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The OECD Committee for Fisheries has produced a new handbook for fisheries managers, utilising a large body of research carried out over the years investigating fisheries policy and fisheries management.

7th November 2013

OECD releases new handbook for fishery managers

7th November 2013

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Sir Ian Barker has been appointed chair of New Zealand’s new Snapper 1 Strategy Group, which will work on a long term plan to manage the fishery.

7th November 2013

Snapper 1 Strategy Group Chair appointed

7th November 2013

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AFMA chair, Michael Egan, has announced that a sustainable and more profitable future for the Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF) will be assured through controls that limit fishing effort and maximise the supply…

6th November 2013

Profitable future for prawn fishery

6th November 2013

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Seafish has made a short film for fishermen demonstrating the importance of wearing life jackets and knowing how to use them.

6th November 2013

The importance of lifejackets

6th November 2013

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The European deep-sea fishing industry has welcomed this week’s vote in the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee on a regulation concerning deep-sea fishing in the Northeast Atlantic.

6th November 2013

Europêche welcomes deep-sea compromise

6th November 2013

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The European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee has voted to ban bottom trawling in areas of the North East Atlantic with vulnerable marine ecosystems, but not to phase out bottom trawling altogether.

5th November 2013

Bottom trawling will not be phased out

5th November 2013

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The Republic of China and Chile’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca) have signed a MoU to strengthen cooperation between both countries and to guarantee the sanitary safety of fishery products.

5th November 2013

Chile and China sign fish hygiene agreement

5th November 2013

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Atlantic Aqua Farms, based in Prince Edward Island, Canada, has become the world’s first mussel farm to receive Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification since the completion of the mussel farm standards in…

1st November 2013

First mussel farm BAP certified

1st November 2013

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The International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) is working to advance the integrated scientific understanding of marine ecosystems as part of its new Strategic Plan.

30th October 2013

Understanding marine ecosystems

30th October 2013

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The new Comprehensive Ecomomic and Trade Agreement between Canada and Europe should bring huge benefits to the Canadian fish and seafood export market.

30th October 2013

Canadian trade agreement opens up door to exports

30th October 2013

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Blue mussels caught by the Niedersächsische Muschelfischer GbR in the Wadden Sea of Lower Saxony have been MSC certified.

30th October 2013

Blue mussels certified

30th October 2013

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WWF is warning that any increase this year in bluefin tuna quotas for the East Atlantic and the Mediterranean by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) could jeopardise…

29th October 2013

Atlantic bluefin tuna quota debate

29th October 2013

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The Western Zone of the Gulf of Mexico will be re-opened to commercial fishing for king mackerel at 12:01am (local time) on 1 November 2013 for two days, closing at 12:01am on…

29th October 2013

King mackerel fishery to re-open for two days

29th October 2013

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The US’ National Fisheries Institute’s Crab Council has announced that the minimum size crab its members will accept from processors has been increased from 8cm to 10cm, to allow crabs more time…

29th October 2013

New minimum size for crab

29th October 2013

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The UK seafood industry has heard how industry collaboration is helping Chile to prepare for its forthcoming discard ban.

24th October 2013

UK learns from Chile on preparing for discard ban

24th October 2013

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Marine Harvest has bought 7,734,185 shares in Morpol from Skagen Vekst, bringing the company’s total shares in Morpol to 91.7%.

24th October 2013

Marine Harvest buys further shares in Morpol

24th October 2013

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Northern Ireland’s fisheries minister Michelle O’Neill has launched the £2.6 million South East Area European Fisheries Fund.

23rd October 2013

£2.6m scheme for Northern Ireland

23rd October 2013

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The first meeting of the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA) has been held in Melbourne, Australia.

23rd October 2013

First meeting of the SIOFA

23rd October 2013

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Representatives of the EU pelagic fishing industry met with Commissioner Damanaki on Monday to put forward a solution to resolving the long running mackerel dispute.

23rd October 2013

Solution to mackerel dispute put forward

23rd October 2013

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AKVA Group has won yet another contract to supply cage farms for salmon farming operations in Russia - a contract worth around 50m NOK (US$8.5m).

23rd October 2013

Another Russian win for AKVA

23rd October 2013