Fisheries

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

With talks set to take place in London over new quota sharing arrangements for Northeast Atlantic blue whiting, Skretting, Cargill and BioMar, some of the main global buyers of the species, are calling for…

31st January 2023

Don’t blow whiting op

31st January 2023

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

Steady growth has been seen in Brazil’s fisheries and aquaculture sectors in recent times. This is directly reflected in the country’s increasing domestic seafood output and exports, and perhaps most important of…

30th January 2023

Brazil changes tack

30th January 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Digital solutions provider Ocean Technologies Group (OTG) has entered into a new partnership with the World Cetacean Alliance (WCA) to reduce ship strikes and risks posed to marine mammals. Together, they will make…

27th January 2023

Tackling whale strikes

27th January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Ørsted has established a long-term action plan to tackle marine litter with the help of the UK fishing industry

24th January 2023

UK action on marine litter

24th January 2023

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Turkey’s Tersan Shipyard has confirmed the launch of a new freezer stern factory trawler that it has built for Nordbank Hochseefischerei GMBH in Germany, a subsidiary of Parlevliet & Van der Plas. 

24th January 2023

Factory trawler launched

24th January 2023

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

There has been a profound loss of nature in the Western Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO), but voluntary actions by tuna buyers can contribute to the recovery of vulnerable marine wildlife populations, suggests…

23rd January 2023

Deliver tuna best-practice

23rd January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Ahead of an Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) Special Session, taking place 3-5 February 2023, the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has published a position statement calling on the region’s fisheries managers to adopt a conservation and…

19th January 2023

ISSF: Strengthen FAD rules

19th January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) is chartering three additional patrol vessels for use by fisheries inspectors in European and international waters.

19th January 2023

New EU patrol vessels

19th January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

UK government is not doing enough to protect offshore marine protected areas in England, says Greenpeace.

18th January 2023

English MPAs ‘unambitious’

18th January 2023

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

Today, the importance and benefits of marine conservation are more well-known than ever. But although the ocean covers around 70% of the planet, less than 8% is currently protected. Meanwhile, concerns remain…

18th January 2023

Boosting biodiversity

18th January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The 2022 Northeast Atlantic coastal states made headway in their pelagic fisheries negotiations for the first time in 10 years, with a commitment to continued discussions on quota sharing for mackerel and…

17th January 2023

Pelagic progress made

17th January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The total volume of fish and shellfish landed by Iceland’s fishing fleet increased by 22% or almost 260,000 tonnes last year, reaching a total 1,417,756 tonnes.

16th January 2023

Icelands 22 catch soars

16th January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Seafood company Thai Union Group PLC and global conservation organisation The Nature Conservancy (TNC), have released the inaugural progress report on their partnership on a commitment to improve on-the-water transparency in global tuna…

16th January 2023

Tuna transparency measure

16th January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

An Icelandic seafood company and its affiliates have been ordered to pay additional taxes of ISK213 million (€1.38 million) plus interest.

13th January 2023

Tax demand for Samherji

13th January 2023

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

After four years operating a simple shrimp line that froze industrial shrimp grades in vertical plate freezers, Havfisk AS’s factory trawler Nordtind has been upgraded with a new solution by Carsoe that grades and…

13th January 2023

Carsoe upgrades shrimp line

13th January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

An Irish fishing leader has hit out at the EU after the country’s seafood sector only grew by less than 1% over the past five years.

12th January 2023

Irish boss: EU quotas unfair

12th January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

MarinTrust has developed a multispecies fisheries framework to cater for complex fisheries that don’t fit the conventional approach to fishery assessment. 

11th January 2023

Multispecies assessments

11th January 2023

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

European fishing industry trade body Europêche has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Innomar AS, a pioneering company that provides ocean technology for fisheries, aquaculture, ocean data and marine operations. 

11th January 2023

Europêche–Innomar MOU

11th January 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Cameroon has been identified by the European Commission as a non-cooperating country in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and has been issued with a so-called “red card”.

9th January 2023

EU red cards Cameroon

9th January 2023

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Sigurður and Jóhannes Henningsson, who fish from the island of Grímsey off the north coast of Iceland, have taken delivery of a new Cleopatra netter built by Trefjar.

9th January 2023

Björn again

9th January 2023