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Polar Fishing Gear of Iceland and SINERGIA SRL of Mar del Plata, Argentina will now offer the complete line of Notus Electronics Ltd.’s (Notus) net monitoring products through its extensive global dealer network. Both partnerships for Notus are considered significant moves.
The year 2013 has been quite an eventful year for the fisheries sector and the ocean cluster in Iceland and a number of trends have started to emerge. For the 2014 predicted the following 10 trends in the Iceland ocean cluster:
Marel, the leading global provider of advanced food processing equipment, has sold over one thousand Innova systems.
Today, 10 Icelandic ocean technology firms introduce Green Marine Technology – a joint marketing initiative where the companies emphasize eco-friendly solutions for fisheries and fish processing.
HB Grandi pelagic vessel Lundey NS suffered minor damage after grounding while fishing for herring off Hofsstadavogur in Breidafjördur on Sunday morning.
A workshop titled “New technology for the Nordic fishing fleet: Fishing gear and effective catch handling” will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, on October 1st & 2nd 2013.
Mackerel production at HB Grandi’s Vopnafjördur factory as been running at full speed recently. The factory normally employs a staff of 120 to 150 people, and sometimes even more when things are really busy.
There have been some changes made to the organisational structure of HB Grandi. Their object is to shorten communication channels between the fishing and processing facets of the company and to further clarify policies as regards certain important aspects in the operation of the company.
As of today, consumers in Iceland will be able to buy fish products bearing the MSC label.
Iceland is currently experiencing an environmental disaster affecting herring in the domestic fjords, has lost about 50,000 tonnes of herring in a short time.
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