Land: UK

Ekofish Group-North Sea twin rigged otter trawl plaice has entered the final phase of MSC status.

Loch Toridon nephrops creel fishery has been recertified as sustainable in July 2008, say a MSC report.

The skipper and owner of the beam trawler Lauren Anne were ordered to pay a total of £12,000 in fines and costs for two offences of illegally restricting the size of her nets.

A fishing trawler was rescued this morning (Thursday 17 September) after it ran out of fuel, leaving her and the two fishermen aboard stranded fifteen miles out to sea east of Amble, Northumberland.

A team from the NAFC Marine Centre’s Marine Science and

Scotland’s Chief Statistician today published Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2008

The eastern Channel cod fishery – ICES area V11d – will remain closed to under-10 metre fishing vessels for the rest of 2009, the MFA has announced.

The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation will tell Hilary Benn, the Secretary State of the Environment, at a breakfast event on sustainable fishing in London tomorrow (16 September) that the Government must recognise the huge steps the industry has taken to ensure a sustainable future for fishing.

The Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group has underlined to Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham MSP the importance of the farmed shellfish sector to the Scottish economy during a visit to its processing facility in Bellshill this morning (15 September).

At constant prices, the volume of the catch of Icelandic