Analysis – Page 15
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Blowing in the wind
American commercial fisheries are feeling increasingly beleaguered. On top of being plagued for the last four years by the adverse catch-share system, they had been hurt by the mega-spill of oil in the Mexican Bay, severely injured by the recent hurricane Sandy and struggled, evidently in vain, to obtain their ...
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NewsNorway increases salmon exports to China
Norway’s exports of fresh salmon are growing at a strong double digit annual rate to China, reports David Hayes.
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NewsIs it time for the fishing industry to re-calibrate its moral compass?
Bryan Gibson writes on the issue of food waste and asks if we should be making more of the resources we have.
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NewsIUU fishing – a new regime for the CFP
Andrew Oldland QC, partner at UK solicitors Michelmores, looks at illegal fishing from a legal perspective.
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Onshore, inshore, offshore
The Offshore Mariculture Conference 2012 held in October in Izmir, Turkey, attracted participants from 35 countries worldwide and doubtless can be rated as successful.
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NewsSongkhla fishing: The Gulf of Thailand and beyond
The complexities of fisheries management make it difficult to comprehend all the variables in our homeports, reports Alan Haig-Brown.
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NewsFailing to succeed
Have you ever been responsible for any noteworthy failures in your business career? No, me neither, but apparently it happens.
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NewsCan fisheries be managed rationally?
Menakhem Ben-Yami looks at the issue of fisheries management.
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NewsNew CFP philosophy prompts changes to fleet management
September saw the publication of a new report promoting the benefits of implementing a moratorium on catching in 49 over-fished areas, reports Adrian Tatum.
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NewsUnder ten fleet in grave danger
Bryan Gibson looks at the plight of England’s under ten metre fleet.
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NewsPart 2: Overfishing? Not quite
It is common knowledge that pollution in the sea directly or indirectly affects fish and other marine organisms.
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NewsNUFTA calls for fairer quota shares
Bryan Gibson talks to The New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association (NUFTA) about securing fairer quotas for the under 10m fleet.
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NewsLooking after the interests of the retail fish trade
Despite a dramatic decline in their numbers, fishmongers collectively sell more than £250m worth of seafood per year in the UK, which is about 25% of the country’s chilled fish sales.
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NewsOverfishing? Not quite
I don''t like the term overfishing. Not that overfishing doesn''t occur, but because this term is too often over-used and misused.
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NewsFrom Doryman’s Days to great skipper’s life
A native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Captain R Barry Fisher (1928-2001) had been to me a sort of an overseas ‘alter ego’.
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NewsLittle fish - big noise
The recently published report by Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force (LFFTF), entitled Little Fish – Big Impact that glows in some media, calls for cutting the catch of forage fish by half.
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News‘Home-bred’ lobsters to be released into the sea
As part of an ongoing project to improve breeding success of the European lobster, recreational divers from Bude in Cornwall, UK, will be releasing up to 1000 six week old juveniles into the no-catch zone surrounding the wreck of the ‘Coronation’.
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NewsWorldwide overfishing continues
Overfishing has brought about many challenges to the European fishing industry (see World Fishing & Aquaculture April 2012), but in the rest of the world those challenges are just as prominent and in many respects resolving them is even more urgent, writes Adrian Tatum. African waters, for example, have long ...
