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Norway’s Ministry of Fisheries has set this year’s quota for minke whales at 880 animals, a greater number than has been caught in recent years, but still a reduction in quota.
Coldwater Prawns of Norway AS has completed a Friend of the Sea renewal audit for cold water prawns (shrimp/ Pandalus borealis). Products can continue to display the international sustainability seal of approval.
Norway’s Ministry of Fisheries has set a deadline of tomorrow, 14th of March, for applications to take part in a trial bluefin fishery this year. Norway has a 43.71 tonne bluefin quota allocated by ICCAT. The Ministry is seeking one purse seiner and one longliner to take part in trials.
Norwegian pelagic vessel Kvannøy has completed a full trip on blue whiting on fishing grounds deep west of Ireland, filling its tanks in record time and this time using Vónin fishing gear.
Fishing company West Atlantic, based in Tromsø in northern Norway, has taken delivery of a new Cleopatra 36B longliner from Trefjar in Iceland.
Following Greenpeace’s most recent set of demands for fishing in the Barents Sea to be curtailed to protect the ‘Arctic Galapagos’ and its report on the fisheries in the Svalbard region, the Marine Stewardship Council has taken pains to clarify its position, stating that the MSC certified fisheries in the Barents Sea are some of the most well managed in the world.
A call by Greenpeace for the British retailers to stop buying seafood originating from the northern Barents Sea contrasts with a report by Seafish that paints a very different picture.
Simrad has announced the arrival of its new FM90 muiltibeam trawl sonar with a near real-time refresh rate to provide a live image of the trawl gear.
Vard Holdings has signed a NOK325 million contract for a fourth new trawler for Havisk.
Vard Holdings has signed a NOK325 million contract for a fourth new trawler for Havfisk.
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