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Environmental groups are insisting that the planned expansion of the fish farming industry along the west coast of Ireland will lead to diminishing wild stocks and be detrimental for the local community…

According to New Zealands Ministry for Primary Industry (MPI), a Tauranga based commercial fishing company, Fine O Muir Limited, has been fined for making false statements on fishing returns and fishing inside…

The Council of European Fisheries Ministers are meeting in Brussels on 18 and 19 December to agree on the 2013 catch limits for the main commercial species in the North East Atlantic.

Elaine Hayes has been announced as the new chair of Seafish for three years, as of 1 January 2013.

Chinese authorities have announced that commercial exports of Boarfish from Ireland may now be imported to China – news welcomed by Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food & the Marine, Simon Coveney.

The latest ‘black scam’ fishers to fall prey to Operation Trawler are four skippers from Fraserbugh based Klondyke Fishing Company who have been fined £1m for taking part in an illegal mackerel…