New president, same mission
Blue Fish Europe has announced that Javier Touza, President of both Blue Fish Spain and of the Vigo Shipowner’s Co-operative (ARVI), takes over as the new President of Blue Fish Europe.
Blue Fish Europe has announced that Javier Touza, President of both Blue Fish Spain and of the Vigo Shipowner’s Co-operative (ARVI), takes over as the new President of Blue Fish Europe.
The European Parliament in its plenary session in Brussels voted in favour of the new proposal for a regulation on the sustainable management of external fishing fleets (COM(2015)636). The whole EU fishing industry is deeply concerned with one of the articles adopted since it could put out of business environmentally and socially responsible fishing companies on the basis of a single mistake.
NFFO President and Selsey fisherman Tony Delahunty has been appointed to the Board of the Marine Management Organisation.
Norwegian Fisheries Minister Per Sandberg has held a meeting in London with his UK counterpart George Eustice, setting out clear requirements.
The remote south Atlantic island of St Helena is about to establish the UK’s first one-by-one only tuna fishery in a vast marine zone that bans all forms of destructive fishing gear and only permits tuna to be caught one fish at a time.
A study carried out for the European Commission has compiled data and information on fisheries subsidies within six of the world's major fishing countries: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Russia and the United States, and EU commissioners have reiterated that damaging subsidies must be ended.
Three previously unemployed people are now in full-time work thanks to the Passport to Processing initiative that was created to provide a gateway for careers in seafood processing in the north-east of Scotland.
Europêche and EAPO have penned an open letter to the European Parliament, voicing their concerns about the EU Technical Conservation Regulation.
The economic performance of the EU fleet improved significantly in 2014, according to the latest Annual Economic Report. Between 2008 and 2014, the EU fleet moved from a loss-making position in 2008 to registering record-high net profits of €770 million in 2014 – up from €500 million in 2013.
A Danish fisherman convicted in 2012 of illegal fishing has had his conviction overturned on the grounds that evidence supplied by Greenpeace was unreliable.