First international standard to be developed for environmentally and socially sustainable fisheries The French standardisation agency, Afnor (Agence française de normalisation), has suggested that there is a need to create an internationally recog... 04/07/2014
First sustainable Spanish Fisheries Partnership Spain’s number one producer of pre-cooked, frozen seafood products, Congalsa, has become the first Spanish company to join forces with the Sustaina... 25/05/2014
Farmed shrimp standards finalised at the Aquaculture Stewardship Council After 7 years of development, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has finalised farmed shrimp standards, which set out a series of requiremen... 25/05/2014
African small-scale fishing communities mobilise ahead of the CAMFA II After a two-day meeting in Abidjan, the representatives of the 15-nation strong African Confederation of Artisanal Fisheries Professional Organisat... 06/04/2014
PNA discusses need to keep control of tuna supply The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) – comprising eight Pacific island countries that control the world’s largest tuna purse seine fishery supp... 06/04/2014
EP resolution on Thai FTA A resolution was approved by the European Parliament (EP) on “[t]he situation and future prospects of the European fishing sector in the context of... 06/04/2014
Trade data analysis to track IUU fishing activities Participants to the fourth Global Fisheries Enforcement Training Workshop were presented with a tool to analyse existing fish trade data,as a cost-... 23/03/2014
Fish trade prospects to 2030 presented in a new report The World Bank, together with the FAO, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Arkansas University, published a report ent... 23/03/2014
Reinforced rules on labelling of fisheries products The reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), in its rules for the Common Market Organisation (CMO) of fish products, stipulates that European consum... 08/03/2014
Pacific : Fisheries conservation and management elements not to be detailed in EPA, says FFA At a meeting of Pacific ACP Trade and Fisheries ministers and officials, organised by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Director-Ge... 06/02/2014