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We are totally dependent on our oceans. But, we're damaging them on a scale unimaginable to most people. Destructive fishing, polluting industries and climate change are threatening the survival of whole marine ecosystems, as species are driven towards extinction as their habitats are destroyed.

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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

Arctic Sunrise captures EU trawlers plundering West African seas

Our ship, the Arctic Sunrise is currently in Mauritanian waters, to highlight the problems of overfishing emptying African seas. Vast factory-style fishing...
Posted by Willie - 27 February, 2012 - 09:30 -

Scandalous sentences for Scottish skippers

Organised crime seems to pay quite handsomely, especially if you manage to be part of a profession that seems to be beyond reproach. That can surely be the...
Posted by Willie - 24 February, 2012 - 17:50 -
Small scale fishermen in Cornwall

Common sense discarded

In the same way that discarding perfecting good fish, dead or dying back into sea is a disgrace, so is the attitude of many European fisheries ministers...
Posted by Ariana Densham - 20 February, 2012 - 16:55 -

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