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The Commission has welcomeed the political agreement reached in Council on two important fisheries proposals.

New Zealand has introduced stab-resistance vests which are designed to protect the wearer’s torso from attack by sharp-edged weapons. The vests meet the requirements of British police and are the same as…

This week, Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) adopted a landmark proposal to ban international trade in sawfish, shark-like rays with elongated, tooth-studded snouts considered Critically Endangered…

Five proposals on a range of fisheries issues were adopted by the Council meeting in June.

Unhappy France and Spain compromised at the 12 June meeting so ministers could vote in a framework for tuna and sand eel recovery.

The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) announced today the completion of the association’s merger with the US Tuna Foundation (USTF). The combined organisation, led by NFI President John Connelly, will continue its mission…

There has been an overwhelming response to the second round call for applications for Onshore Business Assistance and Fishing Community Assistance provided under the Australian Government’s $220 million Securing our Fishing Future…

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…