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What is the UK’s biggest fishing boat doing in West African seas?

I’m out in the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere off Mauritania in West Africa, aboard the Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise. We’re here to document and expose the...
Posted by Willie - 23 March, 2012 - 14:04
Abdou, Issa, John Sauven, Willie Bain and Celestino discuss DEFRA policy

UK minister Benyon flexing his political muscles in Brussels

EU council meetings are rarely something that the vast majority of us get excited about. These meetings are when the representatives from each of the EU...
Posted by Willie - 16 March, 2012 - 17:30
Tuna and bycatch caught in the east Pacific

The Italian Job: reeling in the Italian tuna industry

The sands in the tuna campaign have shifted again, and the oceans and tuna will ultimately be better off for it. Our Italian colleagues have just announced...
Posted by simon clydesdale - 9 March, 2012 - 13:56

Video: How Europe’s plunder of West African waters is affecting local communities

This week as our crew on the Arctic Sunrise highlights the mass plundering taking place at sea by European super trawlers in West Africa; our team on land in...
Posted by hayley.baker - 5 March, 2012 - 17:25

New Antarctic Ocean Alliance to blaze trail for marine reserves

According to some people, 2012 is supposed to be a year of transformative events. Well I don’t know about astronomical alignments, the Mayan calendar and all...
Posted by hayley.baker - 28 February, 2012 - 18:25

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