Analysis

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

According to U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, the waters of the Bering Sea are challenging for vessel operations and search and rescue missions. The stormy Bering Sea is notorious…

28th May 2008

The answer is blowing in the wind

28th May 2008

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Tuna fisheries represent a heavily invested industry that operates highly mobile fleets of large expensive purse seiners and longliners.

1st May 2008

World tuna – a look from FAO

1st May 2008

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The route from catch to plate can be fiendishly complex. However, at bottom, it should simply mean how can a fisherman or fishfarmer earn a decent living by husbanding their product in…

1st April 2008

The fishmonger, the coley and common sense

1st April 2008

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

This was long before we saw on TV killer whales ripping apart seals, sharks savaging tuna, or grizzlies gorging on bloody salmon. As Tennyson and Charles Darwin spelt out, we, and the…

15th November 2007

“Tho’ nature, red in tooth and claw….”

15th November 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

EuropeYellowfin catches have been disappointing around the Eastern Indian and Western Pacific fishing grounds over the past year. Prices of yellowfin went up substantially in the course of 2006. Skipjack prices weakened…

1st August 2007

Tuna market trends 2006/2007

1st August 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

First the bad news, from the 3rd Update and Stakeholder Consultation on illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (IUU) organised in London by the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Stakeholders conspicuous by their…

1st August 2007

Pirates, poachers or global crime syndicates?

1st August 2007

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The report shows that the total seafood supply of the EU-27 countries in 2005 was 7.1 million tonnes, of which 5.8 million tonnes were derived from capture.The largest fishing nation is Denmark,…

1st July 2007

EU seafood sector report

1st July 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Nobody would deny that experienced professional fishermen, especially the old salt among them, possess a wealth of knowledge on fish and sea, and on what’s going on between the two, accumulating for…

1st July 2007

Fishermen’s knowledge

1st July 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The new Vik-Sandvik designed fishing vessel has the following main dimensions:• Length: 81.6m• Length between p.p.: 71.8m• Breadth: 16.6m• Depth to 1. deck: 10m• Depth to 2. deck: 7.2m• Frame spacing: 0.6mThe…

1st June 2007

P/F Vinnan orders new purse seiner/trawler

1st June 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

“…Yet this sea, this beautiful sea, is not to be trifled with. If It gets angry and suddenly and unexpectedly begins to foam, the waves whipped up by the tramountana rise up,…

1st June 2007

The Northwesterly fury

1st June 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The UK event is attended by thousands of visitors from over 35 countries, all with the aim of seeing the industry’s latest products and innovations.According to the organisers, visiting Fishing 2007 is…

1st May 2007

Europe’s leading annual fisheries event

1st May 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The well attended Edinburgh Cod Recovery Symposium received very good initial publicity. It bore a great promise of finding a golden road to the recovery of the ailing cod stocks in the…

1st May 2007

Edinburgh – what next?

1st May 2007

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Main findingsThe USA is the sixth largest producer of seafood in the world where the majority is derived from capture. The supply has been relatively stable since 1990.Alaska pollock is the single…

23rd April 2007

USA seafood sector report

23rd April 2007

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Organised in two distinct areas within the same exhibition centre, this combination approach places each sector under its own spotlight and gives buyers easy access to the products and services they are…

23rd April 2007

World’s largest seafood event

23rd April 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Recently the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) asked for public comment on the main criteria of its environmental standards for sustainable fishing. This was a good thing to do and I sincerely hope…

23rd April 2007

Comments for MSC

23rd April 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The price of the trawler, including the fishing rights with delivery obligations to Finnmark, is NOK 44 million.Assuming that the structuring opportunities continue, the plan is to allocate the quota to one…

1st March 2007

Agreement to purchase trawler with quota

1st March 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The vessel will sail under the French flag and Concarneau (CC899971) in France is the port of registry.The overall length of the vessel is 17m, the breadth moulded 6.5m and the depth…

1st March 2007

Delivery of “War Raog IV”

1st March 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), over 50 per cent of the world’s fish stocks are fished to their biological limit and another 25 per cent…

29th January 2007

Securing fisheries for the future

29th January 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

DPI&F senior fisheries biologist Neil Gribble said the vessel, which has been in service since 1984, has been fitted with a Kortz nozzle and a state-of-the-art propeller that would improve the vessel’s…

18th December 2006

DPI&F research vessel upgrade

18th December 2006

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

This is the fourth edition of a volume first published in 1964, that details catching methods both commercial and subsistence, from around the world and over many many centuries. The basic concepts…

18th December 2006

Book review: Von Brandt’s Fish Catching Methods of the World

18th December 2006