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EUROPEAN COMMISSION TABLE REVISED FISHING QUOTAS TO REFLECT 2007 POLITICAL DEALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has tabled a string of revised quotas impacting on British fisherman, to bring European Union (EU) catch limits in line with political deals agreed earlier this year. These include agreements with Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands and a deal struck at the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC).…
CANADIAN SEAFOOD INDUSTRY PUSHES TO EXPLOIT NATURAL RESOURCES ADVANTAGES
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa, and KEITH NUTHALL
IT would almost be hard for Canada not to be one of the seafood industry’s largest global players. After all, surrounded by the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Great Lakes as well, Canada has the world’s longest coastline (244,000 km).…
LIPOSUCTION FAT CAN HELP RESTORE DAMAGED TISSUE SAY SCIENTISTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IDEA that lipsuctioned fat can be processed and turned into useful adult stem cells, able to mutate and regenerate damaged skin, muscle and sinew, is gathering support, with a Norwegian team claiming chemical markers present in cells can identify those with healing properties.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION RELEASES QUOTA AMENDMENTS FOR UK FLEETS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to swiftly approve a range of amended quotas affecting UK fishing fleets, covering haddock and herring in the north east Atlantic, as well as some smaller deep sea catches. Following a deal negotiated in January between the EU, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and Russia on fishing Atlanto-Scandian (Norwegian spring-spawning) herring stock in the north-east Atlantic, European Commission officials have drawn up fresh quotas, to replace those agreed late last year.…
EU ROUND UP: EU FISHING DEALS WITH NORWAY, GABON, GREENLAND, ETC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have ordered a freeze on catches of round-nose grenadier in the North Sea, including in Norwegian waters, saying catches in 2005-6 should match average annual catches in 1996-2003. It is one of a number of conservation-minded measures recently ordered by the EU Council of Ministers, one being a ban on catching and landing white sharks and basking sharks in any EU waters, the ban applying to non-EU and EU-flagged fleets.…
EU ENERGY COMMISSIONER ANDRIS PIEBALGS INTERVIEW: OIL AND GAS ISSUES
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL
1. The Commission is a keen supporter of creating increased gas storage capacities. But who should pay for developing these facilities?
The Commission believes that investment in storage should be left to the market, and the costs allocated through market forces.…
CHILE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY ALGAL BLOOM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FISH farmers in southern Chile are being offered space technology to protect themselves from Harmful Algal Blooms that swarm off the country’s southern coasts, costing the region’s 360 fish farms millions of dollars in lost stocks. The blooms not only poison healthy seawater, they suck in oxygen, asphyxiating caged fish that cannot escape.…
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES PAINT SECTOR FEATURE
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
WITH the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the midst of an unprecedented construction boom, the paint sector is flourishing with contracts of up to half a million dollars underway, 200% growth in fire-resistance paints, and over 16% growth predicted for the sector as a whole this year.…
CHILE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY ALGAL BLOOM
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
FISH farmers in southern Chile are being offered space technology to protect themselves from Harmful Algal Blooms that swarm off the country’s southern coasts, costing the region’s 360 fish farms millions of dollars in lost stocks. The blooms not only poison healthy seawater, they suck in oxygen, asphyxiating caged fish that cannot escape.…
EU ROUND UP - RUSSIA EU GAS SUPPLIES EU REGIONAL GAS REGULATION LIBERALISATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA has sent another threat to Europe over gas supplies, undermining its reputation as a potential reliable energy partner for its western neighbours. Semyon Vainshtok, the president of Russia pipeline monopoly Transneft has told the daily newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta that Russia has "overfed Europe with crude".…