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Greenpeace yesterday met the returning Japanese whaling fleet factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, with placards reading “Southern Ocean Whaling: Cover-ups, lies, 1.2 billion yen in taxes”.

Published annually in December for the past 28 years, Ports of Scotland is a comprehensive reference book for all ports users.

A concession holder and skipper in the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery (ETBF) have paid a heavy price for breaching fishing permit conditions by retaining shark fins and failing to complete fishing…

New aquatic animal health regulations came into force on 27 March in England, Wales and Scotland, which will affect all aquaculture production businesses (APB’s) in the UK, warns Seafish.

Proposals from the European Community (EC) and Australia that threatened to create new loopholes in the Indian Ocean ban on shark finning were defeated recently at the annual meeting of the Indian…

This week the Council adopted a Regulation to transpose into Community law the new multi-annual recovery plan for Eastern bluefin tuna adopted by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas…

The European Commission has expressed its serious concern at the recent action by Iceland to declare a unilateral mackerel quota of 112,000 tonnes for 2009.

Seafish, the UKs authority on seafood, has brought pioneering Lean Sigma techniques to the UK seafood industry for the first time – with the first two companies to receive training reporting excellent…

The two mid-Norway counties of Trøndelag are joining forces at Aqua Nor 2009 to create a large stand under the banner Aqua Trøndelag.

The total catch of the Belgian beam trawler Pieter Z56 – worth about £5,500 - was confiscated by Brighton Magistrates on 1 April after its owners and skipper admitted fishery control offences,…

A new era in economic and environmental sustainability for New South Wales commercial fishing industry has been reached following the adoption of the Pyrmont Pact, Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said this…

The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation has underlined to a top EC fisheries official that the new effort control regime agreed at the December Fish Council is causing extreme anger on the quayside and…

During February and early March, CSIRO completed its pre-season stock survey of the Northern Prawn Fishery.

The AFMA Commission has approved a new policy for processing and granting scientific permits under the Fisheries Management Act (FMA).