Comment – Page 14

  • News

    Onshore, inshore, offshore

    2012-11-29T20:45:00Z

    The Offshore Mariculture Conference 2012 held in October in Izmir, Turkey, attracted participants from 35 countries worldwide and doubtless can be rated as successful.

  • FAD boat
    News

    Songkhla fishing: The Gulf of Thailand and beyond

    2012-11-28T21:04:00Z

    The complexities of fisheries management make it difficult to comprehend all the variables in our homeports, reports Alan Haig-Brown.

  • Andy Sandford, editor of Engineering Capacity
    News

    Failing to succeed

    2012-11-08T15:43:00Z

    Have you ever been responsible for any noteworthy failures in your business career? No, me neither, but apparently it happens.

  • The Abel Tasman (formerly Margaris)
    News

    Can fisheries be managed rationally?

    2012-10-08T16:53:00Z

    Menakhem Ben-Yami looks at the issue of fisheries management.

  • Trawlers like this will be managed differently under new devolution rules
    News

    New CFP philosophy prompts changes to fleet management

    2012-10-08T16:31:00Z

    September saw the publication of a new report promoting the benefits of implementing a moratorium on catching in 49 over-fished areas, reports Adrian Tatum.

  • Russian Sea is planning to invest up to 5 billion rubles (USD$150m)
    News

    Billions invested in Russian fish farming

    2012-10-02T16:55:00Z

    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

  • News

    The mismanaged Northern cod

    2012-09-09T20:01:00Z

    Menakhem Ben-Yami takes a look at fishery mismanagement.

  • 500 NUTFA members are currently lobbying for the commercial survival of 4230 registered under ten metre fishing vessels
    News

    Under ten fleet in grave danger

    2012-09-06T15:58:00Z

    Bryan Gibson looks at the plight of England’s under ten metre fleet.

  • Dead fish in an oil spill. Credit: Doug Helton/Marine Photobank
    News

    Part 2: Overfishing? Not quite

    2012-08-07T14:17:00Z

    It is common knowledge that pollution in the sea directly or indirectly affects fish and other marine organisms.

  • Europe has increased its number of stocks at maximum sustainable yield to 19
    News

    High hopes

    2012-08-07T12:16:00Z

    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?

  • Paul Joy has been co-ordinating efforts to protect the fishing fleet alongside Hastings Town Council
    News

    NUFTA calls for fairer quota shares

    2012-07-10T13:34:00Z

    Bryan Gibson talks to The New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association (NUFTA) about securing fairer quotas for the under 10m fleet.

  • Vin Sullivan's today
    News

    Looking after the interests of the retail fish trade

    2012-07-10T11:12:00Z

    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.

  • EU fisheries chief Maria Damanaki wants to see more from European aquaculture
    News

    Future favourites

    2012-06-28T10:04:00Z

    Farmed fish is in demand like never before, but many new species are yet to make their mark

  • Overfishing: what everybody needs to know
    News

    Overfishing? Not quite

    2012-06-26T20:45:00Z

    I don''t like the term overfishing. Not that overfishing doesn''t occur, but because this term is too often over-used and misused.

  • Some 20,000t of Norway’s coldwater prawn catch is now MSC certified
    News

    Opportunity knocks

    2012-06-06T19:28:00Z

    Norway is looking to capitalise on the high demand for coldwater prawns

  • Captain Fisher
    News

    From Doryman’s Days to great skipper’s life

    2012-05-30T16:18:00Z

    A native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Captain R Barry Fisher (1928-2001) had been to me a sort of an overseas ‘alter ego’.

  • The report
    News

    Little fish - big noise

    2012-05-10T10:04:00Z

    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.

  • Aquahives developed to hold circular trays of young lobsters stacked like CD's in a plastic container
    News

    ‘Home-bred’ lobsters to be released into the sea

    2012-05-09T21:44:00Z

    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’.

  • Northern Leader will be home ported in Kodiak upon completion next year
    News

    Sustainable to the core

    2012-04-11T14:22:00Z

    Alaska leads the way through the unparalleled management of its rich fisheries resources

  • Worldwide overfishing is still an ‘unresolved concern’
    News

    Worldwide overfishing continues

    2012-04-10T16:30:00Z

    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 ...