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A report highlighting just how far climate change has already impacted the United Kingdoms marine environment, and what might happen in the future, was published yesterday (www.mccip.org.uk/arc).

Minister of Fisheries Jim Anderton proposed emergency action in New Zealand’s developing swordfish fishery on 28 November, in response to unacceptable levels of bird deaths.

New evidence revealing a dramatic fall in illegal fishing in Scotland was presented on 28 November to the EU President Jose-Manuel Barrosso.

The European Commission has proposed to increase the amount of EU financial support that Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) receive.

The decisions taken yesterday at the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) sounds the death knell for Mediterranean bluefin tuna, says WWF.

New Zealand is heartened by a significant advance in international efforts to regulate high seas bottom trawling at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), according to the Ministry of Fisheries.

At the end of the preparatory meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, Joe Borg, European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, welcomed the consensus achieved by…

John Browne T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine Natural Resources on 22 November received the 2007 Stock Book from the Marine Institute.

On 20 November, the European Commission adopted its annual proposal on next year’s guide prices for fresh and frozen fisheries products as well as the Community producer price for tuna for processing.