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Kingfisher Fortnightly Bulletin Issue 02 2011 Cable

News of offshore activities for the Oil & Gas, Subsea Cable and Wind Farm industries

Supply Chain & Consumer Panel Minutes - October 2021

The Minutes of the Supply Chain & Consumer Panel meeting, held on Wednesday 27 October 2021.

Discards article In Fishing New (1 of 6). Introduction to the topic.

In the first of a series of six articles, Mike Montgomerie, gear technologist at Seafish, gives his perspective on the discards issue and the work that Seafish, along with industry, has been doing to help develop new selective technologies and net-based fishing activities to reduce discards. In this article he looks at the reasons why fish are discarded and suggests how to make an elementary estimation of catch profile.This article appeared in Fishing News on 5 August 2011.

B48_Cod and Haddock Gut Bacteria_Final Report

The bacterial diversity contained within samples collected from the stomach of both haddock and cod was examined. In both cases, examples of microbes identified in the digestive tract of other vertebrates were observed. However, the majority of sequences identified were most similar to sequences which had previously been found in ‘environmental’ samples (e.g. soil samples). This is suggests that the bacterial community within the stomach of these fish is directly influenced by microbes being swallowed. This is different from the observations which have been reported for mammalian gut environments, where the food ingested (as opposed to the bacteria themselves) influence the bacterial population. This point is re-iterated by the relative abundance of sequences which were found which had high similarity to chloroplasts, which previously have constituted a minor level of contamination in other gut systems studied, suggestive of there not being a particularly strongly established bacterial population within the stomach of these fish.

FS11_06.09 Reducing discolouration of frozen at sea haddock

Some frozen at sea haddock develops a yellow discolouration, which although not harmful is a major problem for the UK seafood industry. Resolving this problem would potentially protect and make available £145m of legally caught haddock which is currently rejected. This represents nearly 50% of the total haddock market, which is worth £288m in the UK alone.

FS6-11.08 Nov 2008 Fuel additives

As part of an integrated research programme looking at improving fuel efficiency for fishing vessels Seafish has tested eight diesel fuel additives for red diesel to assess manufacturer’s claims that their use leads to a reduction in fuel consumption. The results of the work indicate that there were no discernible improvements in fuel economy when using diesel fuel additives under test cell conditions. Only one additive showed a saving of around 1%. The other seven additives showed no significant effect on the fuel consumption of the test engine through the test cycle used. If the results from the tests are typical of real duty cycles, then the use of additives would increase operating costs for fisherman as they would have to pay for the additive as well as for the fuel.

Seafish Summary - Global picture of world aquaculture August 2012

Seafish summary showing the global picture of world aquaculture based on the United Nations Food and Aquaculture Organisation report: The State of Fisheries and Aquaculture 2012 and the OECD – FAO Agricultural Outlook: Chapter on Fish Projections 2012 – 2021. Both published July 2012.

Hyperbooks - Shellfish Guidance Notes

Shellfish guidance notes.

Final Minutes DAG meeting 18 July 2017

Final notes of the Discard Action Group meeting held at Friends House, London on 18 July 2017.

Guidance on Packaging and Packaging Waste

This guide is intended to give guidance on the legal requirements that businesses should consider when designing packaging for products to be placed on the market within the EU. It also gives guidance on the legal obligations that larger businesses may have in contributing to the packaging waste recovery targets of the UK.

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