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  • 24-07-2024
  • Norway’s salmon price decline halted -Hungary focusses EU council on aquaculture
  • Faroe Islands Proposes Regulatory Changes for Mackerel Fishing
  • Aquaculture: 20 million euros from the EIF under InvestEU
  • Turning the tide: How Sardinian fishers are cleaning up their seas
  • 29-06-2024
  • Fishing Sector Promotes Sustainable Fisheries for Future
  • Aquaculture production excluding algae has overtaken fishing, says UN report
  • Spain now fastest growing salmon market, says Seafood Council
  • Commission approves stricter controls for more flexible catch reporting in specific fisheries
  • The Commission welcomes the agreement on sustainable fisheries reached at Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
  • Pescatourism: a cooperation opportunity for Mediterranean fisheries
  • 28-05-2024
  • New funding to tackle. UK aquaculture issues
  • How to fingerprint a fish -Aquaculture: Commission shares recommendations and good practices
  • EFCA launches the first Coast Guard Capacity Building and Training Exchange Programme
  • Might a new aging tool help improve octopus fishery management?
  • 19-04-2024
  • Launch of the e-FishMed Exchange Programme to support the fight against IUU fishing in the Mediterranean
  • Norway set to tax foreign aquaculture workers and businesses
  • Ireland: discovering rare ‘sponge reefs’ and new corals with SeaRover
  • Brussels, green light to Italy’s 600 million plan for fisheries
  • Scientists use lobster tags to study how offshore aquaculture restores marine habitats
  • Consumer needs for seafood certification revealed
  • 25-03-2024
  • European Commission seeks public opinion on ways to improve protection of sharks
  • Slovenia becomes 38th member of the European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission
  • Towards better water quality, quantity management and more sustainable use of seas
  • Third countries urged to adopt the EU fisheries digital control system
  • Fisheries experts join forces as Fish Forum 2024 scales up science and innovation
  • 22-02-2024
  • One year of salmon tax in Norway: uncertainty remains
  • EU Leads on sustainable fisheries at South Pacific Fisheries meeting
  • Seaweed worms could revolutionise fish farming diets
  • New global fisheries management body’s first meeting focuses on sustainable practices and promoting biodiversity
  • 19-01-2024
  • The EU fisheries control system gets a major revamp
  • A Norwegian Company Set Up A Land-Based Aquaculture Farm, But It’s Not Salmon They Bet On 
  • Future of European eel fisheries may hinge on a coordinated management regime
  • Advantages of microalgae as a feed ingredient explored
  • New study confirms seaweed and mussel farms improve biodiversity and abundance of marine life
  • Preserving sharks in the Mediterranean
  • 19-12-2023
  • The EU and UK agree on fishing opportunities for 2024 worth around €1 billion to EU fishers
  • Native oyster nursery installed in Belfast port
  • Warming Mediterranean will drive bluefin tuna elsewhere to spawn
  • Overfishing declines in Mediterranean, while aquaculture is on the rise - FAO report
  • COP28: European Commission commits €1 million to Blue Mediterranean Partnership
  • EU donates EUR 1 million to WTO Fisheries Funding Mechanism
  • Commission to explore the future of fishers up to 2050
  • 22-11-2023
  • Could the world's fastest growing bivalve be the farmed seafood of the future?
  • EU-funded project aims to solidify wind farms as viable aquaculture sites
  • Can aquaculture solve the Mediterranean’s overfishing problem?
  • Commission proposes fishing opportunities for 2024 in the Atlantic, Kattegat and Skagerrak
  • Baltic Sea: Agreement reached on 2024 fishing opportunities
  • 19-10-2023
  • Study seeks to improve seafood intake in the first 1,000 days of life
  • EU and Kiribati agree on a new fisheries protocol to their sustainable fisheries partnership agreement
  • Thousands of salmon escaped an Icelandic fish farm. The impact could be deadly
  • From plastic waste to stadium seats
  • Salmon fishing in Scotland threatened by rising sea temperatures
  • A win for the ocean: High Seas Treaty signed at United Nations