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INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

World Fishing and Aquaculture speaks to Jonny Hughes, Senior Policy Manager at Blue Marine Foundation, about the organisation’s latest report on overfishing and what it would take to turn its recommendations into action

22nd September 2026

Exclusive: Overfishing “doesn’t create jobs, it loses them”

22nd September 2026

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The UK’s Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has confirmed that changes will be made to a number of exemptions to the landing obligation – or so-called “discard ban” – in English waters following a scientific review and public consultation.

5th February 2025

English fisheries landing obligations change

5th February 2025

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A set of updated fisheries measures for the Northeast Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) area have been formally adopted by the European Council.

23rd July 2024

Brussels greenlights new fisheries measures for Northeast Atlantic

23rd July 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

EU member states’ representatives have given the greenlight to an agreement reached between the Council’s and the Parliament’s negotiators on updated fisheries measures in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) area.

15th February 2024

Changes made to Northeast Atlantic fisheries rules

15th February 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Enquiries have been launched into how Dutch-owned supertrawler FV Margiris deposited more than 100,000 dead fish off the French coast this month.

7th February 2022

Supertrawler mass fish spill

7th February 2022