Industrial Production Down 6.7 Per Cent in 2009

CHILE - The Chilean salmon sector has marked a 6.7 per cent decline in production in 2009.

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Tough Market Takes Blame for Firm’s Layoffs

January 29, 2010 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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SCOTLAND, UK - A Scottish salmon processing firm has blamed the "tough market" for its decision to make staff redundant at its Borders base.

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Harmonised Regional Management Plan Implemented

January 29, 2010 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Grieg Seafood announced today that it is making in season production changes to its operations in Esperanza Inlet on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, in order to implement a Harmonised Regional Management Plan for the area. Grieg has five farm sites in Esperanza Inlet.

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MEP’s Set Out Fisheries Policy

January 28, 2010 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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EU - More responsibility for fishermen, rules favouring good fishing practice and adjusting fisheries management models to complement and improve the traditional quota system should be among the key aims of common fisheries policy reform, say MEPs in an own-initiative report approved by the Fisheries Committee.

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Australia Host 2014 World Aqauculture

January 28, 2010 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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AUSTRALIA - The 2014 World Aquaculture Conference will be hosted by South Australia in Adelaide.

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Irrigators Say Fish Farming Fails

January 28, 2010 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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AUSTRALIA - Some irrigators in the north-west of Victoria say that aquaculture, or the growing fish in dams, is a waste of money.

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Salmon Harvests Fall

January 27, 2010 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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CHILE - Chilean salmonids harvests totalised 354,200 tonnes as of November 2009 representing a downfall of 35.2 per cent compared with the same period of 2008 according to figures submitted by the Chilean Fisheries Under-Secretariat (Subpesca).

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New Watermen Association Growing

January 27, 2010 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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US - More than 100 Eastern Shore watermen have formed a new lobbying group called the Chesapeake Bay Commercial Fishermen's Association.

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Trial To See Fish Farmed In Waste Water

January 27, 2010 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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AUSTRALIA - Wannon Water is embarking on an innovative research project to investigate the feasibility of aquaculture as a tool in treating sewage.

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Marine Harvest Will Double Its Smolts Seeding

January 26, 2010 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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CHILE - Chile’s salmon industry - devastated by the Infectious Salmon Anemia disease (ISA) -is finally starting to recover, says Norwegian-owned Marine Harvest Chile General Manager Alvaro Jiménez.

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