Angling International reports, 21st January 2015: “The recreational fishing sector has welcomed an EU Commission decision to introduce emergency measures that will alleviate the ‘imminent and serious’ threat to European sea bass stocks. In a move of significant benefit to the recreational fishing industry, the Commission has imposed a pelagicpelagic The ecological area consisting of […]
» Fisheries
- EU imposes sea bass trawling ban
- UK Parliament debates the management needs of sea bass
- Whelk stocks now at risk from over-fishing
- Two-thirds of all predatory fish have disappeared during the last century
- EU ignores scientific advice in its setting of deep-sea fishing quotas
- BBC TV reports on Greenpeace statement that one Dutch vessel has 23% of English fishing quota
- New Economics Foundation records Baltic Sea 2015 fishing TACs exceed scientific advice
- Oceana urges great caution on the EU concerning deep-sea fishing quotas
- Super-fishing boat declared a “pirate ship”
- Big business, nearly half foreign owned, controls the UK’s fishing quotas
- Fish quotas resulting in “concentration rather than conservation” of the fishing industry
- Long term dredging damage to Thames fishing grounds
- EU reviews fish stocks prior to 2015 quotas
- GM salmon encounters regulatory problems
- EU set to license deep-sea fishing under the CFP
- Canada says “no new fishing licences” in the Arctic
- EU criticised for setting 2015 Baltic cod quotas in exceedance of scientific advice
- Scottish fishermen allowed to “bank” 2014 Russian mackerel quota
- EU fishermen may get “uplift” in their fishing quotas to compensate for loss of Russian market
- New advice on which fish to eat and to avoid
We provide here the link to a debate in the Westminster Parliament on 3rd December 2014 relating to the urgent needs for proper management policies for sea bass stocks, see www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm141203/halltext/141203h0001.htm
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The Daily telegraph reports, 16th November 2014: “Scientists have warned that whelk stocks are at risk of running out as overfishing has seen the amount caught more than double over the last decade. Experts say regulations to protect them need to be tightened as it was revealed British vessels caught 19,000 tonnes last year — […]
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Mother Nature Network reports, 20th October 2014: “Once believed immutable due to their massive size and volume, today’s oceans are no longer the same oceans of our grandparents. In just a few generations, human activity has radically transformed ocean ecosystems. Case in point: Recent research has found that populations of predatory fish around the world […]
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Seas At Risk report, 10th November 2014: “The EU’s Agriculture and Fisheries Council has agreed on deep sea fisheries quotas for 2015 and 2016 that will allow for the continuation of overfishing of these particularly fragile species. By setting the 2015-16 quotas above those recommended by scientists for alfonsinos, red seabream, black scabbardfish and roundnose […]
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Below is a report into the Greenpeace research and report into the ownership of the English and UK fishing quotas originally broadcast on Newsnight, BBC2 5th November 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Sh1z5Tq-w&feature=youtu.be Source: BBC2 Television and YouTube. For the Greenpeace report see www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/foreign-businesses-use-nearly-half-england%E2%80%99s-fishing-quota-20141104
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In a Briefing, published 31st October 2014, the New Economics Foundation record that five fish stocks in the Baltic Sea have been given fishing TACs (total allowable catch) for 2015 which exceed scientific advice. The EU undertook in its 2014 reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) to ensure that no stocks were over-fished in […]
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The conservation organisation, Oceana, reports 7th November 2014: “On 10th November, the Council of Fisheries Ministers of the European Union will meet in Brussels to decide catch limits for North-East Atlantic deep-sea fisheries in 2015 and 2016. These fisheries target a small number of managed species, of which most are considered to be overfished or […]
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Stuff.co.nz reports, 31st October 2014: “A shadowy Chinese super-fishing boat that changes flags and names routinely as it illegally plunders the South Pacific is to be declared a pirate ship by a Wellington based international control agency. Damanzaihao, flying the Peruvian flag, it is the world’s largest fishing vessel at 49,367 tons but no one […]
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The Falmouth Packet reports, 1st November 2014: “ The scale of foreign dominance in fishing quota has been revealed by a Greenpeace investigation that which shows that 43 per cent of England’s fishing quota is held by foreign controlled fishing businesses. Greenpeace says the investigation exposes the high concentration of quota in the hands of […]
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Emma Cardwell writes in Land Magazine, Winter issue 2013-14: “The UK’s fisheries quota system, introduced in 1999 and comprising the creation of a private market for the right to catch fish, has been called “the biggest property grab since the Norman invasion”.1 The UK government use the quota system to control how many fish can […]
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Fishing News of 24th October 2014 published an article written by Tim Oliver on the findings of the Thames fishermen who have seen their fishing grounds damaged by the intense dredging operations in constructing the huge deep water container terminal at Thurrock, on the north bank of the Thames, just 20 miles east of central […]
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In a communication, dated 28th October 2014, the EU Commission reports on present fish stocks in EU seas: Iberian waters: On the one hand anglerfish biomassbiomass The amount of living matter. This is therefore a different measure to numbers of organisms. So, for example, there is much more biomass in 1 elephant than there is […]
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The Inter Press News Service, Washington USA, reports, 29th October 2014: “Officials in Panama have fined the local facility of a U.S. biotechnology company for a series of permitting and regulatory failures around a pioneering attempt to create genetically modified salmon. The experiments are being carried out by researchers for AquaBounty Technologies, which currently has […]
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The Pew Foundation reports, 21st October 2014: “On the 10th and 11th November EU fisheries ministers are scheduled to decide on fishing limits for deep sea stocks in 2015 and 2016. This will be done for the first time under the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The deep sea is the area of the ocean […]
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Canadian TV reports, 17th October 2014: “The federal government has implemented a ban on new commercial fisheries in the western Arctic until more research can be done. The policy, announced 17th October, has long been requested by environmental groups and follows a similar American decision that was enacted five years ago. “It’s based on the […]
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CFP Reform Watch reports, 14th October 2014: “The decision yesterday (13th October) on fishing quotas for the Baltic Sea disregards the scientific advice for several fish stocks, notably cod. Environmental groups now criticise fisheries ministers for not following the EU’s new rules on sustainable fishing. For the western cod stock, scientists had advised that the […]
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BBC News reports, 13th October 2014: “Fishermen affected by the Russian food export ban are to benefit from a change in EU law allowing them to bank a quarter of their mackerel quota. The EU Fisheries Council has agreed to permit the industry to bank 25% of the 2014 quota, up from the standard 10%, […]
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Reuters reports, 10th October 2014: “ EU ministers will debate on 13th October 2014 whether European fishermen can extend their quota limits next year to compensate for the loss of Russian customers following Moscow’s ban on Western food imports. The European Union’s fisheries chief said she would ask ministers to support her proposal to allow […]
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The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has updated its advice, 25th September 2014, on which fish species/stocks consumers should purchase or avoid. MCS states: British consumers are to avoid buying and eating wild-caught salmon because of concerns about depleted stocks resulting from overfishing. In the Marine Conservation Society’s (MCS) update of its sustainable seafood guide, wild-caught […]
