Industry News

Five years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, the Meiho Fishery’s tuna in Shiogama-city, Miyagi Prefecture, has become the first in the quake-hit Tohoku region to achieve the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)…

The Council of the EU has approved a Directive regulating working conditions in the fisheries sector.

Optimar has signed a contract for delivery of complete fish handling factory on board Sealords newest trawler.

The Council of Ministers have reached an agreement on fishing opportunities for 2017 in the Baltic, its decision has dealt a huge blow to demersal fishing in the area.

Macduff Shipyards have signed over their latest newbuild, twin-rig trawler Forever Faithful, to Andrew West of St Fergus in Scotland. This is the fourth vessel built at Macduff for the West family,…

Two Greenland-based ship owners have ordered Rolls-Royce designed stern trawlers to be built by Freire Shipyard in Spain.

Cooke Aquaculture has become the first salmon producer to earn Best Aquaculture Practices’ (BAP) certification under its new two-year BAP group audit.

The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has signed a Letter of Intent with New Zealand’s Cawthron Institute.

The latest Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) report on the stock status of all fish stocks has been released.

Icelandic fishing and processing company Síldarvinnslan took delivery of its last mackerel of the season last week and the company’s two pelagic vessels switched immediately to Atlanto-Scandian herring.

Unima has been awarded Aquaculture Stewardship Certification (ASC) for its aquaculture farm Aqualma which is located in Mahajamba, the northwest coast of Madagascar.

Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine, Michael Creed officially opened the new UFI fishmeal plant in Killybegs at an event tht brought together suppliers of raw materials from the processing and…

The new that Norway’s Institute of Marine Research (IMR) has given advice for mackerel quotas to be increased by 22%, blue whiting by 77% and Atlanto-Scandian herring by 104% has been welcomed…

The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council is to advise on President Obama’s proclamation to expand the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI).

Baader’s new technology centre in the German city of Lübeck is designed to bring experts together to showcase the latest processing technologies.

A new report is calling on industry to invest in new fishing net technology to reduce the impacts of bottom-trawling.