ICES recommends ‘maybe highest ever’ blue whiting quota, but small decline for mackerel
The scientific body's advice for 2024 landings of blue whiting is up 13% y-o-y at 1.5m metric tons, while it suggests mackerel catches should come down 5% from its last advice
Irish port gets €50m investment to ‘future-proof’ pelagics processing
Gallagher Bros and Killybegs Seafoods are two of the businesses that were allocated the highest grants under the Brexit Process Capital Support Scheme
Peru sees frozen seafood production surge in June, dip in fresh, canned
The standout performer was the production of frozen seafood, which amounted to 62.4% of the total catches aimed at direct human consumption with a staggering volume of 70,700t
Irish fishers fear impact of climate change on stock migrations as sea temperatures rise
Fishers in Ireland are expressing concerns about the impact of climate change on the fishing industry as sea temperatures continue to rise
Northeast Atlantic’s warming seas could harm key pelagic stocks, warns MSC
The combined impact of the record-breaking marine heat wave in the North Atlantic on top of warming seas linked to accelerated climate change could have a 'significant impact'
Denholm starts work on £30m pelagic processing, cold store upgrade
The investment is one of the largest ever undertaken by a wild-caught fish processing company in Scotland, Denholm said
Ward Fish converts subsidiary into Ireland’s ‘first value-added pelagics plant’
Norway's MMC First Process and Iceland's Marel will supply systems for filleting, pinboning and packing consumer portions of pelagic fish, as well as an industrial vacuum-packing unit
Major aquafeed producers look on as blue whiting quota talks take place in London
'The stakes are high; squander the opportunity, and the market will walk', says NAPA, as Skretting, Cargill, and BioMar call for scaled-back allocations
EU-Norway quota talks continue to stall
An Irish fishing group has claimed that because EU-Norway fishery talks have stalled, deals for other EU states on cod and other catches are now being held up
What could the fisheries management of the future look like?
The question asked of the scientist now is 'how much can we extract next year?' Not, 'how much can we extract next year, and make sure we've still got a healthy mackerel population in 10 years?'