Tag: fishing vessels

• Monday, October 23rd 2023 - 05:31 UTC

  China denies US accusations of illegal fishing in South Atlantic; names Uruguay, a reliable friend, as witness

  

  A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Montevideo published an official release denying United States attacks on Beijing fishing practices, 'bordering on illegal in the South Atlantic', praises the good relations with Uruguay, and commits to keep strengthening close economic and trade links, in multiple areas including measures to combat illegal fishing.

• Thursday, November 4th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  UK flagged fishing vessel released by French court; London and Paris officials to meet to de escalate dispute

  

  A UK trawler impounded by French authorities over a fishing licenses' dispute with Britain was released on Wednesday by a French court overturning an earlier demand that it pays a €150,000 bond.

• Saturday, May 29th 2021 - 15:52 UTC

  Controversial women's quota bill in fishing vessels passed by Argentine Senate

  

  The Argentine congress gave half sanction to a bill that modifies several articles of the Federal Fisheries Law making it mandatory for the incorporation of 30% of women and 1% of sexual diversity members to the fishing fleet crews.

• Sunday, March 28th 2021 - 23:52 UTC

  Spanish MP calls for national Covid-19 protocol for deep-sea fishing crews

  

  Néstor Rego, a member of the Spanish Congress for the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), last week called upon the Spanish Government to establish an action protocol addressing Covid-19 outbreaks onboard deep-sea fishing vessels.

• Friday, March 12th 2021 - 13:24 UTC

  Falklands tighten up vessel entry policy

  

  The Falkland Islands’ Executive Council this week agreed to tighten the policy governing the entry of vessels into the islands’ territorial waters and ports. Under the new policy, any vessel which has suspected or reported cases of Covid-19 “should not seek to enter Falkland Islands territorial waters and ports,” the Falklands government has confirmed.

• Thursday, January 21st 2021 - 09:38 UTC

  Coronavirus in several Spanish fishing vessels delays departure to the Falklands squid season

  

  The departure of several fishing vessels scheduled to leave from Vigo, Galicia to the Falkland Islands' squid season, has been delayed because a few crew members tested positive for the coronavirus. Companies involved have undertaken the necessary and isolation measures, reports the local media.

• Monday, December 21st 2020 - 08:07 UTC

  China planning fleet of 50 large scale fish farming vessels

  

  Construction of the world's first 100,000-ton large-scale fish farming ship started in Qingdao of East China's Shandong Province on Saturday, pioneering a new mode of industrial farming with “movable fish farms” on distant seas.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2020 - 10:27 UTC

  Montevideo port loses lure for Falklands licensed Spanish fishing fleet

  

  At least four Spanish fishing vessels, which normally operate in the South Atlantic, most of them with Falklands' licenses, left for Vigo and Marin in Galicia, avoiding transshipment operations in the port of Montevideo, Uruguay, according to the country's leading Maritime and ports information report.

• Friday, July 10th 2020 - 09:42 UTC

  Galician shipyard launches new trawler for the Falklands' fisheries

  

  The Galician Nodosa shipyard launched this week a trawler-freezer, “Montelourido” which according to the Vigo media was ordered by Rampesca and their Falklands' partners RBC.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 11:57 UTC

  Basic stats on world fisheries: fish consumption reached a record 20,5 k per capita

  

  Worldwide per capita fish consumption has reached a new record of 20.5 kilograms per year and is poised to increase further in the decade ahead, underscoring its critical role in global food and nutrition security.