Analysis

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), is an international group of economists, government managers, private industry members, and others interested in the exchange of research and information on marine…

11th May 2011

Fishery economists: What have they learnt and what are they telling us?

11th May 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

As part of an overall effort to increase its European sales, the Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group (SSMG) has been developing bilingual ‘Scottish’ themed packs. It has even gone so far to produce…

5th May 2011

New packaging for push into Europe

5th May 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The dramatic news flew in nonstop; first a powerful earthquake, among the strongest recorded worldwide, shook the north-eastern coastal area of Japan on 11 March, writes Menakhem Ben-Yami.

13th April 2011

Japanese fisheries: Cataclysms in series

13th April 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Salmon and trout exports in January reached US$352m, the largest monthly dispatch and 51% greater than the same figure for 2010. This increase occurred in spite of the fact that production levels…

13th April 2011

Chiles salmon exports reach historic levels

13th April 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

No one can dispute the need for nature reserves or Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in certain marine and coastal habitats such as coral reefs, sponge and inshore seagrass beds, and some other…

14th February 2011

Marine Protected Areas: What do they do to fishermen?

14th February 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Fishing 2011 is the UK’s flagship annual fishing event and the emphasis on fishing gear will highlight the international fishing industry’s determination to reduce discards. Whilst this will ultimately only be achieved…

7th February 2011

Major focus on gear performance and discards

7th February 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The general feeling in political circles is that the first year of the European Union’s illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing regulation (No 1005/1008) was a success. However, many of these same…

7th February 2011

End IUU: Remove the weak links

7th February 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Not so long ago it was the toast of aquaculture, but today Vietnam’s tra (pangasius) industry finds itself in a quandary – not only is production in freefall, but the fish is…

18th January 2011

Tra continues its fall from grace

18th January 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

I don’t remember such an upheaval in the American fisheries. Neither does Bob Jones, the Director of the Southeastern Fisheries Association.

11th January 2011

US fisheries: Frustration, indignation, uproar

11th January 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

This year, the showhow celebrates its 10th anniversary and will be held at the Carnitech Salmon (now the Marel Salmon Division) premises in Nørresundby, Denmark, on 2 February. In addition to the…

6th January 2011

Marel shows how to process salmon

6th January 2011

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Commercial fishing is regarded as the most dangerous profession on the planet. But while Western authorities have been tightening safety regulations, flagrant risk taking with crews lives is still rife, writes Menakhem…

21st December 2010

Deadly, deadlier, deadliest

21st December 2010

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Many fishing companies looked to Inmarsat technologies when it came to e-Logs, partly because Inmarsat C is used widely in other areas such as vessel monitoring systems (VMS), or because, as in…

21st December 2010

Special Report: EU failing to introduce electronic fishing records

21st December 2010

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Menakhem Ben-Yami looks at the highly topical issue of ocean oil spills and their hugely damaging effects on the fishing industry.

3rd August 2010

Once again the oil flows free

3rd August 2010

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Sir Angus Stirling kicked off June’s one-day Sustainable Inshore Fisheries workshop in London by saying that the Fishmongers’ Company (FC) might be centuries old but it saw change as a priority, in…

27th July 2010

Cash in the consumer coastline catch

27th July 2010

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The UK government's vision for its marine area was first published in the 2002 document ‘Safeguarding Our Seas’. This document established the UK's vision for "clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse…

15th July 2010

Time to contemplate incoming MPAs

15th July 2010

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Kaliningrad has changed considerably in the last two decades but it remains a hub for fishing technology.

13th July 2010

Kaliningrad revisited

13th July 2010

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Highlighting the misinterpretation of commercial fishing data.

2nd June 2010

Filthy oceans and misinformation

2nd June 2010

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ANALYSIS

Global warming is here to stay and there is no shortage of scientific evidence to show increased carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is to blame, reports Bryan Gibson. Whether or not…

22nd April 2010

Understanding ocean acidification

22nd April 2010

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

I have on my desk two superbly illustrated publications representing a joint effort by the Polish Sea Research Institute (MIR, www.mir.gdynia.pl) and the Polish branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature…

22nd April 2010

Poland and the EU’s fisheries policy

22nd April 2010

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Returning this month, the 11th TUNA 2010 exhibition will be held in conjunction with the 11th biennial INFOFISH World Tuna Trade Conference. Providing the global tuna industry with its most important commercial…

1st April 2010

Developments in tuna trade

1st April 2010