Extensive discussion took place over two days as part of the United Seafood Industry Forum in Adelaide, which was opened by the Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Senator Anne Ruston.
The European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) which centralises and coordinates EU member states’ fisheries inspections, is to be empowered to use the data provided by its vessel reporting systems to detect vessels carrying migrants under updated rules approved by the European Parliament Fisheries Committee. It will also be able to and conduct new types of operations to disrupt people smuggling routes.
Thirteen fire appliances attended a fire on board a trawler in the Port of Lyttleton in New Zealand this morning. The fire was quickly brought under control. Six of the crew were treated for smoke inhalation and four were taken to hospital.
The UK Coastguard is co-ordinating a search for a crewman lost overboard from a fishing vessel this morning.
A new inquiry into the sinking of a French trawler off the coast of Cornwall in 2004 is needed to resolve the mystery surrounding the vessel’s unexplained loss and the deaths of the five crew.
Hvide Sande shipyard Vestværft has signed a contract with Norwegian company Knut Olav AS of Sørvågen for a new purse seiner/seine netter.
Swe-Dan Seafood, with reception facilities for pelagic landings and shore-based processing, is now Sweden Pelagic.
As of yesterday, pole-and-line caught tuna from the Maldives can no longer be sold as MSC certified as certifier DNV-GL suspended the certification, while the MSC certification for pole-and-line caught skipjack was renewed.
Responding to grassroots concerns from the quayside, the NFFO has joined forces with the MMO, IFCAs and the wider stakeholder community to get the message out to restaurants, shops and consumers that the trade in fish caught by unlicensed vessels is not a victimless crime.
Iceland and Russia have signed an agreement covering fishing activities by Icelandic vessels in the Russian area of the Barents Sea this year.
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