All Industry News articles – Page 72
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NewsDeeper widescan sounder from WASSP
The New Zealand-based manufacturer of multibeam technology, WASSP Ltd, has released its new F3L, a low frequency wideband 80 kHz system.
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NewsDisappointment as EU Commission declines to alter Birds and Habitats directives
Europêche and EAPO, the representative bodies of the EU fishing sector, have expressed their frustration at the decision taken by the College of Commissioners recognising that, following a “fitness check”, the European Birds and Habitats Directives remain relevant and fit for purpose.
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NewsRock lobster trial for the local market
Western Australia Fisheries Minister Joe Francis has announced a plan to make rock lobster more accessible to the locals following a visit to the Bluwave processing facilities in Fremantle.
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NewsPost-Brexit risks and opportunities report
The House of Lords European Union Committee has published a report outlining the risks and opportunities of Brexit for the UK fishing industry.
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Pingtan back in profit
Pingtan Marine Enterprise expects financial results for Q4 to end losses for six consecutive previous quarters.
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NewsStrike cuts trip short
HB Grandi’s freezer trawler Höfrungur III docked in Reykjavík yesterday after a 19 day trip. According to skipper Haraldur Árnason, the trip was cut short due to the seamen’s strike that started at 2000 on Wednesday.
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NewsToothfish regulation controversy
A failure by countries to voluntarily submit data on Atlantic and Patagonian toothfish catch risked catches being declared products of illegal fishing, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Australia said, reports Munyaradzi Makoni.
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NewsMEPs vote to end deep-sea trawling
European Parliament has banned fishing below a depth of 800m in the North-East Atlantic to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems of the deep-sea bed.
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NewsEU ministers set 2017 catch limits
EU ministers have reached an agreement on fishing opportunities for 2017 in the Atlantic, North Sea and Black Sea, following discussions at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 12 and 13 December.
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NewsQuick fix for North Sea trawler
MAN Diesel & Turbo has carried out a quick fix turbocharger retrofit on a North Sea trawler taking just five weeks from first enquiry to commissioning.
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NewsWorld Tuna Day ratified
The United Nations General Assembly has ratified the annual celebration of World Tuna Day, to become a globally recognised event.
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NewsPositive outcomes from WCPFC 13
Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) says many positive outcomes were achieved at the 13th Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission annual meeting in Fiji, including adoption of the observer safety measure.
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Ministers called on to decide TACs and 2017 quotas
EAPO and Europêche have sent a joint position paper of observations and relevant recommendations for about 25 stocks to the Council of Fisheries Ministers.
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NewsOrange roughy furore
It has been a turbulent few days with NGOs piling in to slam the MSC’s decision to certify the New Zealand orange roughy fishery as sustainable.
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NewsDutch fleet says no to discard ban
Based in Tholen in the south of Holland Job Schot and his family run the Belgian-flagged Eurocutter Job Senior Z-201. he’s an unlikely activist, but the apparently unending burdens being placed on the fishing industry have turned him and many others like him into protestors with a cause to fight.
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NewsPingtan longliners head for the Pacific
Pingtan Marine Enterprise is set to deploy four tuna longline vessels to fish in the international waters of the Pacific Ocean
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NewsSounder technology receives R&D grant
New Zealand based ENL Group, has received a NZD$15m R&D growth grant to assist with ongoing investment in its globally recognised WASSP Multibeam Sounder.
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NewsFFA slams lack of action on northern bluefin
Commenting at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission annual meeting taking place this week, Ludwig Kumoru of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) and others have slammed the refusal of distant water fishing nations address the impending collapse of northern Pacific bluefin.
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NewsWestern Australia tough on poachers
Fisheries and Marine Officers are targeting people interfering with the lobster pots of others, following the mass migration of rock lobsters commencing along Western Australia’s west coast.
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NewsCook Islands strike deal with EU
Fishing operations for EU vessels in the Cook Islands'' fishing areas has been given the go ahead. This follows the Cook Islands and the EU agreeing on all elements of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement.
