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Pirate vessels looting Med tuna
At the beginning of the fishing season, WWF says that it''s sources have already identified two pirate purse seine vessels operating in Mediterranean waters.
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How to avoid the global collapse of fish stocks
In the past two decades, several commercially important fish stocks have collapsed, with devastating consequences for the communities that relied on them and the wider marine environment. Some scientists have claimed that if trends continue, all the world’s fisheries will collapse by 2050.
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NewsGreenpeace exposes tuna pirate in the high seas
Last week Greenpeace claimed to have exposed an illegal tuna purse seiner, the "Queen Evelyn 168", in a pocket of international waters between Papua New Guinea and the Federated States of Micronesia.
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Fuel prices could cause Scottish fishermen to lose their fish
The sky-high price of fuel could result in Scottish fishermen losing key quotas and catching opportunities to foreign fishing fleets, the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation is warning.
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NewsFIN reaches 25-year mark
The FishInfoNetwork (FIN), a United Nations-organised network linking fisheries in developing countries, has reached its 25-year mark.
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Tenders wanted for demersal trawler for SW fishing trials
Seafish is exploring alternative ways to target monkfish and megrims in SW England and is inviting tenders for a charter vessel for fishing trials.
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NewsNational Scallop Group launched
A National Scallop Group has been established to examine on a UK basis the problems facing the industry. The group, facilitated by Seafish, will be led by the Scallop Association and chaired by Seafish board member Professor Mike Kaiser. The rapporteur for the group will be Tom Pickerell of the ...
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New fish vaccine project
Funding has been given to a Norwegian-Indian research project on the development of new fish vaccines.
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NewsWest Coast salmon fishery declared a failure
At the beginning of May, US Secretary of Commerce Carlos M Gutierrez declared a commercial fishery failure for the West Coast salmon fishery due to historically low salmon returns.
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Greenpeace confiscates Italian drifnet
Activists onboard the Greenpeace vessel "Arctic Sunrise" confronted Italian fishing ''pirates'' in the Mediterranean Sea and confiscated almost 2km of illegal driftnet containing dead undersized bluefin tuna and a small sea turtle that was later released alive, a press release states.
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Protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems in the high seas
The Fisheries Committee has adopted a report on a proposal for a regulation on the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems in the high seas from the adverse impacts of bottom fishing gears, which is a priority of the Slovenian Council Presidency in the fisheries sector.
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Commission proposes plan to secure the future of West of Scotland herring
The European Commission has tabled a proposal for a Council regulation on a multi-annual plan for the management of herring fisheries to the West of Scotland. The proposal will ensure the sustainability of the fishery and prevent any sudden increase in fishing pressure which could jeopardise its future.
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Study shows salmon grow bigger in cold temperatures
A study carried out by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has shown Atlantic salmon incubated at lower temperatures are longer, heavier, and more muscular than those incubated at higher temperatures.
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Views sought on £34 million European Fisheries Fund
The UK''s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) launched a consultation at the beginning of May on how £34 million of funding for England’s fishing industry should be spent.
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Why fishing magnifies fluctuations in fish abundance
In a recent Nature article, Dr Christian NK Anderson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and colleagues found that fished populations can fluctuate more than unharvested stocks. While they are unsure as to why, they have ruled out some possible explanations through this study.
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New management proposals for Irish lobster industry
Irish Minister of State with responsibility for Fisheries at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, John Browne, T.D., has recently launched a consultation document proposing changes in the way in which access to the Irish Lobster Fishery is managed.
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NewsCambodia
International support to upgrade Cambodia''s fishery sector - Cambodia’s fishery sector has seen little development during the past three decades as the country continues to recover from the impact of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s and the two decades of civil war that followed, reports David Hayes.
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NewsIUU – On the pirate trail
Gunnar Album, Friends of the Earth Norway, Barents Sea Office, on the fish trail. TW : EEC PhotosAfter the third London conference on Illegal Unreported Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in 2007 there was a tough reaction against NGO allegations that certain fish markets were laundering illegal catch. Chris Leftwich, The Chief ...
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NewsWorld tuna - a look from FAO
Tuna fisheries represent a heavily invested industry that operates highly mobile fleets of large expensive purse seiners and longliners.
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UK holds 7 ships under detention in March
The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has announced that five foreign ships were under detention in UK ports during March 2008 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection.
