The NGO Blue Marine Foundation has announced it is intending to take legal action against Defra. Its action, it says, aims to force Defra to restrict the issue of UK quotas to limits within ICES advice. In setting catch limits…
Defra Minister Mark Spencer welcomed the start of the two bluefin tuna programmes that began last week, with a successful start to the angling tag and release (CHART) programme coinciding with the first two commercially landed bluefin being sold on Plymouth market on successive days.
Shoreham dock, where Defra minister Mark Spencer made his announcements about the latest round of infrastructure funds under the UK Seafood Fund, also received funds in the initial round – a £535,000 grant towards the costs of rejuvenating the dry…
The Annual UK/Norway seafood summit, held in Fishmonger’s Hall, reconvened last week after a two-year Covid hiatus. It opened with speeches from Norwegian minister for fisheries and ocean policy Bjørnar Skjæran and UK fisheries minister Mark Spencer, in front of…
Fisheries minister Mark Spencer (pictured) has refused to give any assurance that the UK will have an exclusive 12nm limit when the Brexit fisheries deal is renegotiated in 2026, reports Tim Oliver. Appearing before the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs…
With shellfish deaths in the North East of England still continuing more than a year after they began, inshore fishermen have urged the government to take urgent action to halt Tees dredging, reports Tim Oliver. Local shellfish merchants have reported…
Commenting after the presentation at Westminster last week of the joint NFFO/SFF spatial squeeze report, fishermen’s leaders told MPs that recognition and protection of fishing grounds could secure coastal employment, food security and the future of the fishing industry, without…
Jimmy Buchan, chief executive of the Scottish Seafood Association (SSA), pointed out that while people are concerned about the fall of the pound against the dollar, it is stronger against the euro, giving seafood exporters more favourable returns, reports Tim…
Defra has appeared to confirm that Mark Spencer (pictured above), the new minister of state at Defra, has taken on formal responsibility for fisheries. In the first press release from the department after the end of the official mourning period…
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