Seafish’s Economics, Insight and Advice team has released the 2022 edition of Economics of the Fleet. This report provides economic estimates for the performance of the UK fishing fleet. The estimates are calculated based on samples of fishing costs and earnings gathered by Seafish as part of our Annual Fleet Survey. Findings from this report […]
New Met office report The UK’s climate has continued to warm, with 2020 the first year to have temperature, rain and sunshine rankings all in the top 10. The latest analysis of the UK climate, State of the UK Climate 2020 published in The Royal Meteorological Society’s ‘International Journal of Climatology’, has shown that climate […]
The UK has announced its membership of the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA). ORRAA is a multi-sector collaboration between governments, financial institutions, the insurance industry, environmental organisations and stakeholders from the Global South. The Alliance’s purpose is to build resilience in the regions and communities most vulnerable to ocean risk, by pioneering finance and insurance products that incentivise investment in nature-based solutions and […]
This is the same piece as above but it focuses on the marine litter and plastics elements. In particular the commitments UK Government has made to work with international bodies on this. I have added links to these programmes which are not the original. UK takes centre stage in global marine protection – the litter […]