Industry News

The Pew Charitable Trusts reports that Russia, with some support from the Ukraine, has stalled progress on establishing marine reserves in the Antarctic.

New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is releasing Initial Position Papers for a range of fish stocks which outline proposed changes to sustainability measures and management controls for the 1 October…

England’s first draft marine plans for the seas from Flamborough Head in the north to Felixstowe in the south have been launched by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO).

Marine Harvest Scotland has inked up a successful second quarter in 2013 – no doubt helped by the boom its experiencing from Scottish salmon exports to China.

Raymarine’s new Dragonfly Sonar/GPS, a dual channel advanced CHIRP sonar and GPS chartplotter, generated a flurry of interest at the UK’s Seawork Exhibition.

Samskip has announced that it plans to stop transporting whale meat, following a Taiwanese shipping company’s decision to send six containers of whale meat back to Iceland.

Australian TV Chef Tom Kime will open his sustainable seafood cafe, Fish & Co this week, the first independent restaurant in NSW to achieve Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification.

Votes have been cast on how taxpayer money from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) will be spent, and the overwhelming response from environmental groups is that this fund will now…

The Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament has voted on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) – and has voted in favour of subsidies for new boats.

The High Court has backed the UK governments decision to redistribute some of the unused fishing allowances held by big fishing firms to small inshore fishing boats.

Now all sharks landed in EU ports and by EU vessels worldwide must have their fins still attached to their bodies.

Seawork 2013 attracted record numbers of commercial marine professionals with over 7,300 visitors this year, a 6% increase on 2012.

The second week of September has been dubbed ‘Think Fish Week’ by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) and World Wide Fund for Nature-Netherlands (WWF-NL).

The Faroese government is urging the EU to return to the negotiating table to resolve the dispute about the herring stock, with the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs now stepping in as…

Associated Seafoods Ltd (ASL) has revealed plans to make its Scottish smoked salmon and shellfish the main promotional focus for future market growth after receiving positive customer feedback.

Marine Harvest Canada (MHC) has become the first farm raised salmon producer in British Columbia to achieve three star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification.