World Fishing News – Page 895
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Karmoy winches in Canadian Lunar module via Scotland
Norway''s Karmoy Winch is delivering the deck machinery for a new, 38-metre, combined purse seiner / trawler for the Scottish, Peterhead-based Lunar Fishing company.
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Skipper scheme launched in the UK
A project to help the region’s fishermen net new business is being launched along the North East coast in the UK.
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Report shows substantial increase in breaches to CFP rules in 2003
The publication, yesterday, of the European Commission’s fourth annual report on serious breaches to the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), shows that the number of such detected breaches went up from 6,756 in 2002 to 9,502 in 2003.
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New Zealand Seafood Industry Serious About Reducing Impacts on the Seabed
Methods for protecting the seabed was one of the topics on offer at the New Zealand Seafood Industry conference.
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MIDWATER AND INSHORE ORDERS FOR SIMRAD AT FISHING 2005
Simrad Ltd reports a healthy order book after Fishing 2005, with orders taken across its ranges, but with an emphasis on the smaller midwater and inshore vessels.
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Pirates in Aussie searchlight & restuarants raided
The latest study of crime in Australia''s fishing grounds has simply reinforced the need for intensive crackdowns on the theft of stock from inshore waters and out to the 200-mile limit, according to the chair of the Australian Seafood Industry Council (ASIC) Bob Pennington.
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North Sea stocks head north
Fishermen in the North Sea could have to go further north in the future to catch certain species such as cod or haddock since almost two-thirds of 36 species studied in the area, have shifted north due to global warming.
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Consultation begins on regulations to reduce seabird deaths
Acting Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson has begun consultation on regulations that make compulsory the use of bird scaring devices on fishing trawlers.
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Chasing North America's whitefish
There is a huge world demand for whitefish in the world. With diminishing supplies in many areas, reports Michel Drouin, the ease of stocks with North American producers has put them in a strong position. - The demand is there for north Atlantic saithe, South pacific hoki or pollack, and ...
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NewsSeabird and mammal bycatch still targeted
the pressure from the ‘green’ lobby on the catching and gear manufacturing sides of the industry remains relentless.In March Greenpeace took direct action against French and British vessels engaged in seasonal mid-water pair trawling for seabass in the Channel, with the campaigners claiming that they were saving dolphins. This led ...
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NewsSmall and local is powerful and persuasive in big EU
European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Joe BorgJoe Borg has already shown how a man from a small island, Malta, is particularly sensitive to what the sea can do to small coastal fishing communities. At the international Tsunami Rehabilitation conference at FAO he said Brussel's "efforts will clearly be ...
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Honeymoon period of Galapagos joint Management committee shattered.
The 16 of Mays meeting of the Galapagos Joint Management Committee (JMC) broke up, without consensus, over an offshore fishing project proposed for the Galapagos Marine Reserve (GMR). The lack of agreement between the direct users of the reserve over an investigative project to undertake fishing trials, and assist ...
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NewsSCOTTISH FISHING INDUSTRY TO TURN TIDE ON MARINE LITTER IN NEW £200,000 FISHING FOR LITTER INITIATIVE
Fishermen in ten of Scotland''s fishing ports are set to back a new £200,000 three-year initiative, to cut the amount of marine litter around Scotland''s coastline.
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Seal hunt draws protests
The progress of Canada''s seal hunt has once again raised the complex scenario of fishermen trying to make up their income from out-of-season work and some long-term, unemployed Canadians hit by the cod stock collapse trying to make some money to help make ends meet.
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New Zealand to scan the massive deep
New Zealand has announced it will be launching Ocean Survey 20/20, an ambitious survey, over the next 15 years to build up a comprehensive picture of its oceanic resources and ecosystems, reports Paul Prince.
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New toxin structures
Research by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has uncovered the molecular basis for resistance and accumulation of paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) in soft-shell clams. A reports in Nature magazine says the new, collaborative study with grants from NOAA''s Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB) programme and ...
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Sri Lanka wants to have its own building capacity restored
Differences have arisen between aid agencies about the need to transport new and second hand fishing vessels to Sri Lanka to restore its fishing fleet following last Christmas tsunami disaster.
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International interest grows in the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2005
Great interest from the industry''s global manufacturers and suppliers has been growing in the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2005 as Iceland is one of the few remaining nations in the European zone that is not ruled under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
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USA fisheries, too many casualties?
Lack of regulations and the pressure to catch a boat''s allocated quota can lead to accidents at sea
