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ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Professor John Stein, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Oxford, and his brother, television personality and world famous fish chef, Rick Stein, speak to WF&A…

13th November 2013

Omega-3: The key to a longer, healthier life

13th November 2013

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The status of New Zealand fisheries, including hoki, organge roughy and blue cod, are on the up this year, according to the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).

13th November 2013

New Zealand fisheries on the up

13th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Federal fishery management officials have voted to set 2014 catch levels of Pacific sardine off the US West Coast at 33% below what they would have been under the existing management regime.

13th November 2013

Sardine catch levels lowered

13th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Small boat fishermen in Ramsgate UK have seen the volume of quota available to them increase by 25 tonnes, thanks to a pilot project run by the Fish Producer Organisation and the…

12th November 2013

Quota pilot for small boat fishermen

12th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

New Zealand’s government is proposing to ban the removal of shark fins and the dumping of the shark carcass at sea.

12th November 2013

NZ proposes shark finning ban

12th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Peru’s Ministry of Production (Produce) is implementing a new Surveillance and Control of Fisheries and Aquaculture Programme for the entire aquatic resources production chain, in order to strengthen supervision and combat illegal…

12th November 2013

Peru implements supply chain monitoring programme

12th November 2013

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

The Saffire vessel monitoring system for fisheries and other commercial shipping operations has been updated and rebranded as Globavista.

12th November 2013

Saffire VMS updated

12th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

An INTERPOL alert has been circulated to all 190 member countries, after a method of shark finning aimed at avoiding detection of illegal practices was identified by Coast Rican authorities.

12th November 2013

Shark finning alert

12th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

WWF Pakistan is to support Maldives in its efforts to provide sustainable management of tuna in the Indian Ocean during the next three years.

8th November 2013

WWF supports Maldives management

8th November 2013

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Senator Richard Colbeck has announced that Australia’s aquaculture industry has grown significantly and now accounts for almost half of the country’s fish production.

7th November 2013

Aquaculture value rises in Australia

7th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new Fishermen’s Community & Training Centre (FCTC) in the Maldives will nurture the country’s pole-and-line fishing communities through the provision of fisheries training and education.

7th November 2013

Training centre for fishermen to open in Maldives

7th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

On 5 November a representative of the Korean Government announced that it will be investigating Dutch-flagged cargo vessel, Holland Klipper, which arrived in the Korean port of Busan on 31 October carrying…

7th November 2013

Korea will investigate illegal fish

7th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

An FAO-coordinated project to improve the health and sustainability of tuna fisheries worldwide has been approved.

7th November 2013

Enhancing tuna management and conservation

7th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The OECD Committee for Fisheries has produced a new handbook for fisheries managers, utilising a large body of research carried out over the years investigating fisheries policy and fisheries management.

7th November 2013

OECD releases new handbook for fishery managers

7th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Sir Ian Barker has been appointed chair of New Zealand’s new Snapper 1 Strategy Group, which will work on a long term plan to manage the fishery.

7th November 2013

Snapper 1 Strategy Group Chair appointed

7th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

AFMA chair, Michael Egan, has announced that a sustainable and more profitable future for the Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF) will be assured through controls that limit fishing effort and maximise the supply…

6th November 2013

Profitable future for prawn fishery

6th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Seafish has made a short film for fishermen demonstrating the importance of wearing life jackets and knowing how to use them.

6th November 2013

The importance of lifejackets

6th November 2013

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The popularity of seafood in America, in particular shrimp, canned tuna and salmon, continues to grow, says the National Fisheries Institute (NFI).

6th November 2013

Seafood remains popular with US consumers

6th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European deep-sea fishing industry has welcomed this week’s vote in the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee on a regulation concerning deep-sea fishing in the Northeast Atlantic.

6th November 2013

Europêche welcomes deep-sea compromise

6th November 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee has voted to ban bottom trawling in areas of the North East Atlantic with vulnerable marine ecosystems, but not to phase out bottom trawling altogether.

5th November 2013

Bottom trawling will not be phased out

5th November 2013