Marine electronics specialist Marport has announced that Marport France SAS (Sales and Service) is moving to new and improved facilities in Lorient, adding technical support to its customers in France, central Europe and Africa.
During the Seafood Expo Global 2018 taking place from 24-26th of April in Brussels, gathering stakeholders from every corner of the globe, the European Commission will hold an event featuring the importance of food security and the social dimension of fisheries. According to industry body Europêche, with thousands of seafood professionals all together the event provides an ideal platform to get Europe’s message on the three sustainability dimensions of fisheries management across with thousands of seafood professionals all together.
Peruvian seafood company Pesquera Centinela S.A. has achieved Friend of the Sea certification for its fishmeal and fish oil from Engraulis ringens fished in the South East Pacific Ocean (FAO Area 87) only by Friend of the Sea approved purse seine fleets.
The request for authorisation was received in December, and now South Africa’s Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) has approved the acquisition of Viking Fishing fishing rights by the Sea Harvest Group for an amount reported to be in excess of 130 million Rand (€8.75 million).
Women and Fishing are two words that would not have been used together in the same sentence a few years ago in Rwanda. It has been a long-held belief in Rwanda that fishing is not for women – it’s a man’s occupation. Women have mostly embraced this thinking as well, but a few brave women from Nkombo, an island on Lake Kivu in Rwanda's Rusizi District, are determined to prove that what a man can do, a woman can do too.
Norway’s Ministry of Fisheries is examining its fisheries management regime and discussions are taking place with interest groups, with an initial meeting held last week. Further meetings are due to be held in northern, western and southern regions of Norway this summer.
A pioneering, multi-partner international scientific survey to assess the status and composition of herring stocks to the west of Scotland has found that the area to the west of Melvaig, Wester Ross, holds some importance as a winter/spring spawning ground for herring.
Dutch fishermen’s movement EMK is planning to take its protest against the growth of North Sea wind farms and European fisheries policies to Amsterdam this summer with a public march through the capital to raise awareness of the challenges facing the industry.
The Russian Fishery Company (RFC) plans to start construction of its Russian Pollock fish processing factory this year. The processing capacity of the factory will be capable of processing more 60,000 tonnes of pollock into 25,000 tonnes of high value-added products.
Brittany skipper Jean-Philippe Vaillant has taken delivery of the latest Cleopatra 50 to be built at the Trefjar yard in Iceland, and the boat has been delivered to its home port of Le Conquet in the far west of Brittany.