Blogposts tagged 'Discards'

Fish Fighting for the oceans! But the battle continues

Posted by simon clydesdale - 8 August 2011 at 8:39pm - 1 Comment
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launches Fish Fight Europe outside the EU Commission
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Hugh starts the next crusade to save our seas in crisis in Fish Fight: 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 broadcast in January. Hugh and his team have clearly been very busy over the last 6 months, and not just in securing Hugh a swish new haircut.

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Common Fisheries Policy reform: glimmer of light in a sea of darkness

Posted by Ariana - 15 July 2011 at 2:43pm - 1 Comment
Greenpeace Campaigner Hanne Larsen holds a Cod to be discarded due to current EU
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Greenpeace Campaigner Hanne Larsen holds a Cod to be discarded due to current EU quota systems

On Wednesday the European Commission launched its proposals for a reform of the way Europe’s seas and fish are managed. After such a positive start back in 2009 when the Commission published its progressive green paper [PDF], it has been downhill ever since.

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Will the UK government be a progressive voice on fisheries?

Posted by Ariana - 13 July 2011 at 2:50pm - 1 Comment
Fish in a net
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Tonight Greenpeace and partners outline proposals for the CFP at the event The Future of EU Fisheries

The day those of us in fish world have been waiting for is upon us. Today the European Commission officially launched its proposals for a new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and finally we'll find out if Europe intends to meet its targets to recover our decimated fish stocks, or bend to the same political pressures of its 40 year history and failing put the environment first.

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Hugh's Fish Fight - round two!

Posted by Willie - 4 April 2011 at 11:37am - 1 Comment
Filming Hugh's Fish Fight
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Filming Hugh's Fish Fight

In the three months since Hugh's Fish Fight screened on Channel 4 there's been a frenzy of activity in the fish trade, thanks to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's investigation into the way our fish is caught and sold. If you missed the series the first time round and are wondering what all the fuss was about, the series is being repeated starting tonight at 10pm on More 4.

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European fisheries reform must scrap overfishing

Posted by Ariana - 17 March 2011 at 5:14pm - 4 Comments
Greenpeace Scrap Overfishing action in Brussels
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Greenpeace Scrap Overfishing action in Brussels

For many people, the three words ‘Common Fisheries Policy’ previously went hand in hand with another four words: ‘What does that mean?’ Either that or, a hefty yawn and a glazed look.

But, this is changing.

Article tagged as: brussels, CFP, common fisheries policy, discards, EU, fish fight, fishing, fishing industry, NGOs, oceans, overfishing, sustainable fishing

Fish discards are indefensible, but will the EU ban them?

Posted by Willie - 2 March 2011 at 5:23pm - 11 Comments

If yesterday’s news is supposed to be today’s fish and chip wrappers, then today we have an odd scenario: your fish supper is probably wrapped in a hefty helping of column inches on fishing.

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What we need to do to stop the pointless waste of discarded fish

Posted by Willie - 24 February 2011 at 11:38am - 13 Comments
Now you see it...: cod caught in the North Sea and about to be discarded
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Now you see it...: cod caught in the North Sea and about to be discarded

Discards are disgusting. No-one with any sense can support the catching, killing, and throwing away of fish. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fish Fight – which Greenpeace has supported from the outset - has at long last made the waste of perfectly good fish a national outrage. It is a pointless waste of life, and potential resources. It’s abhorrent whether you eat fish or don’t.

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Sales for 'sustainable' seafood soar, but is the problem shifting elsewhere?

Posted by jamie - 18 January 2011 at 4:28pm - 2 Comments

It's been a good week for seafood sales. The Guardian reports that supermarkets have been doing brisk business in "sustainable seafood", particularly those featured in the various Big Fish Fight shows on Channel 4.

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Get ready for the Big Fish Fight

Posted by jamie - 7 January 2011 at 10:24am - 59 Comments
Hugh and Jamie during filming of the Fish Fight series
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Hugh and Jamie during filming of Fish Fight outside Westminster

We're only a few days in to 2011, but already this year is shaping up to be a big one in our campaign to end the plunder of the oceans.

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CFP 'pantomime farce' continues as cod quota is raised again

Posted by Willie - 19 December 2008 at 2:40pm - 0 Comments

In many ways the bluster from Europe's fisheries ministers the week before Christmas is as predictable as a pantomime script, if only it were meant to be funny! They all trumpet a 'fair deal' and talk about 'striking a balance', and most hilariously, 'respecting the science'. But in reality short-term political expediency continues to trump scientific reality. Today the EU announced its fishing quotas for 2009, as usual doing their best to ignore their own scientists' recommendations. Instead they agreed to increase quotas for endangered North Sea cod by 30 per cent, after the scientists had recommended that to be safe they shouldn't be catching any.

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