ANNONCER
On 31 January 2011 at around 11.20 pm the French registered fishing vessel Jack Abry II, with a crew of 14 onboard, grounded on the North West Coast of Rhum off the West Coast of Scotland
The Scottish fishermen’s Federation has welcomed the decision by international scientists and regional fisheries groups to work more closely together so as to tackle the problem of weak fish stock assessments caused by inadequate data.
14 crew members have been rescued by a Coastguard Helicopter after a distress DSC* alert was picked up by Stornoway Coastguard from a French fishing vessel.
European Fisheries Fund (EFF) has granted a fund to boost the regeneration plans for North Shields fish quay.
Some selections of white fish prices fell back at the start of last week with increased landings.
Better weather allowed trawlers to fish their usual tips with over 10,000 boxes of whitefish landed for the first two markets of the week January 24-25 at Peterhead harbour Scotland’s premier fishing port.
Two Norwegians companies have purchased the Aquaculture division of Bennex and formed the first part of a new aquaculture technology group to be branded Mohn Aqua.
Chinese consumers will now have the pleasure of Scotland farmed salmon for the first time over the last two weeks.
ICES and the RACs are planning to establish regional task forces to tackle the problem of weak stock assessments impaired by deficiencies in the data used to estimate abundance and advise on management measures.
First discussions towards defining management measures for the Dutch sector of the Dogger Bank, the Cleaver Bank and Frisian Front were progressed at the FIMPAS workshop held in Den Helder, Holland, between 24th and 26th January. The FIMPAS project has been running since 2009 led by the Dutch Government and ICES, and covers 3 offshore Habitats and Birds Directive Natura 2000 sites in Dutch offshore waters including the Dogger Bank, Cleaver Bank and Frisian Front.
Approaching the turn of last year the Irish Sea faced an appalling prospect. The Commission had proposed a 19% reduction in the TAC for prawns – the economic mainstay of the Irish Sea; it had also proposed that the Area VII nephrops TAC should be divided into functional unit mini-TACs, constraining a vital flexibility for the fleets; also the EU cod management plan agreed in November 2008, prescribed a 25% cut in days at sea to be implemented in 2011.