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Ten Icelandic pelagic boats are currently tied up in the Faroes, five in Tórshavn and another five at Tvøroyri, where their crews are waiting for the blue whiting to migrate out of EU waters and into the Faroese EEZ. Two Icelandic vessels were searching in Faroese waters and in the gray zone to the south, and they caught some blue whiting in the middle of the week...

The last few days have seen 4,000 tonnes of blue whiting landed at HB Grandi’s Akranes fishmeal plant and production is now a round-the-clock operation with two twelve-hour shifts running. The big plant is running at full capacity on blue whiting, while the smaller facility that was recently commissioned is producing bone meal...

It appears that relatively little blue whiting has migrated northwards west of the British Isles outside the UK and Irish territorial limits this year. There was good fishing in international waters west of Ireland last week, but it seems that the fishing has dropped away and the Icelandic vessels fishing there had to work hard for their catches...

Factory trawler Therney RE docked early yesterday morning in Reykjavík after a 38-day trip in Norwegian waters. The 1270 tonnes of fish that landed on the deck over 31 days of fishing produced 665 tonnes of frozen products with a value of  ISK400 million (FOB)...

The extension of the HB Grandi fishmeal factory at Vopnafjördur is making good progress and is expected to be completed shortly. The factory has a production licence for 850 tonnes of raw material per 24 hours and once the extension is complete, production capacity will be 1150 tonnes...

The Meeting took place upon the initiative of the Canadian party. The Council established in 1915 is a non-profit trade association representing more than a hundred of companies engaged in the growing, harvesting, processing, importing and marketing of fish and seafood...

The topic of the discussion was the information published in mass media about the ban on marketing and withdrawal from the circulation of canned fish produced by the Kaliningrad plants due to non-compliance of the Russian goods with the Ukrainian legislation requirements..

Knowledge of OA and work to monitor and counter it is growing in Maryland and Virginia, in part through the work of Global Ocean Health. In January, GOH advisor Todd Capson presented at the annual conference of the Maryland Watermen’s Association on the impacts of OA in the Pacific Northwest and the steps taken by shellfish growers to address it...

In January, the West Coast Governors Alliance on Ocean Health launched the West Coast Ocean Data Portal to better deal with the multiple threats to ocean and coastal health...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Every two years the fish industry puts a red ring around February in their diary: that is when their firmly established trade fair “fish international” takes place in Bremen. Alongside the well-tried mix of product presentation, discussion of current topics, and ample opportunities for building or nurturing business contacts, Germany’s only fish trade fair always has some new topics on its agenda, according to the organizers...

“ The 21st edition of the European Seafood Exposition and the 15th edition of Seafood Processing Europe are opening their doors 23-25 April 2013 at the BRUSSELS EXPO in Brussels, Belgium.

In March 2013 there were a number of important developments in EU Common fisheries policy

There were a number of important developments in CFP in February

In January there were several developments of importance in Common Fisheries Policy and Fish Hygiene