The online newspaper of Tristan da Cunha |
| Issue No. 431 |
Online Edition |
Saturday 4 February 2012 |
This week's top stories:
 Sustainable seafood on the Waterfront: Shoreline Café and Tristan da Cunha rock lobster fishery secure MSC certification - (20.07.2011)
Cape Town’s Two Oceans Aquarium today hosted a special celebration as its Shoreline Café, destination for thousands of hungry visitors each year, became the first restaurant in Africa to be certified to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)[1] Chain of Custody standard for seafood traceability.
Photo (c) Tristan Times [More...]
Category: Fisheries
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The Tristan Song Project - (18.06.2011)
A collaborative song-writing project has started to bring rewards to the children of Tristan da Cunha. [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
| New Fish Factory Opened on Tristan - (20.07.2009)
 The Opening of Tristan’s new Fishing Factory seventeen months after being destroyed by fire.
Photo (c) James Glass (Tristan Times) New Factory: Charl Project Manger of Apple Group: Left to Right - [More...]
Category: Fisheries
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UKOTs IMPORTANT FOR ALBATROSS AND PETRELS SAYS ACAP CO-ORDINATOR - (14.07.2009)
 Anton Wolfaardt is the ACAP coordinator for the UK South Atlantic OTs, based in the Falkland Islands, but working on behalf of the UKOTs of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and SSI, British Antarct [More...]
Category: Conservation
| New Books for Tristan's Children - (10.07.2009)
According to a press release this delivery has happened to the delight of Tristan's children. [More...]
Category: Education
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Tristan small but resourceful - (11.04.2009)
 Photo; Dereck Rogers and Raymond Green from the ANRD Deparment ready to load the potatoes for St Helena [More...]
Category: Financial
| Tristan Celebrates Queen's Day 2009 - (02.04.2009)
 Queen’s Day this year was held on Friday 27th March. Conrad Glass the Chief Islander/Policeman rang the dong at around 6am on the morning so that all the islanders knew that Queen’s Day had begun.
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Category: People
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The worlds Remotest Island gets busy, as tourist visits increase - (23.03.2009)
Tourist vessels visits, to Tristan da Cunha has increase this year to nine visits over the summer. [More...]
Category: Tourism/Travel
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