Interviews

This is where we welcome strong opinions and sometimes hard words, and the frequently controversial fishing and aquaculture industries are no strangers to both.

Interviews

Rebuilding Abu Dhabi Fisheries
2021-06-29T09:46:00+01:00
There is still hope - natural ecosystems are resilient and can bounce back if initiatives are taken at the right time, writes Dr Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri, secretary general of the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD), the largest environmental regulator in the Middle East.
Driving a culture change
2021-04-07T12:16:00+01:00
How do you turn around a whole culture within a workplace, and even an entire industry – especially an industry that’s generally averse to change? It’s something that is being achieved within Thai Union, one of the select group of the world’s heavyweight seafood producers, with Dr Darian McBain as ...
?Heralding a New Era of Transparency and Engagement
2019-01-03T08:00:00+00:00
Julie Hesketh-Laird, the recently appointed Chief Executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, speaks at length to Owen Stevens for World Fishing & Aquaculture
Moving in the right direction
2015-09-09T13:45:00+01:00
In an exclusive interview with Jason Holland for World Fishing & Aquaculture, Javier Garat, president of Europêche, secretary general of the Spanish Fishing Confederation (CEPESCA) and chairman of the European Fisheries Technology Platform, highlights the successes achieved by Europe’s fishing industry and explains why it’s important to ensure it has ...
Q&A with Karmenu Vella
2015-02-04T15:36:00+00:00
In an exclusive interview with Jason Holland for World Fishing & Aquaculture, Karmenu Vella, the new EU Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs & Fisheries, discusses enforcement of the Common Fisheries Policy, the benefits of boosting EU aquaculture and much more.
Innovation the driving force of sustainable fisheries
2014-09-02T14:19:00+01:00
Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture, Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, speaks to WF&A about the Icelandic fishing industry.

Prices, data and the CFP
2014-01-23T14:59:00+00:00
Niels Wichmann, managing director of the Danish Fishermen’s Association and the Danish Fishermen’s Producer Organisation (DFPO), talks to Carly Wills about the Danish fishing industry.
Freshwater fish will become more important in aquaculture
2014-01-13T11:57:00+00:00
World Fishing & Aquaculture interviews Norwegian modern fish farming pioneer, Bjørn Myrseth to discover what he believes the future holds for the fast growing industry.
Champion of small-scale fishermen
2013-07-17T12:08:00+01:00
Menakhem Ben-Yami interviews Robin Alden, Executive Director of Penobscot East Resource Center and member of Maine Sea Grant''s Policy Advisory Committee.
Managing ecosystems on three levels
2013-01-24T14:13:00+00:00
Menakhem Ben-Yami exclusively interviews NOAA’s new Senior Scientist for Ecosystem Management, Jason Link.
Gunboat Þór stays home
2011-08-02T11:47:00+01:00
With a tiny population of just 320,000, Iceland hauls massively above its weight. Their modern saga jumps from earth-topped houses to plane, launched low-cost transatlantic charters, pioneered cheap international phone calls and tapped their volcanic resources for geothermal power for homes and tourist lagoons. They won a cod war with ...
Albacora on its future communications plans
2011-06-16T14:03:00+01:00
Grupo Albacora SA is a leading tuna fishing company exporting all over the world. A pioneer in many aspects of its business, Grupo Albacora is one of the first to adopt the internet onboard its fishing vessels, support ships and reefer ships. By the end of 2011 it is the ...

Who has the wheel?
2011-06-08T15:15:00+01:00
Commissioners may come and Commissioners may go but the engine room of the EU’s DG Mare Pêche (Direction générale des affaires maritimes et de la pêche – DGM&P) keeps running for ever, out of sight of a bridge apparently on auto-pilot. As we went to press, Lowri Evans’s team was ...
Q&A with Tony Smith, Dragon Feeds
2010-12-09T00:15:00+00:00
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 combines its own farm-produced Nereis virens polychaetes, also known as ragworms, with vegetable proteins.
A tale of three hatcheries
2010-07-15T08:12:00+01:00
Kilic Group’s Bafa hatchery is nearly as big as a small town. (Photo: Kilic)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 size of the fry they ...
Protecting US marine resources
2010-06-03T09:05:00+01:00
Schwaab: Fisheries have been vital to the prosperity of US coastal communities for centuries.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 quotas and limited access ...
WFE will mark a turning point for Spain
2009-09-01T18:49:00+01:00
Elena Espinosa: Modern aquaculture constitutes a substantial innovation in the production of fish and of food of aquatic origin and, with a percentage of average world growth of 6-8 % a year, it is the sector of food production that registers a more rapid growth.
Interview on the First World Summit on Fisheries Sustainability
2009-05-05T12:56:00+01:00
Everyone – the fishing industry, environmental organisations, governments – is now concerned about the sustainability of fish stocks. Since the early 1990s there has been very little growth in the world catch of wild fish stocks; instead, we have seen increasing publicity about overfishing and environmental damage. In recent years ...

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CFP reform – how’s about a new boat?
2009-05-01T12:07:00+01:00
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 public with a Green Paper in April(1), is a chance for direct input from fishermen to change things.
Optimistic about the future
2008-09-01T20:50:00+01:00
Einar K Guðfinnsson: There are a number of things that one can mention. Of course, we have a very able management team, a very well-trained and experienced workforce and we have a deep-rooted knowledge of how to run the fishing industry, including the marketing part.
Icelandic fisheries still going strong
2008-09-01T20:44:00+01:00
Marianne Rasmussen-Coulling: Following the 2005 event it became apparent that a large number of exhibitors wanted the exhibition to run over three days. Also, by moving the event to October the hotels would be charging winter rates, which would result in significant savings - on average 25%. A survey was ...
Three men in a boat
2007-07-01T11:05:00+01:00
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 months. But under a little known but useful idea, from the unsigned EU Constitution which is still becalmed ...
Becoming a player in European fisheries
2006-12-18T12:38:00+00:00
Eskil Erlandsson: When it comes to fisheries in the European context I would like to be more influential than the previous government, and be more of a 'player'. It is very important to me that we re-establish our influence in this respect. I would like to continue a strict conservation ...
Spanish sector at the forefront of responsible fishing
2006-10-27T16:24:00+01:00
World Fishing: How do you describe the situation of the Spanish fishing sector?

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