Fish industry news

HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc., a leading producer of functional, sustainable Tilapia biomass, including fish and personal healthcare products, today announced Lillian's Healthy Gourmet meals are now available in 33 Whole Foods Market and 106 Food City locations as part of the Company's retail supermarket chain rollout plan in North America, reports www.megafishnet.com

SeaPak Company has launched a delicious novelty - Popcorn Fish, reports www.megafishnet.com

AgriMarine Holdings Inc., a leader in floating closed containment technology and production for sustainable aquaculture, reports on recent activity at its fresh water closed containment fish rearing facility in Benxi, China, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

Research is essential to the sustainable use of European marine waters. Over 300 researchers and policy makers are meeting at the conference 'EurOCEAN 2010: Grand challenges for marine research in the next decade' in Ostend today and tomorrow to outline the research and policy needs for the next decade. They will present a state-of-the-art overview of the issue and shed light on what Europe still needs for its "blue future". European Commissioners Maria Damanaki (Maritime Affairs and Fisheries) and Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (Research, Innovation and Science) will participate at the conference and present the EU's approach to marine research as a trigger for smart growth and jobs, reports www.megafishnet.com

Aker Seafoods Holding AS owns 606,557,677 shares in Aker BioMarine ASA, which amounts to 83.31% of all outstanding shares in the company. Aker ASA controls 100% of Aker Seafoods Holding AS, reports www.megafishnet.com

Securing fish supplies, sustainable management of marine resources, enhancing free trade and the effects of climate change on oceans will be addressed by APEC Ministers meeting here next week, reports www.megafishnet.com

Governor Togiola Tulafono, together with the CEO of Tri Marine, Renato Curto, and the CEO of Chicken of the Sea, Shue Wing Chan, signed off on several agreements on 5 of October, 2010 that will pave the way towards the reopening of the fish cannery plant once operated by Chicken of The Sea (COSI) in American Samoa as a Tri Marine operated plant, reports www.megafishnet.com

Eythor Bjornsson has been appointed director of the Directorate of Fisheries which manages fishing by Icelandic vessels on behalf of the Ministry of Fisheries, reports www.megafishnet.com

Recently BioMar identified enzymes present in salmon blood that can be used as biomarkers of the severity of skeletal muscle damage caused by PD. These enzymes leak into the blood system when tissues are damaged and are routinely analysed for in human and veterinary medicine to indicate specific organ / tissue malfunction, reports www.megafishnet.com

In the coming years, the regulation of the Norwegian salmon farming industry will gradually be adapted to the need to secure a sustainable development of the industry, reports www.megafishnet.com

AKVA group has signed a contract with National Prawn Company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for delivery of a pre-grow-out system for production of Yellowtail Kingfish, reports www.megafishnet.com

Friend of the Sea announces the certification of Seatec's giant squid (Dosidicus gigas). Seatec is a premium supplier of calamari products under the BelOcean brand based in Chile, reports www.megafishnet.com

New bans being considered to close thousands of square kilometers of sea to set-net fishing would wreck Kiwi businesses for no good reason and would be unlikely to save a single dolphin, says New Zealand Seafood Industry Council chief executive Peter Bodeker, reports www.megafishnet.com

Significant increase in the catches of Norwegian spring herring but the mackerel fisheries somewhat reduces due to bad weather. Some horsemackerel is caught and 300 tonnes of ocean sprat, reports www.megafishnet.com

Approved by the government, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Kien Giang province has just officially implemented trial project on expanding and strengthening the capacity of exploiting, processing and exporting swell-fish, reports www.megafishnet.com

The Norwegian fisheries industry is good at adopting new technology but has much to gain when it comes to creating new products, says Nofima Scientist Audun Iversen, reports www.megafishnet.com

An Independent Adjudicator has instructed the third-party certifier Moody Marine Ltd to amend the Final Report of the Ross Sea toothfish assessment to take into account his decision to uphold four of the objections lodged by the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) against the certification. The decision follows a 12 month scientific assessment of the fishery by Moody Marine, and a ten month review of the objection, reports www.megafishnet.com

The folks at the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation have turned their attention to tuna transshipment "ISSF Urges IATTC To Fix
Transshipment Loophole.", reports www.megafishnet.com

Following-up on the international consensus that was achieved in the 1990s on the need for ecosystem-based fisheries management, fisheries scientists from around the world will meet next month at the Ecosystems 2010: Global Progress on Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management symposium to evaluate whether EBFM is being successfully implemented, reports www.megafishnet.com

Just in time for National Seafood Month, the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) has launched its new consumer website, www.wildalaskaflavor.com . The site gives seafood lovers a behind-the-scenes peek into the lives of the men and women who harvest wild Alaska seafood, reports www.megafishnet.com