Fisheries

• Thursday, March 7th 2013 - 06:47 UTC

  Chilean court halts construction of huge power plant for the copper industry

  

  A court in Chile has halted the construction of a huge power plant being built by a Spanish company, after fishermen charged that the massive project would harm the environment and ruin their livelihood.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 04:47 UTC

  Each annual Antarctic whaling season costs Japanese taxpayers 10 million dollars, says IFAW

  

  Japan’s declining appetite for whale meat is nothing new; but is the country also losing patience with its whaling industry? The answer apparently is yes, according to a new report that highlights the huge cost to the Japanese taxpayer of sustaining its whaling fleet. Without government subsidies, the industry would collapse, it said.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 04:38 UTC

  Pescanova with serious financial problems: shares down 60% in Monday trading

  

  Spain’s Pescanova SA (PVA), Europe’s second- biggest fish processor, plunged 60% after it started the initial phase of seeking creditors’ protection and delayed results pending asset sales and a debt renegotiation.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 04:20 UTC

  FAO sponsored guidelines for flag sate accountability and cutting illegal fishing

  

  After several years of negotiations, countries have taken a major step against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU), one of the greatest threats to sustainable fisheries and related livelihoods.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 05:25 UTC

  EU reaches ambitious agreement on fish discarding; no details on implementation

  

  Fifty years after the European Union fishing quota system was introduced, the EU has at last reached an ambitious agreement on the controversial practice of discarding fish. This comes over a month after the European Parliament voted for a ban.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 05:44 UTC

  Fisheries minister says Japan will never stop hunting whales “it’s part of our culture”

  

  Japan's fisheries minister said Tuesday his country will never stop hunting whales, despite fierce criticism from other nations and violent clashes at sea with militant conservationists.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 04:55 UTC

  Major global effort involving Interpol launched to eliminate IUU fishing

  

  Interpol Environmental Crime Program, with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, this week announced the beginning of a massive global movement -- Project SCALE -- to cull illegal fishing and associated crimes.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 01:22 UTC

  Fish discard clash in Brussels; NE Atlantic has highest discard rate, says UN

  

  Europe's fisheries ministers may dilute plans for a total ban on the practice of discarding fish at sea, as they meet in Brussels. An outright discards ban was widely welcomed when backed by the European Parliament last month, but it is being resisted by France, Spain and others.

• Friday, February 22nd 2013 - 18:25 UTC

  Falklands confirms £ 26m fishing and oil ‘windfalls’ only for the Consolidated Fund

  

  The Falkland Islands government at a public meeting defended their position of not including in the annual budget what they described as ‘windfalls’ from fishing and oil and instead adding the ‘exceptional” excess revenue to the Consolidated Fund.

• Friday, February 22nd 2013 - 17:38 UTC

  Foreign Office pledges more marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean

  

  The Foreign Office said that the UK is striving to ensure that all fishing undertaken in the Southern Ocean is carefully managed and sustainable and that the current FCO focus is supporting international work to establish a network of Southern Ocean Marine Protected Areas.