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Nine Baltic sea states all scored failing grades in an annual WWF evaluation of their performance in protecting and restoring the world’s most damaged sea.

The Commerce Department has announced the re-appointment of Benigno M. Sablan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, to the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council.

Philip MacMullen, Seafish Head of Environmental Responsibility, said:

The UK Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has published its latest advice to consumers on fish sustainability, including those it recommends to eat, and those to avoid.

New measures to reduce discards of Scotlands valuable fish stocks were announced this week.

WWF welcomes the conclusions reached by an independent expert panel that all activity should be suspended in the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery, and sanctuaries should be created in all main spawning areas…

Kongsberg Maritime has signed an agreement to purchase the UK based sonar company GeoAcoustics Ltd of Great Yarmouth, for approximately NOK42m (approximately EUR5.3m).

The Irish Marine Institute (Foras na Mara) has welcomed the European Commission’s European Strategy for Marine and Maritime Research: A coherent European Research Area framework in support of a sustainable use of…

Owners and the master of the Belgian beam trawler Neptunus were ordered to pay a total of £43,374 in fines and costs by Lowestoft Magistrates, UK, on Monday 8 September after pleading…

It is time for regulators to adopt a minimum size requirement for Spiny Lobsters harvested from the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic, according to the US National Fisheries Institute…