Blog: Oceans

The "trawler trash" roadshow

Posted by bex - 4 December 2006 at 12:37pm - Comments

For every plate of beam trawled plaice there are up to 3 plates of wasted sea life

Following their fine showing in London's Trafalgar square last month, our Greenpeace 'fishmongers' hit the road today on their mission to show supermarket shoppers how many of the nation's favourite fish are caught using wasteful and destructive methods - beam-trawling in particular.

Article tagged as: beam trawling, bycatch, oceans, overfishing, supermarkets, sustainable seafood

Iceland sinks UN moratorium on bottom trawling

Posted by jamie - 24 November 2006 at 7:04pm - Comments

The news that the UN moratorium on bottom trawling has sunk to the metaphorical, erm, bottom is grim enough but when you hear that it was all down to one country, it's just bloody depressing. And the culprit? Step forward Iceland, proud whaling nation and now ocean floor destroyer. Thanks guys.

But I can't put it better than Adele over on the Making Waves blog. There's real rage for you.

Article tagged as: bottom trawling, iceland, moratorium, oceans, UN

Blame Canada (and Espana) - bottom trawling gets the South Park treatment

Posted by bex - 17 November 2006 at 7:06pm - Comments

Bottom trawling - it's not big and it's not clever. An upcoming UN vote could see a moratorium on this fishing method which is destroying life on the ocean bed, but Canada and Spain are opposing it. If the video below doesn't inspire you to take action, you've misplaced your funny bone.

Article tagged as: bottom trawling, moratorium, oceans, south park

A Recipe for Change

Publication date: 
15 October, 2006

Supermarkets repond to the challenge of sourcing sustainable seafood

Summary
Almost a year has passed since Greenpeace first challenged the major UK retailers to ensure that the seafood they sell is sustainable. "A Recipe for Change" is a review of the progress that supermarkets have made on this issue over the last 12 months.

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Article tagged as: oceans, reports, supermarkets, sustainable seafood

Time for supermarkets to ban beam trawled seafood

Posted by darren - 5 October 2006 at 10:37am - Comments

'Bycatch' on display in Trafalgar Square - another name for senseless waste and wanton destruction

Last year we challenged leading UK supermarkets to clean up their act by removing destructively fished seafood from their shelves - our new report shows that many of the biggest names on the high street have responded positively, and are leading a revolution that is transforming the entire fishing industry.

Article tagged as: beam trawling, bycatch, oceans, supermarkets, sustainable seafood

Survey results highlight the risk to common dolphins off the southwest coast

Posted by darren - 2 August 2006 at 11:13am - Comments

Dead dolphin discovered by Greenpeace in the English channel whilst monitoring a fleet of French pair trawlers

Intensive trawling during the winter and spring months coincides with relatively high levels of cetacean strandings

The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) and Greenpeace have released the results from the 2004-2005 winter surveys of cetaceans and pelagic (mid-water) trawls in the western approaches of the English Channel.

Article tagged as: bycatch, dolphins, esperanza, research

Japan wins St Kitts declaration vote at International Whaling Commission

Posted by darren - 18 June 2006 at 1:54pm - Comments
Minke whale being flensed aboard a Japanese factory whaling ship

Greenpeace vows to return to the Southern Ocean to oppose Japan's continued 'scientific hunt'

Japan and the whaling lobby have finally won a simple majority vote at the 58th meeting of International Whaling Commission (IWC), held on the Caribbean island of St Kitts in June. 33 countries voted in favour of a resolution called the "St Kitts declaration" claiming that the "IWC has failed to meet its obligations under the terms of the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW)" and declaring its commitment to "normalizing the functions of the IWC" - in other words, returning the organisation to its original hunting mandate.

Article tagged as: indonesia, IWC, japan, oceans, southern ocean, whaling

Whale's fate hangs in the balance

Posted by darren - 14 June 2006 at 5:27pm - Comments

Taking direct action to protect whales in the Southern Ocean

Whalers poised to seize control of the International Whaling Commission

International Whaling Commission 58th meeting
St. Kitts & Nevis, June 16th-20th 2006

Article tagged as: CITES, IWC, japan, moratorium, whaling

Bottom trawling - strip-mining the seas

Posted by darren - 7 June 2006 at 11:57am - Comments

Wanton destruction: bycatch trawled on the Dogger Bank, North Sea, August 2004

Greenpeace calls for global marine reserves on World Oceans Day

As the kick-off to the football world cup approaches, how's this for a key pre-match statistic? Every four seconds, marine life in an area of ocean floor the size of ten football fields is wiped out by high seas bottom trawlers.

Article tagged as: bottom trawling, bycatch, defending our oceans, high seas, marine reserves, world oceans day

For sale - the contents of the world's oceans

Posted by darren - 18 May 2006 at 11:53am - Comments
Brussels Seafood Expo is the world's largest - 10 exhibition halls promoting excessive consumption

by Oliver Knowles, Oceans campaigner

Earlier this year I attended the Brussels Seafood Expo - the world's largest seafood and fishing exhibition. Held in 10 enormous exhibition halls over 3 days, retailers, processors, fishermen, exporters, importers and many more from around the globe come to buy, sell, talk about and eat massive quantities of seafood. And it's quite an experience.

Article tagged as: destructive fishing, fish, oceans, retail, seafood, supermarkets
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