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• WFE will mark a turning point for Spain

  World Fishing talks to Elena Espinosa, Spanish Minister of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, about the Spanish fishing and aquaculture industry 01 Sep 2009

• Interview on the First World Summit on Fisheries Sustainability

  The following is an extract from an interview with David Agnew, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College of London, on the First World Summit on Fisheries Sustainability: 05 May 2009

• CFP reform – how’s about a new boat?

  Brussels wants fishermen to tell it how to reform the CFP. Bold research ideas from frontline, local workers are crucial to the future. Peter O’Neill talks change with Nathalie Charbonneau, and goes spinal tapping for innovative ideas and tactics in the hidden, research nerve-centres of the European Commission. 01 May 2009

• Optimistic about the future

  As we prepare for the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition, World Fishing editor, Carly Wills, interviews Icelandic Minister of Fisheries, Einar K Guðfinnsson on the status of Iceland's fisheries. 01 Sep 2008

• Icelandic fisheries still going strong

  With the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2008 fast approaching, World Fishing spoke to business manager, Marianne Rasmussen-Coulling, to find out why the show has become a reference for the fishing industry. 01 Sep 2008

• Three men in a boat

  In 1889, Jerome K. Jerome described a trip down the Thames in his ‘Three Men in a Boat’. The journey involved long debates on planning, food, fuel, safety, blackmail, fishing gear and comic conflicts with both land and other water users. The annual ‘informal’ of EU agriculture, fisheries and rural development ministers, on the river Rhine at Mainz, was the perfect setting for Peter O’Neill to chat with the EU’s own troika on their navigation so far and the uncharted risks ahead 01 Jul 2007

• Becoming a player in European fisheries

  Eskil Erlandsson has just taken over as Swedish Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries. Carly Wills talks to him about his views on the current state of Swedish fisheries and his plans for the future. 18 Dec 2006

• Spanish sector at the forefront of responsible fishing

  Elena Espinosa has been at the helm of the Spanish Ministry of Fisheries since 2004 and believes that the Spanish fishing industry is in very good shape. Pilar Santamaría talks to her about the main aspects surrounding the industry. 27 Oct 2006

• Striking a balance

  Carly Wills interviews Dr Simon Cripps, Director of WWF’s Global Marine Programme on the organisation’s most important issues. 02 Oct 2006

• The Chief Inspector sniffs out the flesh

  The Chief Inspector to the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers guards his independence jealously, but wears lightly his ancient mantle of power over quality. Christopher Leftwich tells Peter O’Neill that it all comes down to a sharp nose and a good eye and feel for fresh flesh. 30 Aug 2006

• Reversing long term decline

  Japan Fisheries Association (JFA) is trying to reverse the long term decline in Japan’s fisheries production by increasing consumer education and encouraging housewives to check that they are buying legally caught tuna and other fishery products caught by licensed fishing vessels. 16 Aug 2006

• Guarding the lights – fighting the black

  Norway’s new Minister of Fisheries and Coastal affairs is ready to fight to get rid of EU anti-dumping measures, to struggle to lower the import duties in Asia, and to make war over fishing and black markets. Her vision is to guard the lights in the houses along the Norwegian coast. 29 Jun 2006

• Iceland upholds a healthy economy

  The new Icelandic Minister of Fisheries is ready to fight over Svalbard and herring with Norway, and to pulverize Danish analyses of the Icelandic economy. Still, minister Guðfinnsson reckons the Northern Atlantic coastal nations to be his closest allies. 29 May 2006

• “I must go down to the sea again..”

  How can we attract a new generation to work our seas, as we see fishermen retreating from declining fleets? Mike J. Leece OBE, chief executive of the UK’s National Marine Aquarium (NMA) in Plymouth, is already hooking them from the age of three. Peter O’Neill interviewed him about the future for multi-tasking rovers – on land and sea. 28 Apr 2006

• Mauritania and the EU fail to agree

  Mauritania remains committed to secure a new fishery treaty with the European Union, but not at a price, fisheries minister Sidi Mohamed Ould Sidina told World Fishing after the collapse of talks in Nouakchott on 17 February. - After a week long round in the Mauritanian capital proved fruitless to bridge the gap between what Mauritania looked for to renew the fisheries treaty and the EU was prepared to offer, the EU delegation left empty handed. Speaking at the conclusion of the talks the minister was clearly annoyed and disappointed with the EU’s stand. “The EU had promised to give us its position in writing, but on Friday we still had not received it.” Dr Sidina explained that Mauritania had put a value of €150 million per year for the fishing effort the EU was hoping to secure, but that the EU had not responded in a formal way. In fact it is understood that the EU was offering no more than half of the ?84m/annum Mauritania received under the outgoing treaty. 10 Apr 2006