Fisheries

• Thursday, April 16th 2009 - 12:00 UTC

  Fishing quotas dispute forces cancelling of Dover/Calais ferries

  

  Ferry operator P&O has cancelled all Dover to Calais crossings due to a blockade by French fishing boats. The blockade at the port of Calais is also causing motorway disruption in Kent, police have said.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2009 - 05:14 UTC

  French fishermen block Channel ports to protests EU quotas

  

  French fishing boats have mounted a blockade of three Channel ports, interrupting ferry and freight traffic in a dispute over fishing quotas. At Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk fishing fleets are preventing ships entering or leaving the harbour.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2009 - 13:33 UTC

  Japanese whaling fleet limps back home with lower catch

  

  Japan’s Fisheries Agency said on Monday ships from the country’s whaling fleet returned to port from the Antarctic Ocean with a lower catch than planned after being harassed by anti-whaling campaigners. The agency also indicated that several ships report some damage from clashes with the conservationists.

• Thursday, April 9th 2009 - 21:20 UTC

  EC to announce new strategy to revive fish farming industry

  

  The European Commission is expected to unveil this week a new strategy to revive the fish farming industry. At a time when stocks of some species of fish in the world's oceans are dangerously low, the authorities in Brussels are concerned that Europe's aquaculture sector has stagnated.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2009 - 01:14 UTC

  Illex squid ‘no show’ for Falklands zones

  

  The Illex fishery has been a “no show” for Falkland Islands zones so far this year, confirmed Director of Fisheries John Barton.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2009 - 00:43 UTC

  “Piggy-backed” HMS Endurance expected Wednesday in Portsmouth

  

  HMS Endurance, the Royal Navy's badly damaged Ice patrol ship, is due to arrive in the Solent, Portsmouth, aboard a heavy lift ship tomorrow Wednesday after an 8,000-mile piggy-back voyage from the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2009 - 05:17 UTC

  Argentina closes Southern squid fishery: 16 year record low catches

  

  Argentina’s Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) unanimously voted to close the squid (Illex argentinus) fishery south of parallel 46°, as a precautionary protection measure for the southern Patagonian stock. Adopted last week, the move was spurred by the latest scientific data presented on how the major fishery was evolving and its dangerously low catches.

• Monday, April 6th 2009 - 21:10 UTC

  Project for the development of aquaculture in the Falklands

  

  Falkland Islands aquaculture project and research on species with potential to help develop a local industry was underlined in a piece released in the Fishupdate.com portal. Development of the aquaculture and marine farming project are part of a major review of the Falklands fisheries policy, adds the article.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 09:02 UTC

  FAO report says over-fishing putting sea cucumbers at risk

  

  Sea cucumber stocks are under intense fishing pressure throughout the world according to a new FAO report. Most high value commercial species have been depleted in the African and Indian ocean regions.

• Saturday, March 28th 2009 - 04:07 UTC

  Argentine squid catches “very poor”: half last year’s season

  

  Illex squid catches and landings in Argentine ports are considerably less than last season claims the Argentine industry, which is corroborated by official statistics from the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishery, and Food (SAGP&A).