Category: Commercial Fishing
Evaluation of the EMFF – Risk & Policy Analysts (RPA) Ltd have been commissioned by Defra to carry out work on the evaluation of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) and its implementation in ...
Oceans absorb more heat than previously thought. For each of the past 25 years, oceans have absorbed an amount of heat energy that is 150 times the energy humans produce as electricity annually, according to ...
Blue Carbon Forum launched. A new research programme will measure the ability of Scotland’s marine environment to store carbon dioxide and mitigate against the effects of climate change. It will be driven by the introduction ...
Drones aid new marine mammal research – The effects of climate change, human activities and prey availability on whales and dolphins are new areas of focus for the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP). Using ...
New Chairman of AIB Tri Branch Management Board. Air Marshal Sir Richard Frank Garwood, KBE, CB, DFC, has been appointed Chairman of the Tri-Branch Management Board (TMB). The TMB was formed to optimise coordination between ...
Call for government support when industry leaves CFP. Scottish fishermen’s leaders last night called for a practical, joined-up approach from both Westminster and Holyrood governments as the industry prepares to exit the Common Fisheries Policy ...
UK fishing fleet turnover reaches £1billion according to new figures released today. The figures have been published by Seafish, the public body supporting the UK seafood industry from catch to plate, in its ‘Economics of ...
A sixth vessel by Havyard Design for Grupo CBO is now in operation. Havyard and Grupo CBO’s good cooperation culminates in a sixth and, so far, final anchor-handling vessel, which has now been handed over ...
Technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to provide the ship design for a state of the art fishing trawler. The vessel will be unique in having the combined capabilities of twin trawling for many different fish species, ...
A new fishing vessel working conditions law will come into force from this November. The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) will require UK fishing vessels to comply with the International Organization’s Working In Fishing Convention. ...
Peru fisheries transparency applauded by Global Fishing Watch and Oceana. As world leaders gathered in Bali, Indonesia for the fifth-annual Our Ocean conference, Peru has taken bold action to make its national vessel tracking data ...
Marine Accident Investigation Branch, MAIB report on dragging anchor by Celtic Spirit, and the general cargo vessel’s subsequent collisions with Atlantic Explorer and Celtic Warrior, River Humber, England on 1 March 2018 At 02461 on ...
EU reaches MPA target, designating at least 10 % of Europe’s seas as marine protected areas to safeguard marine biodiversity and ecosystems. A total of 10.8 % of the surface of Europe’s seas was designated ...
Milestone for Mediterranean and Black seas at the 42nd annual session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) as it drew to a ‘successful close’ on October 26th. A press statement from the ...
Food companies join Global Ghost Gear Initiative – Today (30 October), at the Our Ocean 2018 conference in Bali, Nestlé, the world’s biggest food company and Tesco, the UK’s biggest supermarket chain, have announced they ...
Faroese Ling and Tusk Fisheries achieve MSC Certification. The Faroese fishery of ling (Molva molva) and tusk (Brosme brosme) has achieved Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification as a sustainable and well-managed fishery. This is the ...
MSC announces £1 million Ocean Stewardship Fund and initiative to support small scale fisheries and those in the Global South on their pathway to sustainability. The MSC, Marine Stewardship Council, has been engaged with fisheries ...
Drill and muster requirements are laid out for the fishing industry in the latest Marine Notice from the Irish Government. The Notice from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport advises everyone concerned in the ...
NFFO Comments on the UK Fisheries Bill as the UK leaves the EU and therefore the Common Fisheries Policy, this Bill is an important staging-post on the way to the UK’s new status as an ...
Gove launches Fisheries Bill to take back control of UK waters – Legislation creating the powers the UK needs to operate as an independent coastal state after leaving the EU was introduced into Parliament yesterday (25 October ...
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