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NewsUN experts back trade ban for bluefin tuna
FAO experts have concluded that evidence shows the endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna meets the requirements for an international trade ban.
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Seafish Chief Executive John Rutherford to retire
Seafish, the UK authority on seafood, has announced that its Chief Executive John Rutherford will be retiring by the end of June 2010.
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NewsThe Skalaberg saga
The Faroese freezer-trawler Skalaberg has been detained since mid-November at Murmansk, reports Menakhem Ben-Yami.
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Steven Gant appointed CEO of the Marine Management Organisation
Steven Gant has been appointed CEO of the Marine Management Organisation. Mr Gant has had a wide range of experience including a strong academic background in geography and environmental sciences and a spell in MAFF.
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NewsPanel offers recommendations on CITES proposals
An advisory panel of independent experts convened by FAO has issued recommendations regarding six proposals to limit international trade in a number of commercially exploited aquatic animals under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
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New NIFES report
In order to document food safety, NIFES has analysed the content of illegal and legal pharmaceuticals and other undesirable substances in samples of Norwegian farmed fish sampled in 2008 in a new report.
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Decisions on EU shark fishing quotas have global implications
In the run-up to next week’s EU fishing quota negotiations, the Shark Trust is calling on the UK and other EU Fisheries Ministers to protect critically endangered spurdog and porbeagle sharks, in line with scientific advice. The quota decisions come just three months before Parties to the Convention on International ...
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French fishery threatens critically endangered sharks
In the run-up to the EU fishing quota negotiations, BLOOM Association is calling on the French government to give full support to the protection of the porbeagle shark, a close relative of the great white and mako.
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NewsGreenpeace: Threat to Pacific tuna greater than ever
Greenpeace has slammed the refusal of Asian distant water fishing nations Korea, China, Taiwan and Japan to agree effective new measures to urgently halt the decline of tuna stocks at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC).
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Preparation Agriculture/Fisheries Council of December 2009
The Agriculture & Fisheries Council will meet in Brussels on 14, 15 and 16 December.
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Kloosterboer forecasts busy 2010 for Dutch Harbor
In the four months since its grand opening in July, Alaska''s Kloosterboer Dutch Harbor has met with several major fishing companies that are seeking to use the facility as a one-stop logistical hub for the 2010 season, according to the facility''s general manager.
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Fisheries and aquaculture: multiple risks from climate change
Marine capture fisheries already facing multiple challenges due to overfishing, habitat loss and weak management are poorly positioned to cope with new problems stemming from climate change, a new FAO study suggests.
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Canada ratifies amended convention of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, today announced the Government of Canada has ratified the amended Convention of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO). Canada is the second NAFO member to ratify the Convention, after Norway.
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Aker BioMarine awarded public grant for research on Superba™ Krill
Aker BioMarine has been awarded a three-year NOK 8 million research grant from the Research Council of Norway’s Food Programme. The biotechnology company will use the funds to continue its ambitious documentation program on Superba™ Krill products.
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NewsNOAA amendment removes swordfishing restrictions
NOAA’s Fisheries Service has removed restrictions on the number of gear deployments by the Hawaii swordfish fleet after four years of study found sea turtle protections are working and most interactions between the fleet and loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles are non-lethal.
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NFFO’s response to CFP Green Paper
The NFFO’s response to the Commission’s Green Paper is now complete and will be dispatched to the Commission in the next week.
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NOAA encourages use of catch shares
NOAA has released for public comment a draft national policy encouraging the use of catch shares, a fishery management tool that aims to end overfishing and rebuild and sustain fishing jobs and fishing communities.
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NOAA approves western and central Pacific bigeye tuna catch limit
NOAA has established a catch limit for bigeye tuna in the US pelagic longline fisheries in the western and central Pacific Ocean for each of the calendar years 2009, 2010, and 2011, having determined that the species’ Pacific Ocean population is subject to overfishing.
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Ocean acidification: an underwater time-bomb
Ocean acidity has increased by 30 per cent since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and the rate of acidification will accelerate in the coming decades, according to a new guide launched at the UN Copenhagen Climate Change summit today.
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Seeing through our waters more clearly
The Census of Marine Life aims to provide an authoritative snapshot of what inhabits our waters and where.
