Italian fishing industry body Federpesca has condemned the actions of a Libyan Coastguard patrol that fired on Italian fishing vessels this week, with one Italian crewman injured. Italian naval vessels…
Negotiations between Norway and the UK towards a bilateral fisheries deal for 2021 have ended with no agreement reached between the two sides. ‘We had hoped for good co-operation with…
Norway initiated an international declaration against fisheries crime in 2018. At the time, nine countries supported this initiative and now Brazil has also joined, bringing the number of supporting states…
Speaking in Boulogne-sur-Mer earlier this week to fishermen in the Hauts de France region, France’s Minister of the Sea Annick Girardin and Secretary of State for European Affairs Clément Beaune…
Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries Kristján Thór Júlíusson has signed legislation increasing this quota year’s haddock quota by 8000 tonnes. This increases the haddock quota for the 2020-21 quota year from…
Since 1994, Canada and France (in respect of Saint Pierre and Miquelon) have co-managed fish stocks, including cod in the 3Ps zone off the south coast of Newfoundland and Labrador.…
In a reaction to the outcome of the EU-Norway-UK fisheries deal that sets total allowable catches for 2021 for six jointly managed stocks, Shetland Fishermen’s Association criticised the flawed basis…
The Government’s intention to implement management measures in 40 offshore marine protected areas over the next three years emerged towards the end of a recent NFFO meeting with the management…
Norway, the EU and the United Kingdom have today entered into an agreement on joint management of the stocks in the North Sea. In addition, Norway and the EU have…
Norway’s Minister of Fisheries and Seafood Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen has asked the European Union and the United Kingdom for faster progress on bilateralfisheries agreements ahead of a tripatrite agreement being…