24 May 2020

Texts previously only shared by the UK negotiators with the EU counterparts are now available on line Click here. They include a draft free-trade agreement, draft fisheries plan, draft energy deal, and draft law enforcement and judicial cooperation proposal. The fisheries framework is mostly a series of headings covering key issues such as annual negotiations […]

19 May 2020

For an excellent overview of the topic ‘oceans and climate change’ Click here to watch  the recently uploaded Society of Underwater Technology 30min WebinAir by Prof Ralph Rayner. He reviews the science, sets out some options for response, such as the immensely challenging geoengineering proposals and makes an urgent call for action in the coming […]

12 May 2020

MCS   Alice Watson, public affairs assistant at the Marine Conservation Society, discusses the Fisheries Bill and its key provisions.  What is the history of the Bill? The Fisheries Bill will be the UK’s first domestic fisheries legislation in over 40 years. Upon leaving the EU, the UK will become an independent coastal state in charge […]

05 May 2020

Uncovering the EU member states most responsible for setting fishing quotas above scientific advice Griffin Carpenter New Economics Foundation Fisheries ministers are risking the sustainability of fish stocks by consistently setting fishing limits above scientific advice. This is our sixth and final year running a series of briefings to identify which Member States are standing […]

26 Mar 2020

Covid 19 and fisheries. Jerry Percy, Director of the New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association [NUTFA] gives a personal view. The impact of the Coronavirus has almost overnight largely decimated those companies reliant on high end products such as dive caught scallops, lobster and crab, whilst prices for the main finfish species have crashed. The vast […]

25 Mar 2020

Covid 19 and fisheries. Jerry Percy, Director of the New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association [NUTFA] gives a personal view. The impact of the Coronavirus has almost overnight largely decimated those companies reliant on high end products such as dive caught scallops, lobster and crab, whilst prices for the main finfish species have crashed. The vast […]