Analysis

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Increased management and law enforcement interventions are needed to ensure East African fisheries and the subsequent trade in their marine resources are legal and sustainable, according to Traffic, with its new report…

3rd October 2023

New survey finds artisanal fisher failings in Eastern African

3rd October 2023

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

Comprising anything between 900 and 3,000 vessels catching 3-4 million tonnes of fish, China’s distant water fleets (DWFs) represent serious competition and a challenge for the EU’s own distant-water fishing activities and…

2nd October 2023

Report: EU fishers being undermined by ‘unfair’ Chinese competition

2nd October 2023

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

While forecasting that global fisheries and aquaculture production will grow 12% over the 10-year period through to 2032 to reach 202 million tonnes, with the total volume produced for human consumption expected…

30th August 2023

Future fish production – a risky business?

30th August 2023

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Blue foods ­– those products we consume that are derived from aquatic animals and plants which are caught or cultivated in marine and freshwater environments – are ideally placed to solve many of…

10th August 2023

Blue food thinking

10th August 2023

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

With demand softening and El Niño driving up fishmeal prices, the second-half of 2023 is expected to be the most challenging period for global aquaculture since the peak of the Covid pandemic…

31st July 2023

Falling demand and El Niño to challenge global aquaculture

31st July 2023

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The majority of fish populations in the sea are responding to global warming by relocating towards colder waters nearer the north and south poles, according to new research on the impact of…

31st May 2023

Report: Climate change displacing fish

31st May 2023

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

For the Fisheries Subsidies Agreement reached by World Trade Organisation (WTO) members in June 2022 to come to life and start delivering benefits for fisheries sustainability and improving the lives of fishers,…

25th May 2023

Subsidy opposition gathers momentum

25th May 2023

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

On 5 March 2023, after around 36 hours of intense negotiations in New York, a breakthrough deal to protect international waters and their marine life from a multitude of activities was agreed…

25th May 2023

High seas uncertainty

25th May 2023

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The global market for the species is expected to surpass $7 billion by the end of 2033.

5th April 2023

Rainbow trout – a fish with healthy potential

5th April 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

There are many potential paths to achieve the EU’s ambition of reducing the fishing sector’s contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30% by 2030 and of becoming climate neutral by 2050,…

3rd February 2023

‘Decarbon EU fleet quicker’

3rd February 2023