Almost two years after the Bucharest Declaration signed in October 2016, six nations bordering the Black Sea and the European Union signed the Sofia Declaration renewing their commitment to achieve sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in the region.
On March the 8th 2018, The International Association for Women in the Seafood Industry (WSI), with the support of French Development Agency AFD and Icelandic R&D company Matís has launched its second Women in Seafood video competition.
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) rejects the claim that there have been rapid declines across Australian fish stocks with Commonwealth-managed fisheries that have been rigorously assessed as not being overfished. A research paper by Graham Edgar, Trevor Ward and Rick Stuart-Smith: Rapid declines across Australian fishery stocks indicate global sustainability targets will not be achieved without an expanded network of ‘noR08;fishing’ reserves.
According to the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, there are gains to be made for the Scottish industry.
New research suggests that Brexit could cause significant harm to Scotland’s seafood industries if the UK does not remain in the single market and the customs union. The study commissioned by the Scottish Government to understand possible impacts on the seafood sector examined hypothetical scenarios for the UK’s exit from the European Union including changes to fishing quota shares and the impact of different types of international trade on the industry.
Dutch fisheries group Cornelis Vrolijk has joined the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI) as a Funding Partner. Established in 1880, Cornelis Vrolijk is an internationally-operated family business, active in the catch, farm, process and trade of fish and shrimp.
Hundreds of fishermen from Holland and Belgium took their grievances against the discard ban and the loss of fishing grounds due to the expansion of wind farms to Amsterdam this weekend, making plain their dissatisfaction with the way their industry is heading.
ICES has provided its advice to the European Commission (EC) to set the fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2019. Despite fishermen’s full compliance with the quotas proposed, a growing stock biomass and fishing pressure in line with scientific advice, the prospects for some stocks are not promising – including herring.
ICES has issued a recommendation for next year’s North Sea herring quota to be set at 311,572 tonnes, roughly half of this year’s 600,588 tonne quota.
The European Commission’s proposed new rules intended to revise the Union Fisheries Control System will present the fishing sector with extensive bureaucratic and economic burdens, according to European fishing industry body Europêche.