Plymouth Fisheries, the second largest fresh fish market in England, has promoted two of its most experienced staff to new management positions as part of a reorganisation aimed at improving the way the business operates.
The number of Icelandic pelagic vessels going to Faroese fishing gear supplier Vónin for their gear continues, with the eighth Icelandic customer for one of Vónin’s Capto trawls calling in yesterday.
A month ago Iceland’s capelin season looked like a non-starter, with the fleet crippled by a long-running strike by crews and no prospects for any large capelin migration through Icelandic waters. It hasn't worked out quite like that.
Scottish fishermen have demanded a retraction of Marine Conservation Society’s claims about haddock stocks.
An assessment by Philip Taylor, campaign manager for Open Seas, and Griffin Carpenter, an economic modeller at the New Economics Foundation, concludes that fears of a choke on fishing in the UK’s hake, saithe, whiting and haddock fisheries in 2016 did not materialise.
The team behind a plan to bring an historic steam trawler to her home port of Hull are targeting their regional and international businesses contacts to meet the estimated cost of £1.75 million.
Pembrokeshire company Mainstay Marine Solutions has won the contracts to deliver two new fisheries patrol vessels for Wales.
With Scotland set to undergo a second independence referendum in the near future, there is no lack of speculation on where this would leave the Scottish fishing industry, not least as an independent Scotland would be highly likely to expect to be part of the EU.
EU vessels have been authorised to fish for snow crab in the Barents Sea and Svalbard waters since 2013. Even though these vessels carry valid fishing licences, several have been arrested by the Norwegian authorities, who refuse to recognise the legitimate right of EU vessels to sustainably and legally operate in this area.
The European Commission, the United States, the National Aquarium of Denmark and NGO Plastic Change are behind an effort to raise awareness of plastic ocean pollution.
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