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EU fisheries ministers have decided on new rules in 2018 to protect the threatened eel. The rules prohibit commercial fishing for eels in the sea for an continuous period of three months, to be set between 1st September 2018 and 31st January 2019.
Next-level management reform required a new tool to facilitate smooth quota trade and transparency: FishRight was the Swedish fleet’s answer.
With a background that goes back to the 1930s, Scandic Pelagic is a new company structure formed from SweDen Pelagic and Skagerak Pelagic into a new entity.
Switching the old system of weekly catch allowances for whole-year quotas has opened up a whole new world for Swedish fishermen, according to SFPO chairman Peter Olsson. He also commented that the trawler fleet is under assault from Sweden’s Greens, as green NGOs strive to out-do each other in demonstrating their green values in the run-up to elections later this year.
Danish trawler Bolette has changed hands and gone to Sweden where it will be fishing for langoustine off the Danish and Swedish coasts. Thorsminde owner John Christensen said that he had not planned to sell the boat right away, as it is a year until the new Pia Glanz will be delivered by Vestværftet, but he did not want to miss the opportunity when an offer came from Swedish company Gifico Fiskeri.
SweDen Pelagic has reached an agreement with Launis A/S to acquire the entire shareholding of Danish company Nielsens Fiskeeksport, based at Ålbæk in Jutland. The new owners have already taken over management of the Danish company which is Denmark’s second largest producer of herring for the food industry.
Swedish fishing company Torönland Fiskeri, based at Fiskebäck near Gothenburg, has ordered a pair of 49.90 metre pelagic vessels for delivery in late 2019.
The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM) has proposed new rules aimed at strengthening the lobster population in Swedish waters. The new rules are expected to enter into force this autumn.
Sweden’s highest environmental court has ruled against several cases requiring permission for aquaculture in open water.
Sweden’s demersal sector has made the long overdue transition from weekly to annual quotas, bringing whitefish and prawn (nephrops) fishermen broadly into line with their counterparts around the North Sea and the Baltic.