Scathing report on Chile’s booming salmon industry
The environmental NGO Ecoceanos this week released a scathing report on Chile’s 2.2 billion US dollars farmed salmon industry, the world’s second largest after Norway.
Seafish restructure of training to release funding for recipients
Seafish has announced a change to the way it will structure training delivery for the seafood industry in future, a move that will see more funds passed directly to fishermen…
Advances across the value chain
The biotechnology company Aker BioMarine has developed a new dietary supplement: Superba™. Market launch of Superba™ is scheduled for March 2008. In the third quarter of 2007, Aker BioMarine achieved…
Non-Falklands ship listings to change
The criteria for listing non-Falklands flagged vessels will be revamped as a result of the European Union, Executive Committee (ExCo) recently filed application requesting a definition of economic ties between…
Alaska Salmon Re-Certified for Sustainable Fishing
The Alaska salmon fishery, which commercially harvests more than 160 million salmon a year, has been re-certified as meeting the Marine Stewardship Council’s environmental standard for sustainable fishing . Recertification…
November Fisheries Memo
The mother of all end runs in Eastern Canada would have the processors and big boat owners give the boot to all the small fishing operations. In the U.S. they…
CRA3 forum on track with plans to improve rock lobster fishing
The CRA 3 Multi-stakeholder Fishing Forum is on track with plans to improve fishing in Gisborne’s highly valued local red rock lobster fishery (known as CRA 3). Forum members, representing…
Joe Borg welcomes Lisbon’s Conference ministerial Declaration on combating international trade of fisheries products from illegal fishing
"Many international meetings on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing have been held in the past. Many of them have been useful because they have raised awareness of the burning need…
EU and North-Atlantic coastal states agree on 2008 fishing possibilities on 3 major shared stocks
Several agreements have been concluded in the past few days between the European Commission, on behalf of the EU, and the other coastal states concerned regarding 2008 fishing opportunities on…
Kingfisher Information Services
The Kingfisher Information Services department have been supplying fishermen with valuable seabed information for over 40 years. In recent times, Kingfisher have moved away from the production of paper fishing…
