Comment – Page 19
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NewsBillions invested in Russian fish farming
Russian Sea, Russia’s largest fish producer and processor, is planning a significant increase in volumes of fish hatchery in Russia in the coming years
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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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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?
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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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NewsFuture favourites
Farmed fish is in demand like never before, but many new species are yet to make their mark
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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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NewsSustainable to the core
Alaska leads the way through the unparalleled management of its rich fisheries resources
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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 ...
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NewsLogbook of a fisherman's wife - a fishing lore saga
I have recently finished reading a book by Michele Longo Eder - a fisherman''s wife from Newport, Oregon.
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NewsOverfishing 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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PROFISH: Is it also pro-fishermen?
In 2005 the World Bank (WB) created the Global Partnership on Fisheries (PROFISH) in association with key donors and stakeholders.
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Back to slavery
Things are going from bad to worse. Over six years ago (WF June 2005) I wrote here about low-paid and badly treated "foreigners" onboard large, distant-water fishing vessels, some of which flying FOC (flag-of-convenience) and some IUU (Illegal, unreported and unregulated).
