A new creel fisheries management programme has come into being on 1st September 2022 to help tackle a range of growing issues which have been facing Clyde fishers for a number of years.

Devised and proposed by representatives from the Clyde Fishermen’s Association, and enabled through the West Coast Regional Inshore Fisheries Group (WCRIFG)

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Alternative seafoods have begun to make a presence in Asian markets but not much is known about their current market share, the increasing involvement of big businesses and governments, and the long-term prospects for growth in the region. Highlighting the production initiatives and multi-million-dollar investments that are already taking place in several Asian countries such as Singapore, Japan, Thailand and Hong Kong, it is possible that continued innovations as well as price parity with traditional seafoods will be the main drivers in making Asia’s alternative seafood sector dominant.

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The Government of Portugal has published the rule that regulates the allocation of subsidies to artisanal and coastal fishing, artisanal aquaculture and saliculture, for a total amount of 550,000 euros. This support corresponds to a discount on the final price of gasoline and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used in artisanal and inshore artisanal fishing, and which is equivalent to a reduction in the rate applicable to diesel consumed in the rest of the fishing sector. .

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The deadline for submitted abstracts for World Aquaculture Singapore has been extended to 1 October.

The World Aquaculture Singapore (WASingapore 2022) conference takes place between 29 November and 2 December, at the Singapore EXPO Convention and Exhibition Centre and Max Atria. Organisers expect around 1,000 attendees.

WASingapore 2022 will be taking place as a large-scale in-person global conference and exhibition after a two-year gap, with relevant COVID-19 safety measures in place.

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Eighteen limestone boulders have been placed on the seabed in the South West Deeps (East) marine protected area (MPA) by Greenpeace UK to block destructive industrial fishing in the area.

On 1 September, campaigners and crew onboard Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise sailed to the western English Channel to make a portion of the South West Deeps off-limits to bottom-trawling.

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The wind played a trick on the teams responsible for emptying fuel from the OS 35, the bulk carrier from Tuvalu that has been half-sunken in the Bay of Gibraltar for eight days. In addition to slowing down operations, the gusts moved and displaced both the barrier deployed around the ship and the one that tried to prevent the entry of fuel into Catalan Bay or Playa de los Catalanes. In fact, parts of the latter reached the coast. After replacing the barrier, the Gibraltar Port Authority and Maritime Rescue installed heavier weights to increase the barrier's resistance to the winds.

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With the aim of opening new business avenues in emerging markets and boosting the demand for Galician seafood, providing it with more added value, different Galician companies from the seafood-industry chain are participating in the Fish International that is being held in Bremen, Germany. The Minister of the Sea, Rosa Quintana, went there to give her support to the companies in the fishing, shellfish, aquaculture and processing sector participating in the event.

In this framework, the Ministry informs that in its eagerness to improve the marketing and distribution of seafood, the Xunta de Galicia will be present for the rest of the year, and in addition to the Bremen fair, in three international competitions more: the Seafood Expo Asia (in Singapore, from September 14 to 16), Expomar Mindelo (Cape Verde, from September 29 to 30) and the SIAL 2022 (France, from October 15 to 19), as well as in other nationals.

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Thanks to decades of increased fishery and aquaculture yields and growing global demand, seafood is one of the most-traded food categories in the world today. However, the volume and value of overseas sales achieved by the industry has slipped in the past few years, according to the latest analysis from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

The 2022 edition of the U.N. body’s biennial “The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture” (SOFIA) report confirms 59.8 million metric tons (MT) of seafood products worth USD 151 billion (EUR 148.4 million) were exported in 2020

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With 99% of the votes counted, 61.9% of voters have rejected Chile’s new constitution, while only 38.1% supported it, in a blow to the country’s president, Gabriel Boric.

Boric had hoped to replace a 41-year old constitution that had been imposed by dictator Augusto Pinochet. Accepting the result, Boric admitted that voters “were not satisfied with the constitutional proposal that the convention presented to Chile.”

However, Boric is not giving up his hopes to change the constitution, stating that the result shows leaders must “work with more determination, more dialogue, more respect” to come up with a new charter that “unites us as a country.”

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The northern inshore fleet continues with its landings in September, after having exhausted much more than half of the available albacore quota for the current campaign, accounting for nearly 11 million kilos of albacore. In total, 72 percent of the quota has been exhausted, so there is still enough margin to continue with the coastal one, which starts with the conditioning factor of high diesel prices.

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