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The European Commission has tabled its proposal on fishing possibilities for fish stocks in the Baltic Sea for 2010. Scientific advice has shown that cod stocks are recovering, but that the Western…

The Pew Environment Group last week joined 14 fishing and conservation organisations and more than 55,000 members of the general public in urging the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to reject its…

The global restaurant brand Fifteen and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) have received a grant to have all four Fifteen restaurants certified to sell MSC ecolabelled fish. The grant, from the Dutch…

Canada has awarded a contract valued at $19.6 million to a shipbuilding company in Victoria, BC to build five new 47-foot motor lifeboats for the Canadian Coast Guard. The new vessels will…

Over 70 million tins of sustainable, pole-and-line-caught Pacific skipjack tuna have been pre-ordered as part of a Greenpeace online campaign to promote the development of sustainable and equitable pole-and-line skipjack fisheries in…