THE Young's Fish For Life programme could be on the brink of winning global acclaim. The European Business Awards for the Environment has named the Young’s/Findus fish protection project as one of its ten international finalists. Fish for Life was the only British entry to reach the finals out of the eleven winners of the UK stage of the awards who were named in London and reported by Fishupdate.com earlier this month.

THE UK Fisheries Minister Huw Irranca-Davies is due in Grimsby tomorrow to meet local fishing leaders on a number of key issues..

In a recent Scottish Parliamentary debate, the future of Aquaculture was discussed and Scotland’s achievement in dramatically increasing its export of high quality salmon was recognised. Dr Richard Simpson MSP for mid Scotland and Fife, praised the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture for leading the way in this increasingly important field.

THE owner of fish farming company West Minch Salmon has said that business should be back to normal soon after a fire affected part of their processing factory at Gramsdale in Benbecula last week.

Two Barony College fisheries students have been awarded top honours at the Lantra Land-based Learner of the Year Awards. Sixteen year old Dean Marshall from Dumfries was awarded the Land Based Curriculum for Schools Learner of the Year while Jamie McAndrew from Aberdeenshire was a joint winner in the GC Taylor (Farms) Ltd Outstanding Achievement Awards.

NORWEGIAN farmed cod is a good fish according to the results of a market test involving 32 chefs in France and Sweden.

THERE is mixed news on fish supplies in the UK in the run up to Easter - traditionally the fish trade's busiest period of the year. The rise in salmon prices is particularly worrying, says suppliers.

FISHING is now one of the largest contributors to the New Zealand economy, contributing more than $4 billion NZ dollars a year.

A PROPOSED international trade ban on Atlantic Bluefin is this week creating widespread division across the fishing world.The United States and Europe are supporting the ban to prevent its extinction. But Japanese fish merchants are bitterly fighting the move and Australia has refused to join in which has brought an outcry from conservation groups.

While welcoming the overall commitment of resources for the national Helicopter Search and Rescue (SAR) service from 2012, the Federation of Irish Fishermen today rejected as "scandalous" the reported proposal to downgrade the SAR Helicopter service based at Waterford to a daytime only service.

Aquaculture equipment manufacturer Fusion Marine has won orders worth £2.4m to supply salmon pens and associated equipment from three Scottish fish farming companies.

THOUSANDS of fishing and seafood executives arrived in Boston at the weekend for one of the world's largest and most important industry trade shows - with the message that the industry may be turning the corner out of recession. .