf of Mexico to protect threatened loggerhead sea turtles.

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    WESMAR’s WM3500 Vertical Anchor Windlass

    2009-06-01T20:59:00Z

    WESMAR introduced the new WM3500 Stainless Steel Vertical Anchor Windlass earlier this year.

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    New building Wouter Adriaantje

    2009-06-01T20:50:00Z

    Maaskant Shipyards has completed a seiner for Dutch owner, v.o.f. Visserijbedrijf W. Melissant en Zonen.

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    Senegal

    2009-06-01T20:43:00Z

    Senegal wins World Bank support for fisheries development - Senegal has recently been awarded World Bank funding worth US$8.5 million to develop sustainable coastal fisheries.

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    Saving on labour is the key for onboard processing

    2009-06-01T16:33:00Z

    Whitefish species would normally be de-headed and filleted by Baader equipment before entering the Marel flowlineHowever, one sure way to attract interest was to highlight the labour saving aspects of the machine in question. Not only is labour expensive, but today young people don’t want to go to sea anyway, ...

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    Climate cash – turning past into future

    2009-06-01T16:29:00Z

    Lawyer and career fighter for the poor and dispossessed, Koos Richelle Director General EuropeAid, which helps make the EU the world's biggest aid donor. Credit: TW:EEC PhotosKoos Richelle is Director General of EuropeAid, the European Commission's (EC) body, which, along with member states and the European Development Bank, represents the ...

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    Mathematics and selective fishing

    2009-06-01T16:23:00Z

    This column is going to be a continuation of my previous one, for the voices questioning some of the management means and the very science underlying them are heard loud and clear and more and more often.

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    New fishing alliance

    2009-06-01T15:52:00Z

    Peru has seen a new alliance formed in its fishing sector, with the Austral Group taking 50% stake in Pesqueros de Pacifico, a subsidiary of Brescia Group''s TASA, Tecnologica de Alimentos.

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    Peru’s exports predicted to revive

    2009-06-01T15:47:00Z

    Peru’s fish exports will revive later this year despite an uncertain start and irrespective of the global economy, Humberto Speziani Cuevas, the president of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Committee of the Exporters Association (ADEX) has told the Andina newsagency.

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    Iceland's fisheries: Upheaval or evolution?

    2009-06-01T15:27:00Z

    The recent parliamentary elections in Iceland terminated the 18-year rule of the centre-right government and, according to Johanna Sigurdardottir, the new Prime Minister, the era of neo-liberalism dominating the country''s economy is over, reports Menakhem Ben-Yami.

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    Nordborg’s maiden voyage

    2009-06-01T11:17:00Z

    The 83.5m long combined purse seiner/pelagic freezer trawler Nordborg left the Asmar yard in Tulcuahuano, Chile in April to start its maiden voyage home to Klaksvik, Faroe Islands.

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    PIRIOU launches Franche Terre

    2009-06-01T11:13:00Z

    PIRIOU shipyards recently launched the first of the three 90m purse tuna seiners ordered by SAPMER.

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    Endeavour IV from Macduff Shipyards

    2009-06-01T11:09:00Z

    Macduff Shipyards Limited recently completed its largest fishing vessel to date for Peter Lovie from Whitehills, Scotland, MV Endeavour IV BF515.

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    US fisheries act to protect Arctic

    2009-06-01T11:05:00Z

    Audubon Alaska, the state office of the National Audubon Society (BirdLife in the US), has welcomed the decision of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) to prevent the expansion of industrial fishing into all US waters north of the Bering Strait for the foreseeable future.

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    NesNet spreads fishing gear skills

    2009-06-01T10:55:00Z

    NesNet is a new company run by Lárus Thór Pálmason, a netmaker and fishing gear technology lecturer at the Fjölbrautaskóli Sudurnesja (FS) college in Iceland.

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    Patch saves catch

    2009-06-01T10:47:00Z

    Miko patches came to the rescue earlier this year when the 60m stern trawler m/v Nybo was struck by trawler Kvannøy whilst at anchor at Vadsø in the Varanger Fjord, Norway.

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    quicKutterTM - approved by fishermen

    2009-06-01T10:42:00Z

    Four years after its invention, the quicKutter rope cutter has been approved by fishermen.

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    Simrad receives historic trawl system order

    2009-06-01T10:36:00Z

    The Simrad office in Spain has received a record order for 118 ITI systems.