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The two main UK fishermen’s federations have joined forces to press for immediate government action to alleviate the sky-high high price of fuel which is threatening the future of the UK fishing…

Salmon farming is to benefit from £400,000 investment in research and development projects over the next three years to help secure the long-term socio-economic and environmental sustainability of the industry.

Since the Mediterranean tuna fishing season opened at the beginning of May, over 10,000 breeding bluefin tunas are being caught every day by the industrial fishing fleet, according to WWF calculations.

Responding to the announcement by Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead of the Scottish Governments intended changes to the management of fish quota in Scotland, Bertie Armstrong, Chief Executive of the Scottish Fishermens Federation…

Improving fisheries management models, increasing the size of farm-raised oysters, and learning how to raise red and blue king crab in large-scale hatcheries are among the $1.5 million in new projects, activities,…

A major review of the management of Scotlands fish quota was outlined today.

Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, last week announced the graduation of 30 new Fishery Officers from the Fishery Officer training programme.

The skipper of a Belgian beam trawler who refused to be escorted to Harwich by a Fisheries Protection Vessel and instead steamed for Zeebrugge, was ordered to pay more than £31,000 in…

Last week the skipper and owners of the French trawler Keriolet were ordered to pay a total of £10,700 in fines and costs after each pleading guilty at Truro Magistrates Court, Cornwall,…