David Scullion, Brexit Central 18th November 2018, interviews Aaron Brown, Fishing For Leave, and reports on the UK Fisheries Bill currently before the UK Parliament. The Fisheries Bill is due for its Second Reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday 21st November 2018, the first time the Government has attempted to take back sovereignty […]
» 2018
- “Fishing For Leave” explains why EU Withdrawal Agreement is a “sell-out”
- Campaign Group, Goodwin Sands SOS, launches legal challenge and funding appeal
- Marinet publishes YouTube recording of its UK Universities Seminar
- PEW Trust reports on EU strategy behind CFP fishing limits
- World’s wild fish stocks continue to decline, whilst aquaculture expands
- Anti-depressant pharmaceuticals are damaging marine life
- Boyan Slat’s plastic waste Ocean Cleanup commences, not without criticism
- Seahorse Trust launches a “Stop The Curio Trade” campaign in seahorses worldwide
- “Ghost” fishing gear is having a profound marine impact, says new report
- Nearly 50% of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from fishing
- What is the condition of the world’s fisheries in 2018?
- UK Fisheries post-Brexit : The Management Principles
- Exterminating rats on the islands of Chagos could conserve its coral reefs
- Wastewater from fracking will be discharged to sea
- Marinet’s submission to UK Parliament Select Committee is critical of marine governance
- Senior European Experts provide a Briefing on UK Fisheries following Brexit
- Commonwealth Nations agree to a Blue Charter to tackle global ocean issues
- “Grey Fish” in Scotland – the catch that escapes the radar : the problem and solution
- UK Seas in Crisis : Will Brexit change things?
- EU Parliament votes to ban commercial electric pulse trawling for fish
The campaign group, Goodwin Sands SOS (Save our Sands), has announced October 2018 that it is launching a legal challenge via judicial review of the decision by the UK government’s Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to grant a licence to dredge the Goodwin Sands which lie in the English Channel, offshore from Deal, Kent. The MMO […]
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Marinet is currently embarking on a series of seminars at UK universities in which it presents the scientific evidence and arguments for a paradigm change in the governance of human activity in the ocean, as explained by Marinet Member, Deborah Wright, in her publication Conserving The Great Blue. This two hour long seminar has been […]
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In a report titled A New Double Standard for EU Fisheries? The Pew Trust reports, July 2018: Management of cod and other species in the European Union is complex because populations are divided into various stocks, depending on location, and subject to a range of catch limits. The process has been further complicated this year […]
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UN FAO) has published its State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, 2018, presenting FAO’s official world fishery and aquaculture statistics. Global fish production peaked at about 171 million tonnes in 2016, with aquaculture representing 47 percent of the total. In 2016, 88 percent of the total fish production […]
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Phsy.org reports, 8th October 2018: A huge rise in the number of people taking antidepressant drugs is potentially posing a threat to the environment, according to new research. An expert in the effects of human waste on marine life and an expert in ethical pharmacology, both at the University of Portsmouth, are calling for prescribers […]
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Sciencemag.org reports, 11th September 2018: A high-profile and controversial effort to collect and haul away plastic trash in the ocean is finally going to sea. A massive tugboat left San Francisco Bay this weekend, pulling a long sinuous boom constructed by The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organisation based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The device, which […]
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The Seahorse Trust has announced in its latest newsletter that it is launching a campaign to protect seahorses from being exploited worldwide by the curio trade. This campaign is necessary the Trust believes because, unless successful, pressure on seahorse species globally from this trade and other practices e.g. fishing and medicinal use, will lead to […]
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The World Society for Protection of Animals (WSPA) has published a report which studies the profound impact that “ghost fishing gear” is having on marine animals. The report, titled Ghosts beneath the waves states: As fishing intensifies, more fishing gear is being lost or abandoned and this is contributing to our ocean’s plastic problem. It’s […]
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Nature.com publishes an article by L. Lebreton et al, 22nd March 2018, titled Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic. The authors state: Ocean plastic can persist in sea surface waters, eventually accumulating in remote areas of the world’s oceans. Here we characterise and quantify a major ocean plastic accumulation zone […]
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In July 2007 the NGO Oceana wrote and published a report State of the World’s Fisheries, subtitled What Will Be the Future of the Oceans? We bring readers attention back to this Ocean report because we are now 10 years on since its first publication. The question we ask is, have things changed? The Oceana […]
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We reproduce here the summary of the report Net Gain — Opportunities for Britain’s Fishing Industry post-Brexit written Shanker A. Singham of the Institute of Economic Affairs. This report concentrates on an economic perspective and explores how a British Fishing Policy can maximise the economic advantage for UK commercial fishing interests post-Brexit In contrast, Marinet […]
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BBC News reports 12th July 2018: A team working on the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean found that invasive rats on the islands are a “big problem” for coral reefs. Rats decimate seabird populations, in turn decimating the volume of bird droppings — a natural reef fertiliser. Scientists now advocate eradicating rats from all […]
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The Guardian reports, 15th June 2016: A UK shale gas company is considering dumping waste water from fracking in the sea, emails from the company show. Ineos, which owns the Grangemouth refinery and holds 21 shale licences, many in the north-west, North Yorkshire and the east Midlands, has said it wants to become the biggest […]
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Marinet has made a submission to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee and its Inquiry titled “Sustainable Seas”. Marinet has informed the Select Committee that: We believe that there is a profound dishonesty in the way in which Government and Parliament conducts its affairs with regards to the sea and ocean. It makes […]
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We provide a link to the article written by the independent group known as Senior European Experts who have written an in-depth Briefing on the issues likely to govern the nature of UK Fisheries following Brexit. The Briefing is titled Fisheries: The Transition Agreement and Future Arrangements and can be viewed here.
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The Commonwealth Secretariat News Release, 20th April 2018, reports: Commonwealth leaders today agreed on a bold, co-ordinated push to protect the ocean from the effects of climate change, pollution and over-fishing. Their landmark decision to adopt a Commonwealth Blue Charter will affect one third of the world’s national coastal waters, helping to sustain livelihoods and […]
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Openseas.org.uk reports 17th April 2018: The recent incident of illegal dredging in a Scottish MPA has exposed a serious problem for producers and consumers of Scottish seafood, highlighting that we don’t know, with any geographical accuracy, where much our seafood comes from. Our follow-up investigations suggest that legally and illegally caught fish and shellfish is […]
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Note: This article was commissioned by The Marine Quarterly which has agreed to the publishing of an abridged version in its Summer edition. The decline in both the health and diversity of life of British seas is a subject much reported upon. Yet in addressing the meaning of Brexit in this context it is first […]
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BBC News reports, 16th January 2018: Members of the European Parliament have voted to ban commercial fishing using an electric current in EU waters, so-called pulse fishing. Opponents say the method is equivalent to putting a Taser in the water. The European Commission and the Dutch government say it is better for the environment than […]
