Phil Ravanello this week joined the Tuna Australia team as programme manager, providing a significant boost to the organisation’s efforts to add further value to the longline tuna industry. ‘The…
Next year’s Global Fishery Forum & Seafood Expo Russia will take place in St Petersburg 21st-23rd September at the city’s Expoforum EC, with the Federal Agency for Fisheries acting as…
The Honourable Chief Justice of the Solomon Islands Sir Albert Palmer and the Director-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Dr Manumatavai Tupou-Roosen opened the first Pacific regional…
The owners, managers and skipper of a New Bedford fishing vessel have been handed penalties totalling more than half a million US dollars for infringements of pollution legislation. The New…
Vónin’s Flyer, a headline lift device designed to replace trawl floats, has is becoming increasingly popular, most recently on an English trawler. St Austell trawler Copious FH-145 has been using…
‘There has been good fishing over a wide area. There’s certainly less cod on the Westfjords grounds than there has been, but the cod will be back even though they’ve…
‘We won the prize for the best stand in the exhibition in 2017, so we’ll certainly be back next time,’ said Egersund Ísland’s sales manager Benedikt Ernir Stefánsson. Closely linked…
Since its introduction in 2001, over 8000 members of the Irish fishing sector have completed BIM basic safety training and have been issued safety cards. Moreover, almost 2000 Bord Iascaigh…
The First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon and the First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford have jointly written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking him to immediately rule out a…
The steel cutting ceremony marking the commencement of work on new Norwegian purse seiner/seine netter Vikanøy has taken place at the Özata Shipyard in Turkey, with the first steel cut…