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Fishing industry

  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    UK-EU ‘reset’ talks delayed until next year

    Negotiations expected to focus on post-Brexit fishing rights and electricity trading arrangements, which expire in 2026

    An anti-Brexit protester waves the EU and union flags outside the Houses of Parliament in June 2016
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    News in-depth3 min
    Is it possible to sustainably satisfy the world's hunger for fish? | FT Rethink

    Today, some 35 per cent of the world’s fish stocks are classified as overfished. That’s thanks largely to a combination of government subsidies, as well as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

    Can we combat overfishing?
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Visual investigation
    The European boats fishing under a veil of secrecy

    EU vessels are registering with African fleets and exploiting local fishing laws

  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    EU fishing
    Brussels abandons crackdown on overfishing

    European Commission drops possible legal action against five member states for failing to police ban on discarding fish

    Mackerel, mantis shrimps, mullet, prawns, sole and cuttlefish are caught by a trawling net aboard a fishing vessel in Rimini, Italy
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Jude Webber
    Wild salmon were an Irish icon. Now they’re almost gone

    The nation’s inability to protect a species that has such cultural power looks both cavalier and foolish

    Salmon Fishing in Ireland
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Food security
    Global farmed fish production overtakes wild catch for first time

    UN agency says aquaculture boom will boost food security but critics say it harms fragile marine ecosystems

    A worker throws mackerel into a sea pen to feed farmed fish in Japan.
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s greatest angling adventures
    The hope and heartache of salmon fishing in the Highlands

    Pursuit of the elusive salmon inevitably brings failure. It’s why anglers get so hooked

    The author fishing on the River Carron with Jim the ghillie
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Climate change
    Record ocean warming adds to dangers for native fish species, environment chief warns

    Urgent need to ratify UN treaty to protect 30% of oceans by 2030, backers say

    The multihued waters of the Aegean Sea sparkle by the islet of Kounoupa off the island of Astypalea, Greece
  • Sunday, 14 April, 2024
    UK fishing
    France slams UK over fishing access to protected habitat in British waters

    Paris presses European Commission to take action after trawler fleet banned from 13 areas

    A French trawler sails off the coast of northern France
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    David Willer
    To save the oceans, start eating ‘naked clams’

    People (and fish) need to consume this seafood rather than wiping out stocks of the ‘big five’

    A close up of a diver’s mask as he holds up a piece of wood with a shipworm attached
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Brexit
    Brexit red tape costs Scottish salmon producers millions, says trade body

    Reducing trade friction with the EU could boost access to member states, group says

    A customer inspects a salmon
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Chinese fishing company accused of environmental and labour abuses

    UK campaign group targets fleet owned by billionaire Lu Weiding’s conglomerate Wanxiang Group

    Yellowfin tuna laid out a fish market
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    World Trade Organization
    WTO agrees to extend ecommerce tariff exemption for 2 more years

    Boost for trade body though progress lacking on overfishing and aid for farmers

    WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala talks to summit chair Emirati trade minister Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    EU fishing
    Denmark and Sweden press Brussels to act against UK in fishing dispute

    Copenhagen claims London’s ban on catching sand eels on Dogger Bank discriminates against its fleet

    Shoal of Sand eels
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Visual investigation
    The hidden cost of your supermarket salmon

    Fish sold by major retailers in Europe is harming food security in west Africa

    A photo of a small fishing boat in the waters of Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s second largest city
  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
    UK fishing
    UK seafood industry cracks down on exploitation of overseas crew

    Two-year scheme sets new standards for pay and working conditions on British boats

    Scottish fishermen at sea
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Local Chinese banks get a lifeline

    China steps up aid for regional banks as economic risks mount

  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    Off-radar fishing threatens efforts to preserve stocks, study warns

    Majority of industrial vessels in world’s oceans are not publicly tracked, says Global Fishing Watch

    A trawler pulls away from a fishing port in France
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    UK fishing
    UK seafood sector in talks to clean up labour standards on fishing vessels

    Supermarkets among groups behind pilot scheme to combat human rights abuses in British fleet

    Fish being unloaded from a boat
  • Saturday, 8 July, 2023
    Top UK food retailers launch probe into mistreatment of migrant fishers

    Investigation will examine claims of bad practice by key fishing body in Northern Irish supply chains

    Scottish fishermen at sea working the nets
  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    Special ReportFT Business Education Research Insights
    Can big fish lead the way on ocean sustainability?

    A professor on how academics are working with ‘keystone actors’ to change fishing

    Illustration of a ship casting its net to catch fish. The ocean with the multicolored fish is depicted as much bigger than the ship
  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    Human rights
    UK government faces legal challenge over visa system for migrant fishers

    FT investigation detailed mistreatment of Filipino crew who worked on British boats over the course of a year

    Crew members of the Radiant Star fishing in the North Sea in Shetland, Scotland.
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    FT Investigations
    The isolated and dangerous lives of migrant fishermen in the UK

    Two cousins came to the UK for a better life. They left changed forever

  • Friday, 9 June, 2023
    Mining
    Norway seeks to open vast ocean area to deep-sea mining

    Country could become first to extract battery metals from its ocean floor

    A fishing vessel on the icy waters of Svalbard
  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    UK fishing
    UK fishing industry gets green light to hire more overseas workers

    The sector is struggling with labour shortages and post-Brexit export regulations

    Fisherman sorts his catch aboard a boat
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