A strong, freshwater fishing industry is important for the many fish harvesters that depend on it for their livelihoods. The Government of Canada is taking steps to transform the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation (FFMC).
With key whitefish stocks in Scotland’s waters having expanded dramatically over the past decade, according to a major new analysis, there is a real need for closer links between the the fishing industry and the Scottish Government, according to the Shetland Fishermen’s Association.
Australian Longline is the first Australian company to join GSSI partnership as a Funding Partner, and the company is a longline operator fishing for Patagonian and Antarctic toothfish within Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified fisheries.
In response to recent media reports regarding a boarding and inspection by the New Zealand Navy of a Taiwanese fishing vessel said to be in contravention of international regulations, the Taiwan Fisheries Agency (FA) has stated that Yi Rong No.6, which was inspected, did not fish in the New Zealand EEZ.
New sustainable blue projects have been pre-selected for funding by the European Commission under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF). They will share €14.5 million. The grant agreements are currently being prepared for signature.
With 39% more fish in the sea than in 2003, stocks are stabilising at sustainable levels, according to figures presented by the scientific community and DG MARE Director General Aguiar Machado at Friday's Scientific Seminar on Fisheries Science organised by the European Commission.
The head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries Ilya Shestakov and Guinea’s Minister for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Industries Frederic Lois met that the International Fishery Forum and Exhibition in St Petersburg to sign a co-operation agreement on fisheries and aquaculture.
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and its international partners have wrapped up an operation focusing on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Pacific Ocean on the high seas outside Australian waters.
Dr Katie Brigden has been appointed as Fisheries Scientist to work on a pioneering fish industry ‘self-sampling’ scheme for pelagic stocks. Her new role is supported by the EU PANDORA project, under which the NAFC Marine Centre in Shetland is partnering with the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association (SPFA) and Marine Scotland Science (MSS).
Earlier this year, a group of researchers made the claim that fishing activities occurred in 55% of the world’s oceans. As a result, their study found that the area fished is four times bigger than the area occupied by agriculture in terms of square kilometres. At the time, Europêche argued that the study was based on scientifically unsound data, overestimating the proportion of the seabed where fishing occurs.