NAPA’s challenge to ministers
The North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group (NAPA), speaking as a collective of businesses with a major share of Northeast Atlantic pelagic purchasing, has aimed an open letter to Ministers, challenging…
The North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group (NAPA), speaking as a collective of businesses with a major share of Northeast Atlantic pelagic purchasing, has aimed an open letter to Ministers, challenging…
The hauling of rope on fishing and other vessels could result in billions of microplastic fragments entering the ocean every year, according to new research. A study by the University…
Factory trawler Norvezhskoe More (Norwegian Sea) has been handed over to owners Akhangelsk Trawl Fleet. This follows the delivery at the end of last year of Barentsevo More, the first…
The latest in a series of freezer trawlers for the Russian Fishery Company has been floated off at the Admiralty Shipyard in St Petersburg. Kapitan Martinov is a type ST-192…
The EFICE group of fish auctions, Visveiling Urk (Urk and Harlingen), Zeeuwse Visveilingen (Breskens and Vlissingen) and Visafslag Lauwersoog is making the the switch to the Aucxis Kosmos network. The existing auction infrastructure…
The Slippurinn yard in Akureyri in the north of Iceland has contracted to design, construct and install a new catch handling system for fresher trawler Frosti TH-229. Installation of the…
The Spanish Fisheries Confederation (Cepesca) has expressed its appreciation to Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius for a visit to Spain that started in Vigo before heading to Murcia and Alicante to learn…
Invited to Denmark by the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Charlina Vitcheva, The European Commission's Director General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE), visited Skagen this week…
Twelve Faroese companies participating in the Faroese Sustainable Business Initiative – Burðardygt Vinnulív – have pledged to at least halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 in an effort to…
The five crew of a German shrimp trawler were able to board a life raft and were picked up by another fishing vessel. Reported to be Ramona CUX-9, the incident…