The latest snapshot of the world’s large-scale tuna purse seine fleet by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) indicates that fishing capacity has seen a 3% increase, while the number of such…
Progress is being made towards lifting the yellow card that the European Union gave Ecuador in 2019, according to Minister of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries Sonsoles García. She…
Seafish is launching a survey to assess the landscape around the issue of end-of-life fishing gear in the UK, aiming ultimately to inform future sustainable management, to help minimise waste…
There’s increasing concern about unexplained structural decline of European lobster in the Netherlands’ Eastern Scheldt lobster fishery. Accurate stock assessment is essential for understanding these declines and implementing sustainable management,…
A $34 million boost in Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funding towards grants, cooperative institutes, contracts and federal employment is going into modernising NOAA Fisheries' data, infrastructure and workforce. ‘Rapidly changing oceanic conditions,…
New netter/longliner Ingeborg Arntsen, built by Vestværft for Lofoten brothers Jack-Allan and Hans-Michael Arntsen, represents a serious step up over their older vessel in terms of both operational efficiency and…
Sardine production in Mexico saw a 21% increase in 2023, according to figures from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, making it the country’s largest-scale fishery. Of the 771,015-tonne…
Over the last seventeen years Brunvoll has delivered propulsion and manoeuvring systems for twenty Sølvtrans vessels built just along the coast at Aas Mek Verksted. Now they’re set to boost…
This year more than 650 young people in Norway have had the opportunity to spend the summer working in fishing through the state youth fishing scheme, with placements arranged either…
Newfoundland and Labrador Union FFAW continues to be vocal in its criticism of the Canadian government for moving the northern cod stock from critical to cautious, and opening a commercial…