Fisheries

• Monday, July 28th 2025 - 09:09 UTC

  Technology monitoring MPAs with satellite and artificial technology to deter illegal fishing

  

  New research in the journal Science demonstrates the power of strict legal bans against industrial fishing in marine protected areas (MPAs). The analysis — which combines satellite imagery and artificial intelligence technology to detect previously untraceable vessels — reveals that most of the globe’s fully and highly protected MPAs successfully deter illegal fishing. The study is the first of its kind to demonstrate that the most strictly protected marine reserves are well respected and are not simply “paper parks.”

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• Sunday, July 20th 2025 - 07:23 UTC

  Galician Fleet Sets Sail for Falklands with Cautious Optimism Amid Loligo Squid Uncertainty

  

  Despite sharp declines in recent seasons and unanswered questions about stock migration, nearly 1,000 crew members embark on a crucial four-month campaign vital to the region's economy.

• Saturday, July 19th 2025 - 11:11 UTC

  A year from Argos Georgia tragedy, MAIB releases interim report which cost 13 lives

  

  UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch, MAIB, released this week an interim report on the investigation of the foundering of the long liner Argos Georgia, approximately 190 nautical miles east of Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, with the loss of 13 lives, 22 July 2024.

• Saturday, July 12th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

  Boric enacts Chile's new Fisheries Law

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font enacted Chile's new Fisheries Division Law (Law 21,752) on Thursday, a landmark piece of legislation that rebalances fishing quotas in favor of the artisanal sector. The signing into law follows its successful passage through the Constitutional Court. Joining Boric at the ceremony were Economy Minister Nicolás Grau and Undersecretary of Fisheries Julio Salas.

• Monday, June 30th 2025 - 09:54 UTC

  Argentine shrimp catch going through severe crisis

  

  A severe crisis in Argentina's shrimp fishing industry, described as the worst in its history, has left 113 freezer vessels idle, 5,000 workers unemployed, and caused over US$200 million in export losses. The conflict stems from a dispute between fishing companies and unions (SOMU and Simape) over adjusting the Collective Labor Agreement, which ties workers' production bonuses to a 2005 shrimp price of US$12 per kilo.

• Monday, June 16th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

  Great triumph for David Attenborough and his Ocean film: end of bottom trawling??

  

  At the age of 99, the documentary film-maker David Attenborough has achieved his greatest triumph. With a single film clip, he has signed the death warrant for one of the world’s most destructive industries: bottom trawling. The companies and countries that do it will go down fighting and it will take time, but they will go down.

• Monday, June 9th 2025 - 09:12 UTC

  UK Government wants to end bottom trawling to protect MPAs sea beds; 12 weeks consultation

  

  Bottom trawling – a fishing method that involves dragging large nets along the sea floor – could be banned across more vulnerable areas of English seas. The government is committed to protecting UK oceans and has outlined plans to ban the destructive practice in more Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The measures would help protect rare marine animals, as well as the delicate sea-beds on which they rely, from indiscriminate and potentially irreversible damage.

• Monday, June 9th 2025 - 08:07 UTC

  Sustainable Fisheries at South Georgia MPA

  

  Sue Gregory has worked as the GSGSSI Senior Marine & Fisheries Manager for the past 8 years. Prior to that Sue worked as a fisheries ecologist on the South Georgia Project at the British Antarctic Survey for many years, including overwintering on South Georgia, conducting research surveys and acting as a scientific observer on Southern Ocean commercial fishing vessels In the following GSGGSSI Newsletter, Sue relates her experience.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2025 - 16:04 UTC

  Fortuna Ltd secures Tristan da Cunha lobster concession and transport contract

  

  Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island, has awarded its prized lobster concession to Fortuna Ltd, a British Overseas Territory-based company with global seafood operations.

• Wednesday, May 21st 2025 - 08:55 UTC

  Following 12-year fisheries access agreement with EU, UK launches £360m Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund

  

  British fishing and coastal communities will benefit from £360 million investment to drive growth and boost the sector for the future as the Government launches its Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund.