Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed has launched the Strategy for the Irish Inshore Fisheries Sector 2019-2023 on behalf of the National Inshore Fisheries Forum. The Strategy is designed to frame the work of the Inshore Fisheries Forums over the next number of years and represents the first time the inshore fisheries sector has developed its own sector-specific plan.
While Icelandic pelagic vessels are busy fishing blue whiting west of Ireland, this is the time of year when they would usually be in the midst of the winter capelin season. Although there were hopes that enough capelin would be located to allow the fishery to begin, it is not clear that this isn’t going to happen.
With only a few weeks to go and the terms of the UK’s departure from the European Union still very unclear, NFFO chief executive Barrie Deas said that fishing has a higher profile than it has had for years.
Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, has met Irish fishing industry representatives in the National Seafood Centre, Clonakilty to discuss the state of play on Brexit and possible serious impacts facing the sector.
The Norwegian authorities are preparing for the likelihood of a Hard Brexit with the UK leaving the EU without a deal on 29th March.
As the annual blue whiting season approaches for Western Europe’s pelagic fleet, Killybegs-based fishing gear designer and manufacturer Swan Net-Gundry Ltd (SNG) continues to reinforce its international reputation for designing and manufacturing a full range of pelagic gear.
A new vessel capabel of alternating seine netting with purse seining has been christened at the Larsnes Mek Verksed yard at Larsnes in Norway, designed by Naval Consult and built for owners Arvesen AS in Ibestad in northern Norway.
On behalf of the South African government, Minister Senzeni Zokwana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with his Namibian counterpart, Minister Bernard Essau. This represents an agreement between the two neighbouring countries to work together in various matters concerning fisheries as the two countries share a common border.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Morocco signed an agreement at the Halieutis exhibition on Friday, aiming to build capacity in Morocco’s artisanal fisheries.
The 2018 Employment in the UK Fishing Fleet report has been published by Seafish, presenting data on the nationality, gender, age, qualification, work pattern and ways of paying workers in the UK catching sector on board and onshore.