While the European Commission is busy congratulating itself on shutting down 87 areas to all demersal fishing gears in North Atlantic waters, the industry isn’t treating this as good news,…
Speaking last week in response to Parliamentary questions, Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries Svandís Svavarsdóttir has stated that mackerel fisheries across the North-East Atlantic have in recent years far exceeded the…
The Norwegian Marine Research Institute has recommended a Barents Sea cod quota of up to 566,784 tonnes for 2023 – a 20% reduction on the 2022 figure and the lowest…
Pacific Fisheries Ministers meeting last week in Kiribati identified maximising value from their fisheries as key to supporting the economic recovery from Covid-19. Ministers and Officials were attending the annual…
Two more respected trawlers skippers have added their voices to the chorus of criticism from the fishing industry over the proposals for Iceland’s 2022-23 quotas that have yet to be…
The EU and Norway have concluded consultations that will lead to the modernisation the exchange of fisheries data for control purposes. The delegations agreed to use a common software platform…
The findings of a major report commissioned by the NFFO and SFF demonstrate that the fishing industry continues to be shoved aside in the race for offshore energy, with more…
Norway’s Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Bjørnar Skjæran has announced a 278,222 tonne mackerel quota for the Norwegian fleet this year, a 7% reduction on last year’s allocation. ‘In…
After two decades of dialogue, trade ministers from 164 countries last week struck a last-minute deal on fisheries subsidies. Despite blocking measures by India, which threatened to derail the multilateral…
The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) has published a study contracted by the European Commission on regionalisation, the findings of which are that regionalisation has allowed for…