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TheFishSite Latest News
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Norway faults fish farms for 1.2 million escapes OSLO - Norway faulted about 50 fish farming companies on Wednesday for escapes by 1.2 million salmon, cod and trout last year in a new bid to put pressure on firms to tighten their nets.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Lightly salted saithe fillets to Spain NORWAY - Seafood-consuming Spaniards can have more products from which to choose. A new research project will study the market possibilities for frozen, lightly salted saithe in Spain.
Greece's Nireus acquires 17.9 pct of Norway's Marine Farms NORWAY - Nireus announces the acquisition of 17.9% of the Norwegian Company Marine Farms listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The company said it acquired 6,557,497 shares based on the closing price April 16th of 23 NOK (2.85 €) per share.
Monday, April 16, 2007
More research on live storage of caught cod NORWAY - Cod achieves a 30-40 % higher price when it is brought to land live, yet little fish is delivered live. A new international project can explain why.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Increasing value of exported seafood NORWAY - The export value of Norwegian seafood reached NOK 9.8 billion in the first quarter, an increase by NOK 1.4 billion - or 16.5 per cent compared with the same periode last year.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Intervet Participates in the 7th International Symposium on Viruses of Lower Vertebrates OSLO - Karen Elina Christie (Intervet Norbio, Bergen) recently gave a talk at the 7th International Symposium on Viruses of Lower Vertebrates in Oslo (Norway) in April, 2007. The topic covered was the development of a challenge model for efficacy testing...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Focus on feed NORWAY - Feed research is increasing in step with a growing aquaculture industry. Fiskeriforskning has feed as one of its special areas and is therefore co-organiser of the Aquafeed Horizons Conference in the Netherlands.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Farmed escaped salmon traced with DNA NORWAY - A fish farm in western Norway is currently under police investigation after being identified by the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) as the source of a salmon escape. This is the first example of DNA methods being used to trace farmed escaped...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Differentiating salmon NORWAY - Salmon producers are competing for customers, but what are they doing to stand out? And is it profitable to focus on salmon with distinctive characteristics?
Monday, March 19, 2007
Making Salmon 'Stand Out' NORWAY - Salmon producers are competing for customers, but what are they doing to stand out? And is it profitable to focus on salmon with distinctive characteristics?
Monday, March 12, 2007
Norwegian shrimp can reduce high blood pressure NORWAY - Preliminary studies done by Fiskeriforskning show, for example, that shells and heads from Norwegian shrimp likely have a very high content of protein bits that can reduce high blood pressure.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Seafood export value breaks new record NORWAY - The value of Norwegian seafood exports jumped by around NOK 1 billion in the first two months of this year, propelled by higher prices and volume.
Studying breeding cod NORWAY - For the first time, cod from the Norwegian Cod Breeding Programme are being slaughtered. It is now possible to compare properties of the different families, such as fillet weight and liver size.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Shortage of fresh fish NORWAY - Despite increased demands for fresh fish, increasingly more frozen unprocessed fish is being exported. To increase the landings of fresh fish, one possibility is to redistribute quotas.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Freshwater fish on the go NORWAY - Increasingly more people want to start farming of freshwater fish such as charr and perch. Marketing and production are amongst the topics at a special conference on freshwater aquaculture.








