Latest News – Page 820
-
NewsFatigue problem for trawlers highlighted
A recent report by the UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) into the loss of a trawler has again highlighted the problem of fatigue amongst fishermen
-
News
Comments for MSC
Recently the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) asked for public comment on the main criteria of its environmental standards for sustainable fishing. This was a good thing to do and I sincerely hope that many people responded. No doubt, the MSC is feeling the need for increasing the general understanding of ...
-
News
Sad loss of two industry figures
Last month sadly saw the loss of two industry figures who have been familiar faces at trade exhibitions and within the fishing industry for many years, Morgére’s Jean-Gabriel Podeur, 59, and Sicor’s Oscar Rodrigues, 75. They will both be greatly missed by the World Fishing team and no doubt by ...
-
News
Countries agree to strengthen port state control measures
All 131 countries attending a high level FAO meeting on world fisheries in Rome agreed to start a process leading to the adoption of a legally binding international agreement establishing control measures in ports where fish is landed, transhipped or processed in order to combat illegal fishing. The decision came ...
-
News
Success for new longline hauling system
Researchers at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science have seen encouraging results from a new hauling system used in longline fishing.
-
News
Oceana: Discard statistics
According to Oceana, discarded fish constitutes 8% of the total weight of the world’s captures, or more than 7.3 million tonnes of fish that are thrown away at sea.
-
News
“Atlantic Dawn” goes Dutch
The arrival of “Atlantic Dawn”, the world’s largest trawler, in the Dutch port of Velsen in March to join the Dutch fleet marked the end of Irish involvement in pelagic freezers and the strengthening of the Pelagic Freezer trawler Association’s (PFA) position, reports Pieter Tesch.
-
NewsA shipload of cod
It is now clearer than ever before that bad scientific data has unnecessarily poisoned and devastated the lives of tens of thousands of fishing families across Europe, and sent the careers of many young and older professional fishermen into terminal decline.
-
News
WWF: Companies rally to save Mediterranean bluefin tuna
Major companies and organisations have joined WWF in a commitment to healthy oceans by signing an open letter appealing to the European Commission and Member States to take action, before it is too late, for bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean.
-
News
Canada: six new Coast Guard vessels for Pacific Region
The Canadian government yesterday announced details of six new vessels to be based in British Columbia as part of the Canadian Coast Guard’s modernisation of its fleet.
-
News
UK barramundi farm sold
Acting for Napier Brown Holdings, the Southampton office of Edward Symmons has sold the UK’s only barramundi farm, one of the largest farms in Europe.
-
News
Atlantis acquires a majority share in Coral Sea Fishing
Atlantis Group has recently finalised the acquisition of a majority share in Coral Sea Fishing, a market leading company in food processing technologies.
-
News
Some Icelandic fish linked to whaling
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) has said that the whaling industry in Iceland is inextricably linked to parts of its fishing industry.
-
News
Norwegian seafood exports set new records
The value of exports of Norwegian seafood in the first quarter of 2007 totalled NOK 9.8 billion. This is an increase of NOK 1.4 billion or 16.5 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest figures from Statistics Norway and the Norwegian Seafood Export Council ...
-
News
New marketing chair for Killybegs Fishery Harbour Centre
John Browne T.D., Irish Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources has announced that he proposes to appoint Kevin Bonnar, the former Secretary General of the Department of Enterprise and Employment, to chair a Steering Group of key officials of State Agencies to develop a ...
-
News
EU/Ivory Coast partnership agreement
The European Commission, on behalf of the Union, and the Ivory Coast has initialled a new fisheries partnership agreement which will cover a renewable six-year period, and will replace the current framework agreement in place since 1990, due to end on 30 June 2007.
-
News
Commission: improvements still needed in fisheries control
The European Commission has adopted a report on the monitoring of the Member States'' implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) over the period 2003-2005.
-
News
Illegal fishers get new fishing gear
Sixteen fishermen from the 11 coastal barangays of Cagayan de Oro City (Philippines) each received one unit of Bottom Set Gill Net (BSGN) from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-10.
-
News
Coral reef collapse spells danger for millions
Island communities that depend on coral island fisheries could face a hungry future, according to new research from the University of East Anglia, the UK Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas), and Simon Fraser University in Canada, published in Current Biology.
-
News
Seafish publishes 2005 Economic Survey of the UK Fishing Fleet - short report
Seafish has published the ''2005 Economic Survey of the UK Fishing Fleet - Short Report''. This publication highlights the main results from the survey in an easily digestible format.
