Land: UK

Fish farmers will now benefit from new European funding as they were hit by salmon disease.

A £9.3 million funding package has been announced from the

The NFFO West Coast Committee is discussing the issues facing the sector at its latest meeting in Whitehaven.

Two owner skippers, who were filmed by a police helicopter as they illegally pair-trawled inside the three-mile limit, were ordered to pay £17,000 each in fines at costs by Chichester Magistrates on Friday November 20.

The initially encouraging decision today (20 November) by the EC Fish Council not to rush through a new set of technical conservation rules for EU fishing vessels – by sending the worst of the proposed technical measures back to the drawing board – has been seriously damaged by the failure to create a sensible set of measures for the West coast.

Fisheries negotiations on new technical conservation measures are in fvaour of existing rules.

The European Commission’s proposal for new technical conservation rules is

The Marine and Fisheries Agency is to hold a random draw to allocate an extra 18 tonnes of east Channel, V11d, cod quota to the south coast 10 metre and under inshore flee

Speaking ahead of tomorrow’s (Friday) Fisheries Council in Brussels, Fisheries

Fishing industry guard vessel safety performance was rewarded with charitable donation, says a report.