Fisheries

• 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.

• Monday, September 21st 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  China claims coronavirus was found on packaging of imported squid from Russia

  

  Authorities in China's northeastern Jilin province have found the novel coronavirus on the packaging of imported squid, health authorities in the city of Fuyu said on Sunday, urging anyone who may have bought it to get themselves tested.

• Friday, September 18th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Falklands new port: contractors unveil details of the major infrastructure project

  

  The planned new port for the Falkland Islands to be constructed at Stanley Harbor was analyzed during a presentation this week to members of the public in the Town Hall, by a team from BAM Nuttall and Royal Haskoning, the companies responsible for the planning and construction of the project.

• Friday, September 11th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Falklands fishing industry disappointed with Islands' management of Brexit issues

  

  Falklands' fisheries company Fortuna Ltd’s Stuart Wallace said at a meeting of Fisheries Committee last week that he was “disappointed” with the level of engagement about Brexit between FIG and the fishing industry.

• Friday, September 11th 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Falklands describes start of second Loligo season this year as “exceptional”

  

  The Falkland Islands' second Loligo season this year has had an “exceptional start” the Director of Natural Resources Dr. Andrea Clausen told the Fisheries Committee last Thursday.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 07:43 UTC

  Johnson promoting the idea that if UK/EU talks don't advance, “both sides should accept it and move on”, says FT

  

  The British government is planning legislation that will override key parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, risking the collapse of trade negotiations with Brussels, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.