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 | Mar 13, 2023 | News
The European Commission must take measures to ensure fishing vessels using gill nets always land with their gear, rather than leaving it at sea, biologist Dr Kevin Flannery has said. Legislation on this issue must be backed up by enforcement to reduce the negative...
by Niall Duffy | Jul 11, 2022 | News, UK
Seafish calls on the UK’s fishing vessel owners and skippers to take part in their annual survey of the UK fishing fleet which will begin in Peterhead, Scotland on Monday 11 July Seafish researchers will be heading to fishing ports around the UK this summer as...
by Niall Duffy | May 20, 2022 | Ireland, News, Research
The Marine Institute has launched this year’s Oceans of Learning series, celebrating Ireland’s Marine Research Vessels and Ocean Explorers – Our Past, Present and Future. Over a three-week period, Oceans of Learning celebrates our seas and Ireland’s valuable...
by Niall Duffy | Mar 16, 2022 | Ireland, News
By: Dr Ronán Cosgrove, Fisheries Conservation Manager, BIM Developed in collaboration with PEPE Trawls ltd. and Supreme Fishing Co., the new four-panel Nephrops trawl increases swept area and reduces fuel intensity – good progress on the path to better energy use in a...
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