Seafish

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Seafood consumption in the United Kingdom has declined significantly in recent years, with a fall of 22% from 2006 to 2022 accelerating to 30% after the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new…

23rd July 2024

UK seafood consumption – fallen 30% since pandemic

23rd July 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Fishing vessel owners and skippers in the UK are being encouraged to participate in the latest annual survey of the fleet being conducted by non-departmental public body (NDPB) Seafish, with researchers visiting…

15th July 2024

UK fishing fleet survey launched

15th July 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

UK seafood body Seafish has outlined its progress made working with industry and partners over the past year while also looking to a busy future with an annual plan published for 2024-25 and…

9th July 2024

Seafish delivering against priorities for UK seafood

9th July 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

UK seafood charity Fisheries Innovation & Sustainability (FIS) has announced its current chair, John Goodlad, will be stepping down from the board in December 2024. FIS, which is governed and funded by M&S,…

25th June 2024

Fisheries Innovation & Sustainability seeks new chair

25th June 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Seafish, the public body that supports the UK seafood industry, has begun formal consultation on proposals for a new levy model.

17th May 2024

Seafish begins levy change consultation

17th May 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

An online tool designed to support the UK seafood sector’s response to climate change has been launched by public body Seafish. The new Seafood Carbon Emissions Profiling Tool has been designed to…

7th May 2024

New carbon emissions profiling tool for UK seafood

7th May 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Fishing crews are being encouraged to attend a course designed to save their lives at sea, after one man expressed his shock at “just how serious” trawling can be when someone falls…

30th April 2024

‘Shocked how little time I would have survived’

30th April 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The public body representing the UK’s seafood industry is inviting businesses to participate in its annual processing survey.

25th March 2024

Seafish launches 2024 processing survey

25th March 2024

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

To better understand how alternative fuels, power systems and drivetrains could offer a fresh blueprint for fishing vessels and greener fishing operations, six new vessel designs have been created to identify critical…

14th December 2023

Key milestone reached in transition to net-zero fishing

14th December 2023

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

New guidance to help businesses employing workers from outside the UK understand immigration requirements has been released by public body Seafish.

1st September 2023

UK seafood firms get guidance to employ non-nationals

1st September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Fish prices trended upward in 2022 but profits declined in another challenging year for the UK fishing fleet, according to new financial estimates released by UK public body Seafish.

29th August 2023

Seafish: Challenges continued for UK fishing fleet in 2022

29th August 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Changes to shellfish water quality sampling requirements could help streamline the application of Official Control Regulations for UK shellfish producers and local authorities, according to non-departmental public body (NDPB) Seafish.

27th July 2023

New guidance and training for shellfish production

27th July 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Over the next ten weeks, Seafish researchers will be travelling to ports around the UK and and surveying financial performance of fishing businesses and crew makeup.

11th July 2023

UK fishers readied for Seafish financial survey

11th July 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Responding to priorities identified by the United Kingdom’s seafood industry and the government, public body Seafish has launched its new Corporate Plan 2023-2028. 

22nd June 2023

UK’s Seafish unveils new corporate plan

22nd June 2023

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

On 5 March 2023, after around 36 hours of intense negotiations in New York, a breakthrough deal to protect international waters and their marine life from a multitude of activities was agreed…

25th May 2023

High seas uncertainty

25th May 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A new commercial fishing safety campaign is underway to reduce fatalities and accidents within the UK’s small fishing vessel fleet. 

3rd April 2023

Fishing vessel skippers lead safety drive

3rd April 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

UK seafood public body Seafish has begun consulting with its levy payers and the wider seafood industry on its proposals for a new levy model.

13th March 2023

Seafish seeks levy changes

13th March 2023

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

A new forum has launched to support the UK fishing fleet’s transition to net zero.

20th January 2023

Targeting net-zero fishing

20th January 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Brixham Fish Market has had a record-breaking year of sales with 2022 seeing the UK market trade £60.8 million in fish sales.

13th January 2023

Record year for Brixham

13th January 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Additional duties on Russian seafood are included in the latest batch of sanctions implemented by UK government this week.

20th July 2022

Russian whitefish tariff

20th July 2022