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IRISH SKIPPER EXPO 2020 Irish Skipper Expo 2020 has been rescheduled to take place on 4 and 5 September at the UL Sport Arena in Limerick, Ireland Now in its 16th year, Irish Skipper Expo 2020 which ...
Support for Scottish Industry Fishing Seafood Sector – The Scottish seafood sector is to receive an initial package of more than £5 million in financial support to assist businesses during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Funding ...
SFF Welcomes Funding – The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation welcomed the funding package for smaller vessels as a good first step to support the industry. SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald said: “The markets that these boats ...
Russian Pollock Catch Increases in Far Eastern Basin – According to the industry monitoring system, by March 24, 2020, in the Far Eastern basin, the Russian pollock catch amounted to 786.8 thousand tons, which is ...
Irish review coronavirus impacts on seafood sector. The Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Micahel Creed T.D., recently met by teleconference all the main representative groups for fishing, representing both the off-shore fleet ...
Fish meal producers call for European agreement on shared stocks. EUfishmeal, the association representing fishmeal and fish oil producers around the North Atlantic, has written to the Ministers of Fisheries of all north-east Atlantic nations, ...
Fish International is Underway – Fish trade fair and industry meeting point for the gastronomy scene in north-west Germany at MESSE BREMEN The trade fairs fish international and GASTRO IVENT began on Sunday, 9 February ...
Peterhead fleet shelters from Storm Ciara Virtually the whole of the Peterhead fleet was tied-up in port at the start of this week, sheltering from Storm Ciara. A good market of over 6,000 boxes on ...
Fishing and processing on the agenda as Scottish Seafood Summit returns to Aberdeen this spring Two day event will provide a platform for Scottish industry to discuss the issues that matter to them The Scottish ...
MSC to Update Standard – The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Board of Trustees has agreed the areas where its globally recognised standard for sustainable fishing could be updated in 2022. The MSC Fisheries Standard sets the bar ...
Drones being used in European fishery surveillance. The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has been closely cooperating with the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) to support enhanced fisheries control by providing additional surveillance capacity from ...
GSSI Welcomes Lerøy Seafood Group. to its Global Partnership. The Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative is pleased to announce Lerøy Seafood Group has joined GSSI as a Funding Partner. Lerøy Seafood Group is a world-leading seafood ...
New board appointment for Sanford New Zealand’s largest seafood company Sanford Limited has announced the appointment of Fiona Mackenzie as the newest member of its board of directors. Her appointment is a consequence of Paul ...
Whale entanglements putting west coast USA fisheries at risk. An ecological pileup of unprecedented changes in the ocean off the West Coast of the USA beginning about 2014 led to record entanglements of humpback and ...
MCA steps up fishing industry monitoring – The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) is stepping up monitoring of the fishing industry and compliance with ILO 188. The MCA will be taking full advantage of resources ...
New Nueva Pescanova vessel heads for Mozambique. The Nueva Pescanova Group has welcomed the new freezer vessel Ponta Matirre to its fleet, which has now left Vigo in Spain for Mozambique. It is first of ...
UK climate change impacts ‘could affect commercial fisheries’. The newly published Marine Climate Change Impact Report Card 2020 says that by 2050, climate change driven impacts ‘could become a major constraint on some commercial species’ ...
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