Seagrass provides a key marine habitat, writes Richard Unsworth - it stablises the sea floor, sustains rich ecosystems, soaks up excess nutrients, sequesters carbon dioxide, feeds dugongs, and nurtures young cod. Hadn't we better stop wiping out some 1,500 sq.km of seagrass meadows every year?
… For the love of cod, let's save our disappearing seagrass … 2014 Comment Oceans Fish Ecology Food cod-seagrass-john-carroll-cut.jpg Seagrass. … dioxide, feeds dugongs, and nurtures young cod. Hadn't we better stop wiping out some …
A new report on the Channel's fisheries is a timely reminder of the ecological trend to 'simplification' as whole trophic levels are stripped away by over-exploitation, writes Horatio Morpurgo. Yet the government's profit-focused vision of 'sustainability' is missing the essential element - allowing the recovery of marine ecosystems.
… Country harbour will serve over four thousand cod meals in a week. The most English of … between those fishing grounds and the cod we continue to eat has never been more … French ports, 48% of landings in 1920 were of cod, haddock and hake. The figure in 2010 …
Fishing quotas were meant to conserve stocks and support fishing communities, writes Emma Cardwell. But they have achieved the reverse - rewarding the most rapacious fishing enterprises and leaving small scale fisherfolk with nothing.
… right to (as an example) 3% of 100 tonnes of cod in 2003, and 3% of 25 tonnes of cod in 2005. Applying Hardin's tragedy of the … would prove highly problematic. Iceland's 'cod bubble' A bleak illustration of these …
The UK's coastal waters are producing little but tiddlers and scallops, writes Jason Hall-Spencer - and to blame is the endless gouging of the seabed by trawlers and dredgers - even in 'marine reserves'. We must allow our marine ecosystems to rebuild!
… the last decade. In that time the amount of cod, haddock and hake dropped from 48% to just … species that live near the sea bed such as cod, ling, hake and haddock which are prized … left are tiddlers. Our supermarkets stock cod and haddock freighted in from Iceland and …
Two huge open pit mines in northern Norway are on the verge of approval, writes Tina Andersen Vågenes - even though they would dump hundreds of millions of tonnes of tailings in fjords where wild salmon spawn. Scientists are voicing serious concerns, and protests are growing, but government and mining companies appear determined to push the projects forward regardless.
… salmon, blue ling and the endangered coastal cod, and a site where whales and porpoises … salmon, blue ling and the endangered coastal cod. …
Until demand for fish is balanced with sustainable methods of production, write Ruth Thurstan & Callum Roberts, governments should consider the social and environmental implications of promoting greater fish consumption. Worldwide, wild fish supplies per person have been declining ever since 1970.
… supermarkets comes from all over the world. Cod and haddock are sourced from Iceland and …
Cancer Research UK's slogan is 'Let's beat cancer sooner'. But Georgina Downs wonders why it ignores the role of pesticides sprayed on crop fields - which is a recognised cause of cancer - and why it has spent over £750 million since 2007 on paying its employees.
… near cranberry agricultural fields in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Results showed that living …
The Grizzly bear hunting season is under way in British Columbia, Canada. The government claims that the decision to open the hunt and the kill quotas are 'science-based' but as Kyle Artelle writes, science doesn't get a look in - and the Grizzlies' are in serious danger.
… by science. The infamous collapse of the cod fishery in eastern Canada in the 1980s …
The Arctic is a special place, teeming with life, but it is under threat like never before, writes Robert Spicer - not just from climate change, but from oil drilling, industrial fishing and shipping, as receding ice creates now commercial opportunities. We must designate an Arctic Sanctuary where nature can reign undisturbed.
… of the ice, and are consumed by Arctic cod. These are eaten by seals, which in turn …