Category: Commercial Fishing
MAIB Report on Fishing Vessel Collision between fishing vessel Achieve and general cargo ship Talis, Tynemouth, 8 November 2020. Summary: On 8 November 2020, the UK registered fishing vessel Achieve (HL257) collided with the Panama registered general ...
Success for Canada’s ghost gear programme Abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear, or ‘ghost gear,’ is a leading cause of marine debris around the world and has damaging impacts on global fish stocks and marine ...
Guernsey grants fishing licences to 40 French vessels The continuous efforts of the European Commission have led to Guernsey granting permanent fishing licences to 40 vessels, and declaring 3 others as meeting the qualification criteria. ...
EU and Seychelles take stock of the 2020-2026 Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement EU and Seychelles representatives met on 24-26 November in Victoria, Seychelles to take stock of the 2020-2026 Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA). During ...
Pacific Islands unite against sustainability challenges of tuna stocks. Making sure the tuna fisheries of the Western and Central Pacific remain sustainable is one of the driving aims of Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) ...
NZ pāua fishery reopens. Kaikōura’s pāua fishery has reopened in New Zealand after being closed for 5 years following the 2016 earthquakes that caused significant seabed uplift and damage to the marine habitat. The decision ...
Russia to build own fish processing plants to end reliance on China. Russia will build its own processing plants, which will make it possible to end dependence on China. Instead of bringing raw fish to ...
New strategic partnership between SPFA and Shetland UHI will boost pelagic fish stock science. The Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association (SPFA) and Shetland UHI have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a strategic partnership agreement ...
Maritime charity calls for industry-wide collaboration to support the future health of the seafaring community. Charities, ship owners, charterers and other stakeholders in the maritime industry must work together to create a culture of care ...
Canada ‘pleased’ with ICCAT outcome. Canada says it is pleased with the outcomes reached at the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) meeting, which concluded on November 23. A statement from the ...
Jersey fisheries support scheme is extended. A scheme to financially support Jersey’s fishing industry has been extended to the end of the year with up to £400,000 of funding available. Since May 2021, the Fisheries ...
EU fishing industry disappointed by ICCAT’s decisions. Europêche represented the European fishing fleet at the 27th ordinary meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) following a week of intensive negotiations ...
ICCAT deliver ambitious outcome, claims EU. After days of intense negotiations, the EU and the 49 Contracting Parties of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) have concluded this year’s annual meeting. ...
Green deal in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. The European Commission completed its proposal for the 2022 fishing opportunities in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, adopted on 17 September 2021. With this non-paper, the Commission ...
Less than one week left to take part in Scottish fisheries and climate change survey. There is less than one week left to take part in a Marine Scotland survey to help us understand how ready ...
Killybegs scheme to reduce trawler emissions. Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue T.D., has visited Killybegs to view the ‘Cold Ironing Project’ in Killybegs Harbour. Cold ironing, a shipping term that ...
Electronic observation versus manual methods of recording fish catches. Electronic observation systems on board fishing vessels (also known as Electronic Monitoring or EM) are the most accurate and reliable source of data for the development ...
Trio of young Scots fishers receive funding boost. New entrants to fishing have been able to apply for Scottish Government funding towards the purchase of a second hand fishing vessel. To coincide with World Fisheries ...
Fish landings drop at Lerwick. Activity across several sectors at Lerwick Harbour has shown signs of recovery in the third quarter of this year, contributing to improved traffic figures for the first nine months compared ...
EU fleet maintains profits. The 2021 Annual Economic Report on the EU Fishing Fleet confirms that in 2019, the fleet maintained overall profitability. The report projects similar profitability levels for 2020, despite the effects of the ...
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