Sustainability

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

UK supermarket chain Waitrose has launched a series of videos to improve welfare standards across the UK fishing sector, in particular for migrant workers joining the industry. The move follows reports of…

27th September 2023

Waitrose looks to help migrant fishers after confirming UK industry failings

27th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The focus of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) was sustainable management of key fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic.

26th September 2023

Sustainable measures set for North-West Atlantic fisheries

26th September 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

The European Commission has identified the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago as a non-cooperating country in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and given it a so-called “red card” whereby all of its wild-caught…

26th September 2023

Trinidad and Tobago red-carded for illegal fish failings

26th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The World Trade Organization has broadly agreed to curb subsidies which contribute to overfishing.

25th September 2023

WTO agrees ‘pivotal’ subsidies curb

25th September 2023

OPINION

OPINION

Accountability.Fish Global Director Ryan Orgera discusses the inconsistent rhetoric and behaviour of the Western & Central Pacific Fisheries Commission.

25th September 2023

Op-Ed: Time for action not words – making Pacific tuna sustainable

25th September 2023

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Norway/Uruguay-based Pesquera Azul believes its successful trial of a new catch protection cage in whale-infested waters in the southern Indian Ocean could be a potential game-changer for the longline fishing industry as…

22nd September 2023

Longline company lauds new whale depredation solution

22nd September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Fisheries governance watchdog Accountability.Fish has criticised the Western & Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, saying its practice of holding key meetings in secrecy makes a mockery of the commission’s sustainability rhetoric.

21st September 2023

‘No sustainability without accountability’

21st September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Preparations are now well underway to again welcome thousands of visitors – spanning the entire fisheries, aquaculture and seafood processing landscape – to the 14th edition of the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition. Being…

21st September 2023

IceFish 2024: Championing blue food – from sea to plate

21st September 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership is launching two new projects to help address sustainability issues in land-based aquaculture.

20th September 2023

SFP sets its sights on land-based aquaculture

20th September 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

The US Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced the next steps to conserve and recover endangered North Atlantic right whales with US$82 million in funding…

19th September 2023

Biden administration gives $82m for right whale conservation

19th September 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Acme Smoked Fish Foundation is running its Seafood Industry Climate Awards for a second year in a row.

15th September 2023

Seafood climate awards return for second year

15th September 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Azerbaijan Fish Farm has achieved Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, becoming the first sturgeon breeding farm to do so.

14th September 2023

First sturgeon farm achieves BAP certification

14th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Fishers in the European Union are urging coastal states to resume all-party talks on mackerel quotas to safeguard stocks and businesses.

14th September 2023

Solve Atlantic mackerel stalemate, urge EU fishers

14th September 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

In August 2022, researchers at the Physics and Biology Unit of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) announced they had developed the first squid aquaculture system with potential for commercialisation.…

14th September 2023

Japan’s squid farming breakthrough

14th September 2023

SHIP DESIGN

SHIP DESIGN

Spain’s Freire Shipyard has contracted Longitude Engineering for the basic design of a newbuild research vessel that it is building for IFREMER, the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea.

12th September 2023

Designer appointed for new French research vessel

12th September 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

A new UK project is underway that aims to allow communities in the Atlántida Seascape, Honduras, to improve small-scale fishing and also strengthen the protection of critical marine habitats and species.

12th September 2023

Boost for Hondruas small-scale fishers

12th September 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

New Zealand fishing company Sealord is investing NZD 10 million over the next 10 years in a carbon offset programme that will see underutilised Te Arawa whenua around the wider Rotorua region…

12th September 2023

Te Arawa and Sealord partner on forest project

12th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Mackerel species in the Atlantic are adapting their spawning habits in response to warming seas, according to a new study analysing data from 1992 onwards.

11th September 2023

Mackerel spawning habits changing as seas warm

11th September 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Ecuador’s Grupo Almar, one of the top five shrimp producers in the world, and health, nutrition and beauty company DSM-Firmenich have entered a joint multi-year commitment to measure and improve Grupo Almar’s…

8th September 2023

Shrimp producer Grupo Almar starts carbon footprint reduction project

8th September 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Aquaculture nets and ropes supplier Garware Technical Fibres has confirmed the acquisition of a 26% stake in solar energy company TP Bhaskar Renewables (TPBRL) as part of its roadmap to becoming carbon neutral.

8th September 2023

Net supplier buys into solar energy firm

8th September 2023