The UK authorities have issued a warning to UK fishermen with static gear deployed outside UK waters that they need to move it before the end of October. According to…
The skipper and some of the crew of a trawler apprehended in Ghanaian waters have been charged with illegal fishing for small pelagics, leading to a US$1 million settlement by…
An agreement was signed between Russia and Norway following negotiations that took place at Petrozavodsk in Karelia. With the joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission meeting for the 49th time, the two…
The Gulf of Mexico menhaden fishery has been certified as sustainable against Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standards, allowing all fishmeal and fish oil produced derived from Gulf menhaden to carry…
New Bedford fisherman Tony Borges gets useful real-time information from monitoring. For 200 days of each of the past 44 years, Tony Borges has been setting out from New Bedford,…
A recent ICES report marks an important milestone in the incorporation of information generated by the fishing industry itself into stock assessment processes. The report comes following an important meeting…
The unique Quiksling twin-harness MOB rescue and recovery system has been through a process of development, testing and improvement, completing the rigorous testing and trialling demanded by Lloyds demands before…
Belgian owners have placed an order with Dutch shipyard Padmos for a new beam trawler. The yard will deliver the new Jasmine Z-483 in June 2021 to owners Rederij Nathalie.…
Following a nine-year moratorium, the condition of the northern shrimp stock on Flemish Cap is judged to have improved with an increase in biomass over the last five years. As…
Urk company Piet Brouwer Electrotechnology has agreed a contract to refit a local twin-rigger/seine netter this winter. Stella Polaris UK-22 will be stripped down at the end of this year…