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…
Faroese fisheries minister Árni Skaale, in consultation with the Parliament foreign affairs committee, has set the 2022 quota for the Faroe Islands’s fleet. The quota is set at 155.804 tonnes,…
Speaking at a stakeholder event organised by the European Commission, Europêche president Javier Garat told delegates that fishing must regain its place as an essential and respected activity. ‘Our fishermen…
Iceland’s Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, has appointed an extensive set of working groups to analyse and report on the challenges facing fisheries, and the opportunities, as…
Anyone would imagine that the findings of the EU Commission’s review of fisheries and fisheries management would be something to celebrate, as the Commission itself reports in understated style that…
A plan that will see fishermen, producers and marine scientists co-manage the Isle of Man’s multi-million pound king scallop fishery will be a first for fisheries management in the British…
The Danish Fisheries Agency has apprehended a Dutch beam trawler found to have been fishing with lined codends. ‘We have a case in which a beam trawler has illegal inner…
At its 26th session, the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) has adopted a procedure that will enable a quota to be set for bigeye tuna in 2024, under a proposal…
Responding to a a campaign by activists to ban all fishing on undersea pinnacles, New Zealand fishing company Sealord is proposing that 89% of known seamounts inside the country’s EEZ…
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