News - page 52
The Icelandic fleet can start its deep sea redfish season on the 10th of May and there were eight trawlers on the Reykjanes Ridge as the season opened. There were another twenty foreign vessels outside the 200-mile limit, most of them from Russia. The season has certainly got off to a slow start and according to Therney RE’s skipper Kristinn Gestsson, catches have been exceptionally poor so far...
The talks took place on May 20, 2014 in Moscow upon the initiative of the Mexican party and were devoted to the discussion of sea products export from the establishments interested in exports into the territory of the Customs Union. Mexican Ambassador to the Russian Federation Rubén Beltrán Guerrero also took part in the meeting...
Future Fish Eurasia, the 7th International Fair for Fish Imports/Exports, Processing, Aquaculture and Fisheries will be organised by Eurasia Trade Fairs at the Izmir International Fair Centre between 05 – 07 June 2014...
‘The fishing has changed over the last three days and it’s a lot slower than it has been. Hopefully it won’t last long and the fishing will pick up again soon,’ said Stefán Geir Jónsson, skipper for this trip on Lundey NS, when we spoke to him yesterday...
Guests passing HB Grandi’s stand at the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels these last few days have been treated to the usual delicacies produced from Icelandic ingredients...
HB Grandi took the opportunity on the first day of the Seafood Expo Global in Brussels to sign a contract for the purchase of a RevoPortioner low pressure forming machine from Marel Townsend Further Processing. This machine makes it possible to form blocks of fish and minced fish into the shapes and sizes that a customer requires...
As agreed with Competent Authorities of Kazakhstan and Belarus from April 23 to April 30, 2014, the Rosselkhoznadzor experts inspected Greek establishments manufacturing products of animal origin, which are interested in exportation of their products into the Customs Union member countries...
The Rosselkhoznadzor schedule of inspections envisages inspections of Irish fish processing plants and animal product producing plants interested in exports of their products to the CU member countries from May 12 to May 21, 2014...
There was plenty of traffic at HBB Grandi’s stand on the first day of the Seafood Expo Global that opened yesterday in Brussels and will continue to Thursday as usual...
Lundey NS docked in its home port of Vopnafjördur this evening after over a 24-hour steam from blue whiting fishing grounds in Faroese waters. According to skipper Arnthór Hjörleifsson, they have around 1600 tonnes on board this trip...
The annual Seafood Expo Global opens in Brussels tomorrow, the largest event of its kind anywhere in the world. The event spans the 6th to the 8th of May and as in previous years, HB Grandi has a presence there...
Monitoring activities for banned and harmful substances revealed E.coli in herrings produced at Plant No. FO 145. This fact is a violation of the CU and Russian veterinary and sanitary requirements...
Monitoring activities for banned and harmful substances revealed E.coli in chilled salmon produced at Plant No-950 (Fiskekroken AS)...
On the 1st of May, international certification was awarded for the Icelandic Golden Redfish (Sebastes marinus / Sebastes norvegicus) fishery, attesting to the fact that the Icelandic Golden Redfish fishery complies with the principles for responsible fisheries management...
Construction of HB Grandi’s new pelagic vessel at the Celiktrans yard in Turkey is progressing well. As we have reported before, the company contracted the Turkish yard, located near Istanbul, to build two new pelagic vessels and construction is scheduled to start shortly on blocks for the second vessel...
Fresher trawler Sturlaugur H Bödvarsson docked in Reykjavík at midday last Monday with good catch on board after a four-day trip. Skipper Eiríkur Jónsson said that with fishing like this, there is nothing to complain about...
Faxi RE was in Akranes last night with a full load of 1500 tonnes of blue whiting. The fish were caught over three days at the southern tip of the Faroese EEZ and skipper Albert Sveinsson said that they had been taking 150 to 400 tonnes in each tow...
Laboratory tests of products exported from Armenian plant OOO “Unifish Export” into Russia demonstrated crayfish bacterial contamination that is a non-compliance with the veterinary and sanitary requirements of the Customs Union and Russia...
Laboratory test results of the products exported from China into Russia demonstrated bacterial contamination of squid rings manufactured by plant No. 3700/02883 (Longkou Runsheng Foodstaffs Co., Ltd) that is a non-compliance with veterinary and sanitary requirements of the Customs Union and Russia. In view of the fact that the non-compliance was detected for the first time the Rosselkhoznadzor imposes enhanced laboratory monitoring of the products exported from this plant. In case of further such non-compliances the Rosselkhoznadzor will have to impose temporary restrictions on importation of the products from this plant into Russia...
Monitoring activities for banned and harmful substances revealed mesophilic aerobic and facultative anaerobic microorganisms in frozen pork produced at Plant no. 484 (Alimets Asta Inc); E.coli in frozen hake produced at Plant No. 1908 (scanner enterprises)...