World Fishing News – Page 861
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NewsSCOTTISH FISHING INDUSTRY TO TURN TIDE ON MARINE LITTER IN NEW £200,000 FISHING FOR LITTER INITIATIVE
Fishermen in ten of Scotland''s fishing ports are set to back a new £200,000 three-year initiative, to cut the amount of marine litter around Scotland''s coastline.
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Seal hunt draws protests
The progress of Canada''s seal hunt has once again raised the complex scenario of fishermen trying to make up their income from out-of-season work and some long-term, unemployed Canadians hit by the cod stock collapse trying to make some money to help make ends meet.
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New Zealand to scan the massive deep
New Zealand has announced it will be launching Ocean Survey 20/20, an ambitious survey, over the next 15 years to build up a comprehensive picture of its oceanic resources and ecosystems, reports Paul Prince.
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New toxin structures
Research by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has uncovered the molecular basis for resistance and accumulation of paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) in soft-shell clams. A reports in Nature magazine says the new, collaborative study with grants from NOAA''s Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB) programme and ...
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Sri Lanka wants to have its own building capacity restored
Differences have arisen between aid agencies about the need to transport new and second hand fishing vessels to Sri Lanka to restore its fishing fleet following last Christmas tsunami disaster.
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International interest grows in the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2005
Great interest from the industry''s global manufacturers and suppliers has been growing in the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2005 as Iceland is one of the few remaining nations in the European zone that is not ruled under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
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USA fisheries, too many casualties?
Lack of regulations and the pressure to catch a boat''s allocated quota can lead to accidents at sea
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Pacificic tuna faces new era
The initiative is due for implementation at a time when the European Union fishing fleet, in particular French and Spanish vessels, is about to enter western and central Pacific waters, increasing the number of fishers competing to catch valuable tuna stocks.Tuna fisheries have become of increasing importance to Pacific island ...
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Bunkering on the high seas
Per Funch-Nielsen, managing director of O.W. Icebunker Ltd., explains to Peter O''Neill how his company supplies vital fuel and provision to fishing vessels in some of the toughest conditions in the world.
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Sunwell brings flexibility
Commitment to quality is the foundation of the Kenai Peninsula''s regional salmon brand Kenai Wild. In August of 2004, Cook Inlet Salmon Brand, Inc. (CISB) of Alaska, a non-profit corporation shepherding the Kenai Wild‚ branding program, signed a grant agreement for US$725,000.
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Optimar cooling business gets hot
Optimar Iceland says that business is good and this has been reflected in its latest projects. On the Engey RE a pelagic vessel owned by Icelandic fishing company HB Grandi and 105m long, they are installing 20 units of semi-automatic vertical freezers, each with 12.5 tonnes a day capacity, giving ...
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3 in 1 self-contained unit
The fishing industry in Ghana and other areas at the West Coast of Africa is centred around small villages where domestic fishermen land their daily catch. There, fish is consumed locally as it is landed with no freezing or storage facilities or any means to serve people living further away ...
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Sonavision's Tiny Titan pings deep
Sonavision is offering its latest long-range Titan scanning sonar in titanium for operation at 6,000m and a stainless steel model for use at 1000m depths. The standard tiny TITAN measures 226mm x 90mm but has a range of up to 300m and the company claims it is the only sonar ...
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Faroese twins go walkie-talkie with Scantrol
The new Faroe pair trawlers ''Polarhav'' and ''Stjörnan'' are pioneering a new era of trawling with the installation of Scantrol''s new iSYM autotrawl system iSYM, according to a statement from Scantrol.
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Fish size and survey work together with FURUNO
FURUNO says it has set a new standard for the market in echo sounders with its ''innovative multi-/split-beam sounder'' the FCV-30. The FCV-30 facilitates optimal sounding searches for fishing operations as well as maritime survey activities by utilising its unmatched multi-/split-beam sounding systems, the company says.
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Australian tuna industry & scientists clash
The Australian fishing industry has criticised their national Bureau of Rural Sciences for issuing what the industry says is outdated data on tuna stocks
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Bowman to make Polar Heat Exchangers
Following the closure of Polar Engineering EJ Bowman have bought the majority of Polar Engineering''s pattern equipment together with the manufacturing rights.
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Volvo engine installed on new Turkish vessel
Volvo Penta has provided the Denizer with its most powerful diesel engine --a Volvo Penta D65A MT which has a strong performance already at low rpms and is well suited for a fishing boat weighing more than 240 tons.
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Spanish fuel crisis deepens
As we went to print, there was no solution in sight for the fuel crisis which has hit fishermen in Spain.
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SA boat gets new engines
A 16-metre squid-fishing boat operating out of Port St Francis, near Jeffrey''s Bay in South Africa''s Eastern Cape, has been repowered with a pair of Perkins Sabre M215C engines in a bid to achieve greater all-round
