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Danish fishing industry faces new challenges
The Danish fishing industry is made up of various groups, all facing their own problems and challenges and with their own agendas for the future. However one common challenge for most of them is how to adapt the way they conduct business to cope with the rapid, radical and profound ...
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Borrowing from the bank
The ADB recently awarded Indonesia a grant of US$880,000 towards the consultancy costs of a $1.18 million technical assistance study to help the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries prepare a national long-term marine fisheries development strategy. Due for completion by the end of this year, the study will help ...
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Hungry killer whales, night-flyers, cold pollock & warm humans…
"During the mid-20th century, killer whales (orcinus orca) frequently scavenged from the carcasses produced by whaling. These carcasses were primarily species of large whale, preferred by killer whales, but which normally sink to the bottom after death, possibly putting the carcass beyond the diving range of killer whales," they say ...
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Ecosystem management
Lip service or reality? - For some time now, ecosystem management has become the fashionable phrase among fisheries scientists and managers. Soon everyone will be saying we must manage the whole ecosystem and the way we operate fisheries must be ecosystem-based.
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Haddock and cod keep warm in Icelandic waters
THE SEA around Iceland is getting warmer. Since 1997 an increased flow of Atlantic waters has been observed around Iceland resulting in higher sea temperature and higher salinity. At present, however, this has not had any visible effect on cod recruitment. Cod being the most important fish species in Iceland, ...
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Fish scientists cast doubt on costly warming calls
“Seventy years of warming may be followed by cooling as it used to be before. …we should pay more attention to the relative influence of management steps and climatic variations on fish stocks,” said Dr. Svein Sundby of the Bergen Institute of Marine Research, speaking on the long-term effects of ...
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Science flies kites over acid ocean & biodiversity
The world fishing industry ought to be shaking in its gumboots at the latest strategic moves by scientists on two areas - their estimates of the loss of global biodiversity and the suggestion that marine life is under threat from rising levels of acidity in the oceans caused by carbon ...
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NewsRobust Iceland will report pirates
Árni MathiesenQ: What are the main strengths of the industry today?It is diversity. Most of the Icelandic stocks are in a stable situation or growing. There is probably only one stock in trouble, the prawn stock. The part of the industry doing better is the pelagic fleet and the pelagic ...
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New Zealand faces new challenges
It has certainly won a lot of goodwill. However, there are critics, for example over exactly what the orange roughy situation is and will be in the future. New Zealand says it is one of the best managed, yet some suggest, for example, that there is a basic contradiction in ...
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Brave New World - from occupation to liberalisation
Peter O'Neill discussed the issues with Normunds Rieksti?š, Director of the National Board of Fisheries and finds that Latvia still leads with its most famous products, Riga sprats and herrings.Normunds has been in fish all his professional life. A biologist by education he began working in the fisheries regulatory board ...
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Cheap labour
Foreign crew members on board fishing vessels should be assured decent minimum wages and employment conditions
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Norway in a fish stew - and tasty in parts...
It seemed the whole of the Norwegian seafood industry had turned up in the northern town of Tromsø to eat farmed halibut, chat and... celebrate at its annual, Spring get together. After three years of low prices, a strong Krone killing export markets and no profits in the fish bank, ...
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NewsSmall and local is powerful and persuasive in big EU
European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Joe BorgJoe Borg has already shown how a man from a small island, Malta, is particularly sensitive to what the sea can do to small coastal fishing communities. At the international Tsunami Rehabilitation conference at FAO he said Brussel's "efforts will clearly be ...
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NewsSeabird and mammal bycatch still targeted
the pressure from the ‘green’ lobby on the catching and gear manufacturing sides of the industry remains relentless.In March Greenpeace took direct action against French and British vessels engaged in seasonal mid-water pair trawling for seabass in the Channel, with the campaigners claiming that they were saving dolphins. This led ...
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USA fisheries, too many casualties?
Lack of regulations and the pressure to catch a boat''s allocated quota can lead to accidents at sea
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Pacificic tuna faces new era
The initiative is due for implementation at a time when the European Union fishing fleet, in particular French and Spanish vessels, is about to enter western and central Pacific waters, increasing the number of fishers competing to catch valuable tuna stocks.Tuna fisheries have become of increasing importance to Pacific island ...
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Is selectivity wrong?
Fisheries scientists now doubt that traditional selectivity fishing helps to improve fishing populations
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GFC for the Med has new home
FAO's General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) announced that it has selected Palazzo Blumenstihl in Rome as the site of its new headquarters, following a decision during the GFCM's extraordinary session there in late February. GFCM is the intergovernmental organisation in which all the countries bordering the Mediterranean and ...
