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The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (HaV) is planning a review of the lobster fishery’s rules that have a 300-year-old background.
New rules for traceability of fishery and aquaculture products in Sweden will come into effect in 2017, at least three months later than planned, as the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (HaV) draft regulation has to first be assessed by the European Commission.
The Swedish risk assessment of American lobster is now approved by the EU, furthering the process that could lead to American lobster being added to the list of invasive species.
The leading article in Swedish fishermen’s newspaper Yrkesfiskarna suggests that the right balance in finding a fisheries management system is when most people are a little dissatisfied.
An order has been confirmed for the latest in a series of 63m LOA, 12.80m beam pelagic trawlers from Karstensens Skibsværft in Skagen.
Swedish fishing companies Bristol Fiske AB and Clipperton Fiske AB have merged to form B-C Pelagic AB, and to order a new pelagic vessel from Karstensens Skibsværft, replacing their existing trawlers. The new vessel will have access to both industrial and human consumption quotas.
The EU’s new management plan for cod, herring, Baltic herring and sprat in the Baltic came into force this week, with changes to come for the fishing industry in the short and long term.
Earlier this month SFPO (Swedish Fishermen’s Producer Organisation) saw most of its board re-elected at its AGM, apart from two resignations and two new members elected in their place.
Sweden’s Marine and Water Authority (HaV) is focusing on more protected areas, with a target of 10% of the marine environment under protection by 2020.
The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SaWM/HaV) has a new director-general with the appointment of Jakob Granit to the post as of the first of September.
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