Fisheries

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Boris Johnson assures he will raise the Falklands' issue at the EU

  

  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised he will raise the matter of the Falklands fishery in the European Union after Labour MP Derek Twigg made representations on behalf of the Islands at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday.

• Sunday, December 6th 2020 - 23:00 UTC

  Brexit and its impact: no representation of the Falklands case to the EU

  

  Complicated challenges ahead for the Falkland Islands as the Brexit deadline inexorably approaches. While the Falklands Government has made public assurances that it has worked hard to ensure the impact of Brexit on the Falklands...

• Sunday, December 6th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Argentine squid season south of parallel 44 takes off on January 16

  

  The 2021 Argentine squid season. south of parallel 44, takes off next 16 January, according to the country's Fisheries Federal Council, following on the scientific report from Inidep, the national fisheries research and development institute.

• Saturday, December 5th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Falklands' trawler catches fire and sinks at Vigo port; probable total losses

  

  A Falkland Islands trawler “Baffin Bay” has sunk at the Galician port of Vigo where it was undergoing maintenance work. The Falklands' Department of Natural Resources reported that on the morning of Thursday 3 December 2020 it was advised of a fire onboard Fishing Vessel “Baffin Bay” while she was berthed at Bouzas in Vigo.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 16:41 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government position on fishing exports post-Brexit

  

  The Falkland Islands Government, both here and in London, have worked hard over the past four years to ensure that the impact of Brexit on the Falkland Islands was fully understood by the UK government.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Falklands' seafood industry concerned with Brexit outcome and likely imposition of EU tariffs

  

  The Executive Secretary of the Falklands Islands Fishing Companies Association FIFCA, James Bates would like to issue the following press statement.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  A new home for the Falkland Islands Maritime Authority

  

  From Tuesday 1 December 2020 the Falkland Islands Maritime Authority will sit within the Directorate of Emergency Services and Island Security (DESIS). For over 30 years the Directorate of Natural Resources (formally Fisheries) was the home of the maritime function. However, in recent years, the government has been working towards meeting both its national and international obligations, leading to the establishment of the Maritime Authority in 2018.

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:48 UTC

  UK reduces foreign aid spending; Baroness Sugg resigns over the decision, “it's fundamentally wrong”

  

  Britain reduced its foreign aid spending commitment on Wednesday to 0.5% of gross domestic product from 0.7%, causing junior minister Baroness Liz Sugg to resign and an immediate outcry from development organizations and the spiritual head of the Church of England.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  UK recovers full control of its fishing waters; automatic rights for EU vessels revoked

  

  The UK’s first major domestic fisheries legislation in nearly 40 years passed into law. The Fisheries Act 2020 gives the UK full control of its fishing waters for the first time since 1973. The Fisheries Act will enable UK to control who fishes in British waters through a new foreign vessel licensing regime and ends the current automatic rights for EU vessels to fish in UK waters.

• Thursday, November 19th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Fishermen cut beaks off albatrosses in south-west Atlantic fisheries

  

  A new study has documented a harrowing but increasingly prevalent trend, in which fishermen cut the bills off live albatrosses in order to free them from hooks. Once this barbaric procedure has been performed, trawlermen throw the endangered seabirds back into the ocean to die.