With the UK Seafood Innovation Fund’s latest research and development projects underway, Fishing News is delving into some of the innovations that the fund has supported. This week: a technology designed to save fishermen’s lives by alerting them when their…
An international exchange programme that aims to advance the global sharing of knowledge around the management of fisheries and the ocean has opened for applications. The initiative, by The Fishmongers’ Company’s Fisheries Charitable Trust and Fisheries Innovation and Sustainability (FIS),…
Scientists from Hariot-Watt University who are working on an international project looking at the settlement of marine organisms in the North Sea have asked Fishing News readers working in the vicinity of the Little Halibut Bank to keep a look-out…
A team from Liverpool John Moores University, led by Professor Stefano Mariani, is developing a testing method with the potential to help stamp out the fraudulent fish sales that damage consumer confidence BY STEFANO MARIANI Those who spend time at…
Share a day in the life of Cefas fisheries technician, Rose Finneran “I love what I do,” Centre for Environment, Fishers and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) fisheries technical Rose Finneran told Fishing News. “Everyone says that I’m the Cefas poster girl…
At last year’s Fisheries Management Plan stakeholder engagement events, fishers and seafood businesses worked with regulators to chart the future direction of shellfish management – and key themes emerged to guide the next stage of the process BY AOIFE MARTIN…
With fisheries-cetacean interactions in the news again, the onus is on fishermen to safeguard their future by taking the lead in devising mitigations A recent spate of entanglements on Scotland’s east coast has put the focus on cetacean-fisheries interactions once…
A major new science paper published in the journal Nature last week may finally put an end to the endlessly repeated assertions that trawling ‘emits more CO2 than the world’s aviation industry’. The claim was originally made in a paper…
A lucky observation during pot light trials has now been developed into a realistic prospect for a new, sustainable fishery The story about ‘scallop discos’ made news way beyond the fishing world in 2022, but behind the headlines, much hard…
Share a day in the life of a Cefas fisheries scientist “I had a late night,” said Cefas offshore fisheries observer Rich Buck, at the beginning of our interview. “I was sampling on Brixham market last night. I was there…
