Industry News

Europêche and EAPO, the representative bodies of the EU fishing sector, have expressed their frustration at the decision taken by the College of Commissioners recognising that, following a “fitness check”, the European…

Western Australia Fisheries Minister Joe Francis has announced a plan to make rock lobster more accessible to the locals following a visit to the Bluwave processing facilities in Fremantle.

The House of Lords European Union Committee has published a report outlining the risks and opportunities of Brexit for the UK fishing industry.

A failure by countries to voluntarily submit data on Atlantic and Patagonian toothfish catch risked catches being declared products of illegal fishing, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources…

EU ministers have reached an agreement on fishing opportunities for 2017 in the Atlantic, North Sea and Black Sea, following discussions at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 12 and 13 December.

MAN Diesel & Turbo has carried out a quick fix turbocharger retrofit on a North Sea trawler taking just five weeks from first enquiry to commissioning.

The United Nations General Assembly has ratified the annual celebration of World Tuna Day, to become a globally recognised event.

Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) says many positive outcomes were achieved at the 13th Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission annual meeting in Fiji, including adoption of the observer safety measure.

It has been a turbulent few days with NGOs piling in to slam the MSC’s decision to certify the New Zealand orange roughy fishery as sustainable.

Based in Tholen in the south of Holland Job Schot and his family run the Belgian-flagged Eurocutter Job Senior Z-201. he’s an unlikely activist, but the apparently unending burdens being placed on…

Pingtan Marine Enterprise is set to deploy four tuna longline vessels to fish in the international waters of the Pacific Ocean

New Zealand based ENL Group, has received a NZD$15m R&D growth grant to assist with ongoing investment in its globally recognised WASSP Multibeam Sounder.

Commenting at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission annual meeting taking place this week, Ludwig Kumoru of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) and others have slammed the refusal of…

Fishing operations for EU vessels in the Cook Islands fishing areas has been given the go ahead. This follows the Cook Islands and the EU agreeing on all elements of the Sustainable…

China’s Pingtan Marine Enterprise Ltd has completed construction on two squid jigging vessels which will go into operation in the Southwest Atlantic and Southeast Pacific Oceans by late December 2016.

Negotiations between Norway and the EU on fishing quotas in the North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat are now complete.

Thai Union has participated in the annual Trust Women Conference which discussed solutions to empower women fighting slavery worldwide.

Rural Economy Fergus Ewing has announced that the way fisheries quotas are allocated will remain unchanged once the devolution of new fisheries powers is confirmed.

Things are quiet on the herring grounds west of Iceland at present. Now those who still have quotas to catch are expected to switch to blue whiting in Faroese waters while there…