Polar Fishing Gear has celebrated ten years of its Hydro-wing trawl doors, as in March 2006 a 12 square metre pair of Mars doors went on board Ísfélag’s Snorri Sturluson for fishing redfish and later that same year a pair was supplied to Sjólaskip for its operations off West Africa.
Icelandic seafood company Icelandic Group has come under the spotlight for its alleged attempts to circumvent new UK minimum wage requirements by reducing overtime rates.
Norway’s Seafood Alliance is pressuring its own government for access to EU markets for its seafood products, as there is growing concern that Norwegian production could be at a disadvantage compared to that of other nations that have or will have EU free trade deals.
EU Commissioner for Fisheries Karmenu Vella has launched a campaign to rebuild Mediterranean fish stocks, joined in making his announcement by secretary general at the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Zakia Driouich, Europêche president Javier Garat and Marco Lambertini, DG of WWF International.
All of HB Grandi’s factory vessels are now fishing deep north-west of the Westfjords along with five other trawlers, searching for elusive Greenland halibut on fishing grounds off the edge of the Hali area.
An exit from the EU could cost UK fish and shellfish exporters £100 million annually, warns UK environment secretary Elizabeth Truss.
Ratification of the International Labour Organisation’s C188 Work in Fishing Convention appears to be a step closer as the Netherlands government has indicated that the process is now underway.
Coastal fishermen’s associations in Iceland have slammed the Ministry of Fisheries’ decision to adjust this year’s coastal quotas calling on the Minister to review his decision.
Almost three years after submitting the Social Partners’ Agreement (SPA) on implementing the ILO Work in Fishing Convention C188, the European Commission (EC) presented on 29 April 2016 the agreement before the Council of the EU. The European Social Partners for Fisheries, Europêche, Cogeca and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF), have warmly welcomed this step but regret the considerable delay with implementing the SPA that ensures a high level of protection for fishermen in all aspects of their work.
Trade unions from UK, Norway, Italy, Denmark and Belgium picketed and distributed leaflets at the gates of the Seafood Expo Global to support fish workers campaigns in Philippines, Indonesia and Morocco and to call the industry to clean up human rights violations.
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