The cost of refrigerant and regulatory compliance in the next five years will become as commercially important to vessel operations as regulations governing sulphur emissions are today, warned Robert Chesters, managing director of Oceanic Technical Solutions.
The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) released its annual sustainability overview of reduction fisheries for 2016, and for the second year in a row, Aker BioMarine was the only fishery to receive an A rating.
The European Commission has been urged to postpone a fisheries management plan for the North Sea, given the UK will no longer be bound by EU rules once the Brexit process has concluded.
The leading article in Swedish fishermen’s newspaper Yrkesfiskarna suggests that the right balance in finding a fisheries management system is when most people are a little dissatisfied.
After a very successful first event in 2015, Marel is now preparing to host the second Whitefish ShowHow, taking place in Copenhagen on November 10, 2016. The unique event caters to whitefish processors from all over the world – in wild and farmed processing.
A first order from a US company is a testament to the expertise of Le Drezen, the Brittany-based purse seine specialist.
FF Skagen, which produces around 100,000 tonnes of fishmeal and fish oil annually, is facing down the competition in the industrial fish sector with a planned DKK85 million investment in production systems, replacing six older production lines with four new ones.
New warehouses and office buildings are appearing around Skagen’s western port area where fishing companies in particular are establishing new facilities.
A world-class fisheries industrial area is to be established at Dqum in the Sultanate of Oman. This will incorporate the largest fishing harbour in the country once it is complete at the end of a two and a half year construction period.
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva stressed the role of healthy oceans as drivers of prosperity at African ministerial conference.
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