Fisheries

• Wednesday, November 4th 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Chilean salmon farmers struggling to cut antibiotic usage to boost the reputation of its products

  

  For Chile’s salmon farming industry, less could be more. That is, less antibiotic use could improve the sustainability of the country’s salmon aquaculture industry and boost the reputation of its products.

• Saturday, October 31st 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  Expanding marine protected areas by 5% could boost fish yields by 20% – but there’s a catch

  

  By Peter JS Jones and Rick Stafford - Marine protected areas, or MPAs as they’re more commonly called, are very simple. Areas of the sea are set aside where certain activities – usually fishing – are banned or restricted.

• Monday, October 26th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  US Coast Guard will increase presence in the Pacific to contain the threat of China's IUU fishing

  

  US national security adviser said the US Coast Guard (USCG) was basing Enhanced Response Cutters in the western Pacific for maritime security missions, citing illegal fishing and harassment of vessels by China.

• Friday, October 23rd 2020 - 07:24 UTC

  Belgium dusts off 1666 charter issued by King Charles II to support its fishing rights in British waters

  

  Belgium may resort to a 17th-century charter granted by a British king to retain fishing rights in Britain’s coastal waters if London and the European Union fail to agree on a trade deal by the end of this year.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Chile keeping close monitoring of large fleet of Chinese fishing vessels

  

  The Chilean government is keeping close tabs on a large fleet of Chinese fishing vessels that has stirred up controversy further north along the Pacific coast of South America, Foreign Minister Andres Allamand said.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Johnson talks to Macron for a secure post Brexit deal, but fisheries remain a major issue

  

  Boris Johnson has told the French president the UK wants to “explore every avenue” to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, days before the PM's self-imposed deadline. Johnson told Emmanuel Macron “intensive talks” were needed to “bridge significant gaps” remaining across the negotiating table.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Merkel and UK remain optimistic on a post Brexit-deal, but “the fisheries gap is unfortunately very large”

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had no breakthrough to announce on Friday as a week of EU talks with Britain ended, but remained optimistic that sealing a deal on a post-Brexit trade relationship was still possible before the end of the year.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Some 270 Chinese jiggers catching giant squid in Peruvian EEZ; Navy monitoring the fleet

  

  Peru’s Navy was carefully watching a fleet of around 250 Chinese fishing vessels that had sailed just outside the Andean country’s waters, angering the domestic fishing industry and sparking a Twitter war between Washington and Beijing.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  China suspends fish imports from Brazilian company because of Covid-19 in the packaging

  

  China will stop accepting import orders from a Brazilian fish processing company for a week because the packaging has testes positive for coronavirus. Beginning on Sunday Monteiro Indústria de Pescados Ltda., was blacklisted by Chinese customs, a decision that was confirmed by the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

• Monday, September 21st 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Beware: Chinese company with ten new state of the art planning to operate in SW Atlantic Ocean

  

  Pingtan Marine Engineering Ltd., a global fishing company based in the People's Republic of China, announced over the weekend that the Company's 10 new squid jigging vessels have left the port of Shidao in Weihai in the morning of September 15 local time and are sailing towards their designated fishing areas in the international waters for operations.