The WWF’s un-listing, under threat, of a popular Vietnamese farmed fish has provoked a heated debate in Sweden – the WWF claiming that in exchange it reached a strong agreement for that industry to clean up its business.
Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham met today with European Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki, to highlight Scotland's successful aquaculture industry.
A Canadian team of scientists that has studied catches in Arctic fisheries 1950-2006 has found them to be almost 75 times bigger than what had been reported to the FAO.
The Marine Institute and the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) are pleased to announce a new strategic alliance that will further develop marine research capabilities, undergraduate and postgraduate marine science programmes and staff training & development initiatives in the two institutes.
People’s interest was piqued in the north-western Icelandic town of Isafjordur this morning when one of its biggest and best-known fishing trawlers unloaded its catch in neighbouring Bolungarvik following a decision by Isafjordur town that the fishing company opposed.
Intense discussions between the NFFO and Defra over the shape of the days-at-sea regime for 2011/12 have yet to reach conclusion.
Prices of Whitefish at Peterhead Fish Market Scotland’s Premier fishing port were very good at the start of last week and this was due to reduced landings of around 7,373 boxes. A number of the Scottish fishing fleets remained in harbour for part of the week as severe gales hit the North sea.
Fishermen expressed their views on the recent halibut licence issued by the authority were really not gifts.
NOAA’s new proposal would stopped recreational harvest of greater amberjask in the Gulf of Mexico.
Fish catch in the Arctic region is rising each year and that concern Canadian researchers.
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