Forum Fisheries Ministers announced the appointment of the incoming Director General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Dr Manumatavai Tupou-Roosen, at the conclusion of the 15th Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial meeting which was held in the Cook Islands on 3-5th July, chaired by Cook Islands Prime Minister and Minister of Marine Resources, Honourable Henry Puna.
Work on a pioneering self-sampling scheme in which Scottish mackerel and herring fishermen participate in gathering scientific data on fish stocks is gradually gathering pace.
The latest in a series of fish shops designed to carry a range of affordable seafood has opened in the Russian port of Murmansk. These outlets in fishing ports are part of an extensive initiative managed by Natural Resources Agency FGUP Natrbresurs, which operates under the Federal Agency for Fisheries.
Fishing operator Armament Jean-Baptiste Marion, based at Grandcamp Maisy in Normandy, has gone to Piriou's Lorient yard to place an order for a new 16 metre fishing vessel designed by Coprexma to alternate scalloping and trawling.
New Vinnslustöðin trawler Breki has begun fishing on redfish south of the Westmann Islands as the crew get to grips with the new vessel´s systems.
Urk fishing company Osprey Trawlers has placed an order for a pair of combination twin-rigger/seine netters with the Nodosa Shipyard at Marín in Spain.
Icelandic company Skaginn 3X has signed a contract to supply a high-tech processing facility to a company on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. It will include advanced freezing technology and automated plate freezer systems for both filleted and wholefrozen fish, as well as IQF capacity. The factory is designed so that further expansion at a later date is possible.
The owner of a small fishing vessel has been fined a total of £15,628 after being prosecuted by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency for operating an unsafe vessel and failing to comply with the small fishing vessel code of practice.
The controversy over the volume of mackerel in the North Atlantic and the reluctance of the marine science community to enter into a dialogue with figures outside the establishment has begun to spread as both the industry and the mainstream media have picked up on the issu
Russian Fishing Company (RFC) has placed orders with Johnson Controls CO2 freezing plants from Johnson Controls.
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