The European Commission (EC) has launched its annual consultation on setting fishing opportunities for 2018. As a novelty, this year it is accompanied by a communication which, besides setting the traditional principles underpinning the EC's proposal for Atlantic and North Sea fish quotas (TACs) in 2018, provides an overview on progress made towards achieving of CFP objectives.
With the fishing industry in Russia going through reform and modernisation, the fleet being renewed long with port infrastructure and logistics, supply and the balance of imports and exports is set to change, according to the head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Ilya Shestakov.
This issue of foreign ownership in the Faroese fishing fleet has prompted a flurry of international calls to the Faroese authorities as Dutch and Icelandic governments begin to question the new policy announced as part of the Islands’ fisheries reform.
The UK will this week give notice to leave the London Fisheries Convention, setting out to exclude fishing activity by vessels from five neighbouring countries within the UK 12-mile zone.
According to the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, advice for next year's quota for cod, haddock and whiting in the North Sea is for an increase.
With the current agreement between the EU and Guinea-Bissau set to expire on the 23rd of November this year, representatives of both have been meeting in Brussels to discuss the terms of a new protocol implementing the current current sustainable fisheries partnership agreement (SFPA).
Over the summer maritime charities Seafarers UK and Cornwall Rural Community Charity (CRCC) are working together to carry out a UK-wide project to survey fishermen, their families and communities. The survey aims to understand community and individual needs and challenges better, and to identify examples of projects or activities that are working to tackle these.
South African industry federation SADSTIA has seen a radical shake-up of its executive committee, with new members from a variety of different backgrounds joining, and with Sea Harvest’s Terence Brown as its newly-elected chairman.
Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries Thorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir has set quotas for the 2017-18 quota year, and has stuck rigidly to the recommendations of the Marine Research Institute, except for erring on the side of caution by setting quotas for some species below the recommendations.
According to the Akranes Trade Union (Verkalýðsfélag Akraness), a combination of Iceland’s strengthening currency and falling fish prices have seen crew earnings drop significantly. The union has compared earnings by crews on several trawlers to come up with its findings.