The online newspaper of Tristan da Cunha |
| Issue No. 352 |
Online Edition |
Sunday 1 August 2010 |
This week's top stories:
 Tristan's Latest Fishing News - (28.07.2010)
After waiting for several days for suitable fishing weather, the dong rang on Monday the 26th for the first day of the fishing season, [More...]
Category: Fisheries
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Tristan's Latest Shipping News - (28.07.2010)
 The M.V. Edinburgh arrived at Tristan on the morning of the 22nd July [More...]
Category: Shipping/Freight
| Lobster Total Allowable Catches (TAC’s) for the 2010/11 season approved - (22.07.2010)
The following Total Allowable Catches (TAC’s) for the 2010/2011 season, as recommended by the Fisheries Department and approved by the Island Council at their meeting last week, are as follows; [More...]
Category: Fisheries
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Storm Damages Tristan Da Cunha's Calshot Harbour - (02.07.2010)
On the night of Friday 19th June 2010 a bad storm hit Calshot Harbour, causing severe damage to the west breakwater [More...]
Category: Shipping/Freight
| Tristan Welcomes Katie Marita Repetto - (02.07.2010)
 It is with great pleasure to announce the birth of Katie MaritaRepetto to Paul and Geraldine Repetto on the 7th June in Cape Town [More...]
Category: People
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Tristan's Latest Shipping News - (02.07.2010)
The M.V Edinburgh arrived at Tristan on Thursday 24th June after experiencing some bad weather two days out from Cape Town. [More...]
Category: Shipping/Freight
| Tristan's Annual Ratting Day Results - (12.06.2010)
Ratting Day was held on Friday 21st May. The day was fine with the lee at the Settlement but a bit of breeze at the patches. Overall thought it was a decent day and at least it didn’t rain. [More...]
Category: Health
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New House for Catholic Priest on Tristan - (12.06.2010)
Work has progressed well on the house for the Catholic priest on a site just below St Joseph’s church. [More...]
Category: People
| Tristan da Cunha rock lobster fishery enters full MSC assessment - (27.04.2010)
The sign-board that awaits you when finally reaching Tristan da Cunha Island after a week-long South Atlantic sea voyage from Cape Town says “Welcome to the World’s Remotest Island”. [More...]
Category: Fisheries
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M/V KELSO Should Have Received Another Name - (07.04.2010)
The former M/V KELSO, renamed M/Y TIANIC, is in the news again because an RNLI lifeboatsman helped co-ordinate a Caribbean sea rescue while out DIY shopping in Britain after a friend called to say he [More...]
Category: Shipping/Freight
| Tristan - An RSPB Success Story - (08.01.2010)
 For the past few years, the RSPB under the South Atlantic Invasive Species project has provided poison and bait boxes, to be placed around the settlement and patches area. In all more than 300 bait s [More...]
Category: Conservation
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Gough Island Eradication Project Report - (24.12.2009)
John Cooper, CORE Initiatives, South Africa tells us more. [More...]
Category: Gough Island
| Tristan Science - Research and conservation activities at Inaccessible Island - (19.12.2009)
Peter Ryan & Rob Ronconi tell us about valuable research on Inaccessible Island. [More...]
Category: Inaccessible Island
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Tristan da Cunha in the News - (12.12.2009)
Scientists have long recognized marine transport as a vector for exotic species invasions. But relatively little attention has been given to the transport of semi-submersible rigs - the installations [More...]
Category: Environment
| Tristan Fishing News 11.11.09 - (11.11.2009)
The 2009/10 fishing season has not started very well due to excessivebad weather. [More...]
Category: Fisheries
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Up to the Hub of Utopia – Climbing Tristan da Cunha's Queen Mary's Peak - (26.10.2009)
 In 1516 Thomas Morus published his “Utopia”, the design of an ideal community. Vulnerable as he sensed it to be, he placed it on an imaginary island.
Photos (c) Wolfgang Schaub [More...]
Category: Environment
| Gough and Inaccessible Ramsar Wetlands Designation - (10.08.2009)
 With funding received from the Overseas Territories Environment Programme in 2007, Tristan da Cunha prepared information sheets to allow the UK Government to designate the Gough and Inaccessible Islan [More...]
Category: Conservation
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New Fishing Season Gets Underway at Tristan - (29.07.2009)
 The first official fishing day for the 2009/10 season, with catches being landed into Tristan’s new factory, got underway on the 28th July.
Photo (c) James Glass (Tristan Times) -: One of the fish [More...]
Category: Fisheries
| An Update for Tristan da Cunha's Tourism Industry - (29.07.2009)
 The Tourist Department was set up last year (2008) and had a very successful trial season, since then the Tourist Department has undertaken a few projects. So for those of you who think we are having [More...]
Category: Tourism/Travel
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Tristan Government taking Precautions for Swine Flu - (22.07.2009)
Given the concern of some members of the community at the news from UK about Swine Flu, the Administrator Mr David Morley has issued a public notice, letting the community know what precautions are be [More...]
Category: Health
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