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The Russian Fish Union addressed to the Rosselkhoznadzor with the letter which among other things reads as follows: “To date, considering the current situation concerning safety of fish products imported to Russia and Customs Union which resulted in large-scale restrictions on fish raw material supplies from Norway, it is very difficult for fish business operators who can not be confident in stable and continuous supplies of fish products to develop and plan their business activities...
Factory trawler Therney has been fishing in Norwegian waters for three weeks and according to skipper Kristinn Gestsson, catches have been good quality cod. This trip’s quota is 9000 tonnes of cod and an additional 30% of other species can also be retained...
The finalists for this year’s Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global Seafood Prix d’Elite new products competition were announced on March 13th by event organizer Diversified Communications of Portland, Maine...
The talks will take place on March 18 and will be devoted to the consideration of vital issues related to export of Moroccan fish and sea products to Russia...
In the course of the working visit to Madrid Sergey Dankvert met Isabel García-Tejerina, General Secretary of the Spanish Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Environment and Paola Testori Coggi, General Director of the EU DG for Health and Consumers...
The talks were held via video conference and were devoted to issues related to safe export of fish, fish and seafood products from Canada to Russia. The parties expressed readiness to prepare and initial veterinary certificate for fish coming to Canadian cold storages for temporary storage in the shortest possible time...
Marine Harvest rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange today, marking the beginning of a new era for the salmon farming industry, according to MHG...
Negotiations between Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert and State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Protection of Human Rights of Germany Robert Kloos took place during another round of consulations between surveillance services of Russia and the Federal Republic of Germany on the sidelines of the international agricultural exhibition “Green Week-2014” in Berlin, according to Russian Vet Authority Rosselkhoznadzor...
Working Meeting between Sergey Dankvert and Bruce Archibald, President of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency was held on the sidelines of the International Agroindustrial Exhibition Fair “Green Week – 2014” in Berlin, according to Russian Vet Authority Rosselkhoznadzor....
AKVA group ASA has today entered into an agreement with Egersund Group AS, to acquire 100 percent of the shares in the aquaculture farming services company YesMaritime AS for a price of NOK 17.5 million, according to AKVA group ASA...
In a recent statement HAVFISK ASA has said that it will appeal what it sees as an incorrect judgement of Reykjavik District Court under the lawsuit brought by the administration committee in Glitnir bank, according to HAVFISK ASA...
A month ago HB Grandi’s shareholders’ meeting passed a motion to merge with Akranes company Laugafiskur ehf . The merger is backdated to the 1st of July when HB Grandi assumed responsibility for Laugafiskur’s financial commitments. Laugafiskur’s owners become shareholders in HB Grandi, according to same...
According to the Regulation on the uniform procedure for carrying out joint inspections of plants and sampling of goods (food products) subject to veterinary control (survey) approved by the Decision of the Customs Union Commission of 18 October 2011 No. 834 the Rosselkhoznadzor forwarded to Veterinary Service of Taiwan (China) the Final Report on the mission of Rosselkhoznadzor specialists held from 23 June to 6 July 2013 at Taiwanese (Chinese) plants producing fish products and seafood of deep sea fishing and aquaculture and seeking to export their products into the territory of the Customs Union state members. The aforementioned Report was drawn up with due account for comments of the Taiwanese Veterinary Service to the preliminary report, according to Russia’s vet authority...
The meeting was held at the initiative of the Canadian party and was devoted to the recent appointment of John Kur as the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Canada to the Russian Federation, according to Rosselkhoznadzor...
HAVFISK ASA has entered into an agreement to sell additional quotas for fishing of cod, haddock and saithe, according to HAVFISK...
Faxi RE is now on its way to Reykjavík after three days of searching for herring in Breidafjördur. According to skipper Albert Sveinsson, there was nothing to be seen and they didn’t shoot the gear once, according to yesterday’s report of HB Grandi...
Currently, there is an ongoing debate in the US on the introduction of genetically modified transgenic salmon. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received an application for approval of GM salmon for human consumption in the US. If authorization is granted, it will be the first genetically modified animal allowed sold to consumers, according to Marine Harvest...
AKVA group and its distributor Sinor AS, have secured a 23,4 MNOK contract with DunAn Longyangxia for delivery of a complete cage farm in a hydro dam reservoir near Xining, central China, according to AKVA group ASA...
Fresher trawler Helga María AK is now on the way home from Poland after an extensive refit that was carried out at the Alkor shipyard in Gdansk. The steaming time back to Iceland is expected to take around five days, so Helga María can be expected to dock in Reykjavík in the middle of the week, according to HB Grandi...
HB Grandi and its principal owners, Vogun hf., Arion Banki hf. and Fiskveiðahlutafélagið Venus hf., have reached an agreement to initiate preparations for listing the company’s shares on the Main Market of Nasdaq OMX Iceland hf, according to HB Grandi...