Fisheries

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

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Based within the Iceland Ocean Cluster on the quayside in Reykjavík, start-up company Optitog has been making steady progress in developing new concepts of shrimp gear to improve the profitability of this…

22nd May 2023

Fishing with light – the next generation

22nd May 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Government, industry and union bosses have reached an agreement on opening the 2023 snow crab fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador.

22nd May 2023

Canadian snow crab impasse ends

22nd May 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Migrant fishers will be ‘forced to pay the price’ for the UK government’s failure to properly implement visa rule changes, says the International Transport Workers’ Federation.

19th May 2023

Foreign fishers ‘paying price’ of rushed visa change

19th May 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The 27th session of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) has concluded without measures in place to safeguard stocks of the region’s yellowfin tuna.

17th May 2023

IOTC ‘misses chance’ to protect yellowfin tuna

17th May 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Consultations have begun on a new fisheries and aquaculture bill for Zimbabwe.

17th May 2023

Zimbabwe moots fisheries and aquaculture bill

17th May 2023

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

The 6 February 2023 earthquake that shook Turkey and neighbouring Syria and took tens of thousands of lives massively disrupted the Turkish seafood industry, with the immediate suspension of all fishing and…

17th May 2023

Turkey stays resilient

17th May 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The volume of fish and shellfish landed by Iceland’s fishing fleet increased by 11% or more than 12,400 tonnes in April 2023 to a total 126,253 tonnes, according to preliminary figures for…

16th May 2023

Blue whiting boosts Iceland’s spring catch

16th May 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Parties to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) have agreed to strengthen efforts to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by extending vessel inspections, exchanging…

16th May 2023

New global push to tackle IUU fishing

16th May 2023