The director of Norwegian vessel operators’ federation Fiskebåt has voiced his dissatisfaction with the recently concluded agreement between the EU and Norway, stating that Norway was threatened with ‘irresponsible and…
Nobody believed it would happen – but it has. An agreement regulating seine netting activity in the Eastern Channel has been reached between French, Dutch and Belgian fishermen and their…
Speaking to representatives of fisheries associations, Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has laid out the key taks facing the country’s food sectors as a whole, stating that industry…
A high-level meeting has taken place during which Europêche, representing the European fishing sector, was able to raise a number of critical issues with Executive Vice President Maroš Šefčovič and…
Speaking at the EU Council Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers in Brussels, Spanish minister of fisheries Luis Planas commented that the European Commission needs to ‘firmly defend the interests of the…
Icelandic minister of fisheries Bjarkey Olsen Gunnarsdóttir will table proposals in Parliament for changes to legislation relating to fisheries. According to a statement, these proposed changes will be in line…
There’s positive and negative news in the European Commission’s assessment of fish stocks, which will untimately have a strong bearing on the TACs and quotas for 2025. The Commission’s Sustainable…
The waters around the Italian island of Procida are the home of the stony, purple sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus), an important herbivore, as well as prey for a number of…
A cabinet reshuffle has resulted in the minister who was appointed only last year being moved on. Cecilie Myrseth moves over to the Ministry of Industry, having only served as…
The decision by the UK government to shut down the sandeel fishery in the British part of the North Sea is being challenged in court as the Danish fishing sector…