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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…

ICELANDIC Sæplast reports that is refurbishing its Norwegian factory which makes fenders and buoys, investing in new machinery and equipment, and is also the object of a reorganisation of a number of…

OPTIMAR Ice has installed an ice machine on the Sighvatur GK, making it the third for Grindavik-based Visirs vessels. The latest, a BP-120, has a capacity of 1,000 litres of 40% thick…

Ireland will have to pay back €590,000 to the Commission in Brussels for lack of proper control over the withdrawal of fish.

The Jacoba Prins has turned oyster laying and fishing back to front. Dutch builder Maaskant Bruinisse B.V., Bruinisse, Netherlands and owner Prins Oesterkweek b.v., Yerseke, Netherlands decided on a different approach for…

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces the commercial fishery for red snapper in Gulf of Mexico federal waters will open at noon, local time, on August 1, 2005, and will close…

The European Commission (EC) lanched a debate on eco-labelling of fisheries products. According to a communication from the EC, this This initiative follows the growing interest by environmental Non-Governmental Organisations and increased…

UKs Fisheries Ministers today published measures to help bring about profitable and sustainable Sea Fisheries in a thriving marineenvironment.

The anchovy fishery in the Bay of Biscay is to close for three months after a report from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) warned about the poor…

Managers of two lobster and sea bass fisheries on the Yorkshire coast have announced they are seeking certification under the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) programme for sustainable and well-managed fisheries.

During the past three weeks, two Canadian Air Force CP-140 Aurora patrol aircraft have repeatedly scoured a 4.1 million square kilometre expanse of the North Pacific in search of vessels engaged in…

A project to help the region’s fishermen net new business is being launched along the North East coast in the UK.

The publication, yesterday, of the European Commission’s fourth annual report on serious breaches to the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), shows that the number of such detected breaches went up…

The latest study of crime in Australias fishing grounds has simply reinforced the need for intensive crackdowns on the theft of stock from inshore waters and out to the 200-mile limit, according…

Acting Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson has begun consultation on regulations that make compulsory the use of bird scaring devices on fishing trawlers.

There is a huge world demand for whitefish in the world. With diminishing supplies in many areas, reports Michel Drouin, the ease of stocks with North American producers has put them in…