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• Getting East Africa back on track

  The World Bank has started a five-year series of initiatives that will lend financial support to sustainable fisheries development in Lake Victoria. David Hayes reports. 30 Aug 2010

• All change in Mauritania

  Pieter Tesch finds the West African country is no longer willing to bow to pressure from European fishing giants. In future it wants to hold on to at least half its catch. 20 Jul 2010

• Blue skies research rises in the East

  Fish R&D in East Asia has put much of its past effort into promoting standards to meet ‘Western’ import health and quality regulations. Peter O’Neill finds signs of a significant value shift upwards on the lucrative bio and innovation fronts. 10 Jun 2010

• Russia: When the catch is no match

  The 2009 fishing season was a successful one for the Russian fishing industry, reports Georgy Zaytsev. 29 Apr 2010

• Tsunami destroys Chile’s fishing industry

  More than 70% of Chile’s central-south coastal fishing fleet was destroyed by the violent earthquake and following tsunami on 27 February, reports Peter J. Neilson. 22 Apr 2010

• India – farmed fish for peace

  For many small fishermen the invasion of the coast by prawn farms has been a 30-year battle. 18 Mar 2010

• Morocco - fish make land!

  World leader in sardine exports and beneficiary of some of the world’s richest territorial ocean stocks, Morocco could now offer major returns for technically savvy investors as it turns inland to harness the potential of its lakes and reservoirs. 03 Feb 2010

• Vietnam to expand fisheries sector

  Vietnam is about to launch a VND 1,300 billion (US$71 million) investment programme to expand aquaculture production over the next decade in the country’s southern provinces that form the central area of the fish farming sector. 22 Jan 2010

• Taiwan

  Taiwan fisheries sector targets higher value production. 01 Dec 2009

• South Korea

  South Korea faces challenges as fish imports grow - South Korea’s fishing industry faces numerous challenges over the next decade as the fisheries sector evolves to play a new role in the country’s fast developing economy. 01 Nov 2009

• Iceland

  'We will have a war here before we join the EU’ - Iceland’s failure to resist the siren calls of the money markets, and the collapse of is banks brought in a new government which has applied to join the EU. Peter O’Neill asks if Iceland’s fish dilemma could spawn some Europe-wide changes in the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). 01 Oct 2009

• Chile

  Industry demands SPFRO - Day by day, Chile’s dwindling fishing grounds become more and more depleted due to the lack of control and regulation over fisheries in the South Pacific Ocean, reports Peter J. Neilson. 01 Sep 2009

• Philippines

  Efforts to support Philippines fisheries pay off - Fisheries production in the Philippines has grown at an average rate of about 7% a year since 2002 due to a large increase in aquaculture output while the government steps up efforts to develop sustainable coastal and deep water fisheries. 01 Aug 2009

• Senegal

  Senegal wins World Bank support for fisheries development - Senegal has recently been awarded World Bank funding worth US$8.5 million to develop sustainable coastal fisheries. 01 Jun 2009

• China

  Aquaculture grows as marine capture declines - China exported 2.97 million tonnes of fishery products worth US$10.6 billion in 2008, according to recently published Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) figures. 01 Apr 2009