Analysis – Page 9
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NewsCroatia prepares for Europe
Croatia’s accession to the EU means the country will have to face fresh challenges in its fishing sector. Adrian Tatum reports.
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NewsUnder 10m fleet wins quota battle
Bryan Gibson reports on the recent court battle between the UK’s under 10m fleet and the producer associations over quota share.
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NewsIndia: Too many fishermen?
Menakhem Ben-Yami looks into the stagnation of Gujarat''s fisheries.
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NewsWarming up relations in cold waters
Back in 1867, President Andrew Johnson''s Secretary of State William Seward went shopping and returned home with a bargain: the whole and only Russian territory on the American continent – Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, which since 1859 was put on sale by the Russian Empire.
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NewsThe traditional fishmonger: The right horse for the course
Bryan Gibson looks at the benefits of buying fish from a traditional fishmonger, compared to a supermarket.
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NewsViolence and murder in Thai fisheries
A new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has documented harrowing evidence of human trafficking and exploitation in Thailand’s fishing industry, where boat workers are subjected to excessive working hours, little or no pay, threats of violence, physical abuse, and even murder, reports Carly Wills.
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NewsSustainability key to Chilean fisheries
Chile’s Vice Minister of Fishing, Pablo Galilea, has announced that Chile has plans to maintain its position as a world power in fisheries and aquaculture, and believes that his country’s new fisheries law is just the tool to help Chile achieve this goal, reports Carly Wills.
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NewsMalice and grief in Southern waters
Menakhem Ben-Yami writes on the dangers fishermen face in Southern waters.
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NewsFAO appraises tuna fisheries worldwide
Menakhem Ben-Yami takes a look at the global tuna industry.
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NewsWomen and children: Trials and tribulations
Menakhem Ben-Yami explores the plight of women and children in African fisheries.
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Catch shares – who to believe?
With the onset of the 21st century, the US fisheries management administered by NOAA Fisheries has been promoting and implementing individual and tradable quotas (ITQ), which with time gained a new name – ‘catch shares’.
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NewsLabelling must be accurate or suppliers will suffer
Andrew Martin looks at how the horse meat scandal could impact on the seafood industry.
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NewsPew drops anchor in Europe
The American NGO Pew Charitable Trusts is spending millions of dollars financing NGOs that deal with marine conservation by coming into public and legal conflicts with the American fishing industry and management, reports Menakhem Ben-Yami.
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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.
