The Sustainability Award recognises and celebrates innovative solutions to improving sustainability and environmental outcomes within the UK or Irish fishing industry. Here is the shortlist for 2024… SafetyNet Technologies Fishing technology company SafetyNet Technologies is much more than its now…
We’re pleased to announce that the Sustainability Award has a new sponsor. The Marine Stewardship Council has stepped up to sponsor the category this year – though it is not entirely new to the award. As with the Boat of…
Meet one of the nominees for the Sustainability Award in the 2023 Fishing News Awards: Journey Blue “Journey Blue has been set up to change behaviours,” Alistair Lawson (pictured above) told Fishing News. He and his wife Louise came up…
Meet one of the nominees for the Sustainability Award in the 2023 Fishing News Awards: Fishy Filaments Fishy Filaments has been quietly working away in a corner of a Cornish harbour for the last five years with the aim of…
With so many different aspects to the remit of the Fishing News Awards’ Sustainability Award (sponsored by The Fishmongers’ Company’s Fisheries Charitable Trust), it was possibly inevitable that such a diverse range of individuals and organisations would make the judges’…
Defra has confirmed the latest funding scheme to be financed from the £100m UK Seafood Fund, reports Andy Read. Grants of up to £40,000 are now available for fishing vessel owners to trial greener engine technology – both more efficient…
The need to shift the industry away from carbon dependency and develop safe and viable vessels using alternative fuels is more urgent than you might think, explain the team at Fisheries Innovation & Sustainability Delaying investment in net-zero fishing vessels…
In a report issued earlier this year, WWF commissioned an analysis of UK seafood consumption, and the huge volumes that are imported without reference to how it is caught or produced. Going beyond sustainability certification, WWF argued for a wholesale…
German car manufacturer BMW has announced that its neue Klasse models will feature trim parts partially made from recycled fishing nets and ropes, reports Paul Scott. From 2025 onwards, the neue Klasse range will incorporate trims featuring around 30% plastic…
A ‘Clean Oceans’ fishing gear retirement scheme has been announced by Ireland’s marine minister Charlie McConalogue, reports Lorna Siggins. The project, which is aimed at collecting old and damaged fishing gear, will take place this autumn and is being led…
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