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The Kenyan Government has increased its agricultural budget and it seems that the aquaculture sector will benefit from a KES121m (US$1.28655m) share.

The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) has said that the strategy underpinning attempts to rebuild cod stocks around the North Sea has been fundamentally challenged.

A recent report into Australia’s eastern orange roughy stock may pave the way for a targeted quota, Simon Boag of South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association told World Fishing.

Sealord is considering legal action against Greenpeace after Auckland was flooded with posters and banners that condemned the company for “unsustainable” tuna fishing methods, something which Sealord denies.

The value of farmed salmonids rose by 13% to AU$369.1m (US$393.4m) in 2009-10, to make it Australia’s most valuable fisheries product.

Spanish fishermen have warned that under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) they would become an endangered species, and that the proposed changes would decimate the smaller sized operations.