04 May 2025
The sandeel Arbitration Tribunal has published its final ruling, which relates to decisions taken in March 2024 by the UK and Scottish Governments to close North Sea Waters to sandeel fishing. While the UK has succeeded in the majority of its arguments, the ruling has left several parties claiming victory. The dispute over sandeel fishing […]
02 May 2025
The sandeel Arbitration Tribunal has published its final ruling, which relates to decisions taken in March 2024 by the UK and Scottish Governments to close North Sea Waters to sandeel fishing. The decisions were taken to protect vulnerable seabird populations and support the wider marine environment. In April 2024, the EU launched dispute proceedings to […]
29 Apr 2025
More than 80% of the world’s coral reef areas have been exposed to the worst mass bleaching event on record, spurred by record high ocean temperatures that have spread like an underwater wildfire over corals across the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. According to the new report released by the International Coral Reef […]
29 Apr 2025
Image description: Three European flags in a line. Image by Marco / Pexels. The European Commission is pushing ahead with a new directive to bring the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement into EU law – a move Fishing Daily reports as an attempt to both show leadership ahead of the UN Ocean Conference […]
29 Apr 2025
The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) has announced that enhanced Marine Protected Area (MPA) measures have officially come into force, following the signing of new legislation by Her Excellency the Commissioner, Alison Blake CMG. These strengthened protections, announced in early 2024 following the conclusion of the MPA 5-yearly expert review, […]
29 Apr 2025
Britain’s icebergs the size of Cambridge Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have found the first evidence that giant, flat-topped icebergs the size of the city of Cambridge drifted off the coast of Britain during the last ice age. These massive icebergs, like the ones we see in Antarctica today, were once drifting less […]
29 Apr 2025
Trump’s Executive order President Trump has signed an Executive Order establishing a framework for American companies to identify and commercially extract offshore critical minerals and resources in both National and International waters. It is the latest in a series of orders issued by the US president to try to increase America’s access to minerals […]
29 Apr 2025
A new Official Statistic in Development has been released by JNCC that will track the status of threatened and declining marine habitats and species within the UK. This new indicator provides, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of threatened and declining marine habitats and species in the UK. The statistic has been […]
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