Norway and UK strike mackerel deal
The North Atlantic’s two largest mackerel fishing nations, Norway and the UK, have reached an agreement on the 2023 mackerel fishery. ‘I’m very happy that Norway and Great Britain have…
African artisanal fishermen want greater transparency in EU fisheries agreements
The African Confederation of Professional Artisanal Fisheries Organizations (CAOPA) expressed its concerns at the General Assembly of the European Union’s (EU) Advisory Council on Long Distance Fishing (LDAC) held in Stockholm last…
Demands for Commission to think again on nature legislation
The largest polticial grouping in the European Parliament, the EPP Group, has called on European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans to withdraw the nature restoration law proposal. This follows the rejection…
Conservation efforts lead to Torres Strait fishery reopening
A fishing season for a high value sea cucumber in the Torres Strait has reopened for the first time in twenty years thanks to a concerted conservation and stock restoration…
Longliner called in from closed area
Officers manning the Icelandic Coastguard’s monitoring centre at the weekend noticed a Norwegian longliner in an area closed to fishing. When contacted by the monitoring centre, the officer on watch…
Spurdog stock rebounds
After five years as a prohibited species, the stock of spurdog (Squalus acanthias) is judged to have recovered sufficiently to again support commercial landings this and next year. The decision…
Improving South Pacific fisheries monitoring and control
A comprehensive measure governing high seas boarding and inspection in the South Pacific is the proposals adopted at the 11th annual meeting of members of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries…
Danish fisheries under pressure from over-regulation
The new vice-chair of the EU Committee on Fisheries, Danish MEP Asger Christensen, has spent a week touring fishing ports in Jutland and commented that this has been a valuable…
Angry and frustrated
Much of the UK fishing industry remains angry and frustrated at the gulf between what as promised in the December 2020 Trade and Cooperation Agreement, and what has actually been…
Cautious re-opening of Kaikōura pāua fishery
New Zealand’s Oceans and Fisheries Minister David Parker has decided the recreational pāua (abalone) fishing season will take place from 15th April to 15th June, and the commercial fishery is…
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