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CARREFOUR Italy and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) have committed to work together to provide Italian consumers with MSC-certified products ...
For the year 2015 the total value of Icelandic catch increased by 11% when compared in 2014, from 136 billion ISK to 151 billion. This was mostly due to 8 billion ISK increase in value of cod catch and 9 billion increase in catch value of capelin.
Sydney based GPM Fisheries Pty Ltd, operator of the ‘Santo Rocco Di Bagnara’ has been convicted and fined $8600 for falsifying catch records about their catch of southern bluefin tuna ...
Two Vietnamese vessels have been apprehended over the weekend in waters off North Queensland for suspected illegal fishing in Australian waters ...
In the course of the working meeting held on March 24 in Moscow the parties discussed the prospects of trade and economic cooperation development between Russia and Malaysia. In particular the Malaysian party expressed its interest in export of fish and sea products to Russia ...
Due to news reports on detection of high ochratoxin level-containing wheat imported from Russia by the Lebanese Ministry of Health we deem it appropriate to inform that no notifications from the Lebanese side were received by the Rosselkhoznadzor ...
The representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Agriculture as well as Rosselkhzonadzor specialists also took part in the talks ...
On March 15, during the official visit of Mohammed VI of Morocco to Russia, Sergey Dankvert, Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, and Aziz Akhannouch, Minister of Agriculture and Marine Fishery, signed the following Interagency Memorandums of Understanding ...
Within the framework of the 65th meeting of the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in Geneva negotiations with the representatives of Competent Authorities and missions of India, Vietnam and USA were held ....
We are pleased to advise that we have published our Sortable E-Guide of Russian Company Offshore Quotas 2005-2016.
The quota year ends on the last day of August, and a new quota year is due to start next week. Skippers are now racing to catch what they have left of their 2014-15 quotas and for the trawler fleet that means saithe. Ævar Jóhannesson, skipper of freezer trawler Höfrungur III AK, and his crew have been busy on Westfjords grounds searching for saithe during their current trip...
‘The mackerel have been elusive this trip. The fish seem to have spread out and there have been pelagic boats searching for them all over. Right now we in a position about sixty nautical miles off the coast, just where another boat did well on mackerel last night. But shot away in this morning and it was only after midday that we started to see something in the trawl,’ said Lundey’s skipper Albert Sveinsson just as he was about to haul the last tow of the trip deep off the south-east coast...
The geography of participants of X International Fishery Congress which will be held in Vladivostok on August 26-27 is significantly exceeded. Over 400 applications for participation had been received, when the quota is 300 persons...
Fresher trawler Ásbjörn was due to dock in Reykjavík last night after a trip on Westfjords grounds. Ásbjörn has 130 tonnes of fish in its fishroom, most of it cod...
A conference call was held on the 5th of August this year between Vasiliy Lavrovsky, Head of the Directorate for Veterinary Inspections in the Framework of the International Cooperation and the WTO, and Head of the Department for International Cooperation in the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China, AQSIQ Zhang Baofeng. The parties discussed crucial issues of cooperation between Russia and China following the minutes of the IV Meeting of the Chinese-Russian Permanent Working Group on Cooperation in Animal and Plant Quarantine and Food Safety carried out in Chungking on the 31st of May, 2015...
The sides discussed a wide range of issues of common interest. In particular, they focused on safety of Russian fishery products exported to the Brazilian food market. They achieved an agreement that the Russian fish-processing plants, willing to export their products to Brazil, will be inspected by the Brazilian experts between the 19th of September and the 4th of October this year...
‘We had some very good fishing the first three days we were in the Russian zone, then we had a winch rotor that needed to be fixed so we had to steam to Kirkenes in Norway to get it repaired. By the time we were back at sea, the fishing had died away and we had to spend some time steaming and searching for fish,’ said Kristinn Gestsson, skipper of factory trawler Therney RE which docked in Reykjavík last Tuesday after a trip in the Barents Sea...
HB Grandi’s new pelagic vessel, Víkingur AK, is to be launched soon, with a date set early next month if everything goes according to plan, and the ship is expected to arrive in Iceland in December...
Earlier this week Ingunn AK was handed over to its new owners, Vinnslustöðin í Vestmannaeyjum (VSV) and has been renamed Ísleifur VE...