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AUSTRALIA is getting ready to open the first academy to train operators of vessel management system (VMS) fleet tracking systems.

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Norway set to get tough on discards

NORWAY’S fisheries minister Helga Pedersen has called for all fish caught in Norwegian waters to be taken into a Norwegian port “regardless of which final port is used”.

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Scottish fuel aid package

SCOTTISH fishermen are in line for help worth £29 million ($54 million) over three years to tackle rising fuel costs.

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Stacking divides US scallopers

FISHERMEN are at loggerheads over the impact ‘stacking’ of permits would have on the US Atlantic scallop fishery.

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Seasonal catches changed by tsunami

ENVIRONMENTAL upset from the 2004 tsunami has thrown all past knowledge of seasonal catches out of the window for Indian fishermen in the south eastern state of Tamil Nadu.

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SA pilchard recruitment failure

SCIENTISTS returning from South Africa’s annual mid-year pilchard stock survey say that recruitment has failed for the fifth consecutive year.

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Aid agency out to raise prices

THE fisheries desk at the Icelandic overseas aid organisation ICEIDA’s headquarters has now been taken over by Ágústa Gísladóttir who has returned from Uganda.

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