Fish industry news

Companies within the Best Aquaculture Practices certification program can share with their customers, business partners and consumers that participation in BAP provides assurances that seafood is produced with food safety as the top priority, reports www.megafishnet.com

As per 17 November 2010 the trade in freshfrozen seafood in Moscow has been marked by a whole range of important events, analysts of http://www.megafishnet.com/ (https://www.fishnet.ru/ )

Wild fish organisations have accused the EU and the Scottish Government of blunder in light of their failure to apply consistent policy on salmon conservation. This follows the announcement last week of a £100,000 EU grant to Scotland's biggest salmon netting concern in order to make it more efficient at catching fish. Usan Fisheries, based south of Montrose, is a mixed-stock coastal salmon fishery, indiscriminately exploiting fish destined for numerous rivers on Scotland's east coast including three Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) for salmon, reports www.megafishnet.com

Sanford Limited announced that the agreement with Pacifica Seafoods to acquire its Greenshell mussel and Pacific Oyster businesses for USD85 million, as announced 15 November 2010, is now unconditional, reports www.megafishnet.com

The summit, held in the capital of Azerbaijan, was attended by the heads of five littoral states: President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, and President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reports www.megafishnet.com

Greenpeace, Oceana, the Pew Environment Group and WWF call upon member governments of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) to immediately protect the severely depleted Atlantic bluefin tuna. Over 30 years of mismanagement and illegal fishing, along with negligent reporting, fraud, and a disregard for science has resulted in an estimated decline in Atlantic bluefin tuna populations of up to 85 percent since 1970, reports www.megafishnet.com

The Ross Sea Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) longline fishery has been awarded Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification following a rigorous, independent assessment against the MSC standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries. Products from this fishery may now bear the MSC ecolabel, identifying their origin from a sustainable source. Only products that originate from the certified fishery are eligible to bear the MSC ecolabel, reports www.megafishnet.com

China Fishery Group Limited, a global leading industrial fishing company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a USD425 million Club Loan Facility Agreement on 17 November 2010, reports www.megafishnet.com

New rules designed to remove barriers to aquaculture development are likely to open the way for fin fish farming in Tasman Bay and areas of coastal Waikato, Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Phil Heatley said in Nelson yesterday, reports www.megafishnet.com

The fall's best week for the Atlanto-Scandic herring fisheries and a foreign vessel landed 1 800 tonnes of ocean sprat. Some North Sea herring and coastal sprat were also landed but, as with other species, in limited quantities, reports www.megafishnet.com

The pelagic consumption industry - in other words companies which freeze or process herring, mackerel and capelin for consumption - had its best year ever in 2009. It was also a good year for the clipfish industry, reports www.megafishnet.com

New to the Marel range, the AEW Delford WPL9040 Weigh Price Labeller is the perfect choice for smaller processors or for larger producers requiring lower volumes on a particular line, reports www.megafishnet.com

Reference is made to the stock exchange notice of 3 September 2010 regarding Lindsay Goldberg's acquisition of 50 % of the shares in a newly established joint venture company, Trygg Pharma Holding AS, from Aker BioMarine ASA, the stock exchange notice of 3 September 2010 regarding the purchase by Trygg Pharma AS (a wholly owned subsidiary of Trygg Pharma Holding AS) of 100% of the shares in Epax Holding AS from Austevoll Seafood ASA, and the prospectus dated 29 September 2010 prepared in connection with the rights issue completed in Aker BioMarine ASA, reports www.megafishnet.com

The University of Maine will build a high-level containment facility for cold-water aquaculture research near the Page Farm and Home Museum, reports www.megafishnet.com

A new half-hour film about the development of BC's salmon farming industry, its accomplishments and future plans is now online for public viewing, reports www.megafishnet.com

High Liner Foods Incorporated a leading North American value-added frozen seafood company, announced that it has entered into a new 3-year USD120M asset-backed credit facility similar to the Company's existing line of credit set to expire on January 20, 2011, reports www.megafishnet.com

At 12:45pm on 9 November, 2010 at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Australia's largest salmon producer Tassal set the Guinness World Record for the World's Largest Salmon Terrine, which weighed almost 400kg and measured 19.25 metres in length, reports www.megafishnet.com

Staff at HB Grandi's Akranes factory are waiting for this season's pearlside fishery to now that two of the company vessels are searching for fish from the Skerja Deeps to grounds east of the Westmann Islands. Staff have been preparing the factory, which has not processed any fish since July, reports www.megafishnet.com

Those studies used overly simple datasets to produce an index known as mean trophic level (MTL). Detecting and tracking changes in marine biodiversity requires a more sophisticated approach to measurement and we welcome this new analysis. It may well lay the basis for better and more sustainable management of fisheries and their ecosystems, reports www.megafishnet.com

Walmart Canada announced the opening of its first sustainable fresh food distribution centre, a state-of-the-art facility that will be an estimated 60% more energy-efficient than the company's traditional refrigerated centres and that will help the company avoid approximately USD4.8 million in energy costs over five years. One of North America's most energy-efficient distribution centres, the Balzac facility is a living lab of sustainability and includes the company's first pilots of hydrogen fuel cells, solar thermal and wind power, as well as many other sustainability features and products, reports www.megafishnet.com