Seaweed Generation plans to develop its AlgaRay (patent pending) technology, which intercepts and sinks invasive Sargassum into the deep ocean, before it can reach coasts.
Seaweed Generation CEO, Paddy Estridge, describes the AlgaRay as “PacMan meets a Roomba - the AlgaRay eats the Sargassum, then deposits it in the deep ocean”.
The closure measure of the 87 fishing zones is going to generate more problems than those relating to the bottom trawling fleets and others to which the measure is being applied. In fact, the shipowners of Ondarroa have described the closure of vulnerable marine ecosystems (VME, in English) as a "hammer blow", as ordered by the EU Commission. According to Kiko Marin, from the Ondarroa Producers Organization, «a good part of the areas that are closed are in the cliffs (usual fishing areas for fixed gear vessels, such as longliners and flyers.
Logista, one of the largest logistics operators in southern Europe, announces the acquisition of 100%, for 51 million euros, of the refrigerated and frozen food transport and logistics activity spun off from the Carbó Collbatallé Group, which will continue to hold the exploitation of its patrimonial activity.
Through this purchase, Logista reinforces the catalog of services it offers its customers, by "incorporating complementary capabilities in controlled temperature, fundamentally in the frozen range.
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A company that uses a product extracted from shellfish exoskeletons to make a green alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) packaging has been shortlisted for an award by the Global Seafood Alliance (GSA).
California-based Cruz Foam uses chitosan – a refined version of chitin, the biopolymer found in crustacean shells - to make its biodegradable EPS alternative.
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The Spanish government sanctioned two fishing vessels, Releixo and Egaluze, with a fine of €20,000 for turning off their automatic identification systems (AIS) on several occasions without cause, which is illegal for Spanish fishing vessels.
During the 4-year period between 2012 and 2016, the two vessels appeared to disable their AIS devices over 1000 hours.
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The Nueva Pescanova Group, Telefónica España and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will work together to further the digital transformation process of the Spanish multinational company dedicated to the fishing, farming, processing and marketing of seafood products.
More specifically, this agreement includes the centralisation of the Nueva Pescanova Group’s information and the standardisation of its technological platforms across the different countries in which it operates.
Lands in Madrid the campaign "Fish and Seafood of Spain" organized by the National Federation of Fishermen's Guilds (FNCP) in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Food of Spain.
With the aim of encouraging knowledge and consumption of the most representative species caught by Spanish coastal and coastal fishermen
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From the Association of Extractive Fishing Meat Processing Units of Galicia, AFRIPEX, they want convey our total rejection and disagreement with the drastic measure adopted by the European Commission to veto bottom fishing in 87 areas of Community waters, which is scheduled to come into force on October 9.
“The adoption of such measures without prior analysis and consideration of the socioeconomic impact that may derive from them, as well as the apparent absence of a scientific basis that justifies their implementation
The Chilean Salmon Council, a guild made up of AquaChile, Australis, Cermaq, Mowi and Salmones Aysén, says the number of workers they employed in Q2 2022 has increased by nearly 6 percent, or 918 people, over Q2 2021.
“The different figures in the report show an improvement in the generation of employment by salmon farming, compatible with the rise in exports of Chilean salmon to the world,” says Joanna Davidovich, executive director of the Salmon Council.
Author: Liza Mayer / SalmonBusiness | Read the full articlehere
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Seaweed Generation plans to develop its AlgaRay (patent pending) technology, which intercepts and sinks invasive Sargassum into the deep ocean, before it can reach coasts.
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The closure measure of the 87 fishing zones is going to generate more problems than those relating to the bottom trawling fleets and others to which the measure is being applied. In fact, the shipowners of Ondarroa have described the closure of vulnerable marine ecosystems (VME, in English) as a "hammer blow", as ordered by the EU Commission. According to Kiko Marin, from the Ondarroa Producers Organization, «a good part of the areas that are closed are in the cliffs (usual fishing areas for fixed gear vessels, such as longliners and flyers. 13_25_54.png)
Logista, one of the largest logistics operators in southern Europe, announces the acquisition of 100%, for 51 million euros, of the refrigerated and frozen food transport and logistics activity spun off from the Carbó Collbatallé Group, which will continue to hold the exploitation of its patrimonial activity.
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A company that uses a product extracted from shellfish exoskeletons to make a green alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) packaging has been shortlisted for an award by the 
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The Spanish government sanctioned two fishing vessels, Releixo and Egaluze, with a fine of €20,000 for turning off their automatic identification systems (AIS) on several occasions without cause, which is illegal for Spanish fishing vessels. 17_50_47(1).png)
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Lands in Madrid the campaign "Fish and Seafood of Spain" organized by the National Federation of Fishermen's Guilds (FNCP) in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Food of Spain. 11_29_12(1).png)
From the Association of Extractive Fishing Meat Processing Units of Galicia, AFRIPEX, they want convey our total rejection and disagreement with the drastic measure adopted by the European Commission to veto bottom fishing in 87 areas of Community waters, which is scheduled to come into force on October 9.
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The Chilean Salmon Council, a guild made up of AquaChile, Australis, Cermaq, Mowi and Salmones Aysén, says the number of workers they employed in Q2 2022 has increased by nearly 6 percent, or 918 people, over Q2 2021.
