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AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Barra season gets mixed reception
3 February, 2012

Gladstone Observer
And they are great sport. But to many it is also about getting a good feed of one of Australia's best fish. Simon Whittingham, of the Gladstone Seafood Market, said he would not touch any barra caught in the Gladstone region. Mr Whittingham and others ...

Floods force trawling closures
1 February, 2012
Coffs Coast Advocate
NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) has declared short-term fishing closures for ocean waters off seven North Coast rivers to protect fish and small prawns displaced by flooding. "The closures prohibit prawn trawling in ocean waters off the ...

Fishing industry says attacks on monitors rare
31 January, 2012
SouthCoastToday.com
While commercial fishermen are frequently unhappy with the federal government's role in overseeing their industry, clashes between crew members and the fishery monitors do not happen very often, according to industry members The Standard-Times spoke ...

Fears sick fish impact spreading north
31 January, 2012
ABC Online
A commercial fisherman in north Queensland says sick fish in Gladstone are affecting prices for unrelated businesses across the state. Gladstone fishermen in central Queensland were forced to temporarily halt operations ...

Expert says sick Gladstone fish unsafe to eat
31 January, 2012
ABC Online
The fishermen and local businesses filed the $20 million compensation claim in the Planning and Environment Court in Rockhampton. They are arguing development at the port has damaged local fishing grounds. Commercial fishermen are also paying private ...

Short-Term Closures to Protect Fish Following Floods
30 January, 2012
TheFishSite.com
NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA - NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) has declared short-term fishing closures for ocean waters off seven north coast rivers to protect fish and small prawns displaced by flooding. “The closures, which were ...

Gladstone fishermen sue government
30 January, 2012
Sky News Australia
Gladstone fishermen sue government Updated: 13:26, Monday January 30, 2012 Irate commercial fishermen and shop owners have joined forces to sue the Queensland government for more than $20 million. The group of about 60 people are seeking compensation ...

Gladstone fishermen seek $20m in court in damages over harbour development
29 January, 2012
Courier Mail
Source: Supplied MORE than 60 commercial fishermen and businesses will take legal action against the State Government and Gladstone Ports Corporation over the disease-hit harbour. They want $20 million for the loss of fishing grounds and damage caused ...

Sustainable Seafood Day Australia
27 January, 2012
World Fishing
The MSC's Sustainable Seafood Day in Australia will be held on 16 March and provides an opportunity for the fishers that fish sustainably to be celebrated and rewarded. Consumers can help celebrate these sustainable fisheries by eating MSC certified ...

Barra season begins - but wild weather makes fishermen nervous
25 January, 2012
ABC Local
By Liz Trevaskis The Northern Territory barramundi commercial fishing season begins next week, and fishermen are looking forward to a good haul. The fishery covers waters from low tide out to two nautical miles, and the NT Seafood Council says with ...

Protection plan raises fears for fishing
25 January, 2012
The Australian
Australia imports 72 per cent of its seafood, the Seafood Importers Association says. Professor Kearney said the Coral Sea could be fished more extensively. He said Papua New Guinea's fish haul totalled close to a million tonnes last year.

MSC sets date Down Under
25 January, 2012
Fishnewseu
THE Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has announced the launch of Sustainable Seafood Day in Australia. Set for March 16, is seeks to boost the profile of those products that bear the MSC's ecolable. As the council explained: "Sustainable Seafood Day ...

Seafood project waits
24 January, 2012
Tasmania Mercury
PETUNA Seafoods is expanding its processing plant, hatchery and its fish farm as it waits to hear if an application to increase the size of its lease in Macquarie Harbour will be approved. Chef Tetsuya Wakuda yesterday cast a discerning eye over a $7.4 ...

Positive Signs for Gladstone Fish Health
24 January, 2012
TheFishSite.com
Fisheries Queensland Habitat and Assessment General Manager John Robertson said observers went out fishing in December with commercial fishers to monitor fish health in the harbour and surrounding waters. "We caught and visually inspected 37 barramundi ...

 

 


 

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

MOU signals major step forward for Project Oyster Shell
1 February, 2012
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Waikare Inlet oyster farmers and regional economic development body Enterprise Northland is being hailed as a major step forward for an ambitious $3.8 million plan to recycle oyster farm ...

NZ Recovers From OsHV-1 Outbreak
17 January, 2012
TheFishSite.com
NEW ZEALAND - With the majority of oysters exported, New Zealand oyster producers have benefited from international prices rising by 25 per cent in the past year. The rise in prices is due to a number of ...

 

 


INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Fishery Council: Cut cod catch 15 to 20 percent
2 February, 2012
Seacoastonline.com
"We've got a year before everything collapses," said council member David Goethel, a Hampton fisherman. Commercial and recreational fishermen have told the Portsmouth Herald in recent months that the assessment does not match what they see on the water ...

UK Asda withdraws prawn-layered salad labelled as tuna
2 February, 2012
Fish Update
Asda is withdrawing one date code of its layered prawn salad because it's labelled incorrectly. The label on the lid states that the product is Asda tuna layered salad, and so doesn't mention prawns. If anyone is allergic or intolerant to shellfish, ...

Government pressed to ratify fishing treaty
2 February, 2012
Irish Times
AN INTERNATIONAL transport union has called on the Government to ratify a convention on protecting employees on commercial fishing vessels in the light of recent losses at sea. The Work in Fishing Convention was adopted by the International Labour ...

Seafood suit moves forward
2 February, 2012
The Register-Guard
By Ilene Aleshire A judge has granted class-action status to a federal lawsuit filed by two fishermen against Clackamas-based Pacific Seafood Group, the nation's largest seafood company. Brookings fishermen Lloyd Whaley and Todd Whaley claim that ...

Using Molecular Markers to Manage Alaska's Declining Red King Crab Fisheries
2 February, 2012
National Geographic
Over three hundred crab fishing fatalities per 100000 fishermen per year were tabulated for the commercial fishing industry in the early 90′s. The number of crab fishing-related fatalities is probably of little consolation to red king crabs, ...

Fishery Regulators Debate How Much to Cut Gulf of Maine Cod Quota
2 February, 2012
MPBN News
He says both commercial and recreational fishermen do not regard the fishery as being in crisis. "We're out there every day. There's a lot of commercial fishermen who will tell you they have a hard time staying away from the codfish," he said.

Mass. sets up $1M loan fund for fishermen
1 February, 2012
CBS News
(AP) BOSTON — Massachusetts announced Tuesday that it has set up a $1 million loan fund to help the dwindling number of fishermen with smaller businesses buy the rights to catch more fish. The new Commercial Fisheries Revolving Loan Fund aims to help ...

Sturgeon to be listed endangered
1 February, 2012
Daily Press
Effective April 6, the listing will provide greater protection for the dinosaur-like fish and may add irksome regulations to the commercial fishing industry. Once common throughout the bay and Atlantic coast, sturgeon are known for their bony plates, ...

Florida increasing redfish bag limit in top part of state
1 February, 2012
Daytona Beach News-Journal
The bag limit in northeast Florida increases from five to six fish. One fish over the 15- to 20-inch slot limit can still be kept as part of that limit. Commercial season lengths increase statewide and commercial vessel limit increases from 50 to 150 ...

Fishing, Aquaculture and Seafood Expo – from Sea to Plate
1 February, 2012
Scotland Food and Drink (press release)
The precision SI-7 C combination stunner and bleeder from Seafood Innovations International Group stuns and bleeds fish in a carefully controlled manner that minimises stress and ensures optimum quality fish. The SI-7 is a new generation of pneumatic ...

DOST's SET UP beneficiary produces biggest fresh water prawn
31 January, 2012
Philippine Information Agency
As the name suggests, vegetable waste are chopped and blanched as an alternative feeds to the prawns. The technology, Santos admitted, saved him production cost as his commercial feeds dramatically dropped from 40 bags to only 4 bags during the last ...

Vietnam set to be largest seafood exporter in the world
31 January, 2012
SGGP
In 2012, the country's turnover of aqua-exports is expected to reach $6.5 billion, a target set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers. The Department of Agriculture and Rural ...

Aquaculture seen as a prime driver for South Jersey's seafood industry
31 January, 2012
NJ.com
By Phillip Tomlinson/The News of Cumberland County Aquaculture development is key to the expansion and sustainability of New Jersey's $147 million wholesale seafood industry, a report by the state Department of Agriculture suggests.

Exposing seafood industry's junk science
31 January, 2012
phillyBurbs.com
It seems the seafood industry's front groups are more concerned about attacking environmental groups, public health groups, scientists and government agencies than actually doing something to make its products safer and healthier.

Sharp rise in sustainable seafood products on sale in UK
31 January, 2012
The Guardian
The number of fish and seafood products certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has shot up by 41% in the UK over the last year, as retailers and supermarkets respond to consumers' demand to know the provenance of the produce ...

Launching Of A Prawn Farming Project In Chundikulam Reservoir In Kilinochchi ...
31 January, 2012
Asian Tribune
Minister of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development Douglas Devananda has launched a Natural Prawn Farming Project under the guidance and assistance of NAQDA in Chundikulam Reservoir in Kilinochchi District. The reservoir extends over ...

Dried seafood hawkers fined for displaying misleading price indication
30 January, 2012
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Hong Kong (HKSAR) - Two dried seafood hawkers were convicted separately today (January 30) and last Friday (January 27) at Kwun Tong Magistrates' Court for failing to indicate unit prices of goods on signs in a readily comprehensible manner, ...

Collier fisherman helps lead push to remove 2-inch mesh limit on gill nets
30 January, 2012
Naples Daily News
By ERIC STAATS Jason Easterly/Special to the Daily News The 1994 statewide ban made commercial fishing illegal with gill nets larger than 2-inch mesh in state waters. NAPLES — Naples commercial fisherman Bobby Johnson guesses that Florida's 1994 gill ...

Crab season off to good start despite rain, fishermen say; price per pound ...
29 January, 2012
Times-Standard
Fishermen battled wind and rain during the first 12 days of the commercial crab season, but high demand, a good price and quality crustaceans are making for a better-than-average season -- so far. Eureka fisherman Scott Creps took advantage of the ...

Fishermen plan to rally over catch-data issue
29 January, 2012
The Virginian-Pilot
Commercial fishermen and recreational anglers bonded two years ago in a rare showing of solidarity when the groups marched together on the nation's capital. Federal fisheries managers had just shut down the sea bass ...

Seafood processing plant construction to begin
29 January, 2012
The Hindu
The Karnataka Fisheries Development Corporation has organised a foundation-laying ceremony for the construction of a modern seafood processing plant on the premises of its office in Hoige Bazaar on Saturday. Corporation Chairperson Nitin Kumar told ...

Seafood processor picks up pieces after Alaska snowstorm
29 January, 2012
Alaska Dispatch
In the wake of a devastating storm that overwhelmed Cordova and caused severe damaged to one of its buildings, Copper River Seafoods is busy removing debris and working to assure safe storage for vessels and supplies that were housed there. As of Jan.

Seafood officials say naming-rights deal smells fishy
29 January, 2012
Houma Courier
Some trade groups and industry officials say they disapprove of a proposal being considered by a Louisiana seafood promotion board to buy the naming rights to the New Orleans Arena. Critics say the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board's $5.2 ...

Government announces new method of figuring catch limits
28 January, 2012
WPDE
But many fishermen think the counting method is inaccurate. Commercial fishermen and recreational fishermen don't agree on everything, but they both have complaints about the way the government justifies limiting the catch of popular fish species.

Seafood Research Group Launches New Name, Online Database
28 January, 2012
Fish Update
After 40 successful years of addressing the research needs of the seafood community, the Fisheries Scholarship Fund (FSF) in the US is evolving into the Seafood Industry Research Fund (SIRF). The change marks a new beginning for the philanthropic ...

Government announces new method of figuring catch limits
28 January, 2012
WPDE
But many fishermen think the counting method is inaccurate. Commercial fishermen and recreational fishermen don't agree on everything, but they both have complaints about the way the government justifies limiting the catch of popular fish species.

Russia: commercial fishing of sturgeon to be allowed in 5-7 years after ...
27 January, 2012
Azerbaijan Business Center
Andrey Krayniy, head of the Federal Fisheries Agency of Russia (Rosribolovstvo), says that if they declare a moratorium, then in the next 5-7 years it will become possible to allow commercial fishing of sturgeon. "If to help now and burn by red-hot ...

US government imposing limits on fish catches in its Caribbean territories for ...
27 January, 2012
Washington Post
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The US government is imposing limits on the number of fish that commercial and recreational fishermen can catch in the waters it controls in the Caribbean, saying previous types of restrictions haven't protected dwindling ...

Investors revive Samar's shrimp industry
26 January, 2012
Business Mirror
CALBAYOG CITY—The floundering shrimp- culture industry in Samar has been given a boost with the entry of an investor who helped reopen a prawn hatchery in this city. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) led the re-opening of the Sea ...

Peru's vanishing fish: Rampant cheating and lax controls plague industry
26 January, 2012
Huffington Post
By Milagros Salazar, iWatch News CHIMBOTE, Peru ā This northern port reeks of rotten fish year-round, but when anchoveta season begins in late November, its long row of factories belch oily columns of nauseating smoke that impregnate everything within ...

Atlantic Group Spanish Mackerel Trip Limit Reduced
25 January, 2012
TheFishSite.com
US - The daily vessel trip limit for commercial vessels fishing for Atlantic group Spanish mackerel in federal waters of the southern zone (Florida) is adjusted to 1500 pounds, effective 6 am local time, January 27, 2012. Based on the 7.04 million ...

Brunei's black tiger prawns make big roar
25 January, 2012
AsiaOne
Brunei's Fisheries Department has successfully produced a disease-free breed of black tiger prawns, making Brunei the only producer of specific pathogen-free (SPF) species in the Southeast Asia. After five years of intensive research and trials to ...

Seafood exports to EU may not resume
25 January, 2012
DAWN.com
KARACHI: Seafood exports to European countries may not resume this year as the European Union has not included Pakistan in its list of audit under which EU sends delegations for harbour inspections. EU had imposed ban on seafood exports from ...

Pescanova USA Presents a New line of All Natural Shrimp with No Additives or ...
25 January, 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
Abbad adds that while most companies procure seafood from 3rd party sources and suppliers, Pescanova USA's shrimp is harvested and packed to specification directly from their own farms and processing facilities. "Customers are truly getting partnered ...

Rising wealth of Asians, fishing subsidies straining world's fish resources ...
24 January, 2012
Washington Post
MANILA, Philippines — Rising wealth in Asia and fishing subsidies are among factors driving overexploitation of the world's fish resources, while fish habitat is being destroyed by pollution and climate change, UN marine experts said Tuesday.

AHI Acquires East Coast Seafood
24 January, 2012
Private Equity Hub (press release)
AHI has acquired East Coast Seafood, a vendor of live and frozen lobster and seafood throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. The company's headquarters are in the greater Boston area of Massachusetts with direct distribution offices throughout ...

Public Bodies Promote Seafood Safety
24 January, 2012
TheFishSite.com
CHILE - With a tour of the stalls in Caleta Portales, various public services that oversee the sale of fishery products participated in the launch of the "Choose Cuidarte: Seafood Consumption Insurance" of the Ministry of Health.

Live updates from fishing boats could reduce waste
24 January, 2012
New Scientist
When customers of the fisheries company Sanriku Toretate Ichiba want to shop for fish, they connect to the net. The firm, based in Sanriku town in Japan's Iwate prefecture, posts details of its catches online in real time, offering consumers the chance ...

Surprised by pricey prawns
23 January, 2012
Malaysia Star
By SIMREN KAUR GEORGE TOWN: The prices of fresh prawns have increased 100% at several wet markets on the island. Market-goers were surprised by the drastic price increase of the big prawns when they did their last minute shopping for the Chinese New ...

Marine Stewardship Council losing ground with wild salmon fisheries
23 January, 2012
Alaska Dispatch
“We understand the course change by Alaska salmon processors and the subsequent vote by the AFDF board may come as a surprise to other Alaska salmon procesors and members of the Alaska-North Pacific commercial fishing industry,” Browning said. ...

This year's oyster harvest is being threatened
22 January, 2012
Daily News - Galveston County
By John DeLapp The drought that has bedeviled Texans for more than a year has found another victim — the state's $30 million oyster industry. The commercial oyster season normally runs from November through April, but this season, the noncommercial ...

Fillet deal costs city 110 jobs
22 January, 2012
Gloucester Daily Times
By Richard Gaines Staff Writer American Seafoods Group LLC, the Seattle-based seafood conglomerate that acquired Good Harbor Fillet earlier this week, intends to dramatically shrink if not close the home-grown Gloucester business, putting about 110 ...

 

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