by Niall Duffy | Apr 5, 2023 | News, UK
The Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group (SPSG) – a seafood industry organisation dedicated to ensuring stock sustainability for mackerel and herring – has criticised the Marine Conservation Society’s (MCS) latest update to its ‘Good Fish Guide’, which has downgraded...
by Niall Duffy | Sep 26, 2022 | News, UK
By Ian Gatt, chairman of the Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group In the north-east Atlantic, mackerel management is in a state of hiatus with the Faroes, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and Russia having all unilaterally increased their mackerel quotas outside any...
by Niall Duffy | Jan 24, 2022 | International, News
Open letter from NAPA to politicians, calling for concrete action on quota sharing and sustainable pelagics management at upcoming TAC allocation talks Dear Minister, Another reminder from the global marketplace for seafood: we need to see sustainable fishing...
by Niall Duffy | Dec 13, 2021 | News
Danish Fisheries Minister Rasmus Prehn has accused Irish Fisheries Minister Charlie McConalogue of an attempted “Coup” on the Mackerel quota that Denmark receives in the North Sea as part on the annual EU- Norway agreement. He Said “The Irish Minister for Fisheries is...
by Niall Duffy | Nov 1, 2021 | International, News
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...
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