Tag: fishing vessels

According to a new complaint, the UK capital’s insurance industry is partly to blame when fishing vessels “go dark” at sea by turning off their mandatory satellite tracking equipment.

The IMO Sub-Committee on Human Element, Training and Watchkeeping (HTW 9) took place 6-10 February 2023 in IMO headquarters, adopting amendments related to the training for fishers for enhanced safety at sea.

Five crew members from a fishing vessel appeared in front of the court in Holstebro, Denmark to be charged with manslaughter.

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified several actions that the Coast Guard needs to take to help prevent fishing vessel losses and related fatalities.

AMSA provides lessons learned from an incident during which a crew's foot was trapped in a cray's pot’s rope, and was dragged over the side.

According to ETF, the European Commission is expected to release two important reports in early 2023: the Action plan to conserve fisheries resources and protect marine ecosystems and the Report on the functioning of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).

According to Dr Jess Sparks is a Research Assistant Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham Rights Lab, linkages between unsafe working conditions and indecent work across fleets globally have emerged lately in research. 

According to UK MAIB, the skipper of a beam trawler saw that his port side derrick, beam and fishing gear had fallen onto the wheelhouse roof of the other vessel.

According to UK MAIB, the skipper of a large scallop dredger became confused by the multitude of shore lights and struggled to ascertain his position in the channel.

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, a crewman fell overboard a fishing vessel, while the boat continued its passage with the sleeping skipper unaware of the situation.