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Common Language Group. News alert. June 2022.

June news alert sent to CLG subscribers on 16 June 2022.

Statement to the Press: Newly Published ICES Advice Reveals Further Reductions in Catch are Required

NAPA states its position following the release of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) advice for iconic Northeast Atlantic pelagic stocks in 2023.

Response to the Marine Conservation Society Good Fish Guide consultation

Our response to the winter 2022 MCS Food Fish Guide consultation. Following a review of proposed scoring, we provided commentary on brown crab, European lobster, Dover sole, anglerfish and spotted ray.

Seafish briefing - Organisations addressing labour issues in the fishing and aquaculture sector. April 2016.

Since approximately 2006, various concerns regarding abuses of workers engaged in the seafood industry have steadily attracted more attention, from the media and civil society advocacy groups. The main concern has been reports of coercive treatment of certain categories of both sea and land-based workers, through abusive labour and recruitment practices variously referred to as slavery or slavery-like practices, forced and bonded labour, human trafficking, as well as serious forms of child labour. This has led to more monitoring, and a wide range of governmental, inter-governmental and NGO initiatives to address the concerns. There have been a number of studies into the scale of the issue but further study is required in order to determine the international scale of human rights and labour abuses in the seafood industry. This briefing note: details some of the key reviews that have looked at the scale of labour issues in the fishing and seafood sectors; and lists the organisations addressing labour rights in the fishing sector. This document was originally produced in March 2015 and was updated in April 2016.

Seafish Insight: Fishing references by country in 2016 U. S. TIP Report. June 2016.

The Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report is the U.S. Government’s principal diplomatic tool to engage foreign governments on human trafficking. It is also the world’s most comprehensive resource of governmental anti-human trafficking efforts. The U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons report (TIP) 2016 was published on 30 June 2016. This document lists the references to fishing by country.

Fisheries Management and Innovation Group. News alert. January 2022.

January news alert sent to FMIG subscribers on 27 January 2022.

Cod to 2030 (summary report)

A short review of the UK’s cod supply base and 10 year forward view.

Seafish Non-Standard Design Purification Systems: Generalised Operating Manual for Purification Systems of Non-Standard Design

Manual for developing and operating Seafish non-standard design for shellfish purification system

Fishing Trials to Evaluate the Use of Square Mesh Selector Panels Fitted to Nephrops Trawls - MFV 'HEATHER SPRIG' (BCK 181) - November/December 1990

The sea trials on the 'HEATHER SPRIG' were to assess the effectiveness of a square mesh window in the extension of a Nephrop dual purpose trawl. 80 mm and 70 mm panels were fitted within the 70 mm diamond mesh and comparisons of discards rates measured using the twin rig trawl technique. Both panels substantially reduced discards of whiting and haddock although latter was not a dominant species during the fishing period. 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.

A review of acceptable means by which towed gear discards may be reduced in ICES Area VII and VIII (NOVARRAST)

This report describes a study undertaken for the European Commission. It involved no research but aimed to draw fishermen into the process of improving the targeting of their effort and the long-term performance of their fisheries.

The Development of a Suitable Synthetic Replacement for the Traditional Cotton Drift Nets as Utilised in the Cornish Pilchard Fishery

Much work has been conducted by the Sea Fish Industry Authority into studying the potential of the currently under-exploited pilchard resources (Sardina pilchardus) present off the shores of south est England. Some twenty years ago the pilchard fishery formed the backbone of the economies of cornish fishing ports. today however, the pilchard is largely overlooked.

The Results of a Water and Effluent Study carried out at Scotprime (Grimsby) in October 1997

In the near future new environmental legislation will add greatly to the cost and difficulty of disposing of waste water. This will present a significant problem to the fish industry. Seafish has commissioned a number of water audits in fish processing companies, looking at water usage and effluent production with a view to minimising both.

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