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Sweden’s Marine and Water Authority (HaV) is focusing on more protected areas, with a target of 10% of the marine environment under protection by 2020.
The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SaWM/HaV) has a new director-general with the appointment of Jakob Granit to the post as of the first of September.
Four Swedish municipalities and two county councils with Baltic coastlines are set to cooperate on local fisheries development.
The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SaWM) closed fishing for herring and sprat in the northern Baltic last month, but has opened the fishery for Gulf of Bothnia by allocating individual quotas for vessels of 15 metres and over, announced Marie Ingerup of the Department for Fisheries Management.
A Swedish company has won one of the prestigious European Marine Engineering Awards 2016 for its innovative marine coating that encourages barnacles not to settle, with some far-reaching implications for fuel efficiency.
Swe-Dan Seafood, with reception facilities for pelagic landings and shore-based processing, is now Sweden Pelagic.
Swedish-Danish fishing company Astrid Fishing is set for its second big investment in only a few years with a new 70 metre pelagic vessel set to join its fleet in December next year.
The Swedish small-scale pike-perch fishery has been successfully re-assessed against the MSC environmental standard, and can once again be sold to key European fresh fish markets with the blue ecolabel.
The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management decided last week to introduce new rules for trawling in the Skagerrak.
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has now sold more than 2000 of its gas fuelled engines, which together have accumulated more than 7 million operational running hours in both land-based and marine applications. These milestone achievements emphasise the leading global position that Wärtsilä has achieved in gas and dual-fuel (DF) engine technology.
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