South Georgia opens toothfish fishery license applications
Government deadline for companies wishing to fish for toothfish in the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in 2018 to 2021 is Dec. 10
Sealord aims for price hike with fleet-wide use of PSH
New Zealand’s Sealord is to install the precision seafood harvesting gear on its entire fleet, which the company’s head of operations hopes will give an increase in prices
Australia increases tootfish quota by 120t
Fisheries authorities have raised the quota to 3,525t in total; reduced it slightly for mackerel icefish
Fortuna ramps up value-added toothfish production in Falklands’ first plant
Toothfish from Fortuna-backed fishing firm Georgia Seafoods is being processed into value-added products in the first plant to be established in the Falkland Islands
Chinese processor sees retail demand for branded skin-pack range rocket
Qingdao, China-based processor Beiyang Jiamei inks deals with two domestic retailers which will see its branded, skin-pack range go into as many as 300 supermarkets
Group says ‘notorious’ toothfish poacher attempted to resume fishing
The Botswana-based group Stop Illegal Fishing claims that a vessel once cited for poaching Antarctic toothfish recently attempted to register in Tanzania to resume fishing
Spanish govt’s IUU toothfish payoff ‘sends wrong signal’
Campaign groups have decried the Spanish government's payment of €700,000 to China, to pay for an illegal toothfish haul and get the vessels which caught it back on the sea
Toothfish prices firm again after dip
Toothfish prices have firmed again after a brief price correction saw prices slip back to $30-$32 per kilogram
Sustainable toothfish group successful in having inaccurate petition pulled from Amazon
Coalition of Legal Toothfish Operators has managed to close a petition targeting Amazon for selling toothfish, also known as Chilean seabass, in US market
Argentina invites bids on major fishing port to reduce bottleneck
Argentina’s government will push ahead with much needed investment in Mar del Plata fishing terminal, its transport minister said