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LIQUOR NICKERS
Keith Nuthall
THREE Sky Chef employees have been charged in connection with theft of over US$1.5 million worth of miniature bottles of spirits from the company’s ‘Bonded Room’ in John F. Kennedy airport, New York. Each of the three men has been charged with burglary and/or criminal possession of stolen property and face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.…
EU FOOD AUTHORITY LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has attempted to speed up preparations to launch the European Food Authority, by setting up an interim scientific advisory forum that will provide expert advice on food policy, ahead of the establishment of a permanent committee.…
smokecloak
BY ALAN OSBORN
(maximum marks for this one, I think. Only drawback – it’s only as good as the alarm system it comes with.)
Price (installed):
the 2000 model (155 cubic metres) – pounds 1,350
the 4000 model (250 cubic metres) – pounds 1,800
the 8000 model (400 cubic metres) – pounds 2,200
Contact:
Smokecloak
10 Cochran Close, Crownhill
Milton Keynes, Bucks.…
COD FARMING
BY MONICA DOBIE
RECENT findings in cod farming lab experiments, performed in Newfoundland, Canada, have provided some encouraging results, rekindling hope that cod aquaculture may soon thrive.
Joel Bell, a marine biologist at Memorial University in St. John’s, the Newfoundland capital, has been performing lab tests on cod since 1995, and most recently, discovered techniques that may help higher numbers of baby cod grow into mature fish.…
BY MONICA DOBIE
A CANADIAN government advisory group has called for increased numbers of seals to be hunted, to help recovering Atlantic fish stocks, which are estimated to be at 10 per cent of what they were 20 years ago.
The Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC) said that the seal population has over-expanded and that its numbers must be controlled.…
STORMS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agriculture Organization has proposed a disaster management strategy to reduce the effect of storms on food production, regarding damage to standing crops, livestock, household property, production assets and physical infrastructure, which can result in food supply shortages.…
FOOD WORLD - MAY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Morocco have failed to strike an agreement which would allow Spanish and Portuguese fishing boats to take catches in Moroccan waters, bringing to an unsuccessful end six months of detailed discussions. The result is that the previous agreement, which expired in 1999, and which allowed 500 European boats to exploit catches including tuna and shrimp, is not expected to be renewed.…
ENVIRONMENT REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union countries are still achieving economic growth at the cost of exhausting the world’s natural energy and mineral resources, a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) has claimed.
Based on data for years up to 1997, the agency concludes that: “EU countries have made little progress towards preventing economic growth from translating into higher natural resources use.…
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a pre-requisite of successful policy making that public authorities need to have an accurate picture of the status quo, and also an effective way of measuring the results of reforms. Maybe nowhere is this truer than with the complex subject of sustainable agriculture and rural development.…
FAO SUB COMMITTEE
KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation has formally decided to set up a new Sub-Committee on Aquaculture, serve as an intergovernmental forum for information exchange, discussion and consensus-building on emerging issues in fish farming. The FAO said that the sub-committee would provide guidance for governments and international bodies on technical and policy matters.…