Taking shark fin soup off the menu
An online campaign by Friend of the Sea aimed at convincing food delivery companies to remove shark fin soup from their menus has won a key victory.
Spanish tuna purse seine fleet meets certification requirements
Five stocks of tropical tuna caught by the Spanish tuna fleet, out of a total of 12, now meet the sustainability standards necessary to apply for MSC certification, specifically yellowfin, skipjack and bigeye in the Central-Western Pacific and yellowfin and skipjack in the Eastern Pacific.
Seafish reports on UK fishing’s employment statistics
The 2018 Employment in the UK Fishing Fleet report has been published by Seafish, presenting data on the nationality, gender, age, qualification, work pattern and ways of paying workers in the UK catching sector on board and onshore.
Russia-Morocco fishing agreement extended into 2019
At a meeting held in Agadir this week, Russia and Morocco have agreed terms for fisheries and co-operation for 2019, with an increase in the Russian fleet’s quotas for horse mackerel, anchovy, sardine and sardinella in Moroccan waters up by 10,500 tonnes to 140,000 tonnes.
Bergey sold to Grundarfjörður
Síldarvinnsla subsidiary Bergur-Huginn has signed a contract to sell one of its two groundfish trawlers to Grundarfjörður company Guðmundi Runólfsson hf, with a handover date no later than September.
Careful with that seine net…
Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries is urge seine netter skippers to take care after a number of incidents in which heavy catches have burst fishing gear, both this year and in previous years.
Iceland licences five more years of commercial whaling
Icelandic Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Kristján Thór Júlíusson has approved regulations licensing hunting of fin and minke whales between now and 2023, extending whaling for a further five-year period.
Electric winches for Dutch seiner/trawlers
Naust Marine has delivered the first of a set of winches and control systems for Dutch seine netter/twin-riggers under construction at the Nodosa shipyard in Spain.
MSC suspends Biscay sardine certification
Sardine fisheries in Spain and France are to have their MSC certification suspended from 12th March following audits that have concluded fishing effort is inconsistent with achieving MSY, despite both of these stocks in the Bay of Biscay being judged healthy.
No capelin, as first blue whiting landed
While the capelin fishery that traditionally takes place in the early part of the year has not happened so far, with surveys looking for capelin still in progress, the first blue whiting of the year has been landed to Icelandic fishmeal plants.
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