The Asociación de Grandes Atuneros Congeladores (AGAC) has received MSC certification for its skipjack tuna in the Atlantic, making it the first in the world to hold sustainability certification for…
Eighteen fishermen are in hot water after pleading guilty to fisheries offences at the Darwin Local Court this week. In separate incidents during April 2024 Australian authorities located, intercepted and…
Fisheries officials have given the green light for the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) implementation plan for its Climate Change Strategy to strengthen resilience efforts in oceanic fisheries. The…
Officers from the 129-metre container vessel Longdawn have been intervewed by police and arrests have been made following an incident off the south-west of Iceland. Longdawn’s officers have been questioned…
One of Iceland’s most successful pelagic vessels is now on the end of a tow – on its way to a breaker’s yard in Esbjerg. Despite efforts to find a…
Tuna seiners operated by CFTO rescued small-scale fishermen in difficulties in two incidents on the same day. The crew of purse seiner Pendruc first noticed an artisanal fisherman in a…
The US Coast Guard, Washington Department of Ecology and other agencies responded quickly to a vessel sinking at a pier in Seattle. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received…
Small-scale and coastal fishing people across Europe continue to sign the letter from LIFE Platform to EU Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, setting out the need for a reset in the way…
Wärtsilä will supply its latest addition to the company’s range of engines, the future-proof Wärtsilä 25, to three new fishing vessels for Faroese owners. These are the 44-metre newbuild ordered by Varðin…
Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) systems are being tried out this summer in five priority UK fisheries, to be followed by a rollout of a revised discards policy for English fisheries…
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