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18th Apr 13

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Denmark

 There are three types of fishery in Denmark: the industrial fishery for fishmeal and fish oil, the pelagic fishery (mainly herring and mackerel) and the demersal fishery for white fish (cod, hake, haddock, whiting and saithe), flatfish (mainly sole, plaice, flounder), lobster and deep water prawns. The majority of products are exported. The EU is the main market, accounting for around 80% of exports.

The Danish fleet consists mainly of trawlers, gillnetters and poundnets. The fleet is generally flexible and takes part in different fisheries throughout the year. The important fishing areas are the North Sea, the Skagerrak, the Kattegat, the Baltic Sea, coastal waters and some distant waters. The number of vessels has been reduced in recent years in line with EU decommissioning schemes.

A series of national management schemes has been put into operation to maximise fishing opportunities whilst ensuring that Danish quotas allocated by the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) are not exceeded. These measures include catch limits, individual transferable quotas (ITQs), vessel rations according to vessel size, periodic bans, minimum landing sizes (sometimes larger than those specified under the CFP), satellite surveillance and licensing.

Danish vessels or companies have rarely been exposed in cases of illegal fishing, and Danish fisheries are considered in the main to be reasonably well managed.

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Reports from Member States on Behaviours Which Seriously Infringed the Rules of the Common Fisheries Policy in 2006
04/11/2008
This paper from the European Commission documents infringements of the Common Fisheries Policy by Member States in 2006. 83% of the infringements were ...
Author: European Commission
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Murky Waters - Hauling in the Net on Europe‘s High Seas Bottom Trawling Fleet
03/03/2006
Documents the destructive activities of high seas bottom trawlers observed fishing in the North Atlantic by Greenpeace in 2004 and 2005.

Several o ...
Author: Greenpeace International
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09/10/2009
Scotland tackling discards is a win win for fishermen and conservation
Author: Fishupdate.com
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01/09/2009
Denmark goes all-in for fisheries ecolabel
Author: Fishupdate.com
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17/08/2009
Peterhead vessel in new drive to cut discards
Author: Fishupdate.com
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25/05/2009
Denmark suggests cameras to stop EU's overfishing
Author: Reuters UK
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06/02/2009
North Pacific Council votes to close Arctic to commercial fishing
Author: Environment News Service
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01/09/2008
Thousands of sharks caught by European fleets are not reported to fisheries management organisations says Oceana
Author: Oceana
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25/08/2008
Scottish MEP hits out at the practice of discarding fish at sea
Author: Fishupdate.com
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12/08/2008
Activists drop rocks on German seabed to stop fishing
Author: Reuters UK
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08/08/2008
Globalization is destroying the world's oceans
Author: Free Internet Press, from an article in 'Spiegel Online'
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14/07/2008
Russia 'resumes patrols' in disputed Arctic waters
Author: Irish Times
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01/03/2008
Cda to reopen ports to Faroe Islands, Denmark, Greenland, Hearn says
Author: The Canadian Press
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07/01/2008
Poland launches Baltic cod count after EU fishing spat
Author: Fishupdate.com
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13/12/2007
Cod hits world record price
Author: Fishupdate.com
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28/11/2007
Polish fishermen want Joe Borg‘s head
Author: Times of Malta
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20/10/2007
Dutch brown shrimp fleet committed to change to get MSC ecolabel
Author: MSC, featured on ICSF Samudra News Alerts
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29/06/2007
Canada plays leadership role in shutting down ports of call to illegal fishing
Author: Marketwire, Canada
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07/06/2007
Transposition into EU law of control and technical measures adopted by North West Atlantic Fisheries Organisation
Author: European Parliament
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05/06/2007
Top salmon conservation nations praised
Author: Fishupdate.com
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24/05/2007
Norway tops fisheries poll
Author: Norden, Norway
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22/05/2007
Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the EC, Denmark and Greenland
Author: European Parliament
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21/11/2006
Plundering Europe's high seas
Author: WWF
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15/09/2006
Fishing pirates caught red handed in the Baltic Sea
Author: Greenpeace
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06/07/2006
Joint Nordic front to combat illegal fishing
Author: Nordic Council
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05/07/2006
Ministers to condemn illegal fishing
Author: Nordic Council
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27/03/2006
May review of Fish Stocks Agreement to stress participation, implementation in order to reverse decline of fish stocks
Author: Media Newswire
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22/03/2006
EU hunts ‘pirate‘ fishing fleet allowed to sail by Germany
Author: The Independent Online
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03/03/2006
Murky waters: Greenpeace exposes the European countries responsible for deep-sea destruction
Author: Common Dreams News Wire, USA
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14/02/2006
Findus fires fishy suppliers
Author: Greenpeace
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Mr Paul Knapman
I have worked on IUU fishing related issues in the UK, Canada and the Baltic. I have been a Fisheries Officer, a Senior Fisheries Policy Advisor to a ...
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