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Defra has announced that Huw Irranca-Davies MP has replaced Jonathan Shaw as UK fisheries minister.

The German North Sea saithe trawl fishery has successfully completed the assessment to the MSC’s environmental standard for well-managed and sustainable fisheries.

WWF is calling for urgent protection of the South Pacific ‘Coral Triangle’ after the World Conservation Union’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species warned that several species from these critical spawning grounds…

The European Commission has adopted a proposal for fishing opportunities for the Black Sea for 2009.

On 1 October the European Commission adopted a proposal for deep-sea fishing opportunities for 2009 and 2010.

Greenpeace has launched an online database of fishing vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and the companies that own them.

Last week, the meeting of the Standing Committee on Research and Statistics (SCRS) took place at the headquarters of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT).