Out of anywhere in the UK, the Irish Sea is the worst affected region – with four out of ten of its stocks overfished, up from a quarter just five years ago. In the Celtic Sea, quotas for cod in 2024 ...

New legislation implementing a range of short-term management measures for certain fish species was introduced to Parliament last week. These new arrangements have been identified within the first ...

A new study led by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), along with international partners, finds that proposed commercial fishing in the deep ocean could have serious ...

Global fisheries management is a “broken system” which has failed to prevent overfishing, Greenpeace has warned. The environmental group released a paper on the Regional Fisheries Management ...

Integrating local norms and fishermen's knowledge into fisheries regulations helps increase trust in fisheries management institutions and can make it easier for co-management to work. That was a ...

Encouraging new evidence suggests that the bulk of the world's fisheries -- including small-scale, often non-industrialized fisheries on which millions of people depend for food -- could be sustained ...

The UK scampi fishery has begun a new chapter in its fisheries improvement plan. The UK Nephrops Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) aims to improve fishing practices and management across fisheries in ...

Successful fisheries management can be best achieved by implementing and enforcing science-based catch or effort limits, research shows. Research published this week in the Proceedings of the National ...

Multiannual management plans are a key tool of the EU’s common fisheries policy and set rules for managing fish stocks sustainably in specific sea areas. On this page What are the multiannual ...

A range of seafoods have been added to the UK's "fish to avoid" list as conservationists warn of the urgent need to fix UK fisheries. Monkfish from the North Sea and west of Scotland, some species of ...