Canada’s Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Bernadette Jordan, has announced that the Government of Canada is investing $22 million in the renewal of several harbours in…
Foodnected, a new project designed to promote the transition to sustainable and fair food systems in the Mediterranean region, is launched on 10th March at a virtual event as part…
Already struggling with the impacts of Covid-19 – leading the fishery to temporarily close due to lack of access to markets – fishermen in Filey have received a devastating blow…
The Scottish government has announced that electronic monitoring and tracking of vessels is part of a package of measures being taken to protect Scotland’s inshore fleet. The programme, which will…
Dutch inshore fishermen have seen the encircling gill net technique that had been excluded as a method for catching bass under the 2017 conservation measures now recognised and reinstated. This…
Currently representing around 198 fishermen's associations, known as cofradías, 30,000 affiliates and 8000 small-scale fishing vessel owners, the Spanish National Federation of Cofradías (FNCP,) has become the latest full member…
More than three decades of successive Common Fisheries Policies have discriminated against and marginalised small-scale low impact fishing and communities, favouring industrialised overfishing, according to small-scale fishing organisation LIFE Platform.…
The Future of Our Inshore Fisheries Conference, set to take place in London on 8-9th October, is expected to bring together fishermen, policy makers, regulators and researchers to discuss issues concerning…
The Icelandic Parliament has passed a bill concerning the days at sea available to small-scale fishing vessels operating under the coastal fishery regime, designed to increase safety at sea and…
Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed has launched the Strategy for the Irish Inshore Fisheries Sector 2019-2023 on behalf of the National Inshore Fisheries Forum. The Strategy is designed to frame the work of the Inshore Fisheries Forums over the next number of years and represents the first time the inshore fisheries sector has developed its own sector-specific plan.