Category: Commercial Fishing
SFF Statement on Brexit Talks – The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation this weekend urged the Prime Minister to refuse to accept a bad deal for the UK fishing industry. Amid media reports that the EU will ...
Witherbys bolsters board with appointment of David Balston. Witherbys, the maritime publishing experts, has welcomed Royal Navy and industry stalwart David Balston as non-executive director (Deputy Chairman) to provide specialist sector expertise and support the ...
Icelandic small-scale lumpfish fishery regains MSC certification. A small scale lumpfish fishery based in Iceland has regained MSC certification, after making the necessary improvements in the past years to meet the science-based standard for sustainable ...
Atlanto-Scandian herring and blue whiting MSC to be suspended. The independent assessors responsible for certifying fisheries to the MSC Fishery Standard have announced that Atlanto-Scandian herring and blue whiting fisheries will be suspended from the ...
Survitec gives helicopter passengers and crew more air with new emergency breathing system. A new compressed air Emergency Breathing System (EBS) for offshore helicopter passengers and crew introduced by global safety and survival solutions provider ...
NFFO Commemorates Life of Dave Bevan – Former General Manager of NFFO Services Limited, Dave Bevan, has passed away after a short illness and Covid related complications. Dave took over the Services mantle from George Traves ...
VIKING spearheads testing of life-saving marine firefighting foam. VIKING Life-Saving Equipment is driving more investment into its marine fire service business. The inauguration of VIKING’s Foam Lab Odense, which specialises in the testing of a ...
Nine new build pilot boats in the UK to be powered by MAN. MAN to power all nine new build pilot boats ordered by port operator ABP Ports and to be built by Norfolk based ...
Taiwan fishing vessels target dolphins as bait for sharks. Dolphins are being deliberately targeted by Taiwanese fishing vessels to use as bait to catch sharks, an Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) report has found. On just ...
Russian total fish catch remains stable. According to the sectoral monitoring system, the total volume of extraction (catch) of aquatic biological resources by all Russian users as of November 23 amounted to 4,552.85 thousand tons ...
MAIB publishes Marine Accident Statistics for 2019. The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published its Marine Accident Statistics report for 2019. The year saw 1090 accidents reported, a reduction on 2018 (1227). 22 investigations were started, ...
Marine industry set for £9 million investment in new pilot vessels. After a troublesome year, the marine industry is set for a £9 million boost, with the investment into a fleet of new pilot vessels ...
Scots Fisheries Minister calls for Brexit support funding clarity Scottish Fisheries Secretary Fergus Ewing has called on the UK Government to urgently clarify how it will provide the multi-year industry support funding previously supplied by ...
Fish Survivability on the Pier – Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), Ireland’s Seafood Development Agency, has developed a new mobile fish holding unit which facilitates localised survivability experiments close to the action on the fishing grounds. ...
Smart Fish Co-Management (SFC) project launch coincides with the Virtual Myanmar Project Area Identification Meeting The Smart Fish Co-Management (SFC) are running a virtual meeting to bring together stakeholders representing various interests around fisheries co-management ...
MSC urges WTO to end harmful fishing subsidies The Marine Stewardship Council – an environmental not-for-profit whose mission is to end overfishing – has joined calls for the World Trade Organization (WTO) to abolish harmful ...
Flagship Fisheries Bill Becomes Law The Fisheries Bill receives Royal Assent after 10 months in Parliament The new Act allows the UK to take back control of its waters out to 200 nautical miles, as ...
Support tomorrow’s seafood industry, today Fisheries Innovation Scotland (FIS) invites expressions of interest (EoI) from organisations across the world to take part in two new projects designed to help the Scottish seafood industry plan for a prosperous ...
Conservation and enforcement measures agreed for 2021 The North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) gathered, via video conference, for its annual meeting from 10 to 13 November 2020. During the meeting, the European Union and the ...
50 Year Fishing Gear Adventure Hampiðjan’s fishing gear development manager recently retired after a 50-year career with the company during which he has been involved in producing fishing gear and in numerous developments, but there’s ...
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