Fisheries

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

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

The Scottish pelagic partnership that has  taken delivery of new vessel Artemis started out fishing in 2020 with the former Resolute – the 64-metre pelagic trawler renamed Artemis – while its new…

5th January 2023

Artemis delivered

5th January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A Dutch company owned by Baldvin Thorsteinsson has reached an agreement on buying the assets of Alda Seafood Holding and will therefore acquire the foreign operations of Samherji Holding. 

3rd January 2023

Samherji foreign ops sale

3rd January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

FISH Standard for Crew Inc has confirmed that the Phoenix Processors Limited Partnership’s (PPLP) two processor vessels have been awarded the third-party certification. 

22nd December 2022

FISH for Phoenix

22nd December 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The UK fishing industry is to benefit from an additional 140,000 tonnes of fishing opportunities in 2023 worth £282 million.

22nd December 2022

£282m UK fishing deal

22nd December 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

To increase the global representation and recognition of the professionalism of fishing, the Nautical Institute has opened its membership to the UK and international commercial fishing industry. 

21st December 2022

Nautical Institute opening

21st December 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A much lower pelagic catch led the Icelandic fishing fleet to land 70,628 tonnes of wild-capture fish and shellfish last month, down 27% from November 2021’s 96,641 tonnes.

20th December 2022

Icelandic catch falls

20th December 2022

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Shipyard Damen Maaskant and New Zealand-based seafood company Sanford Limited have signed a contract for the design and build of a new scampi vessel.

19th December 2022

Scampi newbuild order

19th December 2022