The Danish Fishermen’s Producers’ Organisation (DFPO) has entered the Danish hake, haddock and North Sea sole fisheries for formal assessment against the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries.
A recent study has proven that creating Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) can have a positive effect on spawning, though drifting larvae, for stocks more than 150 kilometres away
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department and Wyoming Wildlife Protectors Association have come up with reward for information regarding illegal stock of largemouth bass.
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions provider, has introduced a more powerful version for marine applications of its popular Wärtsilä 32 engine. First introduced in the 1980s, and with more than 4000 units sold to the marine industry alone, the Wärtsilä 32 engine has proven to be a highly efficient and reliable solution for a wide range of vessel applications. The latest version is expected to expand that range even further.
Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead is confident that in 2011 the Scottish fishing industry can deliver long overdue changes in fisheries management while ensuring greater returns for an industry that lands the best seafood in the world.
In spite of a reduction in quotas, HB Grandi’s trawler crews have done a magnificent job in 2010. Catches landed by the company’s eight trawlers came to approximately 51,500 tonnes with a value of around ISK11.30 billion (FOB). By comparison, the 2009 catch was 47,000 tonnes with a value of ISK9,30 billion.
Chile’s fishing industry is facing the increasing unemployment this year due to reduction in catch quotas.
At 3:15pm, Portland Coastguard received a routine telephone call from a member of the public advising the Coastguard that he had received a phone call from the skipper of the 11 metre Fishing Vessel Purbeck Isle, reporting they were taking water. The informant was unsure how many people were on board, the position was vague, but somewhere off Chesil Beach, west of Portland.
Four fishermen have been rescued this evening from a 58 foot wooden Fishing Vessel Karen, after hitting rocks near the entrance to Ardglass Harbour and taking on water. The crew of the Fishing vessel had prepared their liferaft, as the vessel was in danger of sinking
The miraculous return of 34 million wild sockeye salmon to the Fraser River in British Columbia this year mystifies scientists.
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