A community of around 800 fishermen, fish processors and fishmongers in Kouléwondy district of the Guinean capital of Conakry have been holding out against attempts to displace them from the…
An agreement has been reached by a broad majority of the Danish Parliament on a coastal fishing scheme which offers advantages for fishing with low-impact gear such as static nets…
Inshore fishermen, industry leaders, policymakers, regulators and researchers all came together in London for the first day of an ambitious conference which considers the future management of the UK’s inshore…
Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra 36 to Båtsfjord skipper/owner Jens-Einar Bjørkås Johnsen. The 11 metre, 14gt Bjørkåsbuen is a Cleopatra Fisherman 36 built at Trefjar’s yard at Hafnarfjörður in…
Jemar Norpower has delivered a compact workboat to Fitjar fisherman, who intends to use the 23ft Sigleflu for potting and fishing for wrasse. Wrasse are becoming an increasingly prominent fishery,…
UK fishermen are being offered the opportunity to take up funding towards attending the Future of Our Inshore Fisheries conference, to be held in London 8-9th October this year. The intention…
Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra Fisherman 33 to Jonathan Boyd, and the new boat has already started fishing from Barra, skippered by Jonathan’s son Oran. The Castlebay-registered…
Large-scale fish fences commonly used in tropical seas are causing extensive social, ecological and economic damage and are threatening marine biodiversity and human livelihoods, according to a new study by…
The Icelandic Parliament has passed a bill concerning the days at sea available to small-scale fishing vessels operating under the coastal fishery regime, designed to increase safety at sea and…
In a report to Iceland’s Parliamentary Employment Committee, fisheries scientist Jón Kristjánsson and biologist Sigurjón Thórðarson made a clear recommendation that removing limitations on coastal fisheries would be a significant…
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