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  • The Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen has published a review of published studies, and fish farm data, on the health and nutrition benefits of farmed salmon and wider fish consumption.

  • The North Sea herring fishery is marking 20 years of its certification to the Marine Stewardship Council standard for sustainable fishing.

  • With a rise in drone sightings and other suspicious activity, the operators of oil and gas installations in the Atlantic Ocean and North Sea, have called for military protection from possible Russian attacks.

  • Shell has set in train plans to sell it stakes in offshore wind farms worldwide by next year, with this valued at over $1 billion.

  • The boarding and the arrest of the shadow fleet tanker Smyrtos in the English Channel could eventually have implications for Shetland.

  • Sanctioned shadow-fleet tankers regularly pass west of Shetland. Yesterday those were the 273 metre Cameroon-registered Afromax crude-oil tanker Gelor and 274 metre also Cameroon registered Afromax crude-oil tanker Mariel.

  • A Freedom of Information obtained by the Scottish Liberal Democrats has found that under 100 parents in Shetland, and 22,760 parents across Scotland, were in arrears as part of their Child Maintenance Service arrangements with the Department for Work and Pensions.

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