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NewsHigh hopes
It’s just four months until the introduction of Europe’s new Common Fisheries Policy. But how close are fishermen to getting the wholesale reform that they urgently need? Jason Holland reports.
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NUFTA 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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Looking 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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Opportunity knocks
Norway is looking to capitalise on the high demand for coldwater prawns. Jason Holland looks at one of the most important commercial species in the world.
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‘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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Worldwide 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 ...
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Overfishing in Europe must end
Last June the Commission reported that fish stocks in European waters are improving. Credit: Mick Garratt/WikiAlongside discards, overfishing ranks as one of the most discussed subjects both in the political arena and industry over the past few years, reports Adrian Tatum. Overfishing and the failure of the Common Fisheries Policy ...
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Bringing Europe together on discards
It was a move seen by many as long overdue, but 2011 was to be the year that Europe was to come together as one to change the rules on discards forever.
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Arctic fisheries and global warming
Global warming was recently an item on the agenda at the COP17 meeting in Durban, South Africa (28 November - 11 December 2011). It was emphasised in the meetings that it is important to begin adaptation for exposed and vulnerable poor communities which are negatively affected by the consequences of ...
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New hope for eel
Richard Cook, MD Severn & Wye Smokery, releasing glass eels into the ThamesWhile it’s true the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) has significantly declined in numbers, it’s wrong to say this centuries-old delicacy has been overfished. In fact from February this year eel buyers will have the opportunity to buy sustainable ...
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Dracula, Lord Nelson and Cap’n Cook in TV fishing expedition
Whitby regularly hauls in a massive, capacity-busting catch with little effort, no loss of days at sea and zero fuel outlay. A calm sea and sunny weather on an August Saturday meant the haul of tourists jammed cobbled Church Street whose cod-end narrows at the start of the 199 stone ...
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Plastic – enemy of the sea
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) attempts to whitewash this admission by claiming, “Plastic materials are generally inert and lend themselves to product safety-critical situations such as food and pharmaceutical packaging, toys and medical implants”. The federation also simplifies the constant introduction of new plastic pollutants by claiming to be just ...
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Chile leads algae farming research
This targeted species is one of the most important cold water carrageenan producing algae species. It is an endemic South American species which provides raw material to three important Chilean producers which together supply over 29% of the world's carrageenan needs. So far, the raw material is only provided through ...
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New Common Fisheries Policy – new electronics!
2. BlueTraker is probably the only brand to offer a range of on-board VMS terminals scaled to various vessel sizes and fleets 3. http://www.worldfishing.net/news101/wwf-reform-proposal-not-ambitious
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Forging ahead
Waitrose this year experienced between 500 and 600% growth in cod sales in following its advertisements promoting Icelandic codWhen Iceland unveiled plans for the Iceland Responsible Fisheries (IRF) eco-label in 2008 there were many who thought the move was little more than a publicity stunt – after all, did the ...
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SPECIAL REPORT: Limping fisheries management
It proved to be effective in fleets shrinking, consolidation of fishing rights and quotas in lesser hands, and in reducing employment onboard and in fishing communities. However, with only a few exceptions, its claims of improving safety, resource protection and rehabilitation have been straying in circles between imaginary and fallacious. ...
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Growing interest in chain of custody programme
Commitment Fish retailer interest in the Chain of Custody (CoC) certification programme recently has extended to Australia where two supermarket chains, Woolworths and Coles, have started to sell MSC certified fishery products which is being advertised to consumers. The recent launch of MSC certified products under the CoC programme in ...
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Bush telegraph – it’s a jungle out there!
Bristling with comms gear - but they make it! Credit: TW : EEC PhotosA quick rundown on the policy behind the introduction of e-logbooks and how they are intended to fit into the EU’s overall control regime was given WF by Lowri Evans, EU Director-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries ...
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Brussels: Mangroves and power politics
EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs says the main purpose of development is “to feed the people”. Credit: TW : EEC PhotosWF recently spent three days in Brussels with a group of EU journalists, invited under the European Journalism Centre, to grill Eurocrats and parliamentarians on aid and climate issues. Walter ...
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New packaging for push into Europe
One of the Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group members, Cameron Maclean of Mull, with a rope of cultivated musselsAs part of an overall effort to increase its European sales, the Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group (SSMG) has been developing bilingual ‘Scottish’ themed packs. It has even gone so far to produce a ...
