Paul Eccleston Dec 16th 2009
EU fishing fleets will be allowed bigger catches next year if they agree to fit surveillance cameras to their boats.
Crews will be entitled to 5% more fish if they fit CCTV cameras to record what they catch and what they throw back into the sea.
As part of an experimental scheme each boat will have three [...]
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Paul Eccleston Dec 15th 2009
The EU is coming under growing pressure to preserve dwindling stocks of bluefin tuna.
A panel of independent experts appointed by the UN recommended at a meeting in Rome that international trade in the critically endangered bluefin should be banned or at least controlled if the species is to survive.
A majority on the advisory panel set [...]
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Paul Eccleston Dec 8th 2009
All seafood served at the London Olympics in 2012 will be sustainable, organisers have announced.
More than 82 tons of fish and seafood will be served up to competitors, spectators and officials at the games and will have to pass stringent tests on sustainability before it is approved.
It is understood that a sub-committee on fish, chaired [...]
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Paul Eccleston Dec 6th 2009
Marine conservationists are battling to stop a Canadian fishery responsible for killing thousands of sharks and turtles every year from being given a coveted ‘green’ certification.
It would allow the North Atlantic fishery to put an ecolabel on its products – opening up lucrative markets – and signifying that it meets stringent environmental standards and catches [...]
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Paul Eccleston Dec 1st 2009
Scientists have developed crime scene forensic techniques to trace the origin of shark fins sold as a delicacy in Hong Kong fish markets.
For the first time they have been able to trace the meat back to scalloped hammerhead shark from endangered populations thousands of miles away.
They now plan to use their ground-breaking DNA discoveries to [...]
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