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Rare dolphins accidently caught off New Zealand – Fisheries New Zealand has received two reports from commercial fishers of Hector’s dolphins caught during trawl fishing off the East Coast of the South Island this summer. ...
Safety equipment for Shetland inshore fleet – The Shetland Fishermen’s Association has begun distributing safety equipment to its members in the inshore fleet. It follows the award of a European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF) grant ...
Flounders in decline in the Baltic. Over the past 40 years, there has been a dramatic decline in fishery landings of an iconic Baltic Sea fish: the flounder. In the 1980s, the landings of the ...
Busy time for Fraserburgh fishing fleet – Our picture here shows a busy scene comprising Fraserburgh’s small boat fishing fleet earlier this week, which appeared to be thriving when Fish Focus visited.This sector focuses on ...
Australian Commercial Fish Stocks Sustainable – Seafood Industry Australia (SIA), has welcomed a paper Oceans & Atmosphere denouncing claims by Graham Edgar Seafood Industry Australia’s response to L. Richard Little, Jemery Day, Malcolm Haddon, Neil ...
MSC Fisheries Standard Review Details Announced – The Board of Trustees for the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has confirmed the list of 16 topics that will be reviewed in the next stage of its Fisheries Standard ...
EC adopts contingency proposals to mitigate no-deal Brexit on EU fisheries – Given the continued uncertainty in the UK surrounding the ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement, the European Commission has adopted two legislative proposals to ...
Moroccan Fisheries Stand Still according to an article published in The North Africa Post. Morocco’s fisheries output stood at 1.31 million tons in 2018, a figure the same as output levels for 2017 the national ...
Howard Dawson of Red Lobster joins GSA board of directors, effective immediately, Global Seafood Assurances has announced. Dawson, executive VP and general counsel of Red Lobster Seafood Co. is responsible for legal affairs as well ...
Ocean Outcomes in new global partnership with Conservation International which they say will work to establish a more sustainable seafood supply chain. A statement on the Ocean Outcomes website said: “By leveraging each other’s experience ...
Ocean Disclosure Project expands format to include seafood ratings from a variety of nongovernmental and governmental sources. From January 2019 onwards, the ODP will incorporate seafood sustainability ratings for wild fisheries from the Monterey Bay ...
Canadian fishers call for suspension of seismic activity. The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is once again calling on the Canada/Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) to suspend offshore ...
Morgere Trawl Doors to Exhibit at Galway – Morgere has strong historical links with Ireland and their trawl doors have been widely used by Irish fishermen for many years. Morgère Trawl Doors to exhibit at ...
Rock Lobster Fishers Oppose Plan – Western Australia’s rock lobster fishers are united in their opposition to the State Government’s plan to seize a 17 per cent commercial stake in the industry. Speaking last month, ...
New Quad Rig Technology Demonstrated – During a recent trip to Hirtshals in Denmark to the North Sea Centre’s flume tank, a group of visitors organised by Hampiðjan were introduced to a new quad rig ...
Canadian initiative for sustainable marine fisheries – The Government of Canada is making targeted investments in deploying clean technology solutions that will help fisheries related businesses in British Columbia (BC) become more clean, green and ...
An innovative new Fishing net waste project has been announced to explore how fishing net waste can be reused. Scottish net manufacturer is partnering with Abertay University on an environmentally-friendly new project that they hope ...
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