16.02.2010
February 12, 2010 -WSC’s Canadian partner Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (PFRCC) announced today that the Harrison River has officially been identified as the first Salmon Stronghold in Canada under the North American Salmon Stronghold Partnership read more  |
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11.02.2010
Exports of Norwegian Salmon in January totalled NOK 1.8 billion, according to the latest figures from the Norwegian Seafood Export Council. This is the highest export value ever recorded for Norwegian Salmon in January and is no less than NOK 260 million up on the same period last year. read more |
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10.02.2010
The value of Norwegian seafood exports in January totalled NOK 3.6 billion. This is an increase of NOK 190 million or 6% compared with January 2009, according to the latest figures from the Norwegian Seafood Export Council. read more |
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21.01.2010
Increasing demand from retailers for Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)-certified wild salmon has processors hoping for more certified fisheries - sooner rather than later. read more |
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05.05.2009
The Commerce Department Thursday released $53 million to Oregon and California to help West Coast salmon fishermen after the third fishery failure in four years. read more |
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05.05.2009
Seattle-based Trident Seafoods has agreed to pay more than $112,000 for failing to properly report hazardous chemicals. read more |
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05.05.2009
The host nation of two upcoming conferences is looking to recognize the crucial role oceans play in global climate change. The conferences, the World Oceans Conference (WOC) and Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) Summit, will be held in Manado, the capital of Indonesia's Northern Sulawesi province, from 11 to 15 May. read more |
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05.05.2009
Due to the recent swine flu outbreak, the World Aquaculture Society (WAS) and its sponsors announced they will postpone the World Aquaculture 2009 conference in Veracruz, Mexico from 25 to 29 May to 25 to 29 September. read more |
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05.05.2009
A U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report published on Friday found that mercury levels in the North Pacific in 2006 were approximately 30 percent higher than they were in the mid-1990s. read more |
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04.05.2009
The winter flounder, a bottom-dweller with both eyes on the right side of its head, isn't the most profitable New England fish but it's suddenly become one of the most important - and fishermen say that's all wrong. read more |
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04.05.2009
Dutch food group Nutreco reported a 7 percent fall in first-quarter sales and said its half-year core profit would be lower than in 2008 due to an operational loss at its Compound feed Europe business. read more |
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04.05.2009
The Shark Alliance has named the U.K., Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands as the 2009 Shark Champions in its three-month EU Member State Challenge. read more |
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04.05.2009
The Shellfish Association of Great Britain (SAGB) has appointed Dr. Tom Pickerell as its director, effective August 2009. Pickerell replaces Dr. Peter Hunt, who will be retiring in the summer after 10 years as director. read more |
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04.05.2009
With upward of 17 sets of aquaculture certification standards worldwide, audits are becoming too numerous and costly for farmers. The need to harmonize those standards was the focus of Thursday's conference Are Certification Costs Too High For Aquaculture Producers at the European Seafood Exposition. read more |
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30.04.2009
GlobalGAP on Wednesday introduced farmed tilapia and pangasius certification standards during a press conference at the Brussels Exhibition Center. read more |
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30.04.2009
Rupert Howes, executive director of the Marine Stewardship Council, expressed confidence on Wednesday that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) will find clients to pursue MSC recertification of the Alaska salmon fishery when its certification lapses in 2012. read more |
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30.04.2009
Deutsche See GmbH and Alfocan S.A. captured the gold in the ninth annual Seafood Prix d'Elite new products competition at the 17th annual European Seafood Exposition in Brussels. read more |
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30.04.2009
SeaWeb’s Seafood Choices Alliance announced the 2010 Seafood Summit will be held in Paris from 31 Jan. to 2 Feb. The group made the announcement during its annual cocktail reception during the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels, Belgium. read more |
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30.04.2009
Vietnamese seafood exports declined year-on-year by 7.1 per cent in the first four months of this year to $1.058 billion, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). read more |
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29.04.2009
Clean Seas Tuna of Port Lincoln, Australia, on Tuesday released the first photos of its farmed southern bluefin tuna, born just a month ago. read more |
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29.04.2009
Shares in Marine Harvest Group, the world's biggest fish farmer, rise more than 10 percent with traders speculating swine flu could lift salmon prices as witnessed during previous outbrakes of bird flu and cow disease. read more |
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29.04.2009
Twenty fisheries participating in the Marine Stewardship Council program on Monday joined to form the Association of Sustainable Fisheries to foster dialogue between the London-based nonprofit and its client fisheries. read more |
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29.04.2009
High-end Japanese seafood supplier Hokkai Suisan has launched a new packaging line to attract new business. read more |
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28.04.2009
With only a few days left before lobster season officially opens, fishermen in the region have spent the past week or so at the wharf preparing traps and cleaning their boats. read more |
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28.04.2009
U.S. seafood importer and distributor H&N Foods International has purchased importer Berdex Seafood, H&N announced yesterday. read more |
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28.04.2009
Friend of the Sea on Monday held a conference at the Sheraton Brussels Hotel covering all aspects of making the seafood industry sustainable. Here's what happened in the first half of the Friend of the Sea Day. read more |
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28.04.2009
Greenpeace International on Monday launched an online petition allowing retailers and restaurateurs worldwide to pre-order skipjack tuna from only sustainable sources. read more |
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28.04.2009
SeafoodSource attended the second annual European Tuna Conference at the Sheraton Brussels Hotel on Monday. The room was packed with more than 250 tuna fishermen, importers and exporters, scientists, government officials and environmentalists from across the globe. read more |
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27.04.2009
China plans to expand farmed shrimp production by up to 20 percent in the next two years, according to China's Ministry of Agriculture. read more |
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27.04.2009
The Pew Environment Group on Thursday urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to expand testing of farmed salmon imports from not only Chile but also Canada, Norway, Scotland and Ireland due to "widespread use" of unapproved or banned substances. read more |
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