Comment – Page 24
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NewsSalmon fishing and a traumatic tale
Menakhem Ben-Yami reviews two very different fishing books.
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NewsIreland’s biggest fish resource is difficult to process
Ireland is the leading EU quota holder of boarfish (Capros aper) at 56,666 tonnes.
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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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NewsChampion of small-scale fishermen
Menakhem Ben-Yami interviews Robin Alden, Executive Director of Penobscot East Resource Center and member of Maine Sea Grant''s Policy Advisory Committee.
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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.
