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Mures Fishing Pty Ltd won the Reserve Champion Seafood Award for their Mures Marinated Blue-Eye Trevalla and received the following awards for their seafood products.

AFMA has re-instated closures in the Seiner’s and Everard horseshoe areas off the Victorian coast within the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery.
These closures have been implemented as a precautionary measure to protect Pink Ling and upper-slope dogfish stocks.
The closures apply to all fishing methods in the fishery, and are effective from the 25 May 2010.

BP oil spill has devastated NZ$2 billion worth of fisheries.
The United States government has officially declared a disaster over the damage done to Gulf of Mexico fisheries by the ruptured BP oil well. Currently 20% of the United States' commercial fishing resource in the Gulf has been closed by the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Testing seafood caught in the oil-hit Gulf of Mexico could be necessary for decades following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, according to officials and scientists.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service acting director Rowan Gould said the spill will affect the Gulf, and possibly the entire North American region, for years if not decades.

Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil could help mitigate bone breakdown that occurs during spaceflight and in osteoporosis, Nasa-sponsored studies have revealed.
The scientists found that adding a specific omega-3 fatty acid to cells inhibit the activation of factors that lead to bone breakdown.

Adding seaweed to bread, biscuits and yogurt can reduce the amount of fat absorbed by the body by up to 75%, a new study finds.
The natural fibre alginate found in sea kelp, which is used in small quantities in food as a thickener, helps reduce the absorption, researchers at Newcastle University