Measures taken by Russia and Norway from 2015 to regulate the snow crab fishery have been shown to have been effective in restricting third-country access and blocking IUU activity. Joint efforts in fisheries management were discussed by the Russian and Norwegian fisheries ministers at the Global Seafood Exhibition last week in Brussels.
Fishermen’s organisations and Producers Organisations from all parts of the UK held a meeting in Manchester to take stock of the state of the ongoing EU exit negotiations, and to agree a broad front to hold the UK government to account on its commitments to the fishing industry.
Next-level management reform required a new tool to facilitate smooth quota trade and transparency: FishRight was the Swedish fleet's answer.
The EU Commission has approved a proposal to transpose into EU legislation stronger measures to help the recovery of the Mediterranean swordfish. The new regulation incorporates ICCAT Recommendation 16-05 into EU law.
According to a non-binding resolution adopted by fisheries MEPs this week, all fisheries products imported into the EU should meet the high standards imposed by the EU law.
Maritime Border Command (MBC), a multi-agency taskforce within the Australian Border Force (ABF), and the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), apprehended two Indonesian fishing vessels in the Timor Sea, approximately 100 nautical miles east of the Ashmore Islands.
A delegation from Europêche met EU Commissioner Karmenu Vella to discuss the main topics at the top of the political and legislative fisheries agenda in the EU. Both Commissioner Vella and Europêche credited the great progress in achieving sustainable fisheries with 97% of landings in the North East Atlantic from EU managed stocks fished at Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) levels.
aIreland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has sent a powerful message to the country’s fishing industry, setting out unequivocally that fisheries must be part of Brexit trade negotiations.
Women and Fishing are two words that would not have been used together in the same sentence a few years ago in Rwanda. It has been a long-held belief in Rwanda that fishing is not for women – it’s a man’s occupation. Women have mostly embraced this thinking as well, but a few brave women from Nkombo, an island on Lake Kivu in Rwanda's Rusizi District, are determined to prove that what a man can do, a woman can do too.
Norway’s Ministry of Fisheries is examining its fisheries management regime and discussions are taking place with interest groups, with an initial meeting held last week. Further meetings are due to be held in northern, western and southern regions of Norway this summer.