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Since the Mediterranean tuna fishing season opened at the beginning of May, over 10,000 breeding bluefin tunas are being caught every day by the industrial fishing fleet, according to WWF calculations.

Responding to the announcement by Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead of the Scottish Governments intended changes to the management of fish quota in Scotland, Bertie Armstrong, Chief Executive of the Scottish Fishermens Federation…

Improving fisheries management models, increasing the size of farm-raised oysters, and learning how to raise red and blue king crab in large-scale hatcheries are among the $1.5 million in new projects, activities,…

A major review of the management of Scotlands fish quota was outlined today.

Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, last week announced the graduation of 30 new Fishery Officers from the Fishery Officer training programme.

The skipper of a Belgian beam trawler who refused to be escorted to Harwich by a Fisheries Protection Vessel and instead steamed for Zeebrugge, was ordered to pay more than £31,000 in…

Last week the skipper and owners of the French trawler Keriolet were ordered to pay a total of £10,700 in fines and costs after each pleading guilty at Truro Magistrates Court, Cornwall,…

After a two year absence, Ireland’s leading trawler firm Atlantic Dawn Company of Killybegs is returning to Mauritania to fish under the 2006 EU fisheries treaty, reports Pieter Tesch.

The Tokyo district Public Prosecutor has confirmed that there will be an investigation into allegations made by Greenpeace of large scale embezzlement of whale meat from the Japanese-government-subsidised Southern Ocean whaling programme.

The New England Red Crab Harvesters’ Association has entered the full assessment process for certification to the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries.

Last week Oceana presented two reports in Brussels: “Italian driftnets: the illegal fishing activities continue” and “Thonaille: the use of driftnets by the French fleet in the Mediterranean”. Both reports condemned the…

The future of the UK aquaculture industry looks bright due to growing consumer demand for farmed seafood, a major seminar at the Aquaculture UK 2008 exhibition in Aviemore will hear when the…

A new report from WWF encourages the switch from the unselective diamond-mesh nets currently used by bottom-trawlers in the Mediterranean to more selective square-mesh nets, sooner than the obligatory deadline of 2010.

Today, 20 May, has been named European Maritime Day by the European Union to celebrate the achievements and potential of Europes ocean and seas.

A five point action plan to help the Scottish fishing industry counter the effects of rising fuel costs was announced yesterday.

The government has allocated nearly US$52.6mn to improve the lives of coastal fishing communities in South Africa, Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Thursday.

At the beginning of the fishing season, WWF says that its sources have already identified two pirate purse seine vessels operating in Mediterranean waters.