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The Malta SeaWeb Seafood Champions award, held at the end of the three-day seafood summit in Malta, has gone to Newlyn fishing company Crystal Sea Fishing.
UK supermarket chain Waitrose has announced that all British vessels supplying its seafood should be part of Responsible Fishing Scheme by 2017.
Feelings ran high in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh today as both fishermen and the Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST) demonstrated outside over proposals that would restrict towed gear fishing across thirteen sites to due to be protected. These include Loch Sween, South Arran, Upper Loch Fyne and St Kilda.
The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) is urging Scottish parliamentarians to support local communities on the West coast by rejecting Scottish Government proposals for an overly restrictive Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Firth of Clyde.
Fishermen from the west of Scotland and the Scottish islands are planning a demonstration on the 27th of January to start at 0900 outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
Scientists now have a better understanding of the level of fishing activity that can be carried out within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and still remain compatible with conservation objectives, thanks to new research.
Newhaven fish traders MCB Seafood have set up a scheme to dispose of worn out fishing gear, working with the Global Ghost Gear Initiative and Danish company PlastiX Global.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has launched a campaign in the UK to keep commercial fishermen safe, highlighting figures showing 88 people were injured or killed in deck machinery incidents on fishing vessels in UK waters over the past five years.
NFFO President Paul Trebilcock has criticise the decision to add small-eyed ray to the list of prohibited species, commenting that the decision was made at the December Council with no prior warning, no discussion and without anticipating the consequences.
Seafish is running a training course in basic trawl gear technology at the Sintef flume tank at the North Sea Centre in Hirtshals on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th of February.