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RETAIL giant Les Mousquetaires announced earlier today that its fishing fleet, Scapêche, will progressively phase out fishing for deep-sea species, as well as the sale of deep-sea fish in its supermarkets by 2025 ...
Thai Union Group Public Company Limited (TU), the world's largest shelf-stable tuna processor and owner of a portfolio of leading global seafood brands, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a joint venture agreement to acquire a 40% equity stake of Avanti Feeds Limited’s wholly owned shrimp processing unit Avanti Frozen Foods Private Limited India ...
CARREFOUR Italy and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) have committed to work together to provide Italian consumers with MSC-certified products ...
For the year 2015 the total value of Icelandic catch increased by 11% when compared in 2014, from 136 billion ISK to 151 billion. This was mostly due to 8 billion ISK increase in value of cod catch and 9 billion increase in catch value of capelin.
HB Grandi hf. has decided not to participate in the annual Seafood Expo Global in Brussels this year, which will be held on April 26.-28 and is one of the largest of its kind globally. A group of 27 employees was scheduled to attend the event ...
CONAPESCA Director: Aquaculture must be recognized, or its development will be slowed
UMaine researcher digging into Piscirickettsia salmonis to present at June conference
Innovations lead to new approaches, possibilities for salmon farmers ...
Sydney based GPM Fisheries Pty Ltd, operator of the ‘Santo Rocco Di Bagnara’ has been convicted and fined $8600 for falsifying catch records about their catch of southern bluefin tuna ...
Two Vietnamese vessels have been apprehended over the weekend in waters off North Queensland for suspected illegal fishing in Australian waters ...
In the course of the working meeting held on March 24 in Moscow the parties discussed the prospects of trade and economic cooperation development between Russia and Malaysia. In particular the Malaysian party expressed its interest in export of fish and sea products to Russia ...
Due to news reports on detection of high ochratoxin level-containing wheat imported from Russia by the Lebanese Ministry of Health we deem it appropriate to inform that no notifications from the Lebanese side were received by the Rosselkhoznadzor ...
The representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Agriculture as well as Rosselkhzonadzor specialists also took part in the talks ...
On March 15, during the official visit of Mohammed VI of Morocco to Russia, Sergey Dankvert, Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, and Aziz Akhannouch, Minister of Agriculture and Marine Fishery, signed the following Interagency Memorandums of Understanding ...
Within the framework of the 65th meeting of the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in Geneva negotiations with the representatives of Competent Authorities and missions of India, Vietnam and USA were held ....
We are pleased to advise that we have published our Sortable E-Guide of Russian Company Offshore Quotas 2005-2016.
According to the allocations made by the Directorate of Fisheries for the 2015/16 quota year, HB Grandi’s vessels have a total of 38,661 cod-equivalent tonnes. This is a lower figure than for the previous year when the company had 40,125 cod-equivalent tonnes and its quota share was 10.67%.
~~‘It’s very quiet. A lot of boats went up north to search for mackerel and although there’s quite a fleet here, there doesn’t appear to be much fishing. We got here today and took one short haul for a hundred tonnes of mackerel,’ said Gudlaugur Jónsson, skipper of Venus.
The quota year ends on the last day of August, and a new quota year is due to start next week. Skippers are now racing to catch what they have left of their 2014-15 quotas and for the trawler fleet that means saithe. Ævar Jóhannesson, skipper of freezer trawler Höfrungur III AK, and his crew have been busy on Westfjords grounds searching for saithe during their current trip...
‘The mackerel have been elusive this trip. The fish seem to have spread out and there have been pelagic boats searching for them all over. Right now we in a position about sixty nautical miles off the coast, just where another boat did well on mackerel last night. But shot away in this morning and it was only after midday that we started to see something in the trawl,’ said Lundey’s skipper Albert Sveinsson just as he was about to haul the last tow of the trip deep off the south-east coast...