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The Ministry of Agriculture and Lands has issued one new finfish license, one replacement finfish license, and one new shellfish license, and denied another application for a shellfish license.

W.J. (Jack) Peake, Chair of the BC Island Coastal Economic Trust (Trust), has announced funding approval of $1,000,000 for the Deep Bay Field Station, to be built and managed by the Malaspina…

The European Commission has decided on a far-reaching reorganisation of the Directorate-General in charge of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs. The former “DG FISH” becomes the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and…

The FAO-established General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) has approved a new region-wide scheme for stronger port State controls targeting illegal, unreported and underreported (IUU) fishing.

Responding to the publication of a report from WWF UK putting forward the case for a network of marine protected areas in the North Sea (http://www.worldfishing.net/news/news_story.ehtml?o=1933), Bertie Armstrong, chief executive of the…