Tristan da Cunha, world’s most remote inhabited archipelago becomes model of sustainability. Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, with just 245 inhabitants and an MSC certified lobster fishery, has a new Marine Protected Area ...
NZ company sentenced for fishing in MPA. New Zealand company Sealord Group Limited (Sealord) has been ordered to forfeit a US$16 million vessel and fined $24,000 in the Nelson District Court for bottom trawling in ...
Hammer Blow for Fishing Communities as a government panel eyes no fishing zones despite existing world beating UK marine protected area network reports the NFFO. The government-sponsored Benyon Review, and its all-out advocacy for banning ...
New Zealand postpones MPA consultation. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the Department of Conservation and Fisheries New Zealand (DOC), are postponing public consultation on the proposed network of marine protection for the southeast South Island. ...
Cats of the sea offer insights into territorial behaviour of wild fishes. The entertaining spectacle of wild fishes chasing lasers shone onto the seabed could provide scientists with an innovative way of measuring their territory ...
Pot fishing limits win win for fishermen and marine life. The first major study into the impact of inshore potting for crab and lobster within a Marine Protected Area has found that in areas of ...
Fishing industry unites on new MPA mapping project. Seafish’s Kingfisher Information Service is working with the catching sector and regulators to create the first ever comprehensive map of the UK’s marine protected area (MPA) network ...