Fish industry news
The topic of the discussion was the information published in mass media about the ban on marketing and withdrawal from the circulation of canned fish produced by the Kaliningrad plants due to non-compliance of the Russian goods with the Ukrainian legislation requirements..
The meeting is to be held in Moscow tomorrow, April 2...
Knowledge of OA and work to monitor and counter it is growing in Maryland and Virginia, in part through the work of Global Ocean Health. In January, GOH advisor Todd Capson presented at the annual conference of the Maryland Watermen’s Association on the impacts of OA in the Pacific Northwest and the steps taken by shellfish growers to address it...
Olympia oysters were abundant in San Francisco Bay until their population collapsed in the late 1800s due to overfishing...
In January, the West Coast Governors Alliance on Ocean Health launched the West Coast Ocean Data Portal to better deal with the multiple threats to ocean and coastal health...
In September 2013, Jeremy Mathis of NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory installed high-resolution carbonate chemistry monitoring equipment at the Alutiiq Pride hatchery in Seward, Alaska. The hatchery, operating since 1994, produces stocks of numerous organisms, including blue and red king crab, sea cucumbers, razor clams, oysters, and geoducks...
Located near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Island Scallops is Canada's largest private marine research hatchery and first fully integrated shellfish producer. The company has pioneered scallop culture in BC since 1989 and has developed a premium hybrid "Pacific Scallop" for farming in local waters. But it is now facing a growing threat to its very existence, and OA may be at the heart of the problem...
We’re getting there. It’s not east to figure out how much blue whiting there is here. The fishing is patchy, nothing fantastic, and it needs patience,’ said Róbert Axelsson, skipper of Ingunn AK for the current trip...
The Russian Fish Union addressed to the Rosselkhoznadzor with the letter which among other things reads as follows: “To date, considering the current situation concerning safety of fish products imported to Russia and Customs Union which resulted in large-scale restrictions on fish raw material supplies from Norway, it is very difficult for fish business operators who can not be confident in stable and continuous supplies of fish products to develop and plan their business activities...
Factory trawler Therney has been fishing in Norwegian waters for three weeks and according to skipper Kristinn Gestsson, catches have been good quality cod. This trip’s quota is 9000 tonnes of cod and an additional 30% of other species can also be retained...
The finalists for this year’s Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global Seafood Prix d’Elite new products competition were announced on March 13th by event organizer Diversified Communications of Portland, Maine...
The talks will take place on March 18 and will be devoted to the consideration of vital issues related to export of Moroccan fish and sea products to Russia...
In the course of the working visit to Madrid Sergey Dankvert met Isabel García-Tejerina, General Secretary of the Spanish Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Environment and Paola Testori Coggi, General Director of the EU DG for Health and Consumers...
The talks were held via video conference and were devoted to issues related to safe export of fish, fish and seafood products from Canada to Russia. The parties expressed readiness to prepare and initial veterinary certificate for fish coming to Canadian cold storages for temporary storage in the shortest possible time...
Marine Harvest rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange today, marking the beginning of a new era for the salmon farming industry, according to MHG...
Negotiations between Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert and State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Protection of Human Rights of Germany Robert Kloos took place during another round of consulations between surveillance services of Russia and the Federal Republic of Germany on the sidelines of the international agricultural exhibition “Green Week-2014” in Berlin, according to Russian Vet Authority Rosselkhoznadzor...
Working Meeting between Sergey Dankvert and Bruce Archibald, President of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency was held on the sidelines of the International Agroindustrial Exhibition Fair “Green Week – 2014” in Berlin, according to Russian Vet Authority Rosselkhoznadzor....
AKVA group ASA has today entered into an agreement with Egersund Group AS, to acquire 100 percent of the shares in the aquaculture farming services company YesMaritime AS for a price of NOK 17.5 million, according to AKVA group ASA...
In a recent statement HAVFISK ASA has said that it will appeal what it sees as an incorrect judgement of Reykjavik District Court under the lawsuit brought by the administration committee in Glitnir bank, according to HAVFISK ASA...
A month ago HB Grandi’s shareholders’ meeting passed a motion to merge with Akranes company Laugafiskur ehf . The merger is backdated to the 1st of July when HB Grandi assumed responsibility for Laugafiskur’s financial commitments. Laugafiskur’s owners become shareholders in HB Grandi, according to same...