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 […]
21 Jan 2020
Following on from his very direct – angry – warning video on the threat of Climate Change the links to his speech at the World Economic Forum are set out below. World Economic Forum ‘David Attenborough’s worried about this ocean threat – and it’s not plastic If the ocean was an economy, it would be […]
21 Sep 2019
With decades of experience studying and documenting global overfishing, in a recent interview Daniel Pauly sets out the three main actions he believes are needed to renew globally depleted fisheries. The first of these would be to end government subsidies for industrial fishing fleets as reducing the size of the world’s industrial fleet would bring […]
02 Feb 2016
How much fish are we really catching? January 19, 2016 By Rebecca Goldburg The Pew Charitable Trusts ‘Thirty percent of global fish catch may be unreported, according to new research. Activities such as artisanal, subsistence, and illegal fishing are often not included in official statistics—obscuring the true extent of fishing worldwide. Scientists now estimate global […]
01 Sep 2015
These two articles were flagged to me by the excellent COAST Newsletter – you can sign up here http://www.arrancoast.com/marine-news Both papers reveal the role of continued Nephrops – prawn fisheries on white fish stocks Fishery-induced changes to age and length dependent maturation schedules of three demersal fish species in the Clyde The paper published in Fisheries […]
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