Tough trade-offs to navigate at fisheries council EU fisheries ministers were facing ‘a perfect storm’ as they met to reach agreement on TACs and fishing opportunities for 2019 at this week’s fisheries council, reports Tim Oliver The council was being…
This week in Fishing News you will find: – Warnings on discards ban – Cheetah Marine completes new 10.2m versatile police catamaran – Fishing News Awards 2019 open for nominations – New working conditions law – UKIP: ‘Fisheries bill useless…
Discards ban ‘will fail’ warns Scottish leader Calls for solutions to choke species problem The discards ban will fail in its present form, and politicians must find a solution to the problem of choke species it creates, a Scottish fishermen’s…
This week in Fishing News you will find: – Post-Brexit boost hopes for Northern Ireland – Islay scalloper Atlantic Dawn launched on Teeside – Last ditch scallop deal after a French re-think – Bass may escape discards ban – Scottish…
Seafood industry demands action on LO enforcement. A leading figure in the global seafood industry has warned that failure to implement the EU discards ban effectively will threaten the sustainability status of some stocks, and could lead to the loss…
More species must all be landed next year. Proposals put to Commission for N Sea and Western Water. More quota species and vessels will be subject to the landing obligation/discard ban in 2018 under proposals put to the Commission’s scientific…
History was made at Fraserburgh two weeks ago when the first whitefish discards under the first phase of the demersal landing obligation, which came into force on January 1, were smoothly put ashore separately, reports David Linkie. Above: Skipper Adam Tait…
***As Fishing News hit its press deadline, it was understood that intensive efforts were being made at all levels to reverse the shock decision taken by the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament to fully enforce the demersal landing obligation…
Dear Editor, To follow on from Jim Portus’ comments in Fishing News (UKAFPO chief blasts landings obligation, FN 12 November) regarding the incoming discard ban: Without question, all of the British fishing industry considers the discard ban to be an…
