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The New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries is now calling for applications for grants from the 2010/11 Environmental Certification Funding Round.

“It’s a dream project,” says Ernst Morten Hevrøy about the project granted by the Research Council of Norway under the scheme for outstanding young investigators in the field of aquaculture.

The FAO Aquaculture Service is calling for contributions to the development of a worldwide overview and databank of Codes of Practice, Codes of Conduct, Best (Better) Management Practices, Technical Guidelines, etc. in…

Norway’s exports of groundfish including clipfish, salted fish and stockfish totalled NOK 967.4 million in February - an increase of 8% or NOK 69.2 million compared with February 2009.

Licensed commercial fishers in Hawaii can now submit their monthly commercial fishing reports online using a free new system implemented by the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources…

The Maldives has declared its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), 90,000 square kilometers of the Indian Ocean, as a shark sanctuary free from all shark fishing and also banned all imports and exports…

Biologist and environmental engineer Alfred Schumm has been appointed to a two year term on the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) Board of Directors.

The all-weather lifeboat at RNLI New Quay, UK, was launched last week to the assistance of a badly injured crew member of the scallop trawler Lerina positioned nine miles south west of…

The Pew Environment Group has praised the UK for taking one further step towards designating the world’s largest marine reserve.

During the early hours of Friday 26 February 2010, UK Border Agency officers at the Port of Dover, working in conjunction with the governments Fish Health Inspectorate (FHI), intercepted the largest ever…

Governments meeting on 13 March the largest wildlife trade convention will have a unique opportunity to help preserve the world’s oceans and simultaneously stem a worldwide poaching crisis, says WWF.

Strides forward were made last week by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission for the protection of the fish stocks in the Indian Ocean, such as tropical tunas and shark stocks.