Without urgent steps to curb the activities of the Dutch-owned ‘super-seiners’, the days of inshore fishing from South East ports are numbered, writes NUTFA director Jerry Percy Shortly after EU exit at the end of December 2020, NUTFA queried the…
The UK has long imported more seafood than it exports. In 2019, according to MMO statistics, the UK imported 721,000t of sea fish, with a value of £3,457m. It exported 452,000t with a value of £2,004m – a net UK…
Seafood Scotland is launching an innovation programme to stimulate new seafood tourism initiatives. The pilot will see the trade body work with organisations to explore and support business diversification and establish new tourism opportunities for the Scottish seafood industry. The…
No non-quota tonnages will be set in 2022 Non-quota stock catch tonnage limits provided for in the Brexit TCA will not be applied in 2022, reports Tim Oliver. Instead, uptake data will be closely monitored, and if either the UK…
UK fishermen will have around 12,000t less quota to fish in 2022 than in 2021 as a result of the UK-EU fisheries agreement for 2022, reports Tim Oliver. But even with this reduction, the UK has around 28,000t more quota…
Businesses exporting fishery and aquaculture products for human consumption to the EU and Northern Ireland will have to comply with new export regulations from this weekend. New export health certificates (EHCs) are now required alongside products to confirm that certain…
A global 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, undertaken by Bangor University with collaborating research institutes and published in…
The MMO is advertising a number of current and upcoming general member vacancies in the 10 regional IFCAs across England. It is seeking to appoint to fill current vacancies, and also to create a reserve list for upcoming vacancies. The…
European fishermen’s group Europêche has called for an urgent meeting with EU fisheries commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius, following the public demonstration by NGOs in Brussels at the end of last year calling for a ban on bottom trawling. The NGOs delivered…
Researchers from Ireland and Iceland believe that they have detected four genetically distinct clusters of Nephrops. Nephrops norvegicus are distributed through the North East Atlantic, from the coast of North Africa to southern Iceland, northern Norway and Skagerrak and, in…
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