The Murmansk Sea Fishing Port saw a drop in activity during May this year with no blue whiting products landed at the port last month. While in April fishing companies…
The final Responsible Fishing Vessel Standard (RFVS) has been publicly shared and officially handed over from Seafish to Global Seafood Assurances, following a two-year, open and collaborative development process. Global…
The herring fishery pursued by nine FROM Nord member vessels has been recertified by the MSC. The group of nine trawlers between them land around 2500 tonnes of herring annually.…
La Réunion-based fishing company Sapmer is the latest seafood producer to join the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF), which advocates for sustainable tuna fishery management and encourages the adoption of…
The Senegalese branch of Transparency International and NGOs have highlighted corruption and the lack of transparency in fisheries governance and made recommendations to improve it, while the Senegalese Ministry of…
A new factory trawler for Faroese company Havborg will be delivered in 2022, built in Turkey to a Skipsteknisk ST-119 design. P/F Havborg is the partner company of P/F Enniberg,…
As the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published the latest of its biannual reports, the State of the World’s Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020 (SOFIA), the…
The Spanish tuna fleet, represented by the Organisation of Associated Producers of Large Tuna Freezers (OPAGAC), has signed the Sustainable Ocean Principles, a framework for responsible business practices in the…
Scottish inshore fishermen who usually target shellfish are now be able to diversify into new markets and access fishing opportunities worth up to £2 million. The package aimed at helping…
Feedback from Swan-Net Gundry (SNG) customers has been highly positive as the company’s new design concept of incorporating more mesh into the side wing panels of pelagic trawls for herring,…