Promising early catches, strong prices and the imminent Free Trade Agreement with China has the Australian Southern Rock Lobster Industry well placed for significant export growth into Asia.
The Nodosa Shipyard at Marín in Spain has delivered over a new freezer trawler which will be sailing south to fish for squid in Falklands Islands waters.
European POs see challenging times ahead, as was made clear at the AGM of the European Association of Fish Producers Organisations (EAPO), held last week at Sopot in Poland and hosted by the organisation’s Polish membership.
Representatives of the NFFO and the Scottish Fishermen’s Federations recently joined forces for a lobby day in Parliament, ahead of key decisions on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, and therefore the CFP, lobbying to underscore the importance of the decisions due to be taken for the UK fishing industry at national and local levels.
After long hours of discussion in Luxembourg, EU Fisheries Ministers reached an agreement on fishing opportunities for 2018 for the ten stocks in the Baltic Sea. The total allowable catches (TACs) were unanimously agreed in the framework of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) which aims to have all stocks fished at sustainable levels by 2020.
Frictionless trade and access to EU markets is essential to the survival of the Welsh fishing industry, while non-tariff barriers could deliver a killer blow according to the National Assembly’s Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee.
Parkol Marine Engineering responded to the upswing in orders for its fishing vessels by establishing a new facility to handle the additional activity, and the Middlesbrough yard has now delivered its first newbuild.
A very familiar figure to the Dutch and UK fishing industries in particular, Frits van Dongen has retired after a forty-year career at the Maaskant Shipyard in Stellendam, and at a 70th birthday party for the yard held at the yard last weekend, friends, staff and many customers gathered to wish him well, and to welcome new director Eric Moerkerk.
The Government of Canada and the Province of Prince Edward Island announced a total contribution of $732,645 to eight shellfish growers and processing companies for new equipment and technologies to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness to support their expanding operations.
The news that NOPSEMA, the Australian Government’s oil and gas industry regulator, has not approved CGG’s application to conduct a marine seismic survey in eastern Bass Strait has welcomed by the South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association (SETFIA).