Interviews

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Dragon Feeds began looking at ways to produce sustainable aquaculture feeds around 10 years ago. Following five years intense research and development work, the UK company unveiled its unique fishmeal alternative, which…

9th December 2010

Q&A with Tony Smith, Dragon Feeds

9th December 2010

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Turkey’s three leading gilthead seabream and European seabass hatcheries could not be more different if they tried. At one end of the spectrum is the Kilic Group where everything – including the…

15th July 2010

A tale of three hatcheries

15th July 2010

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

WF: How are you planning to implement policies such as catch shares, which seem to have sparked significant controversy in the US fishing industry ES: Catch share programmes, which include individual fishing…

3rd June 2010

Protecting US marine resources

3rd June 2010

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

What is the reason for holding a conference focused on sustainability?Everyone – the fishing industry, environmental organisations, governments – is now concerned about the sustainability of fish stocks. Since the early 1990s…

5th May 2009

Interview on the First World Summit on Fisheries Sustainability

5th May 2009

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Nathalie Charbonneau, spokeswoman for Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg, has spent her career in the Commission (EC). There are lots of complaints about the CFP she says, but the reform process, which went…

1st May 2009

CFP reform – how’s about a new boat?

1st May 2009

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

World Fishing: What are the main strengths of the Icelandic fisheries industry today?Einar K Guðfinnsson: There are a number of things that one can mention. Of course, we have a very able…

1st September 2008

Optimistic about the future

1st September 2008

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

There are now 27 EU ministers with responsibility for Agriculture and Fish and Rural Development (AFRD). Germany’s Horst Seehofer took over the Presidency of the Council in January for the usual six…

1st July 2007

Three men in a boat

1st July 2007

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

World Fishing: What are your most important projects and issues in your new role?Eskil Erlandsson: When it comes to fisheries in the European context I would like to be more influential than…

18th December 2006

Becoming a player in European fisheries

18th December 2006

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

World Fishing: How do you describe the situation of the Spanish fishing sector?Elena Espinosa: First of all, I would like to highlight that Spain is still a big fishing country. It still…

27th October 2006

Spanish sector at the forefront of responsible fishing

27th October 2006

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

A billionaire American tourist, mesmerised by the green lawns around the ‘Bloody’ Tower of London, asks the groundsman how he could get the same quality at his Texas ranch. “Simple really, sir:…

30th August 2006

The Chief Inspector sniffs out the flesh

30th August 2006

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Growing consumer awareness, the association believes, will reduce the market for illegally caught tuna which is supplied mostly by foreign vessels. Discouraging consumption of illegally landed tuna, in turn, will raise demand…

16th August 2006

Reversing long term decline

16th August 2006

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

The importance of fisheries and of the politics of fisheries in Iceland makes the breeding of skilled ministers of fisheries a necessity. Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson (51) is one of the most obvious…

29th May 2006

Iceland upholds a healthy economy

29th May 2006

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

First five-year treatyThe first five year treaty with the EU was concluded in 1996 when the then government of ousted president Maaouiya Ould Taya sought to replace the diminishing and ageing visiting…

10th April 2006

Mauritania and the EU fail to agree

10th April 2006

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The VMD's random tests include local and imported fish for residues of regulated or banned products and antibiotics. Where levels are breached, VMD reports to the country of origin for action, and…

25th January 2006

Partners in seafood quality not crime

25th January 2006

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Those opposing subsidies argue that they distort trade by creating fishery overproduction which is then exported, so affecting fish prices and the fishing industry in other countries.Korean interestThe retention of fishing subsidies…

27th October 2005

$25 billion a year? Who gets it?

27th October 2005

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

The ADB recently awarded Indonesia a grant of US$880,000 towards the consultancy costs of a $1.18 million technical assistance study to help the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries prepare a national…

31st August 2005

Borrowing from the bank

31st August 2005

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Q: What are the main strengths of the industry today?It is diversity. Most of the Icelandic stocks are in a stable situation or growing. There is probably only one stock in trouble,…

1st August 2005

Robust Iceland will report pirates

1st August 2005

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Peter O'Neill discussed the issues with Normunds Rieksti?š, Director of the National Board of Fisheries and finds that Latvia still leads with its most famous products, Riga sprats and herrings.Normunds has been…

1st July 2005

Brave New World – from occupation to liberalisation

1st July 2005

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Joe Borg has already shown how a man from a small island, Malta, is particularly sensitive to what the sea can do to small coastal fishing communities. At the international Tsunami Rehabilitation…

25th May 2005

Small and local is powerful and persuasive in big EU

25th May 2005

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Since the mid-1980s China has become the world's workshop with new factories being set up every year to manufacture toys, garments, textiles, consumer electronics and many other items for export. The vast…

19th February 2005

Chinas white fish exports force European processors to develop new products

19th February 2005