Fish industry news

Minister of State (with responsibility for fisheries) Sean Connick TD published the report of the National Implementation Group established in December 2008 to oversee the implementation of the Strategy for Improved Pest Control on Irish Salmon Farms, published in May 2008, reports www.megafishnet.com

In the period from 15 to 22 December 2010 dynamics of Russian catches in the Far East Fisheries Basin has been positive for most of the commercial species, reports www.megafishnet.com (www.fishnet.ru).

Billfish and tuna, important commercial and recreational fish species, may be more vulnerable to fishing pressure because of shrinking habitat according to a new study published by scientists from NOAA, The Billfish Foundation, and University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, reports www.megafishnet.com

London - Independent Adjudicator, Melanie Carter, has remanded an objection on the Faroese Pelagic Organisation North-East Atlantic Mackerel Fishery to the certifier, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), reports www.megafishnet.com

Morpol ASA announces the signing of a EUR 250 million 5-year debt facility, which will be used to consolidate and refinance existing loans and increase operational and strategic flexibility going forward, reports www.megafishnet.com

Vilhelm Þorsteinsson EA 11 arrived on 21 December 2010 from it´s last fishing trip this year, fully loaded of frozen Herring products, reports www.megafishnet.com

After months of work and anticipation, the federal government officially took regulatory control of the Pacific aquaculture industry this week - marking a big step in an important process, reports www.megafishnet.com

Supply issues have dominated news about the farmed salmon market for years... The bottom line is, there is still not enough salmon to go around, reports www.megafishnet.com

Statistics Iceland has released a new issue of Statistical Series in the topical category of fisheries. This issue presents Fishing by foreign countries in Icelandic waters 2009 and the world catch 2008, reports www.megafishnet.com

In the last month of the year the situation with export of fish from Murmansk-led North Fisheries has been shaping in the context of diminishing fishing quotas, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/ (https://www.fishnet.ru/) with reference to fishery sources in Murmansk.

DKSH partners with Bakker Vis in the Netherlands supplying Friend of the Sea certified pangasius filets, reports www.megafishnet.com

AgriMarine Holdings Inc., a leader in floating closed containment technology and production for sustainable aquaculture, is pleased to announce that the third tank at its fish rearing facility in Benxi, China has been stocked with the first wave of Pacific Chinook salmon fingerlings. This marks the first time that this type of Pacific salmon will be grown in closed containment within Chinese borders, reports www.megafishnet.com

Aker Seafoods has sold all its shares of the Spanish harvesting company Pesquera Ancora to UK Fisheries Limited, reports www.megafishnet.com

In the Ministry´s Press Release of 30 November 2010, it was announced that Mr. Jon Bjarnason, Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture, had decided that Iceland would have an unchanged share in mackerel fisheries in 2011, taking into account the increase in the total allowable catch recommended by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), reports www.megafishnet.com

Nofima is a partner in a new Centre for Research-based Innovation to promote value creation through more responsible and selective fishing, reports www.megafishnet.com

In Quebec, the great majority of scallops are harvested along the coast of the St. Lawrence, across from Havre-Saint-Pierre and south of the Magdalen Islands. Living at the bottom of the ocean in groups, which are referred to as scallop beds, these molluscs are found on rock, gravel or shell substrates. Their movements are quite limited. Fishers know the locations of these scallop beds quite well, returning to them every year when the season opens, reports http://www.megafishnet.com

China Fishery Group (CFG) announced its intention to undertake a global offering of new ordinary shares and seek a dual primary listing of all the ordinary shares of CFG on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), reports www.megafishnet.com

Some ten days before the end of the year 2010 mixed price trends for main fish species can be observed on the Russian Far East market, while pollock has become the main newsmaker, reports www.megafishnet.com (www.fishnet.ru) with reference to own professional sources in the Russian Far East.

Official import reports for key seafood articles from the Russian Far East grounds to main directions, except for European, have highlighted comparably high activity of shipments of frozen salmon to Japan versus low activity of its shipments to China. Shipments of frozen snow crab to the USA and frozen king crab to Japan have been developing fairly quickly, however while in case with the USA it has been in keeping with the general year trend, in case with Japan it has happened against the background of a strong decrease of annual shipments, according to the overview prepared by analysts of http://www.megafishnet.com/ based on Japanese, Russian and American sources.

Russia-based FishNet ltd, known for its leading seafood portal https://www.fishnet.ru/ (http://www.megafishnet.com/ in English), is making a further investment of cost and effort to add more value to its Russian Fish Report published for paid circulation abroad since 1996, according to the company.