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MEPs approved a fisheries partnership agreement with Cape Verde by a large majority today (374 to 67). The agreement only concerns tuna fishing, giving fishing rights to French, Portuguese and Spanish vessels.

Grants worth almost £4 million to modernise and improve the competitiveness of Englands fishing industry have been announced today.

A report highlighting just how far climate change has already impacted the United Kingdoms marine environment, and what might happen in the future, was published yesterday (www.mccip.org.uk/arc).

Minister of Fisheries Jim Anderton proposed emergency action in New Zealand’s developing swordfish fishery on 28 November, in response to unacceptable levels of bird deaths.

New evidence revealing a dramatic fall in illegal fishing in Scotland was presented on 28 November to the EU President Jose-Manuel Barrosso.

The European Commission has proposed to increase the amount of EU financial support that Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) receive.

The decisions taken yesterday at the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) sounds the death knell for Mediterranean bluefin tuna, says WWF.

New Zealand is heartened by a significant advance in international efforts to regulate high seas bottom trawling at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), according to the Ministry of Fisheries.

At the end of the preparatory meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, Joe Borg, European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, welcomed the consensus achieved by…

John Browne T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine Natural Resources on 22 November received the 2007 Stock Book from the Marine Institute.

On 20 November, the European Commission adopted its annual proposal on next year’s guide prices for fresh and frozen fisheries products as well as the Community producer price for tuna for processing.

The European Commission has welcomed the new port state control scheme that was adopted last week by the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) to tackle illegal fishing activities.

The Honourable Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, and the Honourable Greg Thompson, Minister of Veterans…

Loyola Hearn, Canada’s Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, met Norway’s Minister for Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, Helga Pedersen, on 14 November to build on shared successes in strengthening the management of high…

A humpback whale accidentally became entangled in a net last week while an Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) crew was conducting a test fishery for herring in Prince William Sound.

Seafish has just published a report, ‘Towards a National Development Strategy for Shellfish in England’, which highlights the major contribution the shellfish industry makes to the British economy. The report presents the…

Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell, has announced that Orange Roughy will be added to the threatened species list under Australian environment law.