The NGO Blue Marine Foundation is hosting a free online Whelk Symposium on 22 June, from 2-6pm, to share current knowledge and support ongoing work to safeguard the long-term health of UK whelk populations and sustainable fisheries. Speakers and presenters…
The Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (FaSS) has been relaunched ‘to help support the long-term sustainability, resilience and prosperity of the seafood sector across England’. The scheme first opened last year, and at least £6m in funding has now been secured…
‘Hauling up Solutions’, the Clean Catch workshop held at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth on 24 March, included a presentation by Bally Philp from the Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Federation on work undertaken by creelers, under the umbrella of the…
Ghost Fishing UK, a finalist in The Sustainability Award category in this year’s Fishing News Awards, is a registered charity dedicated to removing abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear. Its aim is to remove, where practicable, potentially lethal entanglement hazards…
With the launch of a third call for applications, Fishing News is taking a closer look at some of the projects already supported by the UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF). This week’s featured project is a South Devon trial aiming…
A massive international ‘energy island’ in the North Sea surrounded by huge wind farms could be built before 2030. The UK energy company National Grid has confirmed it is in talks with other unnamed interests about helping to build the…
Applications are now open for a third round of funding from the UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF). The programme seeks ideas from innovators looking to introduce novel and practical solutions into the sector that will help to secure it a…
Scottish haddock and Cornish sardine fisheries were the focus of this year’s MSC Sustainable Seafood Week, with fishermen talking about why sustainability is important to them. During Sustainable Seafood Week, which ran from 16 to 24 September and was supported…
With a new funding round of the government’s Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (FaSS) now open for applications, Rachael Harper talks to Imogen Smith-Devey, who has been working as a fishing animateur for 18 months, about how the project can help…
The hauling of rope on fishing and other vessels could result in billions of microplastic fragments entering the ocean every year, according to new research. The study, by the University of Plymouth’s International Marine Litter Research Unit, is the first…
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