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£1 million made available to support Welsh fishing industry
Wales’ fishing community is being invited to submit applications to a £1m fund to primarily help mitigate the ongoing impact Covid is having on the industry and adapt to the rapidly changing market conditions for seafood products. The European Maritime Fisheries Fund...
Major Expansion of Scottish Floating Wind Farms Announced
Crown Estate Scotland has announced the successful bidders under its 2022 ScotWind Auction, which marked the first time in a decade that plots of Scottish seabed have been auctioned to renewables developers. The results were announced this morning (17 January), with...
World-Wide Trawling Study Advances Knowledge On Trawling’s Global Impact
A world-wide study of the impacts of bottom trawling has found that seabeds are in good health where trawl fisheries are sustainably managed. The first study of its kind, by Bangor University with collaborating research institutes, published this week in Proceedings...
EU and UK reach agreement on TAC,s for 2022
The EU and the UK have reached an agreement on the fishing opportunities for 2022. This agreement covers all shared and jointly managed fisheries resources in UK and EU waters. It is the outcome of the annual consultations on fishing opportunities between the EU and...
UK Agrees Quotas With EU And Norway For North Sea Stocks
The UK has reached agreement with Norway and the European Union on catch limits for 2022 for six jointly managed fish stocks in the North Sea. Negotiating as an independent coastal State, the UK has agreed catch levels for 2022 with Norway and the EU that provide...
Kingfisher launches fishing restrictions mapping website
New online service helps fishermen navigate commercial fishing gear restrictions in UK waters The Kingfisher team at Seafish, the public body that supports the UK seafood industry, have launched a new Fishing Restrictions mapping service fishermen. This free service...
Zamakona To Build A New Midwater Pelagic Trawler For Shetland
Zamakona Yards and Fiskebas Fishing Co Ltd (Shetland, UK) have agreed the construction of a new 69,60 m Midwater Pelagic Trawler. The vessel will replace the present M/V ANTARCTIC II (LK145) built in 2004 and based in Lerwick. The new trawler will be built entirely at...
Scottish Government welcomes improvements for langoustine sector
The Scottish Government has published its response to the Scottish Nephrops Working Group report, which it commissioned to help the nephrops (langoustine) sector identify and deal with the challenges brought on from coronavirus and Brexit. The Scottish Government...
EAPO ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
EAPO ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING In memoriam of EAPO Secretary Puri Fernández, opening address by European Commissioner Sinkevičius and new President and management team elected. The European Association of fish Producers Organisations held its Annual General Meeting (AGM)...
Coastal States Need To Settle On Catch Shares That Respect The Advice They’ve Agreed To Uphold
The North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group (NAPA), a collective of retailers and supply chain businesses with a EUR 252 billion share of Northeast Atlantic pelagic purchasing, calls for contracting countries to abide by their own agreements, following the conclusion of...
Let’s leave the battlefield and ensure a healthy mackerel stock – together!
Ahead of the Coastal States international quota negotiations starting next week, Fiskebåt the organization for the Norwegian fishing fleet, have issued the following statement statement regarding the mackerel conflict in the North-East Atlantic ...
EU Must Stop “Mackerel Free For All”
EU fishing organisations have called for immediate sanctions to be imposed to stop Norway and the Faroe Islands from their “massive overfishing” of the Northeast Atlantic mackerel stock Irish and EU Fishermen are especially concerned by Norway’s and the Faroes...
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