Arnar Atlason, chairman of Samtök fiskframleiðenda og útflytjenda (SFU, Iceland’s Federation of Processors and Exporters), which represents producers without their own fishing capacity, has stressed the importance of the coastal fishing scheme that has now been in place for ten years plays a key role in the supply of fresh fish.
The harbour at Norðfjörður has suddenly become too small as the capelin season has got off to a strong start with good fising off eastern Iceland between bouts of heavy weather, and some of the shipping traffic has had to be diverted to other ports.
As a majority of MEPs voted yesterday in Strasbourg for a complete ban on electric fishing gear in Europe. Durk van Tuinen of the Dutch Fishermen’s Association described the result of the vote as a ‘dramatic outcome.’ He and other representatives of the Dutch industry and fishing communities were present as the vote took place.
Hvide Sande skipper Jan Mathiesen didn’t have far to go to place an order for a new trawler/flyshooter, and yesterday signed a contract with local yard Vestvært for a new vessel that is scheduled to be delivered in the spring of 2020.
There have already been angry speeches in Strasbourg, and there will undoubtedly be more before the day is over as the European Parliament is due to decide on the future of pulse fishing.
In a surprise result, the European Parliament has voted for a full ban on electric fishing, and to end pulse fishing entirely.
A farm trial where abalone are fed recycled grape marc from the wine industry has begun in southern Australia. The South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) has partnered with Port Fairy abalone farm Southern Ocean Mariculture, Aquafeeds Australia and Tarac Technologies following a successful lab trial last year.
Dutch and English fishermen’s organisations have struck a voluntary deal on three areas of the North Sea to be kept free of pulse fishing. One zone is off Ramsgate and two are off the English east coast off Lowestoft, and the agreement is in force as of today (15th January) and each zone also has temporal limits.
After a break from building fishing vessels, the Sletta Verft yard at Mjosundet in northern Norway has delivered a new 15 metre seine netter for an owner in the Lofoten Islands.
The anti-pulse trawl lobby peaked this week in Brussels with a campaign ahead of the crucial vote on a new regulation for the conservation of fishery resources that will take place on 16 January 2018. Europêche, which represents European fishing associations, believes that this is the umpteenth attempt to demonise an innovative fishing method.
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