Italian seafood fans can now enjoy responsibly-sourced poke thanks to I LOVE POKE, the first poke chain to offer ASC and MSC certified seafood. Currently, sixty I LOVE POKE stores in Italy are ASC and MSC certified, meaning all of their salmon comes from certified farms and all their tuna comes from certified fisheries. This number is destined to grow as more stores achieve certification.

I LOVE POKE operates over one hundred stores throughout Italy after setting up the first pokeria in the country in 2017

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Salmon prices last week climbed to what is being described in Norway’s seafood trade press as “insane” levels.

According to Statistics Norway they hit a record NOK 94.63 a kilo (£8.23), but that is seen as merely an official rate.

The salmon sector is saying that the real figure is now well over NOK 100 a kilo (£8.68) – and rising. They had been expected to come down after the holiday. Salmon prices are now almost double the figure of this time last year.

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A judge has ordered Canada’s federal government to reverse its decision to close 19 salmon farms in the Discovery Islands, British Columbia.

Former fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan announced the decision on December 17, 2020 and gave the farms until June 2022 to finish growing existing fish. She placed an immediate ban on transfers of smolts to the sites.

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Aid to the fleet for diesel may be granted from May, according to Minister Luis Planas. One of the priorities of the Ministry will be the renewal of the fleet

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has been interviewed by DIARIO CÓRDOBA, in which he has explained the support measures for the fleet such as 20 cents to reduce the price, a cost that can reach between 35 and 40% of the operating costs of a fishing vessel depending on the size and the fishing ground in which it carries out its activity.

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Again Brussels has been daunted by Norway. And twice. It has not been able to assign itself the cod quota that corresponds to it by virtue of international treaties; nor has it had the guts to respond with the forcefulness it deserves to the unilateral imposition, without prior negotiation, of a ban on trawlers in waters that fall under its jurisdiction but in which community vessels are authorized to fish. As much as the diplomatic machinery has been put to work, the reproaches remain at that: in the papers of an exchange of notes.

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Six associations and three SPOs that bring together more than 300 vessels from practically all segments with a presence in the most important fishing grounds in the world, high internationalization, as well as the provision of services for the sector, make ARVI, the Cooperative of Shipowners of Vigo , in one of the leading fishing organizations on the community scene. We interviewed its president, Javier Touza, in the April issue of IP.

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A pioneering research project, designed to unlock the true potential of sustainable shrimp production in the UK using renewable energy technology, has received a multi-million pound funding boost.

The pivotal new project, led by the University of Exeter in partnership with the University of Reading and Rothamsted Research, will aim to establish the UK as a world leader in sustainable, environmentally friendly shrimp farming.

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The Dutch fishing industry is set to attempt to overthrow the democratic vote of the European Parliament and impose electric-pulse fishing in the North Sea based on a dissertation to be published tomorrow, Monday 25 April 2022.

Horror stories about the effect of pulse fishing can definitely be thrown in the trash claim Dutch fishermen.

“We find no substantial negative effects of electrical stimulation on marine animals,” says Pim Boute about the pulse technique used in the North Sea fishery for sole.

The Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association has condemned the continuing presence of a fleet of Russian midwater freezer trawlers fishing for blue whiting in the UK’s shared zone with the Faroe Islands.

Not only does this come against the background of international condemnation of Russian aggression in Ukraine, but blue whiting is also being caught in the area that is much larger than the historic Faroe share recommended by ICES. 

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The Fisheries Producer Organizations (SPOs) are "a necessary and key tool to promote business management, improve planning and the competitiveness and profitability of the fisheries sector," said the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, yesterday, in the inauguration of the working day on these entities that was held in Madrid and coordinated by the Organization of Fishing Producers of the Port and Ría de Marín (Opromar). But the rules by which they are guided are going to change. And its financing too.

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