Industry News

Marine Scotland has announced this years days at sea allocations for West Coast fishermen and a new opportunity that it says will help to keep the fleet at sea throughout the whole…

Greenpeace has urged the Mauritian government to refuse port clearance for a South Korean vessel accused of illegal fishing in order to protect the Indian Ocean.

Law enforcement crews from US Coast Guard Station Islamorada intercepted a fishing vessel fishing illegally in American waters this week.

The UK branch of Skretting, a leading supplier of feed for farmed fish and shrimp, is carrying out trials to identify the effects of low levels of dissolved oxygen in seawater at…

The second round of negotiations between the EU and the Seychelles to agree a new Protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement took place this week.

Sydney Fish Market (SFM) has lodged a development application for an AUS$3.8 million boardwalk upgrade, due to commence in August this year.

The UK’s Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has announced an emergency bylaw prohibiting the use of bottom towed fishing gear within the Solent European Marine Site (EMS).

This week sees the European Association of Fisheries Economists (EAFE) conference visit Scotland for the first time, bringing together over 80 delegates travelling from as far afield as Japan and Alaska.

New genetic analyses of fish samples from an old collection in Nuuk have revealed that the fish in Greenland’s ‘great cod boom’ in the 1960s did not come from Iceland but were…

South Africa’s Prince Edward Islands have been declared a marine protected area (MPA) by Minister Edna Molewa, making them Africa’s first offshore MPA.

Global conservation organisation, Oceana, has been chosen to represent Spanish conversationalist organisations on the Board of Trustees of Spain’s Cabrera Maritime Terrestrial National Park by Greenpeace, WWF, Amigo de la Tierra and…

Global marine equipment distributor, ASAP Supplies Ltd, has appointed Tom Edwards as its new sales manager.

The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) is set to sponsor this year’s Skipper Expo International Aberdeen, taking place from 10 to 11 May 2013 at the Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre (AECC), Scotland.

A new Aquaculture Development and Enhancement Programme (ADEP) has been launched by South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry, in a bid to boost investment and growth within the aquaculture sector.

The Faroese stock exchange (VMF) says that although in the last few years its demersal fishing market has collapsed, at the same time pelagic fishing quotas have increased and the catch has…

Estimates made by Seafish using its new dataset suggest that although the UK fleet made a profit last year, operating profit decreased compared to 2011.

A new report by the NAFC Marine Centre has found that the abundance of the main species caught by Scottish fishermen has increased over the last five or six years.

Prim7stars shrimps, caught by Atlantic Shrimpers Limited, have been certified as Friend of the Sea.