World Fishing News – Page 878
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Fiskekroken Deepchills
Fiskekroken AS of Norway has installed a Sunwell Variable-State Ice system for its salmon-packing plant, part of Safish AS. The bulk of the company is now owned by Salten Aqua Invest, a consortium of five local fish-farming companies.
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Vigo floats ice meet in February
Vigo, Spain, will be hosting a technical conference on flow ice and its applications in the fishing sector on February, 5. The focus of the technical discussions will be on the advantages offered by this new product. They include: quick cooling capacity, wide surface contact, no damage to the product, ...
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YORK Marine takes permafrost office to sunny Vigo
Ice-maker machine company YORK Marine has opened a permanent office in Vigo (Spain).
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American tuna fishers offer own bodies to challenge mercury
US albacore tuna fishermen have asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test them and their wives and children for side effects from methylmercury. The move is seen as a strategic challenge against scientific reports on the dangers of eating tuna, which threaten the tuna consumer market. The 400-strong ...
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Making it cheaper with DATANET
French company ACELMA has launched DATANET, a low-cost and simpler version of its wireless geometry and trawl-positioning system GEONET. The new software provides spread-door data and can be uprated by adding functions such as distance, water temperature and depth.
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MARELEC's push and pull warp speed
ARELEC says it has developed a unique, twin-rig control using precision warp-pull meters for additional control of the fishing gear.
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Easy-to-use VHF with mobile phone features
UK-based McMurdo Pains-Wessex has now received full UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency approval for its F1 VHF radio with Class D Digital Selective Calling (DSC).
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GRAB YOUR GRIB IN STITCH UP WITH JENIFER
WeatherNet is fast becoming a preferred site according to US-based Ocean and Coastal Environmental Sensing (OCENS) and they have now added new features for 2004.
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Merlin's impossibly magic batteries
The domestic battery bank must be the most important feature for life on board.
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O'Higgins for Norway from Chile
Norwegian director general of fisheries Peter Gullestad and director Odd Berg have been appointed Comendador and Caballero, respectively, of the Chilean "Order of Bernardo O''Higgins".
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Alaska
The row between scientists, over risks from toxins in fishmeal for farmed fish, sparked by Science magazine, may boost prospects for Alaska''s wild salmon. Pilar Santamaria reports. - Last month''s report in the magazine Science, of studies on the health risks of consuming farmed salmon, is expected to hit the ...
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Industrial fleet want to catch within the EEZ's
The Chilean industrial fishing fleet has lodged a new claim against indiscriminate deep-sea fishing. This time around, they made their request directly to the Cabinet, to forbid port landings in Chile by foreign deep-sea vessels that do not comply with the conservation regime in force for the country''s jack mackerel ...
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NewsCapsat gets Lloyd's approval
Thrane & Thrane have announced that the company''s mini-C solution for Ship Security Alert System (SSAS), the Capsat® Ship Security Alert (TT-3000SSA), as the first Inmarsat-C based solution, has been approved by Lloyd''s Register EMEA as well as Inmarsat. Consequently, Thrane & Thrane''s mini-C solution satisfies the new requirements from ...
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NewsSM-2 safety lights get upgrade
Considered by many to be the best lights in the business, the rugged and reliable SM-2 automatically activated strobing man-overboard light and the hand activated 566, are now even better, according to ACR Electronics.
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For the sake of the environment
Spanish based company Nature Pack has launched the first plastic container on the market aimed at users selling one and two kilograms of frozen seafood.
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NewsNew advanced-ergonomic HF charges
Hawker Traction has launched the latest generation of its smart mult-function high-frequency (HF) charges for industrial truck batteries.
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NewsPallet transporter ideal for fish factories
Atlet has developed Piccolo, the compact powered pedestrian pallet transporter , which is ideal for use where space is tight and where short cycles are required, including loading bays and small warehouses and retail outlets.
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Macduff keeps on building as Excel is launched
The latest vessel to be launched from the Macduff Shipyard is the Excel, which has been built for the Watt family based in Fraserburgh, Scotland.
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New Scantrol model in 2004
After two years of intense research, the new model replacing Scantrol''s 2000 autotrawl system is ready to be introduced on the first vessels in January 2004. Scantrol''s new model is more intelligent adding several new functions to increase the catching efficiency of the trawl without compromising the ''userfriendliness'' that has ...
