The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) comes out on top in a new report commissioned by WWF that reveals poor performance among other assessed seafood ecolabelling schemes and calls for improvements across the board to strengthen their effectiveness.
At constant prices, the volume of the catch of Icelandic vessels decreased by 10.3% in December 2009 compared with December 2008. In the first ten months of 2009 the volume…
There is no process in place to estimate the rate of illegal catches in Polish rivers, but according to the scientists from the Marine Fisheries Institute and Volunteer Fish Guards…
Researcher Amund Måge specialises in metals in seafood. As metals in seafood have both a positive and a negative side, he believes it is important to establish their influence on…
Fisheries Minister Norman Moore has accepted advice, from the Rock Lobster Industry Advisory Committee (RLIAC), to apply further adjustments to fishing arrangements for WA’s commercial rock lobster industry to help it meet this season’s targets.
The project that aims to collect labor data on Alaska deckhands is on track to come before the legislature this session. As self-employed workers, roughly 20,000 crewmembers have fallen through…
The fishermen of Kenya and Somalia are enjoying their best catches in many years thanks to Somali pirates scaring away illegal trawlers.
At 8:15am today, Stornoway Coastguard received a call from the Irish registered fishing vessel Niamh Edghan, 20 miles West of South Uist, who had a 45 year old crewman on…
As Shetland’s fishing industry continues to work within fisheries management and quota constraints, the NAFC Marine Centre has pledged to maintain and develop its first-class training provision for a sector that has an integral role to play in the future of the local economy
A short but important article on the NFFO website is having an impact in the United States. The article was placed on the website last Thursday (7th January) and was…
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