Tony Delahunty joins NFFO board
NFFO President and Selsey fisherman Tony Delahunty has been appointed to the Board of the Marine Management Organisation.
NFFO President and Selsey fisherman Tony Delahunty has been appointed to the Board of the Marine Management Organisation.
A new pilot training course for fishermen aimed at preventing man overboard incidents and improving survival and recovery procedures has been completed at the RNLI’s Training College in Poole, Dorset.
The capelin season in Icelandic waters is in progress, although there are currently no Icelandic vessels taking part in the fishery due to the ongoing seamen’s strike.
Icelandic high-tech equipment suppliers Skaginn and 3X Technologies will from now on jointly be known as Skaginn 3X.
Norwegian Fisheries Minister Per Sandberg has held a meeting in London with his UK counterpart George Eustice, setting out clear requirements.
The English-based Skipper Expo that started life in Bristol before shifting to Bournemouth is now heading back this year.
Commenting on the claim by WWF Scotland that the discard ban is being inadequately policed, SFF chief executive Bertie Armstrong commented that no-one hates discarding more than fishermen.
The remote south Atlantic island of St Helena is about to establish the UK’s first one-by-one only tuna fishery in a vast marine zone that bans all forms of destructive fishing gear and only permits tuna to be caught one fish at a time.
A study carried out for the European Commission has compiled data and information on fisheries subsidies within six of the world's major fishing countries: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Russia and the United States, and EU commissioners have reiterated that damaging subsidies must be ended.
Eastern Shipbuilding Group at Panama City in Florida has handed over a new factory stern trawler to O’Hara Corporation.