Uncategorized

by Charles Clover and Jon Ungoed-Thomas
Portal Picture of shark poaching in Chagos: MRAG
 THE government’s chief scientist and his wife have made £500,000 in the past year in a company overseeing commercial fishing that allegedly threatens one of the world’s most pristine marine environments.
Professor John Beddington and his wife, Caroline, are joint shareholders in Marine Resources [...]

Read Full Story

Published in Charles Clover Latest, Fishing News, News, Sea Food, Uncategorized | Leave the first Comment

Portal picture: Pinprick
Britain’s biggest seafood supplier has dropped European eel and North Atlantic halibut from its product list.
 Both species are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List as critically endangered – only one step away from extinction in the wild.
 The move by M&J Seafood was widely welcomed by conservation groups who [...]

Read Full Story

Published in Fishing News, News, Restaurant News, Sea Food, Uncategorized | Leave the first Comment

Portal picture: Greenpeace
A worldwide ban on trade in the endangered bluefin tuna has moved a step closer after France pledged its support for the move.
In a significant move the French said they would support the listing of bluefin tuna under appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) but with conditions.
French [...]

Read Full Story

Published in Uncategorized | 3 comments - Write a comment

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola
Pictures: Charlotte Kinzie

Salmon have played a central role in the lives and culture of Pacific Northwest people throughout history. Their abundance in the oceans and rivers made them a major source of protein for hundreds of First Nations villages, and they were also crucial to trade. [...]

Read Full Story

Published in Uncategorized | 2 comments - Write a comment

Scientists have developed an alternative to fishmeal used across the world to feed farmed fish.
By using micro-nutrients as a supplement they have been able to cut the amount of fishmeal in the food to 15 per cent without affecting the quality or taste of the fish.
Aquaculture – breeding fish for human consumption – has grown [...]

Read Full Story

Published in Uncategorized | Leave the first Comment

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 [...]

Read Full Story

Published in Uncategorized | 4 comments - Write a comment

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 [...]

Read Full Story

Published in Uncategorized | 2 comments - Write a comment

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 [...]

Read Full Story

Published in Fishing News, News, Restaurant News, Sea Food, Uncategorized | 2 comments - Write a comment

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 [...]

Read Full Story

Published in Charles Clover Latest, Fishing News, News, Uncategorized | 2 comments - Write a comment

 
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 [...]

Read Full Story

Published in Fishing News, News, Sea Food, Uncategorized | 1 comment - Write a comment