Industry News

Oceana has submitted a proposal to the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean Sea to permanently close key nursery areas in the Strait of Sicily to bottom trawling.

One year on from the launch of the Fishermen’s Community and Training Centre (FCTC) in the Maldives, the pole-and-line skipper curriculum has officially been recognised by the Ministry of Education.

Spanish tuna fishing company, Group Echebaster, is updating its fleet with a new tuna freezer vessel built by fellow Spanish company, Zamakona Shipyards.

Mercator Media Limited, publisher of World Fishing and Aquaculture and organiser of the Offshore Mariculture Conference, has won a business excellence award for international development.

The eastern orange roughy fishery is to be re-opened after rebuilding to a healthy level where the species can be commercially fished for the first time in 10 years.

A groundbreaking new study recently conducted by California fishermen, The Nature Conservancy and CSU Monterey Bay indicates that bottom trawling only has a “negligible effect” on the seafloor and fish habitat in…

Representatives from all political parties in Canadas Newfoundland and Labrador are standing united with inshore harvesters, fish plant workers and business owners to seek better federal quota allocations for northern shrimp.

Italy’s Agroittica Lombarda’s farmed sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus and Acipenser baerii), branded Calvisius Caviar, has passed its third full Friend of the Sea audit since approval in 2008, underlining its commitment to sustainability.

A new pan-African project has been launched to strengthen the continent’s great potential for increased trade in fish.

The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) have decided to initiate full-scale trials of an innovative catch documentation system (eCDS) for onboard fisheries observers in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean.

New mathematical methods used to carry out fisheries stock assessments could help provide more reliable reviews to support decision-making, says Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke).

WWF has teamed up with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) for Earth Hour to challenge people to support sustainable fishing and healthy oceans by sharing a #fishface selfie on social media.

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) Commission has approved the sustainable catch limit increase of 2000 tonnes for the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF).

The first nationwide vulnerability assessment for ocean acidification shows that coastal communities in 15 American states which depend on the nation’s US$1bn shelled mollusc industry are at long-term economic risk from ocean…