Members of Europêche today met DG MARE director general Joao Aguiar Machado to express their concerns over the current negotiations regarding possible restrictions on bottom trawling in the deep sea which could see a ban from 800m introduced, even for already regulated areas in international waters.
Ray Hilborn of the University of Washington has accused Dr. Geoff Shester, California campaign director for Oceana, of ignoring science to pursue a pre-arranged agenda.
Ireland’s fishing industry has erupted in anger after Minister for the Marine Simon Coveney signed a new Statutory Instrument designed to derail the recent High Court decision that had discredited the system of penalty points applied to fishing vessels, shunting the issue back into the the spotlight.
The NFFO is offering to provide assistance for UK fishermen who have been told that their under 10 metre licences will be capped as DEFRA attempts to reduce the under 10 metre fleet’s latent capacity.
With small scale fishing constituting more than 80% of Black Sea and Mediterranean fishing fleets, a conference to examine the future of these regions takes place in Algiers next week, organised by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) and FAO’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Department.
A call by Greenpeace for the British retailers to stop buying seafood originating from the northern Barents Sea contrasts with a report by Seafish that paints a very different picture.
The abundance of haddock off the south-west of England and the shortage of quota are causing huge difficulties for fishermen across the region who are forced to dump fish they are not able to avoid catching.
Sea Fisheries Protection Authority officers yesterday swooped to inspect a vessel landing at Kilmore Quay, landing after its first trip for two months, reports the Wexford Dispatch.
ABC Rural reports that Queensland state net bans have crippled the regions’s seafood industry, with wholesalers struggling to secure supplies of fish.
The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) have today submitted a case to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) against the government of Thailand relating to breaches of ILO Convention 29 on forced labour in the Thai fishing industry. Thailand signed the convention in 1969.