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 […]
» Fisheries
- 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
- 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
- Will the culling of seals revive Canada’s lost cod stocks?
- UK Government to take action to protect SACs from adverse effects of fishing
- EU Fisheries Ministers agree CFP reforms, but are strongly criticised
- MARINET informs OSPAR Committee on shortcomings in MSFD Descriptor 3 definition
- European Parliament report says CFP should create “fish stock recovery areas” covering 10-20% of the sea
- The Clyde fishery needs more reserves and less trawling
- Suffolk small boat fishermen add their voice to CFP Reform
- Global food insecurity increasing as world fish stocks decline
- Over-fished stocks, if closed, can be rebuilt and so deliver large future profits
- NEF explains new CFP report: Every £1 invested in fish stock restoration will yield £14 profit by 2052
- Super Trawler stopped – for now
- Indian Ocean island and its artisanal fishery leads the way on marine reserves
- Help Australia stop the Super-trawler
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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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 […]
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Canada’s multimillion dollar proposal to cull grey seals will not bring back the ravaged stocks of Atlantic cod it is intended to help, scientists have said. In October, the Canadian Senate approved a controversial plan to kill 70,000 grey seals in the Gulf of St Lawrence under a bounty system next year, ostensibly to revive […]
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Scallop dredgers and trawlers could be forced out of more than 200 protected marine sites in UK waters as a result of a new legal ruling by the government. The new interpretation of EU law on habitats and species, which has been forced on the government by environmental groups, could see scallop dredgers and trawlers […]
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EU Fisheries Ministers have reached a provisional deal to reshape the Common Fisheries Policy, long blamed for overfishing. The deal has been hailed by the UK environment ministry Defra but criticised by the EU fisheries commissioner and environmentalists. A EU Commission source told BBC News the new funding arrangements would continue to promote overfishing. He […]
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MARINET, which has Observer status at OSPAR, has informed the OSPAROSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic made up of representatives of the Governments of the 15 signatory nations. Committee considering how best to define the “good environmental status” Descriptors of the EU’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) that […]
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A report, “Establishment of Fish Stock Recovery Areas”, for the European Parliament, published September 2012 and written by Callum Roberts and Julie Hawkins, University of York, UK, argues that the new Basic Regulation of the Common Fisheries Policy should be amended in order to establish “fish stock recovery areas” covering between 10-20% of the sea. The […]
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At this year’s Arran Agriculture Show the mission of COAST (Community of Arran Seabed Trust) to establish an angler and creeler friendly marine protected area received support from woodcarver Marvin Elliott. He had carved a big cod out of a piece of drift beechwood. “This wooden fish is meant to be an eye-catching reminder of those days […]
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The future of Suffolk’s fishing industry continues to be under threat from unfair quotas that are in urgent need of reform. Current limits on the amount of fish that boats under 10m can catch mean many fishermen are being forced to quit, it has been claimed. Places including Aldeburgh and Lowestoft have seen the number […]
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The Persian Gulf, Libya, and Pakistan are at high risk of food insecurity in coming decades because climate change and ocean acidification are destroying fisheries, according to a report released by Oceana. The report from the campaign group Oceana warns of growing food insecurity, especially for poorer people, from the Faroe Islands in the North […]
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A temporary halt to fishing to allow some European stocks to recover could generate billions of pounds of profit within a decade, a report argues. All fish stocks, including North Sea cod which would take a little over nine years to get back into shape, could be restored within a decade, the report from the New […]
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Research published by the New Economics Foundation (nef) finds that restoring European fish stocks could generate huge returns on investment. Key Findings: Most overfished stocks could be fully restored within five years, with a few needing four more years Investing £9.16 billion in restoring fish stocks would generate £4.43 billion profit by 2023 After stocks […]
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Readers who sent an e-mail to the Australian Minister Tony Burke asking him to stop the huge super-trawler will be delighted to learn that they have been successful in averting the marine environmental impact of such this activity, in that just as the trawler Abel Tasman, a.k.a the FV Margiris, was about to leave port […]
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In the Indian Ocean a landmark fishery closure is being held to boost the artisanal fisheries of island communities Small-scale fisheries face growing challenges in the face of continued over exploitation. Rodrigues, a tiny Mauritian island, has been battling declining fisheries productivity for the last 15 years. Lying nearly 1,000 kilometres east of Madagascar, Rodrigues […]
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Rebecca of of CommunityRun.org and the GetUp team of Australia www.getup.org.au are asking for our support in lobbying Federal Fisheries Minister Joe Ludwig to oppose licensing the worlds second largest super trawler to fish in Australian waters. It fishes for the target species mackeral and redbait with nets whose mouth stretches up to 100 meters […]
