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Commercial fishermen have welcomed an agreement between Australia and Indonesia to take part in joint navy patrols to stop illegal fishing in Australia’s northern waters.

State and territory fisheries ministers have also committed to eight new measures to deter illegal fishermen, including a review of penalties and more research.
Neil Green from the [...]

Russian authorities seized four Japanese fishing boats in disputed waters off Russia’s Far East over alleged poaching, officials and news reports said on Saturday.
The four boats were intercepted and searched by Russian border patrol boats off the Kamchatka peninsula “in the last several days” and have been taken to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii for further questioning, according [...]

More than £1m of taxpayers money was wasted in the decommissioning of NI trawlers, according to a report.

The Audit Office criticised how the Department of Agriculture ran three schemes and the way it decided which boats would be grant-aided.
The watchdog found 22 trawler owners each had their grants increased by £40,000, costing taxpayers [...]

THE Fisheries Division of the Ministry of Agriculture is pushing to have fishing licences suspended for five years to allow for the resuscitation of the island’s over-fished reef areas.
The five-year interval, according to seamanship instructor Hartnel Murphy, would result in a gradual decrease in the number of fishermen, thereby allowing new stock to breed.
“After the [...]

Commercial salmon trollers in Oregon will be able to catch about 12,000 more chinook salmon than expected this season if they fish at the mouths of 10 Oregon rivers.
But that catch would be only a fraction of the number the fishermen would normally take, and it could be expensive to haul them in.
“It’s a Band-Aid,” [...]