Interviews - World Fishing

Three men in a boat
01 Jul 2007
Interviewees: Jaime Silva, Horst Seehofer & Iztoc Jarc
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...

Becoming a player in European fisheries
18 Dec 2006
Interviewee: Eskil Erlandsson (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Sweden)
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. ...

Spanish sector at the forefront of responsible fishing
27 Oct 2006
Interviewee: Elena Espinosa (Ministry of Fisheries, Spain)
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. ...

Striking a balance
02 Oct 2006
Interviewee: Simon Cripps (WWF)
Carly Wills interviews Dr Simon Cripps, Director of WWF’s Global Marine Programme on the organisation’s most important issues. ...

The Chief Inspector sniffs out the flesh
30 Aug 2006
Interviewee: Christopher Leftwich (Fishmongers' Company)
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...

Reversing long term decline
16 Aug 2006
Interviewee: Isamu Abe (Japan Fisheries Association (JFA))
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....

Guarding the lights – fighting the black
29 Jun 2006
Interviewee: Helga Pedersen (Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs Norway)
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...

Iceland upholds a healthy economy
29 May 2006
Interviewee: Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson (Ministry of Fisheries of Iceland)
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. ...

“I must go down to the sea again..”
28 Apr 2006
Interviewee: Mike Leece (National Marine Aquarium (NMA))
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...

Mauritania and the EU fail to agree
10 Apr 2006
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.