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MSC celebrates a 100 fisheries milestone
Fisheries committed to demonstrating their sustainability through the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) independent certification programme welcomed their 100th member last week.
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Fuel Task Force members announced
The membership of the Fuel Task Force, set up to look urgently at what more can be done to help Scottish fishermen cope with fuel price increases, was announced last week by Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead.
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Salmon industry to invest £400k in research & development
Salmon farming is to benefit from £400,000 investment in research and development projects over the next three years to help secure the long-term socio-economic and environmental sustainability of the industry.
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Close tuna fishery now, says WWF
Since the Mediterranean tuna fishing season opened at the beginning of May, over 10,000 breeding bluefin tunas are being caught every day by the industrial fishing fleet, according to WWF calculations.
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SFF responds to fish quota management review
Responding to the announcement by Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead of the Scottish Government''s intended changes to the management of fish quota in Scotland, Bertie Armstrong, Chief Executive of the Scottish Fishermen''s Federation said:
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Alaska Sea Grant announces 2008–2010 projects
Improving fisheries management models, increasing the size of farm-raised oysters, and learning how to raise red and blue king crab in large-scale hatcheries are among the $1.5 million in new projects, activities, and administration of the Alaska Sea Grant College Programme over the next two years, the programme announced today.
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Scottish fish quota review
A major review of the management of Scotland''s fish quota was outlined today.
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30 new Fishery Officers set to take up duty
Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, last week announced the graduation of 30 new Fishery Officers from the Fishery Officer training programme.
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Belgian beamer fined £31,000 after steaming for Zeebrugge
The skipper of a Belgian beam trawler who refused to be escorted to Harwich by a Fisheries Protection Vessel and instead steamed for Zeebrugge, was ordered to pay more than £31,000 in fines and costs, by Folkestone Magistrates Court, UK.
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French trawler fined for under-recording cod
Last week the skipper and owners of the French trawler "Keriolet" were ordered to pay a total of £10,700 in fines and costs after each pleading guilty at Truro Magistrates Court, Cornwall, UK on 9 May to an offence of under-recording the amount of cod caught, and illegal log book ...
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Atlantic Dawn returns to Mauritania
After a two year absence, Ireland’s leading trawler firm Atlantic Dawn Company of Killybegs is returning to Mauritania to fish under the 2006 EU fisheries treaty, reports Pieter Tesch.
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NewsBangladesh labour abuse claims blasted
At the beginning of May, the Bangladesh government and shrimp exporters strongly protested an American labour group claims of widespread violation of workers'' rights in the country''s processing plants, terming them ''false'' and ''misleading''.
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NewsDeveloping countries lose out to illegal fishing
Revealing emerging findings from a recently published report commissioned by the UK Government on the scale of illegal fishing, UK Minister for Trade and Development Gareth Thomas said that illegal fishing is a persistent global problem which is having a chronic effect on developing countries.
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Investigation ordered into stolen Japanese whale meat claims
The Tokyo district Public Prosecutor has confirmed that there will be an investigation into allegations made by Greenpeace of large scale embezzlement of whale meat from the Japanese-government-subsidised Southern Ocean whaling programme.
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Fisheries Committee adopts report on IUU fishing
Yesterday the Fisheries Committee adopted by a consultative report on the proposal for a regulation establishing a Community system to prevent deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
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Atlantic Deep-Sea red crab fishery enters MSC assesment
The New England Red Crab Harvesters’ Association has entered the full assessment process for certification to the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries.
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M&J Seafood bans sales of Bluefin tuna
M&J Seafood has announced that as from yesterday (19 May), it will no longer be supplying Bluefin tuna to the foodservice market.
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Whale scandal update
Following the revelation by Greenpeace of large-scale corruption within the Japanese government-sponsored Southern Ocean whaling programme, the environmental group delivered a complaint to the Tokyo district Public Prosecutor''s Office, who gave assurance that the details of the case will be reviewed, pending a decision to mount a criminal investigation.
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Greenpeace exposes stolen 'scientific' whale meat scandal
Last week a box of whale meat illicitly removed by crew of the "Nisshin Maru", the whaling factory ship, following this year''s Southern Ocean whale hunt was put on display by Greenpeace activists in Tokyo, prior to being handed over to the Public Prosecutor''s office in Tokyo as evidence of ...
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Oceana presents report on illegal ofishing within the European fleet
Last week Oceana presented two reports in Brussels: “Italian driftnets: the illegal fishing activities continue” and “Thonaille: the use of driftnets by the French fleet in the Mediterranean”. Both reports condemned the continued use of illegal driftnets by the French and Italian fleets in the Mediterranean and proposed measures to ...
