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Oceana calls for urgent measures to be taken to halt this fishing method and welcomes the intervention by the UK Fisheries Minister urging his European colleagues to take action.

On 11 June WWF released a statement saying that European Fisheries Ministers had legitimised the overexploitation of bluefin tuna stocks, while eels just slipped through the net thanks to a CITES listing.

Britain has called on the European Commission to take urgent action to stop the use of illegal fishing nets in the Mediterranean that are decimating endangered bluefin tuna and responsible for indiscriminate…

Yrjö Julin has been appointed President & CEO of Aker Yards. He succeeds Karl Erik Kjelstad who has served as Aker Yards CEO since January 2003. Kjelstad will leave Aker Yards to…

At todays Fisheries Council in Luxembourg, Irish Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, John Browne, voted against a plan for bluefin tuna management that ignores illegal…

The European Commission and EU Fisheries Ministers will have to seriously consider the warning and address management of the stocks accordingly before the end of the year, said WWF in a statement…

The European Commission welcomed the latest ICES report released last Fridayon the state and perspectives of certain fish stocks and says that it looks forward to studying this report in detail with…

Constructive talks were held today in Edinburgh between Scottish Fisheries Minister Richard Lochhead and a delegation from the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, representing fisheries from all round Scotland.

Today, the European Commission adopted its annual policy statement setting out its views on fishing opportunities for 2008.

Japan and Iceland have once again failed in their attempts to lift regulations protecting whales, as their proposals to the regulatory body responsible for international trade in endangered species were yesterday resoundingly…

Today, the European Commission tabled a proposal for autonomous Community tariff quotas for a number of fisheries products.

John Browne, Irish Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, yesterday announced that he has allocated more than €3.52 million for important coastal protection works around the…

According to the Norway Post, the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries has awarded a total of four licenses for krill-fisheries in the Antarctic.

Randy Kamp, Parliamentary Secretary to the Honourable Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, announced on Friday that Canada’s New Government will invest $1.75 million for improvements at two small craft harbours…

Australia joined with 16 other Pacific island nations and territories in Wellington, New Zealand, last week to develop a plan to secure the future of the world’s last great tuna fishery.