Fishing for litter
A project to clean up the seas around Scotland over the next three years was launched today. 'Fishing for Litter' aims to clear the sea of litter. Rubbish that is…
SFF welcomes North Sea cod TAC increase but other stocks are cut and discard measures will prove a m
Welcoming the news in the early hours of this morning (10 December) from the unusually prolonged negotiations between the EU and Norway over jointly managed fish stocks that the Total…
Quota agreement between Norway and the EU for 2009
Norway and the EU have concluded a bilateral fisheries agreement for 2009. For both parties discard of fish has been the main issue during this year’s negotiations. Norway and EU have agreed on a number of measures directed at the reduction of discard.
Let’s meet at the Friend of the Sea Day
Let’s meet at the Friend of the Sea Day, on the 27th of April 2009 – Sheraton Hotel, Brussels, Belgium.
Fishingvessel and ro-ro ship collide
The English fishing vessel LT 62 Henry Sr., and the Finnish Birka Exporter ro-ro ship, has Monday morning collide thirty kilometers northwest of Vlieland, in the English Channel. Both ships…
MSC Certification of Alaska Pollock
The Alaska pollock fishery remains certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) independent third-party certification system despite Greenpeace USA’s campaign to raise doubts about the status of the fishery.
Hf. Eimskipafelag Islands fined ISK 20m by the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority
Hf. Eimskipafelag Islands fined ISK 20m by the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority for violation of the duty to disclose information
HB Grandi trawlers doing well
HB Grandi’s trawlers have seen good catches through the autumn and into the winter.
Call to widen curbs on UK fishing
Fishing should be banned in almost a third of UK seas to help stocks recover from decades of harm, campaigners say.
Rough Justice for Under 10s
The Federation agrees that there is a major problem of latent capacity in the under-10 metre fleet. However, Defra’s decision to solve the problem by pressing ahead with its policy…
