Iceland’s new Fisheries Minister
After months of political wrangling since elections were held back in October, a new right-of-centre government takes over in Iceland today.
New Svend C calls in Faroes
The Tersan Shipyard at Yalova in Turkey has delivered a new shrimp factory trawler to owners Sikuaq Trawl in Greenland.
ITQs: A Road of No Return
A strongly-worded position paper published by the Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) Platform has come out firmly against Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) as an integral component of EU fisheries policies and management, which LIFE says have a disproportionately negative impact on small scale coastal fishing communities.
Crisis averted on southern bass
Some fishing companies will have to tighten their belts yet again as the 2017 quotas come into force, according to French fishermen’s body CNPMEM. A crisis for southern bass in the Bay of Biscay has been narrowly averted, but the same can not be said of the bass fishery in northern waters.
Fire wrecks new tuna seiner
A fire that broke out at the Martinez shipyard in Saint-Cyprien in southern France has had devastating consequences, resulting in the destruction of a part-built 35 metre purse seiner.
Meal down, frozen up at Síldarvinnslan
Síldarvinnslan’s three fishmeal plants between them took delivery of 131,460 tonnes of raw material during 2016, a drop over the previous year when the three factories accepted 259,394 tonnes.
USCG and fishing crew rescue five
A US Coast Guard and the crew of a fishing vessel responded when a trawler capsized and sank at the mouth of the Astoria River in Oregon.
Vidal off the hook
According to reports in the Spanish press, the case against Vidal Armadores, the beneficial owners of a fleet of vessels operating at various times fishing for toothfish in the Southern Ocean collapsed on a point of law.
Senegal’s fishermen protest at Russian deal
A coalition of fishermen’s organisations has publicly sent an open letter to the Senegalese president, protesting at the expected return of Russian fishing vessels to their waters as a fisheries protocol is being negotiated between Senegal and Russia.
Alaska fishing crew airlifted to safety
US Coast Guard aircrew yesterday airlifted four crew from a disabled fishing vessel 230 nautical miles ESE of Kodiak.
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