Seafish Blog
6th World Fisheries Congress - a week to remember
Posted by Michel Kaiser, Bangor University on 16 May 2012
Tags: | World Fisheries Congress | Youngs Seafood
Guest blog by Professor
Michel Kaiser, Bangor Univerity
Unless your name is Lord Coe, there aren't many of us that spend four years planning an event on the scale of the World Fisheries Congress.
We finally saw the fruits of our labours unfold in Edinburgh last week and judging by the extensive media coverage the event was a huge success both for the delegates and messages that it conveyed. As one of the lead organisers I can look b...more
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Cooking with Confidence
Posted by Nigel Brown, The Nigel Brown Cookery Academy on 09 May 2012
Tags: | Fish is the Dish | Classis Fish Stock | seafood | restaurants
Guest blog by Nigel Brown of The
Nigel Brown Cookery Academy
Despite its growing popularity at home, it still remains the case that most people are most likely to choose seafood when they're eating out in restaurants. In my experience, many people are still reluctant to cook fish from scratch at home and are unsure about what kind to buy and how prepare, handle and cook it properly.
So, in this blog I though...more
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Is Britain missing a trick in Brussels?
Posted by Jon Harman, Operations Director on 27 April 2012
Tags: | Export | European Seafood Exposition | Seafood Scotland | China | Far East | Russia | Euro | shellfish
I've been coming to the European Seafood Exposition for longer than I care to remember. It was nice though to be able to demonstrate to a former associate that it really isn't necessary to share a taxi from the airport to the show as the free shuttle bus works very well (just think of all the money he could have saved over the...more
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My Fish Top Ten!
Posted by Heather Middleton, Promotions and Marketing Manager on 19 April 2012
Tags: | Fish and chips | cod | discards | omega 3 | Fish is the Dish | Haddock
As one of Seafish's newest recruits and being tasked with carefully minding the 'Fish is the Dish' baby for Jo Dunlop while she's on maternity leave, I've learned a lot in my first two months. As a Marketer I could probably talk for Britain, if it wer...more
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Hats off to Iceland Fishermen’s Training
Posted by Keir Day, Safety Theme Leader on 03 April 2012
Tags: | Safety at Sea | fishermen | safety training | Iceland
During a recent visit to Iceland by Jon Harman and myself we were kindly invited by Captain Hilmar Snorrason who is Principal of the Maritime Safety and Training Centre in Reykjavik, aboard their training vessel.
This fine ship was once a car ferry which was bought for £10 and then converted into a mobile training vessel by local fishing companies, fishermen, engineers and donations from interested parties. The vessel delivers courses all aro...more
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Aquaculture in the spotlight
Posted by Karen Green, Secretary, Aquaculture Common Issues Group on 26 March 2012
Tags: | Aquaculture Common Issue Group | Seafood Certification Network | Aquaculture Stewardship Council | Pangasius | European Martitime Fisheries Fund | Climate Change | Farm Animal Welfare Committee
Current
issues affecting the aquaculture industry were once more at the
fore as the Seafish-facilitated Aquaculture Common Issues
Group (ACIG) met in London on 15 March. This is an excellent
forum for exchange of information, bringing together bodies from
across the fish farming supply chain.
The future of the UK aquaculture ...more
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Alphabet Oils
Posted by Jon Harman, Operations Director on 21 March 2012
Tags: | omega 3 | Fish is the Dish | Fish Oils | Omega 6
Research by my colleague, Karen Galloway (Head of Marketing at Seafish) and her team consistently shows that consumers now have a good understanding of the significant health benefits of consuming fish oils. Karen explored in her blog last year some of the issues around the choice between taking pi...more
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One year on: still monitoring seafood for Fukushima radioactivity
Posted by Ivan Bartolo,Regulatory Affairs, Imports on 12 March 2012
Tags: | Fukushima Regulation | radioactive | contaminated imports | European Commission | Pacific-sourced fish
As we all remember so well, on 11 March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the east coast of Japan caused a major tsunami which also hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The massive damage and subsequent fire-fighting activities released radioactive material into surrounding land areas and the sea.
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To all friers, friends and fish lovers…
Posted by Alastiar Horabin, Seniors NW Ltd. on 09 March 2012
Tags: | Fish and Chip Shop of the Year 2012 | Fish Frier
Guest blog
by Alastair Horabin of Seniors When I was asked to write this by Dr
Jon Harman I thought, "No problem I will have plenty of time to
construct a masterpiece!" However, in reality I am six weeks into
my reign as Fish and
Chip Shop of the Year winner and since then have got into more
areas, subjects and arguments than I could have ever dreamt of -
not to mention becoming a new fat...more
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Industry group focuses on drive to improve selectivity measures to reduce discards
Posted by Karen Green, DAG Secretariat on 07 March 2012
Tags: | discards | defra | Discard Action Group | Felxible grid system | Irish Sea | Scottish nephrops trawler
New
selectivity measures and how the fishing industry is really trying
to 'gear-up' to reduce discards was one of the key themes at the
latest Seafish-facilitated Discard Action Group meeting, held in
Defra's offices in London last week.
This group meets three to four times a year and acts as forum for comment and consensus on what needs to be done to drive the changes necessary to reduce discards. The meeting was very well ...more
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