Tuna purse seiner organisations OPAGAC and ORTHONGEL have launched a joint net recycling project with Brikole Ltd, a new local start-up managed by the NGO Sustainability for Seychelles. The Department…
With the winter capelin and blue whiting season behind them, Iceland’s pelagic fleet is gearing up for the summer mackerel season. The Síldarvinnslan fleet is expected to start hunting for…
The Norwegian Seafood Council is launching a unique sustainability campaign aimed at UK consumers, which is being rolled out in June. ‘This is a pilot project that is very different…
Ten of the world’s largest seafood companies, grouped together as SeaBOS, have stated that harmful subsidies that they see as a barrier to sustainable industry transformation should be phased out.…
While industry body Europêche is adamant that European fishing vessels have not been active in Somalian and Indian waters, the Blue Marine Foundation claims that Spanish-flagged tuna vessels fished in…
Icelandic trawl door manufacturer Polar Fishing Gear is embarking on a co-operative venture to modernise fisheries in Kenya, in terms of greater efficiency, improved catch handling and in introducing a…
A plan that will see fishermen, producers and marine scientists co-manage the Isle of Man’s multi-million pound king scallop fishery will be a first for fisheries management in the British…
The Danish Fisheries Agency has apprehended a Dutch beam trawler found to have been fishing with lined codends. ‘We have a case in which a beam trawler has illegal inner…
The Nutaaq cod fishery in Greenland, with fish held alive in cages before being transferred to Royal Greenland’s factory in Manitsoq, has kept the coastal fleet active and produced higher…
The fourth in the series of ten trawlers on the way for Russian fishing company Norobo has been launched at the Severnaya (Northern) shipyard in St Petersburg, with the event…