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HB Grandi’s pelagic vessel Venus is back on the fishing grounds after its latest landing at Vopnafjördur last week. Fishing grounds are now east of the Faroe Islands, and according to the skipper for the last trip, Róbert Axelsson, the blue whiting are following much the same migration pattern as they did during last year’s season.

The negotiations in the teleconference format took place on April, 28 at the initiative of the Russian party. The Rosselkhoznadzor reported that according to the earlier reached agreements, the official request has been sent to Azerbaijan in early April to provide information about the main greenhouse facilities, amounts and types of plant products grown in Azerbaijan and exported to Russia.

The meeting was held in Beijing. The Russian delegation was headed by Yevgeny Nepoklonov, Russian Chief Veterinary Officer, and Deputy Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor. Olga Denisyuk, Deputy Head of the National Fishery and Aquaculture Product Safety also took part in the group meeting.

Milka Glavendekic, Professor of the University of Belgrade (Faculty of Forestry), visited FGBI «BNIIKR» within international scientific cooperation on April 22, 2016. Ms Glavendekic is an EPPO nominated expert for the Republic of Serbia ...

At the end of March 2016 some foreign and Russian mass media circulated the information that the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh had refused to accept two bulk carrier ships with Russian wheat amounted to 101 ths tons ...

‘The fishing is good and there’s nothing to complain about. We’ve mostly managed to haul and shoot twice a day and tow for 12 to 15 hours at a time. It’s generally good fish that we have been catching, although there’s a mix of small fish with it sometimes,’ said Róbert Axelsson, who is skipper of Venus for this trip on blue whiting grounds south of the Faroe Islands ... 

Closing meeting upon completion of the mission was held in Moscow. The Russian party was headed by Artyom Daushev, Deputy Head of the Directorate for Veterinary Surveillance of Goods Export-Import and Transportation and for International Cooperation, the Chinese party was headed by Chen Shi Sun, Head of the AQSIQ Department for Beijing ...

Making a speech at the plenary session of the European Commission devoted to measures for overcoming crisis in the EU agrarian sector, EU Commissioner Phil Hogan stated ...

DESPITE a tough year, which saw them lose a major salmon processing contract, Young’s operating profit rose by 6%, reaching £26.7 million for the 12 months to end September 2015, versus £25.2 million in 2014 ...

SAITHE caught by vessels operated by UK Fisheries, DFFU and Doggerbank Group can continue to sport the MSC ecolabel, following a 12-month assessment by ME Certification ...

Joint research between TCFFI, USDA and EWOS uses new diet for post-smolt to food-size fish

Teleconference between the Rosselkhoznadzor and Directorate General for Public Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) was held today. Representatives of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Federal Customs Service, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade as well as T. Briedis, Agricultural Counselor of the EU Representation in the Russian Federation, took part in the talks ...

The Fourth meeting of the Panel on Diagnostics in Virology and Phytoplasmology took place on April 5 – 7, 2016 housed by the EPPO Secretariat (Paris, France) ...

The Caspian and Black Sea Agrarian Congress took place on April 12 – 13, 2016 in Baku (Azerbaijan), organized by “APK-Inform” information and analytical agency and Ukrainian Grain Association and supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) ...

The 11th session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures, governing the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) was held in Rome (Italy) housed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ... 

The negotiations were held on the initiative of the Russian party on April 12, 2016 in the form of teleconference and were devoted to agreements reached during the meeting of the 1st Russian-Iranian Working Group for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Cooperation ...

The negotiations were held at the initiative of the Mauritius party. At the negotiations the Russian delegation was headed by Alexey Alexeyenko, Assistant to the Rosselkhoznadzor Head, and the Mauritius delegation was headed by Maheswarsingh Khemloliva, Mauritius Ambassador to the Russian Federation ...

In accordance with agreements reached before the Rosselkhoznadzor experts have started the joint inspection of the establishments manufacturing porcine products in the Republic of Belarus as of today ...

Lebanese Food Industries National Day Conference was held on April 6, 2016 in Beirut, capital of Lebanon. The Rosselkhoznadzor delegation, which came to Lebanon in order to clarify the situation about allegedly detected carcinogens in imported Russian wheat, took part in the event ...

As part of measures aimed at settlement of issues concerning the quality of grain consignments imported into Lebanon, the expert delegation from the Rosselkhoznadzor held negotiations with the heads of Lebanese leading business communities regarding the agricultural sector ...

Lithuania-based surimi and seafood processor Viciunai Group has pulled its stand from the Brussels seafood show ....

A NUMBER of oyster farms destroyed by the Japanese tsunami have been replaced by more sustainable alternatives, according to the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC), which has just accredited the Shizugawa Branch of the Miyagi Prefecture Fisheries Co-operative ...

A NEW wellboat, equipped with the latest technology for fighting lice and AGD, was officially launched by Marine Harvest in Fort William on April 9 ...

Zika and Ebola get all the headlines, but pathogens that threaten livestock and crops could be even more dangerous for humans ...

A NUMBER of Scotland’s leading fish and seafood companies will be attending the Food & Hotel Asia event in Singapore on 12-15 April ...

Venus and Víkingur will return to fishing blue whiting and have 26.150 tonnes of quota left to be caught. This became clear following the Fisheries Minister’s decision to increase the quota by 39,000 tonnes, of which 7700 tonnes falls to the HB Grandi fleet ...

THE European Commission is offering an additional €7.5 million to boost innovation and create jobs in the marine and maritime sectors...

THE finalists for the new Seafood Excellence Global awards competition have been announced today ...

Pelagic vessels Venus and Víkingur are now in port in Reykjavík after having been tied up at Akranes since the end of the capelin season. The reason for the change of scenery was that the harbour at Akranes and the cement factory there form part of the backdrop for the American action film the Fast and the Furious 8 which is being filmed there over the next few days ...

‘Before True North contacted HB Grandi about the ships, they had been in touch with the Akranes mayor’s office about filming in the cement factory building. There will also be scenes filmed at the harbour area that start on the 14th of April and take two days. Then there are two days scheduled for filming in Hvalfjördur,’ he said and added that Venus and Víkingur were simply too big for the harbour scenes and had to go...