Casting the Net Project – The Ring Net bus is a fishing boat on wheels. It was designed by Tarbert Primary School pupils to spark memories of ring net fishing […]
Management measures agreed for 2019 – Agreement reached on blue whiting and Atlanto-Scandian herring last week, in London, delegations of the European Union, the Faroe Islands, Norway and Iceland, with […]
Norway seafood exports up with 2 million tonnes of seafood exported with a total value of NOK 71 billion so far this year. This represents a volume increase of 174,000 […]
Karmenu Vella urges for sustainable Baltic fishing. Speaking after the Agrifish Council which dealt with fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea, held on 15 October, the EU Fisheries Commissioner warned […]
Omega 3 in seafood linked to healthy ageing. Health experts recommend that people should try to eat two portions of fish per week, one of which should be an oily […]
EU lacks ambition in setting fishing quotas for the Baltic Sea, says Europêche. EU Fisheries Ministers reached an agreement on fishing opportunities for 2018 for the ten stocks in the […]
Marine litter in the North Sea to be mapped according to a recent article published on the DTU website (Technical University of Denmark). How much marine litter is floating around […]
Latest figures show a small increase in volume landed for the Scottish fleet and that in 2017 Scottish-registered fishing vessels landed 466 thousand tonnes of sea fish and shellfish with […]
The new Peterhead Fish Market secures the highest AA rating for food safety and quality just three months after opening for business. Assessors from BRC Global Standards granted the market […]
New fisheries research appointment for pioneering fishing industry sampling scheme Dr Katie Brigden has been appointed as Fisheries Scientist to work on a pioneering fish industry ‘self-sampling’ scheme for pelagic […]
11.000 tonnes of Blue Whiting were caught in five weeks by Greenlandic pelagic vessel Polar Amaroq which has a variety of trawls for the various fisheries it pursues through the […]
UK seafood industry statistics UK vessels landed 701 thousand tonnes of sea fish into the UK and abroad with a value of £936 million in 2016, according to the Marine Management […]
Increase in value and tonnage for Scottish fishing fleet Latest figures show that in 2017, Scottish-registered fishing increase in value and tonnage for the Scottish fishing fleet when vessels landed […]