World Fishing News – Page 857
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Canada: six new Coast Guard vessels for Pacific Region
The Canadian government yesterday announced details of six new vessels to be based in British Columbia as part of the Canadian Coast Guard’s modernisation of its fleet.
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UK barramundi farm sold
Acting for Napier Brown Holdings, the Southampton office of Edward Symmons has sold the UK’s only barramundi farm, one of the largest farms in Europe.
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Atlantis acquires a majority share in Coral Sea Fishing
Atlantis Group has recently finalised the acquisition of a majority share in Coral Sea Fishing, a market leading company in food processing technologies.
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Some Icelandic fish linked to whaling
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) has said that the whaling industry in Iceland is inextricably linked to parts of its fishing industry.
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Norwegian seafood exports set new records
The value of exports of Norwegian seafood in the first quarter of 2007 totalled NOK 9.8 billion. This is an increase of NOK 1.4 billion or 16.5 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest figures from Statistics Norway and the Norwegian Seafood Export Council ...
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New marketing chair for Killybegs Fishery Harbour Centre
John Browne T.D., Irish Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources has announced that he proposes to appoint Kevin Bonnar, the former Secretary General of the Department of Enterprise and Employment, to chair a Steering Group of key officials of State Agencies to develop a ...
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EU/Ivory Coast partnership agreement
The European Commission, on behalf of the Union, and the Ivory Coast has initialled a new fisheries partnership agreement which will cover a renewable six-year period, and will replace the current framework agreement in place since 1990, due to end on 30 June 2007.
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Commission: improvements still needed in fisheries control
The European Commission has adopted a report on the monitoring of the Member States'' implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) over the period 2003-2005.
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Illegal fishers get new fishing gear
Sixteen fishermen from the 11 coastal barangays of Cagayan de Oro City (Philippines) each received one unit of Bottom Set Gill Net (BSGN) from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-10.
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Coral reef collapse spells danger for millions
Island communities that depend on coral island fisheries could face a hungry future, according to new research from the University of East Anglia, the UK Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas), and Simon Fraser University in Canada, published in Current Biology.
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Seafish publishes 2005 Economic Survey of the UK Fishing Fleet - short report
Seafish has published the ''2005 Economic Survey of the UK Fishing Fleet - Short Report''. This publication highlights the main results from the survey in an easily digestible format.
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Fish and Nephrops Stocks Information: 2007
The UK Fisheries Research Services (FRS) has produced a booklet providing the latest detailed information on Fish and Nephrops Stocks for 2007.
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Greenpeace: NZ government’s bottom trawl ban doesn’t go far enough
The New Zealand Government’s announcement to close 32% of the EEZ to bottom trawling does little to stop the destruction of vulnerable deep-sea life threatened by the practice, says Greenpeace.
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NZ bans bottom trawling in significant areas
A groundbreaking fishing industry initiative will see some of New Zealand’s most significant and exciting underwater habitats protected from bottom-trawling and dredging, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton recently announced.
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NFI names new VP of Political Affairs
The US National Fisheries Institute (NFI) has announced the addition of Diana M. Bostic as vice president of political affairs. Bostic will help continue to raise NFI’s political profile in Washington and across the US, educating key audiences on the benefits of seafood and the industry’s positions on diverse water-to-table ...
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US proposes cuts in fisheries subsidies
The United States has sent the World Trade Organization (WTO) a proposal to cut the national fisheries subsidies that the US says contribute to overfishing.
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Irish Minister launches marine research awards
Noel Dempsey, T.D Irish Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources today officially launched the Beaufort Marine Research Awards at Beaufort College in Navan.
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Shetland Development Trust helps purchase two vessels
The Fairway Fishing Company and Copious Fishing Company Ltd. have both received investments from Shetland Development Trust to assist in purchasing vessels.
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Aker BioMarine to begin production of krill oil a year early
Aker BioMarine is implementing measures that will enable the company to deliver own volumes of krill oil produced on board the company’s modern factory trawlers, as early as in 2009 (see World Fishing News 18 December 2006).
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Training to secure future of Cornish fishing industry
UK: A group of fishermen from Newlyn and St Ives have got together to address some of the skills shortages within the Cornish fishing industry.
