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Brim joins the fight against marine plastic pollution – Icelandic integrated fish catcher and seafood processor, Brim hf., has become the main sponsor of the environmental organisation The Blue Army […]
Decrease in purse seine vessels authorised to fish for tuna. The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has updated its Large-Scale Tuna Purse Seine Fishing Fleets report as of June 2020. […]
Mackerel and herring could help your vitamin D levels. By Robert Duthie, chairman of the Scottish Pelagic Processors’ Association Swimming an abundance in the seas of our coasts are two […]
NAFC student has been named as ‘Trainee Fishermen of the Year’ in the national Fishing News Awards 2020. Campbell Hunter, who is a crewman on the local whitefish trawler Guiding […]
Pandemic reveals a need for new connectivity solutions for the fishing industry, sates a press release from IEC – Connectivity at sea has never been more important than during these […]
Excellent catches of North Sea herring by Norway. It has been a great week for the Norwegian North Sea herring fishery and another good week for the sandeel fishery, reports […]
Post Brexit Landing Obligation – One of the benefits of leaving the Common Fisheries Policy will be the potential to rethink and redesign the landing obligation reports the NFFO. Initially […]
Dangerous behaviour of gill netters – fishermen urge immediate MCA action. Scotland’s two largest fishing associations are urging the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) to investigate and charge skippers who put […]
Vietnam fights IUU fishing in bid to remove EU yellow card. Vietnam has been taking various measures across its provinces in order to fight IUU fishing so that it can […]
ISSF Welcomes SAPMER as New Participating Company – Joining the World’s Leading Seafood Companies Working to Make Tuna Fisheries More Sustainable. SAPMER is the latest seafood company to join in […]
Seafish passes baton to Global Seafood Assurances. The final Responsible Fishing Vessel Standard (RFVS) has been publicly shared for the first time yesterday. It was officially handed over from Seafish […]
Record catch for Royal Greenland trawler. Recently, the latest addition to Royal Greenland’s fishing fleet, M/tr Avataq, unloaded a record catch of 903 tons of cold-water prawns in Sisimiut, Greenland […]
Majority of fish consumed worldwide comes from sustainable stocks. This week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has unveiled its famous biannual report on the state […]
Hammer Blow for Fishing Communities as a government panel eyes no fishing zones despite existing world beating UK marine protected area network reports the NFFO. The government-sponsored Benyon Review, and […]
New stern trawler for Norway launched. Gondan Shipyard in Figueras, Spain, has launched a new fishing stern trawler built for the Norwegian shipowner Engenes Fiskeriselskap AS. This new vessel, designed […]
Anchored Marine Life in Lockdown. The Anstruther based Scottish Fisheries Museum is creating a podcast to show Scotland in lockdown from the perspective of the fishing industry, coastal communities, the […]
New Dates Announced for Seawork – Mercator Media Ltd has confirmed that, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 23rd edition of Seawork and sister event the M&CCE Expo […]
Canada takes fight against illegal fishing to outer space. It is estimated that IUU fishing accounts for about 30 per cent of all fishing activity worldwide, representing up to 26 […]
Seafish shines a light on positive work to tackle marine litter and end-of-life fishing gear, launching new film on the ‘Battle Against Plastic Waste’ on World Oceans Day. Seafish, the […]
New Date for Irish Skipper Expo in March 2021 – Mara Media, the organiser of Irish Skipper Expo 2020, has been informed by the event venue, UL Sport Arena, that it […]
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