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Observations and Trials of Fish Handling on Small Vessels - Stage 2 (incomplete)

This project acknowledges the need for improvement in the quality of fish from inshore vessels, the majority of which are small and operate as day trip boats. The large fleet of inshore vessels under 16.5m lands an estimated value of fish of at least £100 million per annum. However, the quality of a proportion of this catch is often far from what it could be due to lack of facilities and temperature control. This report has been produced from a scanned original and may therefore contain some formatting and other inaccuracies. In cases where this affects the technical content, a paper copy of the original report can still be obtained from Seafish.

Seafish Northern Ireland Advisory Committee (SNIAC) Minutes - March 2022

Minutes from the Seafish Northern Ireland Advisory Committee (SNIAC) meeting held on Thursday 24 March 2022.

Finfish Advisory Group (FiAG) Meeting Minutes - February 2023

Meeting minutes for the 3rd meeting of the Finfish Advisory Group (FiAG) which took place on Thursday 16th February 2023 via Microsoft Teams.

Whelk Management Group Minutes - March 2024

Minutes for the meeting of the Whelk Management Group (WMG) which took place on 20th March 2024 via Microsoft Teams.

Review of Fish Sustainability Information Schemes Final Report

The benefits of sustainable fisheries and the need to mitigate the environmental impacts of fishing and aquaculture are increasingly in the public consciousness. Poorly implemented, government run, command and control management schemes have often failed to curb fishing effort, prevent overfishing and avoid environmental degradation. Alternative, market based approaches have shown promise and, among these, enabling informed consumer choice in seafood purchasing can generate strong motivation for improved catching and culture practices.

Risk Assessment for Sourcing Seafood (RASS) profile; brown crab (Cancer pagurus) landed in Newlyn

This document is a summary of information on Brown crab (Cancer pagurus) targeted using pots/traps by vessels which land into Newlyn Harbour, Cornwall and is risk assessed using Seafish’s RASS scoring Guidance version 2.

Seafish Wales Advisory Committee Minutes - November 2022

Minutes from the Seafish Wales Advisory Committee meeting on 3 November 2022.

FS34 - 09.09 September 2009 Inshore Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS)

It is becoming increasingly important that vessels fishing inshore have a way to provide evidence that they are complying with local voluntary and statutory environmental management agreements. Seafish was approached by the South West Fishermen’s Association (SWIFA) to look at inshore vessel monitoring systems for scallop vessels working in Lyme Bay. This fact sheet summarises pilot trials on two different types of system fitted on five vessels fishing from various ports in South West England.

New Zealand Seafood Ethics Profile

Seafish commissioned a study to assess the ethical issues impacting on seafood species landed into, and imported to the UK from a wide range of countries. This New Zealand profile looks at the main seafood products; seafood exports to UK; employment in seafood; human trafficking and forced labour indicators and rankings and research reports; ratification of international human rights and labour instruments; fisheries policy and management structure/administration; control of IUU fishing and related labour abuse; measures to protect migrant fishers; partnerships and improvement projects; and an overall assessment or criteria for overall risk assessment for New Zeland.

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