Category: Commercial Fishing
Pelagic leader urges consumers to make mackerel the fish of the day. The Scotsman newspaper (17 October) published an article by Ian Gatt, chairman of the Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group, highlighting the healthy state of ...
Important milestone in the use of fishermen’s information. A report, recently published by ICES, marks an important milestone in the incorporation of information generated by the fishing industry itself into the stock assessment process. The ...
SFF statement on Brexit agreement. The SFF today welcomed the agreement reached between the UK and European Union to secure the UK’s exit from the EU. Three years since the referendum, this agreement provides the ...
UK fisheries agreement signed with the Faroe Islands UK fleet can continue to fish in Faroese waters after Brexit The agreement gives certainty to UK and Faroese fishing fleets Agreement is testament to strong, long-standing ...
Big cuts in Baltic fishing opportunities agreed Significant reduction of fishing opportunities for key Baltic stocks was agreed at this week’s European Fish Council talks in Luxembourg to ensure that six of the eight fully ...
IPNLF build links with Maldives tuna fisheries. International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) staff members, Martin Purves and Zacari Edwards recently accompanied a delegation from St Helena for a capacity building trip to the Maldives. ...
Irish outline Brexit no deal contingency support for fisheries. The Irish Department for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D, has announced details of his Department’s 2020 Budget. The Minister stated, “This budget is ...
Itechmer Expo all set to get underway. Itechmer – the only fisheries exhibition in France that brings together fisheries and aquaculture professionals – gets underway tomorrow (16 to 18 October). Organised by Lorient Bretagne Sud ...
Tuna body awarded UN observer status. The International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF), the non-profit association that is committed to developing and supporting responsible one-by-one tuna fisheries and supply chains, has been awarded observer status ...
EC pushes for long term sustainability of Baltic stocks. Fisheries ministers are meeting at the AGRIFISH Council in Luxembourg on 14 and 15 October to reach a political agreement on the Baltic fishing opportunities for ...
Tuna fishery achieves MSC certification. Longline fishing vessels targeting bigeye and yellowfin tuna under the management of the Marshall Islands Fishing Venture (MIFV), a subsidiary of Liancheng Overseas Fishery (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd (SZLC), have achieved ...
First ship of new Nueva Pescanova fleet heads towards Namibia. The ship Lalandii 1, the first of the seven ships commissioned by Spanish fishing/processing giant, the Nueva Pescanova Group, in a refurbishment programme for part ...
Brim receives environmental award. Icelandic fishing company and seafood processor, Brim, has received The Environmental Awards of Confederation of Iceland Enterprises for the year 2019. President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, presented the awards to ...
The first of a series of super trawlers being built for the Russian Fishery Company at the Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg received names. They are named after the honored veterans of the RFC companies: ...
Med and Black Sea fishing proposal. The European Commission has adopted its first ever proposal on fishing opportunities covering both the Mediterranean and the Black Seas. With this proposal, the Commission is delivering on the ...
Scottish Fishermen Trial Mobile App. Scottish fishermen trial mobile real-time reporting app to avoid unwanted catches. A pioneering collaboration between Scottish fishermen and scientists will allow state-of-the-art technology to be deployed to avoid unwanted catches ...
Fish war warning in event of no deal Brexit. A €14million Irish fisheries aid package, to be distributed in the event of a ‘No-deal’ Brexit, announced in Budget 2020 has been met with a lukewarm ...
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