Business / Industry
Monocolumn
Friday 30 July
The fishy business of bluefin tuna
At the booths around the conference hall, the discussions were of fatty fish, freezer technologies and the sashimi freebies.
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Business / Industry
Monocolumn
Thursday 21 October
Canada’s lobstermen try to claw back
The fishermen of Nova Scotia’s rocky southwest coast are mending their lobster traps and checking lines, but some predict the local fleet will stay at the wharf when the fishery is scheduled to open at the end of November…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 19 December
Fishing for compliments
As celebrations go, it was an unusual display: a Japanese politician who had just been re-elected to parliament, beaming for the television cameras while waving a dead fish.
Edits / Food & Drink
Conserveira de Lisboa
It would take a very special shop to impress Lisbon’s pescatarian public, but Conserveira de Lisboa – now into its 77th year – and its jawdropping array of Portuguese tinned fish has fed Lisboans, Michelin judges and tou…
Edits / Recipes
Hooked for life
A fish for celebration.
Edits / Food & Drink
My Last Meal: Fish called wander
For her last meal, British fashion designer Margaret Howell would choose a venue and menu as simple and quintessentially English as her eponymous clothing brand – a picnic on a windswept beach near her weekend home on the…
Business / Industry
Fishy business
If you can’t secure a job as an urban planner by day you can always become an ornamental fish hobbyist by night and engineer a perfect underwater world. At the heart of the €10bn international trade in ornamental fish is…
Business / Food & Drink
Mussel men
For years Danish fishermen have dredged the country’s waters for mussels to be frozen or canned. But now environmentally aware pioneers are growing the molluscs on lines and selling their fresh produce to people willing…
Affairs / Small Business
Catch of the day
The remote Alaskan outpost of Unalaska boasts the US’s biggest commercial port, thanks to a hugely profitable fishing season. And don’t forget the oil industry and a hit TV series...
Affairs / Economics
Frozen Assets
The world’s third biggest oil producer is also blessed with vast reserves of gas, fresh water and fish. Norway is Europe’s Saudi Arabia: a country so wealthy that despite having a population of just 4.5 million, it is a…
Edits / Industry
Expo 63: Heads above water
After the demise of its cod-fishing industry, Fogo Island looked to be in trouble. The tide is turning on its fortunes today thanks to a lifeline of cultural projects, a new hotel and jobs.
The Menu, episode 35
Jewish food in Tunis, the popularity of fish at Berlin’s most popular cornershop deli, and the Bangkok chef looking to the future of Thai food.
The Menu, episode 20
Fishing for sea urchins in northern Norway, tasting chocolate in Turin, and we pick our barista of the week.
Midori House, episode 85
We analyse Greece’s new advertising campaign, visit a century-old London fish and chip shop, and continue our look at the last five years of Monocle.
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocle travel guide
This month we’ve found a relaxed place to sip coffee in London, a cosy lodge for late-season Alpine skiing and the best fish supper in Rome.
The Monocle Daily, episode 71
How Gaddafi’s influence has spread to Mali, we discuss Fidel Castro's memoirs and learn how squid fishing is causing tension between Britain and Argentina.
The Menu, episode 83
A visit to Genoa’s Slow Fish trade fair where chefs from all over the world devise new ways of serving seafood, we visit Kewpie Corporation in Tokyo, and find out some of Turkey’s nearly forgotten food treasures.
Edits / Travel
Ski to the sea
Where can you enjoy such off-piste activities as deep-sea fishing and viewing the Northern Lights? The Lyngen Alps, home of Lyngen Lodge, provide a spectacular setting to a unique skiing experience.
