Industry News

An international group of non governmental organisations (NGOs) is rolling out a major lobbying operation at the UN and worldwide for a ban on bottom-trawling. The General Assembly is debating the future…

Pair trawls catching bass will continue to remain outside the 12 miles of the Southwest coast of the UK after a Greenpeace judicial review of the regulation was dismissed by the courts.

The proposed total ban on driftnets in the Baltic from Jan 2008 has effectively been blocked for the time being by the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament (EPFC) until there has…

Taiwan will be scrapping a total of 120 large-scale tuna long line vessels between 2005 and 2006 to follow the International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity adopted by…

What an exhibition and what a country! - Last month, at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition (7-10 Sept), Iceland demonstrated once more it still remains at the forefront of the fishing industry. Fishing…

Einar K Guðfinnsson (pictured) has been named the new Minister of Fisheries of Iceland after the appointment of former Minister Árni M. Mathiesen to Minister of Finances last month.

The executive agency has been created to deliver the Governments services to the fishing industry and a number of marine environmental interests

The emergency closure of anchovy fishing in the Bay of Biscay (from July to October) was extended to 31 December by a decision of the EU Commission in mid-September and came up…

The Government is initiating field studies concerning the wreck of the submarine U-864, which was sunk off Fedje in Hordaland County in 1945. The purpose of the studies is to determine the…

Scientists with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) are working with the Nova Scotia Swordfish Harpoon Association in a first-ever Canadian high-tech tagging study of swordfish to determine their migration patterns in the…

Australian and Indonesian officials met in Jakarta last week (24-26 August) to discuss a better working relationship on marine and fisheries issues.

DanFish International will be held from 13-15 October in Aalborg in Denmark and up to 15,000 visitors from 48 countries are expected. World Fishing talked to sales manager Evan Dyren to find…

The Charvoz family has run Cannes Aquaculture on the French Mediterranean coast for generations and they say they have built up a good reputation for their professional approach to every aspect of…

Iridium Satellite LLC, the global supplier of mobile satellite communication services, said that it has approximately 127,000 subscribers as of June 30, 2005. This is a 20 per cent increase over its…

HMAS Geraldton has arrested the latest of 115 vessels caught fishing illegally this year, according to the Australian fisheries minister senator Ian Macdonald.

Seven of the worlds top 10 marine fish species - approximately 30 per cent of all capture fisheries output - are fully exploited or overexploited, according to a UN State of World…

The Sea Fish Industry Authority (Seafish) and Seafood Scotland are developing a series of good practice guides to aid workers on fishing vessels and in onshore seafood businesses to comply with food…

The volume of the fish caught by tourists and sport fishermen in Norway, writes Hans Morten Sundness, may now be as much as 60,000 tonnes (t) a year and this may match…

The Dutch government has to grant Euro85m in compensation to cockle dredgers after the government decided to ban this year cockle dredging in the Waddenzee, an inshore stretch of the North Sea…