Using bigger mesh nets good for unwanted catches
Bigger mesh nets are the best to filter out the unwanted catches and it also make the fishing sustainable.
UK Fisheries Ltd saithe certified
The certification body, MacAlister Elliott & Partners Ltd (MEP), has announced that the UK Fisheries Ltd saithe fishery has entered full assessment.
Illegal fishers targeted in New England
In a six week operation in New England district has seen a good number of offenders doing illegal fishing.
Herring on Iceland-Faroe line
'We're waiting to start fishing. We run it to fit in with the processing schedule at Vopnafjordur so that the herring is at its freshest when it goes for processing.…
Western mackerel pelagic trawl certified
The Irish Pelagic Sustainability Group (IPSG) western mackerel pelagic trawl fishery has entered MSC assessment status.
Illegal fishing evades U.N. crackdown -study
Illegal fishing is depleting the seas and robbing poor nations in Africa and Asia of resources, but a lack of global cooperation is undermining efforts to track rogue vessels, an…
Canada considers Beaufort Sea fishing moratorium
Canadian officials are quietly exploring a possible moratorium on large-scale commercial fishing in the Beaufort Sea, a move that would match a decision announced last week by the U.S. government,…
France to claim exclusive Mediterranean fishing zone
France said Monday it intends to assert sovereign rights over marine resources off its Mediterranean coast, declaring a 70-mile Exclusive Economic Zone in a bid to protect dwindling fish stocks.
Sustainable Seafood Multi-Stakeholder Summit
October 20-21 2009, San Francisco, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway
Fisheries and Oceans Canada Investigation Results in Convictions for Destruction of Fish Habitat
Her Majesty the Queen in right of Alberta, as represented by Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation, (Government of Alberta) and Wilco Landscape Contractors Ltd., (Wilco) (collectively “the defendants”) were penalized a combined total of $95,000 after pleading guilty in Calgary provincial court for violating subsection 35(1) of the federal Fisheries Act for “the harmful alteration, disruption or destruction of fish habitat”. The offence occurred along the shoreline of Elbow River, Allen Bill Day Use Area.
