Sustainable Fishing

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Spanish technology company Satlink has launched a new circular economy programme that repurposes lost gear that has been developed for sustainable fishing.

15th December 2022

Gear second life launch

15th December 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Next year’s fishing opportunities for the fish stocks exclusively managed by the EU in the Atlantic Ocean, Kattegat, and Skagerrak, including deepsea stocks for 2023 and 2024, have been agreed by the…

14th December 2022

2023 EU catches adopted

14th December 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

EU fisheries ministers have agreed fishing opportunities for 2023 for the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, which include new catch limits for Mediterranean species with a high commercial value.

14th December 2022

Med fishing agreement

14th December 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

EU social partners – the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and EU fishermen’s representative body Europêche – have called on the European Commission to base its decisions impacting the fisheries sector only after properly…

6th December 2022

‘Consider fishers’, EC urged

6th December 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) decision to suspend the Gulf of Maine lobster fishery’s eco-certification has not gone down well with leaders in the US state.

18th November 2022

Maine reacts to MSC loss

18th November 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Gulf of Maine lobster fishery’s Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification is being suspended amid concerns of endangered North Atlantic right whales becoming entangled in fishing gear.

17th November 2022

Maine loses eco-label

17th November 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

In advance of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) annual meeting, 14-21 November 2022, the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has published its position statement, which calls on…

7th November 2022

Protect tuna, ICCAT urged

7th November 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has launched its new global standard for the sustainable certification of wild-capture fisheries.

26th October 2022

MSC upgrades standard

26th October 2022

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Spanish tech company Satlink has been chosen by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM) to develop a trial project that will evaluate the potential of electronic monitoring (EM) systems…

26th October 2022

Swedish deal for Satlink

26th October 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Commission has come under fire from the European Peoples’ Party (EPP) Group in the European Parliament for its plan to close 87 fishing areas to all bottom fishing gears below…

21st October 2022

Trawl fishers ‘endangered’

21st October 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The OPEC Fund for International Development has approved a US$20 million loan and a $240,000 complementary technical assistance grant to the Republic of Liberia to co-finance the Sustainable Management of Fisheries Project…

19th October 2022

Liberia $20m fisheries deal

19th October 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Council of the European Union has reached an agreement on the fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2023.

18th October 2022

Baltic Sea quotas agreed

18th October 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Commission has confirmed that its proposal for fishing opportunities for 2023 for the Mediterranean and Black Sea has now been adopted, advising that the move promotes the sustainable management of…

17th October 2022

Med, Black Sea 2023 quotas

17th October 2022

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

The Government of Malta has chosen the vessel monitoring system (VMS) from Spanish technology company Satlink to equip 119 of the vessels in its fishing fleet.

13th October 2022

Malta chooses VMS provider

13th October 2022

OPINION

OPINION

Fishing industry stalwart and author John Goodlad writes for WF

15th September 2022

The Salt Roads

15th September 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

American lobsters (Homus americanus) caught in the United States and Canada have been added to the list of species for consumers to avoid by Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch programme, with the…

12th September 2022

American lobsters red listed

12th September 2022

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Norwegian company Tau Tech is to begin sustainable scallop harvesting in the Barents Sea and will use Inmarsat’s maritime broadband service Fleet Express following the signing of an agreement at Nor-Fishing 2022.

24th August 2022

Arctic scalloper connected

24th August 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A huge capelin catch helped Iceland’s fleet to land 40% more fish in the 12 months through July 2022, with over 1.5 million tonnes of fish and shellfish recorded in the preliminary…

17th August 2022

Capelin lifts Iceland

17th August 2022

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Gísli V Jónsson, this year’s Outstanding Icelandic Skipper, discusses his remarkable career

5th August 2022

Three months that became 25 years

5th August 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has published a position statement ahead of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) annual meeting, which takes place 1-5 August 2022.

27th July 2022

ISSF urges tuna protection

27th July 2022