Turkey’s Cemre Shipyard has awarded Norwegian company Hydroniq Coolers a contract to deliver the marine cooling system to two wellboats the yard is building, including what will be the world’s largest live fish carrier.

Hydroniq Coolers will supply its hull-integrated “Rack” seawater cooling system to the 110-metre-long Seigrunn and the smaller Seifjell, which are being built for Norwegian wellboat company Seistar Holding.

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Neutral report is the judgment of the financial market.

Mowi released its third quarter trading update on Monday morning. Here it appeared that the operating profit was somewhat weaker than the investment banks’ estimates.

The harvest volume in Norway was 71,000 tonnes for the quarter, against consensus estimates of 66,300 tonnes. 

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The latest vessel to join the aquaculture industry is the 73.40 metre LOA by 16.45 metre beam Bakkanes, which has been commissioned to operate for Faroese fish farming group Bakkafrost, operating mainly on sites in Scotland.

The former oil industry supply vessel Viking Athene has been converted at the Mest Shipyard in Skála and renamed Bakkanes. It has been fitted with an FLS delousing system for handling salmon held in cages along the Scottish coast.

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The conference will discuss the results of Norwegian seafood exports in 2021, the outlook for next year and the consequences that the pandemic has left in the sector.

Find out how Norwegian seafood exports turned out in 2021 and what the outlook will be for next year at the Norwegian Seafood Council Conference on January 5, 2022.

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Shipping is facing a major crisis with a shortage of containers and rising freight rates and a high dollar. The effects are not yet 100% reflected, but they are already looming and an uncertain scenario is predicted. Moisés Woll, president of the Peruvian Maritime Association (Asmarpe), explained that the maritime transport situation is due to market disruptions due to the pandemic. The rapid reactivation of the economies triggered an increase in the demand for the products, since the importing countries depleted their stocks.

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Seafish, the public body that supports the seafood industry in the UK, is urging seafood businesses across the country to get up to speed on the impacts of climate change.

In a campaign launched today, Seafish is highlighting the importance of both mitigation, reducing our contributions to climate change; and adaptation, preparing for and responding to the impacts of a changing climate.

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“If the EU wants to apply proportionate sanctions, or proportionate tariffs, it would be good from the EU’s point of view to pick, for example, Scottish smoked salmon”.

With talks underway on the renegotiation of the Northern Ireland Protocol that governs trade  along the border between Northern Ireland (in the UK) and the Republic of Ireland (in the EU), key EU member states say they’ve asked the European Commission to prepare “targeted retaliation” against the UK.

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Waste material from fish processing could be used to create one of the key components in the production of textiles.

A team of Scottish researchers is exploring a new bio-based process that uses enzymes to create adipic acid, a precursor to nylon.

Plastic experts from Impact Solutions; biotechnology researchers from the University of Edinburgh led by Dr Stephen Wallace; seafood producer Farne Salmon, part of Labeyrie Fine Foods; and the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) are exploring the feasibility of a more environmentally friendly

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The Norwegian Labour Party’s deputy leader, Bjørnar Skjæran, was today confirmed as the country’s new fisheries minister, although he gets a slightly different title to outgoing fisheries and seafood minister Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen.

Skjæran will be minister of fisheries and maritime affairs, a title that reflects an expanded role, following victory for Labour and its left-leaning allies in a general election last month.

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Since being unveiled more than a year ago by researchers at the Norwegian-based Ocean Space Acoustics (OSAC) there has been growing interest in the PingMe reporting tool set to bring an end to the financial and environmental impacts for fishermen who lose their pots, gill nets and even trawl gear.

As senior Sales Executive Petter Pettersen explains, when OSAC set about this development, they collaborated with research institute SINTEF to find a workable and affordable solution to work towards achieving cleaner oceans but to also aid fishermen to avoid potential costly losses of fishing equipment.

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