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Figures from the Norwegian Seafood Export Council show the highest export value ever recorded for Norwegian Salmon in the month of May. Compared to the same month last year, the value of exports of Norwegian Salmon showed an increase of 26% or NOK 509 million, reports www.megafishnet.com

Exports of Norwegian seafood in May totalled NOK 3.9 billion. This is an increase of NOK 568 million or 17% compared to May 2009. This year to date, Norwegian seafood exports total NOK 19.9 billion, an increase of NOK 2.7 billion or 16% compared to the same period last year. These figures, from the Norwegian Seafood Export Council, mark a new export record for both the month of May and the January-May period, reports www.megafishnet.com

Hard work and investment from the North East Sea Fisheries Committee combined with funding from the Co-operative's Sustainable Fishing Fund means that the North East lobster pot fishery has started a new MSC assessment on 3, June, 2010, reports www.megafishnet.com

Four of HB Grandi's factory trawlers have been fishing on deep sea redfish for the past few weeks but are now taking a break with the upcoming Seamen's Day celebration next weekend. Catches have been good so far and all of the four trawlers have been able to maintain close to full production from the first day on this year's fishery at between 40 and 50 tonnes of raw fish per day, reports www.megafishnet.com

The Eastern Canada offshore lobster (Homarus americanus) fishery operating within the Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off the eastern seaboard of Canada has earned Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification having been independently assessed and found to be sustainable and well-managed. Products from the Eastern Canada offshore lobster fishery will now be eligible to bear the blue MSC ecolabel, reports www.megafishnet.com

Moscow-based Fly Fish Company, known as a large rapidly developing operator of international seafood market, is one step away from hitting RUB1.5 billion sales target, reports www.megafishnet.com

According to provisional figures, in January - May 2010 the catch of fish and non-finfish species in the Russian Far East considerably increased in comparison with the same period last year, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/ (https://www.fishnet.ru/)

Seattle Fish Company of New Mexico's commitment to the Marine Stewardship Council's (MSC) seafood sustainability program led them to become the first seafood supplier in the state to be MSC-certified and now they are also playing a leadership role in assisting other partners and merchants with obtaining MSC Chain of Custody certification. Seattle Fish Company of New Mexico recently assisted five area restaurants and a natural foods grocer in becoming MSC certified. The certification assures consumers that MSC-certified seafood can be traced back through the entire supply chain to a sustainable, well-managed fishery. Once certified, a business can apply to display MSC's internationally recognized blue ecolabel, reports www.megafishnet.com

The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, issued the statement below, following the conclusion of informal meetings held in Barcelona, Spain between a number of Atlantic bluefin tuna-harvesting countries, reports www.megafishnet.com

Due to discovery of forbidden and harmful substances in fish and non-finfish products coming to the Russian Federation Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) has strengthened control of products imported from fish processing plants of Spain and Chile, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/ (https://www.fishnet.ru/ )

A clear and explicit reference to human rights is among the new features in the revised business principles which were put in place earlier this year for all 115,000 A.P. Moller - Maersk employees, reports www.megafishnet.com

HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc. a leading producer of functional, sustainable Tilapia biomass, including fish and personal healthcare products, annnounced Lillian's Healthy Gourmet meals are now avaliable on Amazon.com, reports www.megafishnet.com

Young's Fish for Life programme for seafood sustainability will compete in Brussels on June 2nd against the best environmental initiatives from across Europe in the finals of the European Business Awards for the Environment, reports www.megafishnet.com

NOAA has extended the northern and southern boundaries of the closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico to capture portions of the slick moving into waters off eastern Alabama and the western tip of the Florida panhandle, as well as some large patches of sheen moving onto the west Florida shelf and southward to Cuban waters, reports www.megafishnet.com

Herring production got underway at Vopnafjoerdur on 31 May 2010 when Lundey NS arrived with 300 tonnes of herring on board. Fishing on Atlanto-Scandian herring has just started and this was the first herring of the season to be landed in Vopnafjoerdur, reports www.megafishnet.com

The Association of Seafood Producers said the decision to close the shrimp plant in Jackson's Arm is the reality of the current structure of the fishery, reports www.megafishnet.com

The Marine Stewardship Council is seeking detailed proposals from qualified researchers to investigate the environmental impacts of MSC's third party certification program, based on the first 10 years of MSC's operations, reports www.megafishnet.com

Following a comprehensive assessment process by an independent certifier, Alaska's flatfish fisheries were certified today under the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) environmental standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries. Products from the flatfish fisheries off Alaska are now eligible to bear the blue MSC ecolabel, reports www.megafishnet.com

Last week's announcement of MSC certification of a portion of the Antarctic krill fishery attracted criticism from the Pew Environment Group. In particular, Pew questioned MSC rules that allow for the certification of a portion of a fishery; raised issues of how the needs of other dependent species were considered in the assessment process; and asserted that uncertainties with regards to the krill population and climate change should preclude certification. The MSC would like to address each of these concerns and clarify the MSC process as well as the krill assessment outcomes, reports www.megafishnet.com

Reference is made to the Company's announcements dated 21 January 2010, 12 February 2010, 18 February 2010, 26 February 2010, 26 March 2010, 20 April 2010 and 30 April 2010 in relation to the proposed secondary listing of all of its ordinary shares on the Oslo Bors of Norway, reports www.megafishnet.com