freshwater fishery News
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Destruction order for net used in illegal elver net fishing
On Tuesday 25 March 2014, Graham Stokes of Gloucester pleaded guilty at Gloucester Magistrates’ Court to one charge of unauthorised elver net fishing. The 49-year-old was fined £250, ordered to pay £350 in costs, along with a £25 victim surcharge. The court issued a destruction order of Mr Stokes’ elver net and banned him from applying for any authorisation for two ...
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Caught – hook, line and sinker
Five anglers have been found guilty by Ipswich Magistrates’ Court of fishing illegally over the May Bank Holiday. They were caught without rod licences in an Environment Agency blitz of Suffolk waters and on Tuesday (10 Sept) were fined between £35 and £165 as well as each being ordered to pay £127 costs and a victim surcharge of £20. Mark Barrow of Sunnyside Way, ...
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Small-scale Swedish freshwater fishery gains international recognition through MSC
The Swedish small-scale pike-perch fishery has been successfully re-assessed against the MSC environmental standard, and can once again be sold to key European fresh fish markets with the blue ecolabel. Overcoming challenges The fishery was the world’s first freshwater fishery and the first Swedish fishery to become MSC certified in 2006. The 30 fishermen working on picturesque Lake ...
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Angler fined for repeatedly fishing in the closed season
A Bristol man has been ordered to pay £1,335 in fines and costs for flouting fishing bylaws. Adam Power was caught illegally fishing for coarse fish on the River Avon at Keynsham on three separate occasions. In April 2013 the Environment Agency received reports from members of the public that a man was fishing below a weir near the Brassmills Public House, Keynsham. At the time it was the ...
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Fines for eight anglers caught fishing illegally
Eight anglers caught fishing illegally in Norfolk waters have been fined by Kings Lynn Magistrates’ Court. They were caught without rod licences in an Environment Agency blitz of Norfolk waters. On Thursday 3 October were fined between £60 and £75 and told to pay a victim surcharge of £20. Most were also ordered to pay £127 costs. Lesley Robertson, Environmental ...
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You Tube video lands poacher in court
Benjamin Cook thought he might be famous after he made a video showcasing his skills as a poacher. But his plan backfired after a clip of him catching sea trout on a Dorset river with an illegal net appeared on You Tube and was seen by a sharp-eyed fisheries officer who recognised Cook. Instead of multiple hits on social media and celebrity status, Cook, 31, was arrested and ordered to pay ...
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Elver netsman banned for illegal fishing
A Bridgwater man has been banned from elver fishing for four years after he was caught fishing in a 'no go' area on the River Parrett. Christopher Bond was also ordered to pay £900 in fines and costs. Environment Agency bailiffs were on a routine night patrol on March 7, 2013 when they saw the defendant and a second man behaving suspiciously near the Huntspill Sluice. Mr Bond’s ...
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Pacific island fisheries face climate challenge
Some Pacific island nations should benefit from better fisheries following climate change, but there will be more losers than winners, according to a book published by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) last month (7 November). Johann Bell, an SPC fisheries expert and one of the editors of Vulnerability of Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture to Climate Change, said that smaller ...
By SciDev.Net
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Sleeping while fishing with unlicensed rod nets fines
Three anglers have been fined by Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court for fishing illegally, two with unattended rods. One was found sleeping and unable to attend to his rods should they hook a fish, an offence designed to protect the health of fish. Two of them also failed to give their addresses to officers. Environment Agency bailiffs found the men on routine patrols. All three were also ...
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Details on the new additions to the Union lists of Natura 2000 sites
The latest update of the Natura 2000 lists concerns 20 Member States: Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Slovakia and the UK. The number of "Sites of Community Importance" has increased by 235 to 22 793, expanding the SCI network by 3.4 %, i.e. nearly 24 900 ...
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Siberia’s hatchery for the largest river fish gene pool
Russian authorities rolled out plans to establish a gene pool of all fish in the Yakutia Republic within a single hatchery, which will likely become the world’s biggest gene pool of river fish, in one place. For instance, the Yakutia Republic is the world’s largest country subdivision with an area of 3.083 million km, comparable to the territory of India. Yakutia’s total river ...
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Mapping fish invasions in European freshwaters
Detailed analysis of the patterns of invasion of alien fish species in Austria and Germany has highlighted how drivers of invasion, such as the animal trade, can change over time. The researchers who conducted the analysis warn that climate change may be a key cause in changing invasion patterns in the future. The invasion of alien fish species is known to be a major threat to the biodiversity ...
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Conservation Groups Launch Global Freshwater Fish BioBlitz, Inviting Citizen Scientists to Help Monitor Fish Species
The Global Freshwater Fish BioBlitz kicked off on World Wetlands Day to engage nature lovers in freshwater fish conservation. The Freshwater Fish Specialist Group (FFSG), of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Wetlands International, has joined forces with other international groups to introduce this new global initiative. The BioBlitz project, designed by iNaturalist.org, ...
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Producing high-quality hybrid catfish with freshwater fish oil
Low levels of freshwater fish oil can go a long way in improving performance indicators of aquacultured hybrid catfish broodstock. This was observed in hybrid catfish broodstock fed with one and two per cent FFO-supplemented diets in an experiment at the Maejo University in Thailand. “We found out that supplementation of low levels of freshwater fish oil to standard manufactured fish food ...
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USSEC’s Indian Aquaculture Team Learns Production Technologies for New Fish Species in Vietnam
USSEC’s Southeast Asia (SEA) and Asia Subcontinent (ASC) regions teamed up to educate a team of 14 aquaculture entrepreneurs on hatchery and farm production technologies for new fish species. The focus was on a high value fish variety called the murrel, which fetches $4.50 – $ 7.00 per kilogram (whole fish), depending on the market region. This fish is easily farmed in China and SEA, ...
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FAO puts sustainability on the menu in the world’s fastest-growing food sector: fish
High-level delegations of fisheries ministries from more than 50 countries are gathering in Agadir for a summit with industry players to discuss emerging governance needs in a sector that provides the world with 17 percent of its animal protein and developing countries with more export revenue than meat, tobacco, rice and sugar combined. The globalization of the fish trade, driven in ...
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Toxics Persist in Washington Rivers, Lakes and Fish
OLYMPIA, Washington - Toxic chemicals banned decades ago continue to linger in the environment and concentrate in the food chain, threatening people and the environment, according to three recent studies by the Washington state Department of Ecology. The new data on toxic contaminants in freshwater fish and sediments add evidence to the state's push to reduce and eliminate the use of toxic ...
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Rainfall changes threaten food production
The UN’s latest State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report warns that rainfall patterns will have changed so drastically by the end of this century that agriculture, forestry and fishing will all be seriously affected. “It will become more and more difficult to harvest crops, rear animals and manage forests and fisheries in the same places and in the same way as before,” says ...
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How To Raise Tilapia
Tilapia is a freshwater fish that is now selling well. It is also very simple in the usual breeding. As long as the fish feed pellets feeding regularly and quantitatively every day, change the water in time. The fish feed machine is the main equipment to make fish feed pellets. This article will introduce how to raise tilapia in detail. Basic Conditions Of The Pond Choose a place with good water ...
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Ministries Need to Collaborate to Ensure Continued Productivity of Farmland and Forests in ECA
As economies in the ECA region grow, farm and forest productivity will need to keep pace with rising consumer and industrial demand for food and wood. But doing so by pushing natural resources beyond their limits can be disastrous. Governments in the region have taken steps to address this issue, but they – ministries of environment in partnership with others such as agriculture, forestry and ...
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