The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has published a position statement ahead of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission’s (IOTC) annual meeting this week, with a request for urgent and immediate steps to reduce catch of the yellowfin tuna in line…
Seven more companies have pledged their support to the Global Tuna Alliance (GTA). The accession of Frabelle, RD processing PNG, South Seas Tuna Canning SSTC, Nambawan, International Food Corporation (IFC),…
MEPs have stressed the importance of fisheries in the blue economy, calling for more funds and more ambitious environmental measures in a vote in the European Parliament, while noting that…
The troubled Barreras shipyard in Vigo is set to become part of Spanish shipbuilding group Astilleros Armón following a legal ruling in favour of the acquisition. ‘Barreras is our neighbour…
The first win by the Louisiana Fishing Community Recovery Coalition to secure funding for a seafood industry destroyed by four hurricanes over two years is taking place in the Louisiana…
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has agreed to adopt a new Scottish-designed fishing technology as the new international standard for co-ordinated demersal fish population surveys…
The tuna that ‘feeds the world’ was acknowledged in a week of activities celebrating the Pacific tuna which contributes a third of the world’s tuna supply. Kicking off on UN…
Spanish industry body Cepesca has again asked the government to include the country’s deep-sea fleet in the initiative that provides fishing operators with a €0.20/litre fuel support to counteract the…
Factory trawler Emerald, designed by Skipsteknisk for Faroese company Havborg, has been floated off at the Tersan yard in Turkey. The 87.50 metre LOA, 18 metre beam, ST-119 design trawler…
French and English fishermen demonstrating to curtail seine netting held a symbolic Mid-Channel meeting earlier this week. A group of fishing vessels from the north of France and the south…