Charles Clover Jan 31st 2010
The assumption that fish from farms can feed the world as catches of wild fish decline is “a fiction” and based on official figures now known to be suspect, Dr Daniel Pauly, a leading scientist said yesterday.
Dr Pauly said official UN figures showed farmed fish account for nearly half of all fish consumed by humans [...]
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Paul Eccleston Jan 31st 2010
One of the world’s top fisheries scientists has launched a blistering attack on industrialised fishing,
Dr Daniel Pauly said current methods of catching fish on a massive scale were unsustainable, wasteful, inefficient and were doomed to fail.
He told the Seafood Summit conference in Paris that subsidised and expensive trawling fleets would vanish within 20 years because [...]
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Paul Eccleston Jan 26th 2010
All fish sold by Marks and Spencer will be guaranteed to be from sustainable stocks within five years.
The High Street giant has become the first big food retailer to sign the WWF Seafood Charter aimed at halting over fishing.
It will now work with the conservation organisation to protect the oceans, work towards sustainable fisheries management [...]
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Paul Eccleston Jan 21st 2010
The eel is fast disappearing from London’s River Thames and may soon be gone completely.
New research by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) shows that numbers have crashed by 97 per cent in the past five years.
In 2005 1500 eels were caught in traps in the river’s tributaries but last year the number plummeted to [...]
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Paul Eccleston Jan 18th 2010
Seafood eco-labelling schemes have come under fire in a new report looking at their effectiveness.
They are under-performing and need to be improved across the board, according to an assessment sponsored by the conservation organisation WWF.
Seven fishery certification schemes were assessed by management consultancy Accenture against a number of indicators designed to test their effectiveness in [...]
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Fish2Fork Jan 14th 2010
Sushi restaurants are the worst for serving up fish that are endangered or over-fished in the wild, according to a survey of 50 restaurants in 14 states.
The first online survey of its kind also found, ironically, that the best restaurant in the United States for sustainability was a sushi restaurant.
The survey was carried [...]
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Charles Clover Jan 12th 2010
By Charles Clover
A crucial vote on whether Europe will back a trade ban on the critically-endangered bluefin tuna has been postponed because EU officials can’t agree.
Stavros Dimas, the Environment Commissioner, wants Europe to back the listing of the bluefin under Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which would mean international trade is banned.
Joe Borg, the Fisheries [...]
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