After years of conflict, Somalia’s fisheries sector requires investment and capacity building to generate income and enhance food security for the communities along the country’s 3300-km coastline and for fishing communities in riverine areas that are dependent on fish for their livelihoods and nutritional needs.
UK supermarket chain Waitrose has announced that all British vessels supplying its seafood should be part of Responsible Fishing Scheme by 2017.
Feelings ran high in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh today as both fishermen and the Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST) demonstrated outside over proposals that would restrict towed gear fishing across thirteen sites to due to be protected. These include Loch Sween, South Arran, Upper Loch Fyne and St Kilda.
Europêche, the European body representing the fishing sector, yesterday met various NGOs in the European Parliament to discuss the use of fish aggregating devices (FADs) and how to improve tuna fisheries management.
Marine pollution has been in the news recently, as the World Economic Forum published a report estimating that by 2050 there will be more plastic waste than fish in the oceans. This comes as no surprise to skipper Max Christensen of Danish fishing boat Jamik K-148, who sent us this clip.
The first capelin of the season was landed at Neskaupstaður in eastern Iceland at the weekend.
The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) is urging Scottish parliamentarians to support local communities on the West coast by rejecting Scottish Government proposals for an overly restrictive Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Firth of Clyde.
Shark Bay Seafoods of South Fremantle in Australia recently installed a Notus Trawlmaster on its deep-water triple rig trawler. The skipper and fleet manager have seen an immediate payback for the system.
Fish with a plastic cup and a beer can in its stomach. Findings like this are commonplace for the Danish fishing vessel K148 JAMIK.
Danish trawler Malle L-153 has switched its old bottom doors for a larger pair of flying doors, and has seen better catches with the new rig.
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