Charles Clover Nov 28th 2009
The European Commission is to decide whether to back an international ban on trade in bluefin tuna next week.
European Union governments postponed a decision on whether to back a ban until after quotas were decided by the Atlantic tuna commission, ICCAT, earlier this month.
In September, member states were split 21-6 on backing an international trade [...]
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Charles Clover Nov 28th 2009
A proposal to create the world’s largest marine reserve around the Chagos Archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean is being considered by the Government.
If the coral reefs of the Chagos Archipelago and the sea for 200 miles around them were totally protected it would double the area of marine reserve in the world [...]
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Paul Eccleston Nov 22nd 2009
Scientists have revealed the latest details of mysterious creatures found living in darkness three miles below the ocean surface.
They have now found a total of 17,650 species that manage to survive in a world that has never seen the sunlight.
The work is part of the 10-year Census of Marine Life – involving 344 scientists from [...]
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Paul Eccleston Nov 20th 2009
The EU has done nothing to halt the needless slaughter of hundreds of thousands of sea birds which die every year entangled in fishing nets, it is alleged.
European fisheries, both in home waters and abroad, take a devastating toll on sea birds some of which are being pushed towards extinction, UK Fisheries Minister Huw Irranca-Davies [...]
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Paul Eccleston Nov 17th 2009
A row has broken out over plans to give salmon farms an environmental seal of approval.
Organisations who work to protect the wild Atlantic salmon have criticised the conservation group WWF for drawing up the proposals.
They say a Steering Committee responsible for the plans is dominated by salmon farming companies who have also provided the funding.
Draft [...]
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Charles Clover Nov 16th 2009
By Charles Clover
Let’s be absolutely clear. The people whose task it is to manage the bluefin tuna stocks of the Atlantic have failed once again, even under the eyes of the world, to take the advice of their own scientists.
They should now be brushed aside.
The Atlantic tuna commission, meeting in Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, has [...]
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Charles Clover Nov 16th 2009
The world’s top sushi chefs battled it out in London at the week-end with endangered fish banned from use for the first time.
The organisers of the Eat-Japan Sushi Awards banned bluefin tuna from the menu last year because of mounting concern about the hunting of the largest tuna for sushi.
This year the organisers of the [...]
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Charles Clover Nov 10th 2009
Charles Clover reports from Brazil.
It can be a nice life, being an international fishery manager.
The international commission that sets fishing limits for large tuna and other migratory fish is meeting at the exclusive Summerville resort in Porto de Galhinas, near Recife, on the coast of north eastern Brazil, this year.
If this is a bit hot [...]
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Paul Eccleston Nov 10th 2009
More than 70 sites around the British coastline should be designated as protected areas, a new study recommends.
The sites are described as the “jewels in the crown” because of the rich variety of marine wildlife they contain.
The areas have been identified after six years of survey work by divers assessing the underwater habitats of plants [...]
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Paul Eccleston Nov 9th 2009
Many deep sea fisheries in the North Atlantic are unregulated and unprotected and need to be closed, a new report claims.
Systematic mismanagement has probably already resulted in the extinction of some species and the depletion of numerous other deep-sea species,it warns.
An international agreement to abide by a UN resolution designed to protect vulnerable deep-sea areas [...]
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