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The Bluefin tuna purse seine season, set to last from 26 May to 24 June 2015, has come to an early end for 99% of the European purse-seiners because they have exhausted…

The Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) South Pacific albacore longline fishery has become the first Chinese tuna fleet to be certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).

A new €3.5m EU Horizon 2020-funded project, coordinated by The Marine Biological Association, UK, seeks to raise European citizens’ awareness about the links between the ocean and human health.

Kongsberg Maritime has extended its portfolio of sophisticated scientific hydroacoustic products with the launch of the Simrad EK80, a high precision wideband echo sounder.

The International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) says that the number of drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs) now permitted in the Indian Ocean is dangerously high, undermining the sustainability of tuna fisheries.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation reauthorising the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), the primary law governing fisheries resource management in offshore federal waters.

The European Commission has opened the online public consultation on its views and intentions for setting the annual fishing quotas for 2016.

The World Seafood Congress has announced a programme of 96 speakers from 12 countries for the 2015 event.

Just 13 corporations control 19 to 40% of the largest and most valuable stocks and 11 to 16% of the global marine catch meaning they have a huge effect on sustainability, says…

A petition has been signed by more than 100,000 people calling on the British Columbia (BC) government to stop federal government and industry plans for open-net salmon farming in BC, Canada.

The Scottish Salmon Company has won two Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards for ‘Export Business of the Year’ and overall ‘Business of the Year’.

Sea Shepherd Global has launched Operation Siracusa 2015, a campaign which aims to defend the fragile ecosystem of the Plemmirio Marine Reserve, off Siracusa in Sicily, against illegal fishing.

With the certification of the Bay of Fundy, Scotian Shelf and Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence lobster trap fishery (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard, nearly…