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• Once again the oil flows free

  Menakhem Ben-Yami looks at the highly topical issue of ocean oil spills and their hugely damaging effects on the fishing industry. 03 Aug 2010

• Kaliningrad revisited

  Kaliningrad has changed considerably in the last two decades but it remains a hub for fishing technology. 13 Jul 2010

• Filthy oceans and misinformation

  Highlighting the misinterpretation of commercial fishing data. 02 Jun 2010

• Poland and the EU’s fisheries policy

  I have on my desk two superbly illustrated publications representing a joint effort by the Polish Sea Research Institute (MIR, www.mir.gdynia.pl) and the Polish branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and published by the latter (www.wwf.pl). 22 Apr 2010

• Marine fish farming: solution or delusion?

  The question is not how to protect environment from aquaculture, but how to develop marine fish farming that’s environment friendly. 18 Mar 2010

• Small-scale fisheries revisited

  A short report on India’s fisheries published by the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) awakened me to the disproportionately small share of information and discussion in most fisheries press, and the relatively little research effort focusing on small-scale/artisanal fisheries (SSF). 02 Feb 2010

• French fisheries and CFP discussed at Lorient workshop

  The fishing community of Lorient met on World Fisheries Day (21 November) at a two-day workshop, which for the last 12 years has been organised by the French NGO Collectif Peche & Developpement (P&D) and is held at a different port each year, reports Menakhem Ben-Yami. 21 Jan 2010

• Obama, Lubchenko and catch shares: who benefits?

  According to an official announcement by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in June 2009 President Obama committed his administration to “integrated and comprehensive national ocean policy, incorporating programs to help rebuild fisheries and sustain fishermen, communities and vibrant working waterfronts, including the cultural and resource access traditions”. 21 Jan 2010

• Computers in fisheries research: friend or foe?

  To err is human; to really foul things up needs a computer… 01 Dec 2009

• Koenigsberg-Kaliningrad

  “And you are crestfallen, no hope you can raise, Seawater will creep in your veins, But waves of the ocean forever will praise Your glory, your death and your pains.” (After an old Russian naval song – G. Zaytsev, transl) 01 Nov 2009

• Saving habitats from inertia

  The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently published a report entitled: "Our Living Oceans: Habitat" (online version available at http://spo.nwr.noaa.gov/TM83.pdf). 01 Oct 2009

• A new El Niño looming – but how strong?

  Worrying news - US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists have now confirmed that their satellite data indicates development in the central Pacific Ocean of a new El Niño of not yet known strength and duration, reports Menakhem Ben-Yami. New technology enables forecasting El Niño months in advance, although forecasts are imperfect. 01 Sep 2009

• EU Green Paper part 2

  Last month, this column dealt with only a few of the subjects brought up by the EU’s 2009 Green Paper (GP). Here are some more: 01 Sep 2009

• EU Green Paper

  According to its authors, the recent EU Green Paper (GP), together with contributions from stakeholder organisations, the research community, Member State governments, civil society and third countries, should form the basis of a public debate on the future Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). 01 Aug 2009

• A deadly combination

  "Just abuse or semi-slavery" - news such as this coming from South Africa on the abuse of Vietnamese and Indonesian crews onboard oceanic fishing vessels and previous ones of the labour conditions onboard Scottish and Irish fishing vessels on one hand, and those on the persisting reality of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, on the other, indicate an emergence of a deadly combination. 01 Jul 2009