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Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell, has announced that Orange Roughy will be added to the threatened species list under Australian environment law.

A recent release from Oceana states that evidence has been presented in an international meeting of mediterranean countries to show that Italy and France are using illegal driftnets.

According to WWF, major fish buyers in Japan and Europe are threatening to boycott Mediterranean bluefin tuna unless drastic measures are taken to protect the threatened stock.

Russian Deputy Agriculture Minister, Vladimir A. Izmailov, visited the Norwegian Cod Breeding Centre when he was in Tromsø for Norwegian-Russian fishery negotiations recently.

The Shark Alliance has applauded the decision made last week by Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to halt targeted fishing of vulnerable sharks in…

During a visit to the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources’ decentralised offices in Clonakilty on 2 November, Irish Minister of State, John Brown T.D., announced that the new independent statutory…

On 1 November diplomats from around the world, led by Britains ambassador, delivered a strongly-worded protest (demarche) condemning Iceland over its decision to resume commercial whaling.

At the end of October, the Administrative Board of the Community Fisheries Control Agency, adopted the first work programme for the newly created Agency.

Greenpeace has recently issued its 2006 supermarket sustainability league table.

Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishing is “spiralling out of control” according to a recent meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT).

Canada’s Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Loyola Hearn has said that Canada will not join the call for a ban on bottom trawling.

Agreement was reached on 25 October in Edinburgh between the European Commission, on behalf of the European Union, Norway and the Faroe Islands on management measures for mackerel in the north east…

Following the government of Icelands decision to authorise commercial whaling in spite of the internationally agreed moratorium, Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw summoned the Icelandic Ambassador, Mr Sverrir Haukur Gunnlaugsson, on 26 October…

The Canadian Northern Prawn Fishery (the second largest coldwater Nordic Shrimp and Coldwater Shrimp fishery in the world) is the first shrimp fishery in the Atlantic to enter assessment against the Marine…

According to a recent statement, in the issue concerning salmon farms, sea lice, and wild salmon in the Broughton Archipelago, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has undertaken extensive research,…

The Japanese ambassador in Iceland has stated that the Japanese already have enough whale meat, and they will not be buying any from Iceland.

Pacific Island nations (including Australia) are leading the battle against destructive fishing practices after they endorsed a declaration on deep sea bottom trawling earlier this week.

A recent EC release states that European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Joe Borg, has welcomed the adoption by the Fisheries Council, in Luxembourg, on 25 October, of the fishing possibilities…