What remains of the Oregon coast's salmon fishing fleet is largely dependent on chinook salmon that are born and spawn in California's Sacramento River but mature in the ocean. Poor…
Scientists and fishermen have known for a long time that cod prefer certain areas of the ocean over others. But what scientists are beginning to document is the extent to…
One of the peculiarities of fisheries politics over the past 10 years or so has been the level of sustained criticism of the industry in the media. Fishermen who had…
At NEAFC’s 28th Annual Meeting in November 2009, Mr Stefán Ásmundsson, Iceland ended his three-year tenure as President, the North East Atlantic Fisheries commission’s top elected officer. In his valedictory…
Three boats will be given a permit to fish sea cucumbers in each of three sea cucumber fishing territories in Icelandic waters this year. In previous years only one boat,…
A scientific study to take advantage of knowledge amassed by fishermen, not always on par with scientists’ outlook, is underway in Ireland. The study, performed by the newly formed Socio-Economic…
Draft standards for the shrimp aquaculture industry will be presented and discussed at the next meeting of the Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue, to be held March 9-10 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Feedback from the meeting will be used to ensure that the final standards adequately address the key negative environmental and social impacts associated with shrimp farming.
In December 2009 IFFO organised a visit to both Chile and Peru with the intention of discussing with members the new IFFO Global Standards for Responsible Supply (RS) which it launched at the Vienna Conference in October. Meetings were held in Santiago and Concepcion in Chile, as well as Lima in Peru.
Exports of Norwegian herring totalled NOK 4 billion in 2009, which is an increase of NOK 263 million or 7% compared with 2008. Also in 2009, exports of capelin for…
According to the statistics of Vietnam Customs, by the end of November 2009, Viet Nam exported 190,490MT of shrimp, worth US$1.518 billion, up 7.4 percent in volume and 0.73 percent…
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