Smart buoys to boost selection in tuna fisheries
The Spanish tuna fleet is launching project SelecTuna, a pioneering initiative will deploy more than 1500 smart buoys from tech company Satlink in the three oceans where tropical tuna is…
The Spanish tuna fleet is launching project SelecTuna, a pioneering initiative will deploy more than 1500 smart buoys from tech company Satlink in the three oceans where tropical tuna is…
European industry body Europêche has made a formal request to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to address the imminent vacancy that will be left by the departure of Fisheries…
Beefed-up regulations governing seabird strikes in longline fisheries are being introduced by Fisheries New Zealand, aiming to reduce the risk of seabirds, including critically threatened albatrosses, being caught accidentally by…
Catches of Iwashi sardine by the Russian fleet in the Far East have exceeded 60,000 tonnes already this year – an 83% incrsase over the fishery last year. Caught in…
An agreement on the management, and reciprocal access to mackerel in each other’s waters has been reached by Norway, the Faroe Islands and the UK. ‘Britain and the Faroe Islands…
Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association chief executive Ian Gatt made an appearance on the King’s Birthday Honours, awarded a CBE in recognition of his work for Scotland’s fishing industry. ‘I am…
Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries is being urged to issue a dispensation allowing commercial fishermen to fish for wrasse and crab inside a newly-created conservation area for lobster near Stavanger. The…
Five Danish fishermen charged with a variety of offences relating to the death of 41-year-old Alf Villum Jensen on board Hvide Sande fishing vessel Inger Katrine have been freed by…
Norwegian fishing company Nergård Havfiske has celebrated the christening of its latest factory trawler at the quayside in Tromsø, with sister vessels Breidtind and Senja alongside with the new Sørkapp…
Five Irish organisations in the fishing and seafood sectors have come together to demand change at national and EU level. ‘Our objective is to work together on raising awareness of…