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Published:  09 May, 2008

Aquaculture 

Geir Isaksen

Cermaq announces NOK 36.9 million Q1 loss
Published:  09 May, 2008

NORWEGIAN aquaculture company Cermaq has today reported a first quarter loss of NOK 36.9 million. The company said lower salmon prices, higher costs in farming in Chile, and higher raw material costs in EWOS, reduced the result.

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Current Issues 
Springbank Spot the Bottle Competition
Published:  09 May, 2008

Congratulations to Duncan Wood from Wester Ross who won the bottle for March.

Catching 

Mike Park

New strategy needed to tackle fuel challenge
Published:  09 May, 2008

THE need for concerted action to tackle the economic problems facing the fishing fleet caused mainly by soaring fuel costs has been called for by a fishermen’s leader.

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Current Issues 
Greenpeace exposes "tuna pirate" on the high seas
Published:  09 May, 2008

GREENPEACE claims to have today exposed an illegal tuna purse seiner, the Queen Evelyn 168, in a pocket of international waters between Papua New Guinea and the Federated States of Micronesia.

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Aquaculture 
Leroy: Salmon price rise expected
Published:  09 May, 2008

LOW salmon prices have hit Norwegian company Leroy Seafood's Q1 results.

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Catching 
Scientists examine ways to avoid collapse of fish stocks
Published:  09 May, 2008

NEW scientific papers analysing the key to sustainable fisheries management have been published.

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Retail 
Record number of Northern Ireland companies in Great Taste Awards
Published:  09 May, 2008

FIFTY Northern Ireland food companies have tabled 250 new products in a bid to strike gold in the prestigious Great Taste Awards, the UK’s leading event for smaller food businesses.

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Current Issues 
International Fishing Hall of Fame completes building fund
Published:  09 May, 2008

A MAJOR milestone in the history of the International Game Fish Association has been reached as the mortgage for the worldwide headquarters of the 69-year old conservation and record-keeping body in Florida has been paid off.

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Retail 

Alex Salmond

Loch Fyne Oysters wins excellence award
Published:  09 May, 2008

ARGYLL-BASED Loch Fyne Oysters is celebrating after winning an award at the 2008 Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards, held in Edinburgh last night.

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Current Issues 
Marine Institute hosts climate change committee visit
Published:  09 May, 2008

MEMBERS of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security yesterday visited Galway for detailed briefings on the Marine Institute’s programme to understand the key drivers of climate change in Ireland by studying forces at work in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Catching 
Icelandic company to boost IQF output
Published:  09 May, 2008

THE big Icelandic fishing firm HB Grandi is to treble the output of its individually quick frozen fish products as part of a new 50 million krona expansion programme.

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Market Reports 
Today's prices at Peterhead
Published:  09 May, 2008
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Market Reports 
Today's prices at Fraserburgh
Published:  09 May, 2008
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Market Reports 
Today's prices at Shetland
Published:  09 May, 2008
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Market Reports 
Weekly prices at Scrabster
Published:  09 May, 2008
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Market Reports 
Friday's prices at Grimsby
Published:  09 May, 2008
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Processing 
Seafood firm warns of tighter cod supplies
Published:  08 May, 2008

ONE of Britain's leading seafood suppliers has warned that cod could be in short supply and, by implication, more expensive over the next three or four months.

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Jim Portus

"Urgent " need to up Channel sole quota
Published:  08 May, 2008

THE need for an “urgent review” of the Western Channel sole fishery total allowable catch was underlined today at a meeting in Brixham between fishermen’s representatives and Marine and Fisheries Agency chief executive Nigel Gooding.

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Current Issues 
WWF welcomes "ambitious" protection plan
Published:  08 May, 2008

WWF-Canada said today it recognises the significance of decisions made by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), and its 13 contracting parties at its Intersessional Meeting in Montreal this week.

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Current Issues 
RNLI memorial design revealed
Published:  08 May, 2008

THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution has selected a design for a sculpture to pay tribute to the hundreds of volunteer crew members who have lost their lives while saving others at sea over the last 184 years, together with the many RNLI lifesavers and fundraisers who have served the charity.

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Aquaculture 
Scientists and fish farmers meet to tackle fish health issue
Published:  08 May, 2008

AN important seminar aimed at addressing the problem of pancreas disease on salmon farms was held yesterday at the Marine Institute in Oranmore, Co. Galway.

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Catching 
Dredging underway on major project at Lerwick Harbour
Published:  08 May, 2008

THE trailer suction hopper dredger, Waterway is carrying out the first phase of a £12 million project to deepen and widen access to Lerwick harbour and reclaim land for new development opportunities.

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Aquaculture 
Tesco accused of "whitewash" over fish farm escape enquiry
Published:  07 May, 2008

SCOTLAND'S wild fish interests have today reacted with anger at the decision by Tesco to conduct an investigation into a "major" fish farm escape behind closed doors.

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Current Issues 

Richard Durham

MSP urges backing for Crown Estate powers transfer bid
Published:  07 May, 2008

A HIGHLAND MSP has called on Parliamentary colleagues to back an ongoing campaign by North councils and development bodies to transfer the powers of The Crown Estate Commission over the seabed to local authorities.

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Aquaculture 
Group challenges BC Government's right to regulate fish farms
Published:  07 May, 2008

A BIOLOGIST, tourism operators and commercial fishermen have teamed up to file a constitutional challenge in what they say is an effort to "save" British Columbia's wild salmon fishery.

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Current Issues 
Easier method to identify food hypersensitivity discovered
Published:  07 May, 2008

THE Norwegian National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) has developed a new method that makes it easier to study the clinical picture of patients with food hypersensitivity.

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Catching 

Mike Park

Whiting closure is bad news, says Park
Published:  06 May, 2008

HEAVY pressure on North Sea whiting stocks, partly because of the need to avoid cod has meant that one leading fish producer organisation has been forced to suspend whiting catching by all but two of its vessels.

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Catching 
National Scallop Group launched
Published:  06 May, 2008

A National Scallop Group has been established to examine on a UK basis the problems facing the industry. The group, facilitated by Seafish, will be led by the Scallop Association and chaired by Seafish board member Professor Mike Kaiser. The rapporteur for the group will be Tom Pickerell of the Shellfish Association of Great Britain (SAGB).

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