Damaging fishing methods and a lack of marine protected zones are being targeted by a renewed campaign to protect the world’s dwindling fish stocks, spearheaded by food writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. The dredging of seabeds with nets weighted with huge metal ploughs, tearing up all life, rocks and seaweeds and leaving a barren environment is one […]
» Fisheries
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall renews his campaign to protect the seabed
- George Monbiot asks if the Fisheries Minister is surrendering to commercial interests?
- David Miliband, co-founder of Global Ocean Commission, explains its purpose
- Global Ocean Commission formed to fight degradation of the ocean
- North Norfolk plans for Fishery Visitor Centres
- Hard facts in the battle for mackerel
- Ladbrokes is giving odds and taking bets on the extinction of fish species
- Faroe Islands withdraw from herring fishing agreement
- Marinet launches CFP petition on Avaaz
- Icelandic “mackerel war” threatens the future of Grimsby and UK fishing industry
- Petition and further action challenge proposed licensing of GM salmon
- As Scottish fish farming grows, so does pesticide use
- Addressing the most pressing marine science questions
- UK supermarket plans to sell sustainably fished tuna
- UK Fisheries Ministers applauds “EU fisheries deal”
- EU 2013 fishing quotas “defy scientific advice” say marine conservationists
- Scottish company has visionary proposals for the sustainable farming of salmon on land
- Over-fishing in the EU is a solvable problem” says fisheries expert
- UK Fisheries Minister says EU controls on UK fishing fleet are too strict
- Campaigning on the CFP
George Monbiot writes, 11th February 2013: “If the EU decides to ban fishing boats from discarding the edible fish they catch, it’ll land the British government in a spot of bother. It’s been using the discards issue as its excuse for justifying overfishing. “Last week the European parliament, pressed among others by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s excellent […]
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An environmental catastrophe with greater economic impact than the global financial crash is occurring on the high seas, according to David Miliband. The former foreign secretary is to lead a new, high-level international effort to end the lawlessness of the oceans, which will be unveiled this week. The high seas, which lie beyond any national […]
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The Global Ocean Commission, an independent body of international leaders aiming to reverse degradation of the ocean, has been launched to seek to restore it to full health and productivity. The group chaired by former Costa Rican President (and Carbon War Room President) José María Figueres, South African cabinet minister Trevor Manuel and former UK […]
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A bid for funding from the £2.4m European grant for a £85,000 scheme to showcase the past, present and future of North Norfolk’s fishery from four centres is being planned at Cromer, Sheringham, Wells and Stiffkey to explain the heritage and future challenges of the fishing industry to visitors, school children and tourists. The scheme […]
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The Sunday Telegraph reports, 2nd February 2013: “Every morning for the past 30 years, Thorvaldur Gunnlaugsson has risen early and sailed out of Reykjavik harbour at 4.30 am to fish in the freezing waters off the coast of Iceland – returning with his small boat laden with plaice, tusk fish and haddock. But this summer […]
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George Monbiot writes in his Guardian Blog, 1st February 2013: “I’ve come across some odd ways to make a living, but few as strange as this. The gambling company Ladbrokes has been offering odds on the conservation status of various fish species. Earlier it was taking bets on mackerel after it was taken off conservationists’ […]
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The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) and the Scottish Pelagicpelagic The ecological area consisting of the open sea away from the coast and the ocean bottom. The pelagic zone contains organisms such as surface seaweeds, many species of fish and sharks and some mammals, such as whales and dolphins. Pelagic animals may remain solely in the […]
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John Stansfield, Marinet’s CFP campaigner, has created a petition on Avaaz to be delivered to MEPs at the Plenary session of the European Parliament on 6th February. This petition is asking for MEPs to vote in support of the Fisheries Report and the block of amendments to the Basic Regulation (law) of the CFP which are being recommended […]
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Grimsby was home to Britain’s biggest fleet – now it relies on processing fish from Iceland. But if the EU imposes quotas on mackerel the impact on the Humberside town would be devastating. When Graham Hall started out as a trawlerman, the port of Grimsby was crammed with so many boats that local legend had […]
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is shortly expected to license an application by the biotech firm, AquaBounty, for commercial breeding of a GM salmon. We provide below a short Marinet Briefing on why this is potentially so dangerous, and advise on the action which consumers can take in the UK. At the same […]
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As salmon farming in Scotland increases so does the use of chemicals to kill parasites. Here’s the data that explains the chemicals used and how the levels have dramatically changed. For the first time, a full list of the chemicals used to control the sea lice parasite on every Scottish salmon farm has been disclosed […]
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From the National Oceanography Centre of the NERC comes a paper entitled ‘Prospectus addresses most pressing marine science questions’ listing the most pressing marine environmental issues that need to be addressed over the next twenty years. The treatise has been composed by a group of young scientists based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, and […]
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Sainsbury’s is to solely use Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified skipjack tuna from the Maldives in its own label canned product from next year. Already the UK’s largest retailer of MSC-certified sustainable fish in the UK – selling more than 130 products carrying the logo – the supermarket says the move is a significant step […]
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The UK has hailed an EU fisheries deal on catches for next year as good for the fishing industry and good for “the health of our seas”. The fisheries minister, Richard Benyon, emerged from the talks after fending off a range of quota cuts on the grounds that the need for more reductions was not […]
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Fishing fleets will be allowed to extract more fish from European waters than scientists advise is safe next year, after negotiations in Brussels on the EU’s fishing quotas. But there may be fewer discards, if predictions by fisheries ministers are correct. Nearly half of the quotas set were in excess of the best scientific advice, […]
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Scottish salmon is facing a challenge to its reputation as one of Britain’s best loved everyday luxuries, with scares over diseases and sea lice, heavy use of pesticides and seal killing raising fears about its environmental impact. A new fish-farming company called Fishfrom believes it can help solve the industry’s problem, and even partly solve […]
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Aniol Esteban, New Economics Foundation, writes in The Guardian 17th December 2012: “From fish and chips after work to smoked salmon at a Christmas party; jellied eels to Stargazy pie: fish is part of our culinary heritage. Overfishing is emptying our seas, ruining once profitable fisheries, and costing us dearly in reduced landings and lost […]
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Britain will oppose proposals to curtail cod catches in the North Sea next year. Environment minister Richard Benyon has pledged to vote against moves to make further restrictions in the time that fishermen spend at sea, and promised to oppose moves to reduce North Sea cod quotas. Benyon leads the UK delegation at the annual […]
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MARINET is far from alone in making strides to achieve a sustainable and fair Common Fisheries Policy. Greenpeace, The Marine Conservation Society, wildlife trusts and many other environmental marine groups and individuals are in there fighting for the common cause by educating and lobbying those who make the decisions in the hope to come up […]
