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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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NewsTackling parasitic diseases in Europe’s farmed fish
A European Union funded research project is addressing the challenges of disease prevention and management to protect the European aquaculture industry.
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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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Trump administration urged to champion seafood
Seafood Harvesters, the voice for American commercial fishermen, has called upon the new US administration to champion seafood as a national priority.
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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.
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NewsPingtan launches new jigging vessels
China’s Pingtan Marine Enterprise Ltd has completed construction on two squid jigging vessels which will go into operation in the Southwest Atlantic and Southeast Pacific Oceans by late December 2016.
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NewsQuotas up for cod, saithe and plaice
Negotiations between Norway and the EU on fishing quotas in the North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat are now complete.
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NewsThai Union at Trust Women Conference 2016
Thai Union has participated in the annual Trust Women Conference which discussed solutions to empower women fighting slavery worldwide.
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NewsGill net ban for bass proposed
Proposals to ban bass fishing with gill nets are causing concern among fishermen in southern England, who see their livelihoods under serious threat as one of the last fisheries open to them could be closed.
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NewsEwing spells out clarity on quotas
Rural Economy Fergus Ewing has announced that the way fisheries quotas are allocated will remain unchanged once the devolution of new fisheries powers is confirmed.
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NewsQuiet on herring grounds
Things are quiet on the herring grounds west of Iceland at present. Now those who still have quotas to catch are expected to switch to blue whiting in Faroese waters while there is little herring to be seen in amounts worth catching.
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NewsISSF calls for better measures to protect bigeye tuna
Reducing catches of bigeye tuna and using non-entangling FADs to protect sharks are among the changes advocated for Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) fisheries by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF).
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NewsNew diagnostic detects Atlantic salmon disease
Scientists from the University of Glasgow have discovered a ‘simple test’ to help the diagnosis of a significant disease which affects Atlantic salmon.
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NewsCanada’s largest herring fishery achieves MSC certification
Canada''s 4VWX purse seine herring fishery in the Bay of Fundy area has become the third and largest Canadian herring fishery to achieve Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification.
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NewsScots fishing industry lobbies MPs on Brexit outcomes
With MPs due to debate the future of the UK fishing industry in the House of Commons on 1st December, the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) is underlining the real opportunity for sustainable economic growth that Brexit can deliver for coastal communities.
