Industry News

The progress of Canadas seal hunt has once again raised the complex scenario of fishermen trying to make up their income from out-of-season work and some long-term, unemployed Canadians hit by the…

New Zealand has announced it will be launching Ocean Survey 20/20, an ambitious survey, over the next 15 years to build up a comprehensive picture of its oceanic resources and ecosystems, reports…

Research by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has uncovered the molecular basis for resistance and accumulation of paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) in soft-shell clams. A reports in Nature magazine says…

Great interest from the industrys global manufacturers and suppliers has been growing in the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2005 as Iceland is one of the few remaining nations in the European zone that…

At the initiative of the social partners in the European fisheries sector (Europêche and the E.T.F. ) representatives of the sector, training centres and competent national authorities met in Brussels for a…

European fishermen’s leaders from France, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Belgium and the UK have met on April 21 and 26, in Brussels, to agree an action plan to address the…

The European Commission is reported to invest $7.5 million to develop tuna fisheries in the Pacific Ocean, one of the worlds largest tuna fisheries which accounts for 1.8 million tones worth $3.5…

Philippines, Indonesia and Tailand will continue to receive commercial tariff advantages with the EU, the EU Court of Justice established last month.

The Commonwealth Fisheries Association (CFA) and Southern Rock Lobster Ltd (SRL) have now full membership in the Australian Seafood Industry Council (ASIC).

The EU decision to implement safeguard measures to protect Scottish and Irish Salmon farmers is facing strong opposition from Norway, Chile and the Faroe Islands.

A hundred years ago Glasgow was at its peak as the second city of the British Empire and its shipbuilding yards were equipping the merchant, naval and fisheries fleets of the whole…

The European Fisheries Monitoring Agency will come into effect in 2006, a year earlier than planned, announced Elena Espinosa, head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) last month.

Decommisioned EU fishing vessels could be on their way to rebuild the tsunami hit fishing fleets of the countries around the Indian Ocean if a proposal from the European Commission is accepted.

North Africas premier international fisheries exhibition AGADIR FISH MOROCCO, will be staged for the third time from April 14-16 2005. The 2003 exhibition, the organisers say, was a real success for the…

On February 17th, the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) General Secretary Doro Zinke and the President of the ETF Fisheries Section, Peter Sand Mortensen, met EU Commissioner Joe Borg. During the meeting,…

The tonnage of whitefish landings at Lerwick Harbour increased by more than a quarter in the first nine months of this year, with the successful Land in Shetland campaign making an important…