The PFA, representing the Dutch pelagic sector, has criticised the decision by the Goodfish foundation to downgrade the status of mackerel and Atlanto-Scandian herring from orange to red, warning that…
The blue whiting season for the Scottish pelagic fleet is coming to an end, with just a few weeks to go. Scottish pelagic vessels are currently at work west of…
This is an acoustic survey of small pelagic fish that will be carried out aboard the vessel Miguel Oliver in Spanish and Portuguese waters of the Gulf of Cadiz until…
The North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group (NAPA) is renewing its warnings that continued mismanagement of North East Atlantic blue whiting stocks and ongoing political inaction on sharing pelagic quotas pose a very…
With the season usually approaching its final stages by this time of year, Iceland’s Marine and Freshwater Institute has approved a belated and very small quota for this winter’s capelin…
The Scottish fleet’s Atlanto-Scandian herring season is in progress, with this year’s quota up a marginal 3%, although the UK has just 2% of the TAC – making this a…
‘The decision to ban trawling in the Baltic is a death blow to small-scale fishing and Sweden's food security,’ warns Anton Paulrud, CEO of the Swedish Pelagic Federation. ‘If we…
The search for capelin in Icelandic waters is still in progress, but hope for a season this winter appears to be running low. In the meantime, the pelagic fleet has…
Speaking at the Fisheries Relations with Norway public hearing organised by the Fisheries Committee in the European Parliament, PFA president Tim Heddema outlined that despite the shared ambitions of sustainable…
The new FS80 trawl sonar released by Simrad is ‘tailored to deliver,’ according to the company, as it integrates a number of functions into a single unit. ‘This is the…
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