Fisheries

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

The US Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced the next steps to conserve and recover endangered North Atlantic right whales with US$82 million in funding…

19th September 2023

Biden administration gives $82m for right whale conservation

19th September 2023

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

Deepwater fishing company Sealord has entered into an agreement to acquire privately-owned Independent Fisheries, with the deal hailed as the largest financial transaction in New Zealand’s seafood sector since the Sealord deal in 1992…

18th September 2023

Sealord buys Independent Fisheries, becomes NZ’s largest seafood company

18th September 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Movements of Pacific oysters in Devon, UK have been restricted after a herpes virus outbreak

18th September 2023

Disease outbreak limits oyster movements

18th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The volume of fish and shellfish landed by the Iceland’s fishing fleet increased by 10% or 10,464 tonnes year-on-year in August 2023 to a total 114,483 tonnes, according to preliminary figures for…

18th September 2023

Larger whitefish, mackerel landings lift Iceland’s August catch

18th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Union is ready to exchange fisheries control data using a new common global standard recognised by the United Nations, the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) has confirmed.

18th September 2023

EU approves standard to share fisheries data

18th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Fishers in the European Union are urging coastal states to resume all-party talks on mackerel quotas to safeguard stocks and businesses.

14th September 2023

Solve Atlantic mackerel stalemate, urge EU fishers

14th September 2023

SHIP DESIGN

SHIP DESIGN

Spain’s Freire Shipyard has contracted Longitude Engineering for the basic design of a newbuild research vessel that it is building for IFREMER, the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea.

12th September 2023

Designer appointed for new French research vessel

12th September 2023

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

France’s Morgère SAS has developed a versatile new trawl door called “Champion”, which the company describes as one of the most powerful demersal doors on the market, offering the benefits of a…

12th September 2023

New Champion for demersal fishers

12th September 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

A new UK project is underway that aims to allow communities in the Atlántida Seascape, Honduras, to improve small-scale fishing and also strengthen the protection of critical marine habitats and species.

12th September 2023

Boost for Hondruas small-scale fishers

12th September 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

New Zealand fishing company Sealord is investing NZD 10 million over the next 10 years in a carbon offset programme that will see underutilised Te Arawa whenua around the wider Rotorua region…

12th September 2023

Te Arawa and Sealord partner on forest project

12th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Mackerel species in the Atlantic are adapting their spawning habits in response to warming seas, according to a new study analysing data from 1992 onwards.

11th September 2023

Mackerel spawning habits changing as seas warm

11th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The volume of fish and shellfish landed by Iceland’s fishing fleet in the first-half of this year totalled 772,954 tonnes, which represents a 10% decrease on the corresponding period of 2022. In…

11th September 2023

Icelandic fleet’s catch volume and value fall in first-half of 2023

11th September 2023

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

The Welsh fishing and aquaculture industries are being given £600,000 in government funding to help improve working conditions.

8th September 2023

H&S funding for Welsh fishers

8th September 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Establishing Scotland as an international leader in the use of technology for responsible fisheries management and improving the policy and regulatory framework for the expansion of sustainable aquaculture are among the key…

6th September 2023

Scotland sets out new fisheries, aquaculture objectives

6th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 2023 Report to Congress identifies seven entities for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

5th September 2023

NOAA: IUU fishing still pillaging the oceans

5th September 2023

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

While the ongoing conflict with Russia raged on, Ukrainian fisheries companies faced all manner of challenges throughout 2022. Among these was the seaport blockade which, according to the state agency for land…

4th September 2023

Ukrainian fisheries and aquaculture in tatters

4th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group is urging coastal states to take action to end overfishing in the northeast Atlantic.

1st September 2023

Put your words into action, NAPA urges coastal states

1st September 2023

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

New guidance to help businesses employing workers from outside the UK understand immigration requirements has been released by public body Seafish.

1st September 2023

UK seafood firms get guidance to employ non-nationals

1st September 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

A new alliance has launched in British Columbia, Canada to bolster the global effort to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

30th August 2023

New alliance against IUU fishing launches

30th August 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Commission is seeking to pull Baltic Sea fisheries out of their ’dire situation’ with the announcement of its first TACS and quotas for 2024.

29th August 2023

Commission looks to pull Baltic fisheries out of ‘dire’ straits

29th August 2023