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Govt looks to compensate Chathams for ‘confiscated’ fishing quota
16 Apr 2025 23:58 GMT
Chatham Islands fisher Chubb Lanauze sails out overnight on his 16m drop-liner Cat-o-nine, catching hāpuka, blue cod and trumpeter. Fishing is the islands’ main money-maker, he says, but it’s getting tougher by the year.
Like others in the Chathams, he …
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Massachusetts Sets First Fishing Limits for Bonito and False Albacore
15 Apr 2025 19:19 GMT
Massachusetts is enacting the first east coast catch limits on bonito and false albacore in order to protect the understudied species.
The state Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission voted late last month to adopt a 16-inch minimum size limit on the two …
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Russia eyes 90,000-100,000 tons annual fishing quota in Morocco’s waters
12 Apr 2025 12:49 GMT
Russia might soon secure the right to catch between 90,000 and 100,000 tonnes of fish annually in Morocco’s exclusive economic zone under a new draft fishing agreement. The Russian government has instructed the Federal Fisheries Agency to sign this …
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In MA, first-ever fishing limits for false albacore and bonito likely coming
07 Apr 2025 23:22 GMT
… Coast state to set regular fishing limits on false albacore and Atlantic …
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Federal Court sets aside Fisheries Department decision to cut 2023 juvenile eel fishing quotas
01 Apr 2025 22:44 GMT
… the lucrative elver (juvenile eel) fishing quotas of eight licence holders by …
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UK rejects EU plan to tie defense pact to fishing quotas
01 Apr 2025 17:15 GMT
A new security pact with Brussels is a key plank of Keir Starmer’s foreign policy strategy in light of moves by Donald Trump to distance himself from European security.
Brussels has proposed a €150 billion loan program for EU governments to spend on re- …
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Marine charity fails in fishing-quota challenge
31 Mar 2025 15:48 GMT
Court rules that fishing quotas set by the UK government … consideration of...
Court rules that fishing quotas set by the UK government …
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Pollock Fishing Quota Reallocated From Aleutians To Bering Sea
31 Mar 2025 19:12 GMT
The National Marine Fisheries Service transferred 14,000 metric tons of unused pollock from the Aleutian Islands to the Bering Sea to maximize 2025 catch levels and support the regional fishing economy.
The 12,100 metric tons of fish were initially …
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High Court slaps down ministers’ ‘capricious’ changes to fishing quota
30 Mar 2025 19:00 GMT
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Officials have unlawfully stripped fishing quota from Māori and given it … on the way it allocates fishing quota. And it’s not just … was resolving the appropriation of fishing quota from companies like Sanford, by …
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Legal challenge over ‘irresponsible’ UK fishing quotas dismissed
31 Mar 2025 14:04 GMT