The website which keeps track of subsidies given to UK Fishing vessels has published a list of EU subsidised vessels whose owners have also been convicted of sea fishery offences. UK Registered Boats including : BEN LOYAL, CKS, Admiral Gordon, Admiral Blake, GIRL PATRICIA, CATEAR, DANIELLE, were given subsidies of upto £50,000 by the European [...]
Ever since 1990 Ireland’s bass have been conserved by a set of laws which completely protects the species from commercial fishing, whilst allowing anglers to take only 2 fish each within any 24 hour period. This sportfishery approach has reaped many benefits for the Irish, with anglers from right across Europe coming to take advantage [...]
Skipper ordered to pay £2,115 for fishing in a prohibited area
Garry Coley, skipper of the Shelley Marie, was ordered to pay £2,115 (£100 for the value of the illegal catch, £2,000 contribution to costs and £15 victim surcharge) by Torquay Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to scallop dredging in an area for crabbing vessels.
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£5.25 million in grants has been awarded to the English fishing industry from the European Fisheries Fund.
The largest single grant was £2.3 million for a new fish market in Newlyn, Cornwall. It is subject to assurances from the new Newlyn Harbour Commissioners who are expected to be appointed before Easter.
The new Harbour Commissioners will [...]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s overexploited cod fisheries are still at risk and catches must be cut by a quarter next year in all zones except the North Sea where measures have yet to be decided, the European Union executive said on Friday.
Northern cod populations have fallen from 250,000 tonnes in the 1970s to around 50,000 [...]
LUXEMBOURG, Oct 20 (Reuters) – EU fisheries ministers agreed on Tuesday to crack down on overfishing, saying their fishermen would get points on their fishing licences each time they broke rules or quotas and would be banned for excessive infractions.
The points system, taking effect next year, is part of a drive to reduce excessive fishing [...]
On 22 October 2009, following the favourable opinion expressed in September by the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture, the Commission adopted a Regulation (PDF ~ 1,3 Mb) establishing the implementing rules for the 2008 Regulation to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. As one of the central pillars of the Community’s [...]
The Fisheries Council meeting in Luxembourg on 19 and 20 October took a number of important decisions and made headway on a number of issues. The discussions were dominated by the Commission’s proposals for a root-and-branch reform of the CFP control framework and for fishing possibilities in the Baltic Sea for 2010.
The Control Regulation, proposed [...]
A Donegal man missing having fallen from a fishing boat of the Orkney Islands has been named locally as 22 year-old Mark Duffy from Greencastle.
He fell overboard from the Kirkwall-registered “Noronya” at around 4.10am on Friday morning 20km off the Orkney Islands.
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Following the announcement by Huw Irranca-Davies MP (Minister for the Natural and Marine Environment, Wildlife and Rural Affairs) in February 2009, detailed arrangements are being put in place to relocate the Marine and Fisheries Agency HQ from London to Tyneside.
Read More – http://www.mfa.gov.uk/relocation/index.htm
