New study has found that expanding Pacific oyster farming has minimal impacts on ecosystems – and some evidence of greater biodiversity around farms By Tim Oliver New research has found that farming Pacific oysters has few negative impacts on the…
£12.8m investment by Morrisons builds on the continuing success of resurgent sardine fishery in Cornwall By Harry Owen In 2007, the Pilchard was rebranded as the Cornish sardine, and ever since, the fishery and the processing industry it supports have…
Seafish, the Shellfish Association of Great Britain and the Crab Management Group have published their Codes of Practice for the Welfare of Crabs, Lobsters, Crawfish and Nephrops. This followed two years of preparation, including a comprehensive review of legislation and…
Steve Reed, the new secretary of state for Defra, had a first meeting at the start of August with over 200 industry, trade association and NGO representatives from across the farming, fishing, food and environmental sectors, where he set out…
Micky Hill, known across the potting sector as the manufacturer of a wide range of crab, lobster and whelk pots, shares his long struggle to reopen the investigation into the capsize of the scalloper JMT M 99 in July 2015,…
A project by two universities studying lobster populations on a Welsh wind farm suggests that providing the right kinds of rock armour could see an increase in lobster numbers. Evidence suggests that lobster larvae may be settling directly on the…
Ashley Mullenger, aka ‘The Female Fisherman’ to her many Instagram followers, takes the reader on three journeys in My Fishing Life: A Story of the Sea and you can experience these journeys, too, with our latest competition to give away THREE copies…
Ashley Mullenger aka ‘The Female Fisherman’ to her many Instagram followers, takes the reader on three journeys in her new book, My Fishing Life. Two of these are deliveries of boats of which she is part-owner, one from the Western…
Community Catch is a new initiative designed to help small-scale fishermen – defined as those working on vessels under 2.4m – around the world to reach new markets. A not-for-profit body, it is supported by Marks and Spencer amongst others.…
NFFO chief executive Mike Cohen lays out his priorities for the next government… The end of June saw the publication of the last of the major party manifestos. Fishing is an important industry, but one about which most people have…
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