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Key fishing state Spain and key tuna market Japan joined with a majority of other countries to back closing the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery until it can be brought under control and…

An extension of Scotlands hugely successful Real Time Closures (RTC) programme has been announced.

The fisheries jury is now in and quota systems are the model world fisheries need to adopt, says MFish Chief Executive, Wayne McNee.

At a meeting in Brussels last week of scientists, administrators and control experts from the EU and Norway there was general agreement on the urgent need to consider concrete measures at the…

The portion of the Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) fishery in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean fished by Norwegian company Aker BioMarine Co Ltd has entered the full assessment process for…

Defra has announced that Huw Irranca-Davies MP has replaced Jonathan Shaw as UK fisheries minister.

The German North Sea saithe trawl fishery has successfully completed the assessment to the MSC’s environmental standard for well-managed and sustainable fisheries.

WWF is calling for urgent protection of the South Pacific ‘Coral Triangle’ after the World Conservation Union’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species warned that several species from these critical spawning grounds…

The European Commission has adopted a proposal for fishing opportunities for the Black Sea for 2009.