Giants join to promote sustainable seafood
The Monterey Bay Aquarium and Santa Monica Seafood have entered into a partnership to promote sustainable seafood.
Seafood conference for Europe
The two-day European seafood conference will cover Health and the Consumer, Sustainability, Seafood Processing and Non-Destructive Measurement Methods.
Stability checks for more fishing boats
The Coast Guard has recommended more commercial fishing boats to undergo stability checks.
ARC concentrates on feed ingredients
Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC) has revealed the essential function of vitla feed ingredients.
Herring grounds become difficult
Herring are right off the shore due to difficult conditions and that hit the fishers mostly in Iceland.
Hawaii keep eye on year-end tuna supply
Hawaii keeps strict vigil on the year-end tuna supply as thousands line up at fish counters to buy blocks of raw tuna.
Somali coast guard commander become hopeless
General Farah Ahmed Omar alias General Farah Qare, the Commander of the Somali Coat Guard has expressed hopelessness against pirates.
New salmon recovery plan
Planning to restore endangered Northwest salmon stretches towards Portland courtroom.
Fisheries Council moves forward on sustainability agenda
At their Council meeting in Brussels friday, fisheries ministers addressed a wide range of issues. On the conservation of fisheries resources through technical measures, the Council reached agreement on a Presidency compromise. These technical measures already feature in the annex to the regulation on total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas. Today's agreement ensures that these technical measures will remain in place for 2010. They include: closed areas, the obligation to use sorting grids and square mesh panels, the high-grading ban in the North Sea and the Atlantic, provisions to protect elasmobranchs and gillnet provisions.
Building a sustainable fisheries future: World Fisheries Day 2009
The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today issued the following statement: I am pleased to have this opportunity to mark World Fisheries Day 2009 – this event offers us all an opportunity to truly reflect on the economic, social and cultural importance of fishing and to recognize Canada’s contributions to the sustainable management of domestic and international fisheries.
