LEADING fisheries experts have expressed concerns about the process by which the Marine Stewardship Council – the most established certifier of sustainable fisheries worldwide – goes about its certification and have called on the organisation to undergo “major reform” of its procedures.

EURONOR and the Compagnie des Pêches Saint Malo have applied jointly for Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for their cod and haddock catches.

THE European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Maria Damanaki, is to open a one-day seminar in Brussels on the state of fish stocks in European waters.

THE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) yesterday reopened 5,130 square miles of Gulf waters to commercial and recreational fishing, stretching from the far eastern coast of Louisiana, through Mississippi and Alabama to the western Florida panhandle.