Posted by Saskia -
15 December 2011 at 11:37am -
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No, not that. Your fishing fleet… how big is your fishing fleet? No
idea? It seems that European governments don’t know either. That’s quite
a problem when size is at the heart of our overfishing problems.
Posted by Willie -
2 March 2011 at 5:23pm -
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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.
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.
Posted by Willie -
20 August 2010 at 6:35pm -
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It's a confusing time in the north
Atlantic with an international controversy brewing over the humble
mackerel. Some are comparing
it to last century's 'cod wars', when the UK and Iceland went to battle over access to
cod fishing.
Mackerel, an exquisitely beautiful fish related to the
tunas, is relatively plentiful, occurs in big shoals, and can be caught quite 'cleanly' by seine nets or handlines. For these reasons (as well as the health
benefits of it being an oily fish), it has become a firm favourite for those
seeking a sustainable option.
Today, or at 11.59pm tonight, to be exact, the purse-seining season for bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean is being closed. A week early.
I'm back on land now, having left the Arctic Sunrise in the Med. In London, we've had a flurry of media calls, excited by what they think is the "good news" that "bluefin fishing is being banned" in the Mediterranean.
So I thought, as well as putting the record straight with any journalists who'll listen, that I should maybe explain to everyone else what exactly is happening. And whether it is indeed "good news".
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