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Adaptive fisheries strategies will reap dividends, says EDF. New research published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science shows that adapting fishing intensity to the health of fish populations is […]
New Mapping App to Identify Discard Hotspots. The Marine Institute has developed a new online application to help the fishing industry identify areas with consistent catch rates over multiple years. […]
Majority of tuna catch from healthy stocks – Of the total tuna catch, 86% came from stocks at “healthy” levels an unchanged share since last reported in October 2018, according […]
Chilean fishing company achieves certification with Friend of the Sea Chilean fishing company Pesquera Friosur has achieved Friend of the Sea certification for three vessels and a processing plant. The firm targets Southern Hake, […]
Russian Fishery Company, RFC simplifies crew employment procedure. The Russian Fishery Company has opened the corporate Personnel Center in Vladivostok. The new center has implemented a single window system and […]
Norwegian cod update. Norwegian Fresh cod volumes decline but exports of frozen cod rise in value. Norway exported 25,200 tonnes of fresh cod, including skrei, with a value of NOK […]
The Nueva Pescanova Group closed 2018 making a profit, for the second year in a row, net profit reaching 5.4 million euros, 5.1 million euros more than the year before […]
Alaska’s Bering Sea focus of new science project. The Bering Sea is home to some of the USA’s largest and most profitable commercial fisheries, including Alaskan pollock and Pacific cod. […]
Jellyfish are vital to our commercial fisheries. Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have coined jellyfish, ‘the gingerbread house’, conveying their newly discovered role in providing both food and shelter to […]
West coast USA waters showing more productivity. The ocean off the West Coast of the USA is shifting from several years of unusually warm conditions, marked by the marine heat […]
Contest to pioneer sustainable tuna fishing. Marine-science graduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in helping to pioneer the next generation of sustainable tuna fishing initiatives — especially to reduce bycatch and protect […]
Waterdance Fisheries and Quota Manager Appointed – South-West fishing company Waterdance has announced that Martyn Youell, currently Head of the Fisheries Management Team at MMO, will be joining the company […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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