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Seas in crisis? Fix the Common Fisheries Policy

Our seas are in peril: more than 70 per cent of Europe's fish stocks are overfished, putting our most popular species at risk if it continues. And the way...
Posted by Gemma Freeman - 17 August, 2011 - 16:24
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launches Fish Fight Europe outside the EU Commission

Fish Fighting for the oceans! But the battle continues

Tonight Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall broadcast Hugh’s Fish Fight: The Battle Continues, his follow-up to the influential BAFTA-winning Fish Fight series...
Posted by simon clydesdale - 8 August, 2011 - 21:39
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall is back with a new episode of Fish Fight - The Battl

Hugh brings his Fish Fight back for one last round

Back in January, Channel 4’s Big Fish Fight season caused quite a splash. The undoubted star of the season was Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his three Hugh’...
Posted by Willie - 4 August, 2011 - 15:21
A Greenpeace activist cuts the lines on a fish aggregating device (FAD) - curren

And then there were none: John West changes its tuna to drop FADs

You did it! Today John West, the last of the major UK players to resist a shift to sustainable tuna, finally committed to change their tuna. After more than 51...
Posted by simon clydesdale - 26 July, 2011 - 00:00
The bizarre pantomime that is the International Whaling Commission's annual meet

IWC wrap up: too busy disagreeing to save any whales.

The contentious thing at this year’s International Whaling Committee (IWC) annual meeting wasn’t whaling, but bizarrely it was the issue of ‘consensus’.Despite...
Posted by Willie - 18 July, 2011 - 16:18

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