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Southern Brittany’s purse seine sardine fishery has entered full assessment in order to obtain the Marine Stewardship Councils (MSC) certificate for sustainable and well-managed fisheries. It is the first French fishery to…

At 7pm tonight, Abel Caballero, Mayor of Vigo and President of the Organising Committee of the World Fishing Exhibition - Vigo09 and Alfonso Paz-Andrade, President of the Executive Committee, will launch the…

FindVessel.com aims to become a leading European marketplace for buying and selling professional vessels and larger leisure craft.

The Shark Alliance is celebrating todays release of the European Commissions Plan of Action for the Conservation of Sharks which sets the stage for sweeping improvements in European Union shark fishing and…

Steingrímur J. Sigfússon became Minister of Finance, Fisheries and Agriculture for Iceland on 1 February 2009.

Two “compromise packages” to end the deadlock on so-called scientific whaling are too much of a compromise, according to WWF.

The government has decided to present a fishing vessel to the people of Gaadhiffushi to develop fishing in the island. President Nasheed made the announcement last week during his meeting with the…

Representatives of over 80 countries have made significant progress in negotiating a binding international agreement aimed at closing ports to ships involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Responding to the Scottish Government’s announcement of details of the interim days-at-sea scheme (Conservation Credits II) on 3 February, Bertie Armstrong, chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, said:

Natural England heralded this weeks launch of ‘Ocean in Google Earth’, the newest version of Google Earth.