Three quarters of the world's industrial fishing vessels are "dark", they are not publicly tracked. This is shown by a new study, published in Nature, which with the help of space technology and AI managed to create the first global map of how we use the ocean. The fishing vessels dominate and most of them do it stealthily. The study shows that 75% of fishing vessels neglect to broadcast their positions, which may indicate illegal fishing.
The Swedish government is open to allowing limited small-scale eel fishing. It may also be possible to transfer eel fishing permits to the next generation, according to the regulatory letter to the Swedish Sea and Water Authority.
The EU fisheries ministers have in a compromise agreed on this years herring fishing in the Baltic Sea next year. As usual, we can continue to fish, despite the fact that, according to many observers, the herring are running out. But there is one law that the ministers seem to forgotten about, which could lead to them having to tear up this year's compromise. Paragraph 4.6 of the EU's multi-year management plan for the Baltic Sea (MAP).
A continued limited eel fishery in the Baltic Sea remains alive since the fisheries ministers of the EU countries struggled through the night to reach an agreement on future quotas mainly in the North Sea and the Atlantic.
Norway has decided to stop cross-border fishing in the Skagerrak from the turn of the year, the government writes in a press release.
The fish are running out, the herring and the baltic herring are threatened and the cod is almost completely gone. When there is a competition for the little fish left, many people want to blame the seal. Both that it eats too much of "our" fish and that it destroys our fishing gear. But how is it really? Does the seal eat more than we do, and what does it actually eat? We asked some seal researchers.
Targeted fishing for herring and sturgeon can also continue in 2024. The EU countries have agreed on significantly larger catch quotas than what the European Commission wanted to see.
A battle for fermented Baltic herring and small fishermen, the government believes when it now takes up the fight against the EU Commission's proposal to stop herring and sturgeon fishing in the Baltic Sea. Heavy night mangling awaits in Luxembourg.
The New Economics Foundation think tank was able to show in a report already in 2019 that EU countries took 300,000 tons more fish into the sea than the researchers in ICES recommended.
Several stocks of the Baltic herrings in the Baltic Sea are seriously threatened according to the World Wide Fund for Nature's latest Fish Guide. The Baltic herring is an engine in the ecosystem and when the stock shrinks, it has consequences, says fishing expert Inger Melander.
The Philippines accuses China of putting up a "floating barrier" that is stopping fishermen in a disputed area of the South China Sea, CNN reports.
How profound can one's connection with the sea truly be? At 87 years old, Anna Maria Verzino has dedicated her entire life to the relentless embrace of the ocean. From a tender age, she made a resolute decision that the sea would reign supreme in her existence.
A small crowd has gathered at the edge of Rönne å in Skåne to participate in the annual eel release. Almost a million eels are released all over Sweden every year, to compensate for the fact that they cannot get past the expanded power plants by themselves.
It’s one of the planet’s largest biomass aggregations…an annual migration of sardines up the coast of South Africa. Millions, if not billions, of small fish migrate up the east coast pursued by sharks, whales and dolphins. And at the very end of this chase - humans.
The EU Commission proposes a stop to herring fishing in the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia. The reason is that fish stocks are at or below minimum levels.
It thrives and happily jumps over the surface of the water. Öresund has become a haunt for the formerly outfished bluefin tuna. - I have never experienced so much tuna before, says marine biologist Jens Peder Jeppesen at the Öresund Aquarium in Helsingör.
The "Trabocchi" are clever wooden machines invented by farmers who needed an easier way to fish, replacing the uncertainty of boats. These unique structures are symbols of the Abruzzo region in central Italy. However, a shift has occurred in recent times.
At ten locations around Sweden's coasts, clean-up operations are to be carried out to collect the fishing gear that has been lost in lakes and seas, The Maritime and Water Agency (Hav) states in a press release.
Prosecutor James von Reis writes that "it is not possible to prove who committed the deed".
Herring fishing in the Baltic Sea should shrink sharply next year, according to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). The stock is at levels close to or below what is considered sustainable.
New research should provide an answer to that question. -Historically, fish have hardly been considered animals, I think it is important to change that. If we see fish as animals, we might start to respect them more. That's what Marco Vindas says, who researches the behavior of fish, and is currently working on a world-unique project in Norway.
An investigation has been handed over to Rural Affairs Minister Peter Kullgren (KD) with proposals for a general ban on bottom trawling in protected sea areas.
Last May, we joined sport fishing guide Peter Berggren for a day of pike fishing in the Stockholm archipelago. Little did we know that our trip would be filled with more than just fishing. Throughout the day, Peter shared his musings about the cormorant, the seal, the pike, and the trawlers, leaving us with much to contemplate long after the trip ended.
France's highest administrative court has ordered the government to ban fishing in certain parts of the Atlantic Ocean to protect dolphins. The decision comes after at least 910 dead dolphins were found on France's Atlantic coast since the beginning of winter.
