Illegally caught 'dirty' fish threatens local fishermen, consumer health and the future of the world's fisheries. The EJF's Pirate Fishing Campaign is tackling the problem head on
… Campaigning against pirate fishing Laura Sevier | 22nd June 2009 Activism … Environmental Justice Foundation EJF Pirate Fishing Illegal Fishing illegal-trawler-off-sierra-.jpg …
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.
… Roberts | 6th November 2014 Comment Oceans Fishing Health Ecology Farming … pressure from over-exploitation, destructive fishing practises like trawling and dredging, … National recording of landings and fishing effort began in the 1880s and help us …
For just 8% of the fish landed, extraordinary, beautiful, ancient, diverse deep sea habitats are routinely destroyed by fishing gear. And as J. Murray Roberts writes, it's all for a one-off hit as the fish are so slow to grow and reproduce. If the same damage happened on land, there would be uproar.
… Murray Roberts | 1st May 2014 Comment Oceans Fishing UK EU Ecology deep-sea-fishing-rockall.jpg For just 8% of the fish … deep sea habitats are routinely destroyed by fishing gear. And as J. Murray Roberts writes, …
Support from UK supermarkets to phase out tuna caught with damaging fishing gear could make the Western Pacific tuna the world's first sustainable industrial fishery
… to phase out tuna caught with damaging fishing gear could make the Western Pacific … fish caught with a particularly destructive fishing gear. At the same time Pacific … going out of fashion... The controversial fishing gear at the centre of this story are …
The UK has joined growing European support for Atlantic Bluefin tuna to be declared an endangered species to prevent collapse
… for an international ban on the commercial fishing of Atlantic Bluefin tuna. UK … less than 15 per cent of their pre-industrial fishing size. Japanese trade It is estimated … has led to a proliferation of purse seiner fishing vessels in Europe, which use bag-like …
New research from Australia's Great Barrier Reef shows that no-take marine reserves don't just mean more and bigger fish, write Camille Mellin, Aaron MacNeil & Julian Caley. They also boost the resistance of reef communities to disturbances like storms, bleaching and predation, and speed their subsequent recovery. It's time for global rollout of coral reef marine reserves!
… Fishing ban is helping the Great Barrier Reef … Julian Caley | 7th April 2016 Comment Oceans Fishing Australia Conservation Ecology Science … cope with a long list of pressures including fishing, storms, coral bleaching, outbreaks of …
A coalition of fishing, consumer, and environmental groups are suing the FDA for its 'unlawful' approval of Aquabounty's GM salmon, as it relied on treating the fish as an 'animal drug' under a 1938 law, and ignored serious risks to wild salmon and fishing communities.
… The Ecologist | 1st April 2016 News GMOs Fishing Oceans Law Regulation Ecology USA … Panama atlantic-salmon-cut.jpg A coalition of fishing, consumer, and environmental groups … and ignored serious risks to wild salmon and fishing communities. A coalition of …
It looked like such a good idea: take the pressure off wild fish stocks by growing GM oilseeds that produce health-enhancing long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, writes Claire Robinson. But as a new study has established, those fish oils, novel in terrestrial ecosystems, cause wing deformities in cabbage white butterflies. Yet a third open field trial of these GM crops could soon be under way.
… April 2016 News GMOs Nutrition Food Ecology Fishing Health cabbage-white-cut.jpg It looked …
Show the government you support the creation of a marine conservation network to protect the UK's threatened sea life
… The government's historic give-away of public fishing quotas has created an unregulated … in high-end retail INVESTIGATION How pirate fishing fuels human exodus from Africa to Europe Illegal fishing to feed European demand for seafood is …
There's strong public support for protecting marine wildlife, writes Horatio Morpurgo - so why aren't politicians championing the cause? Labour and Tories alike fear to challenge the big fishing companies that have come to believe they own Britain's offshore waters and seabed. Now it's up to use to prove they're wrong.
… seas, first we must reclaim them from 'Big Fishing' Horatio Morpurgo | 10th April 2015 Comment Oceans Fishing Politics Corporations UK Natural World Conservation Ecology fishing-boats-lyme-regis-cut.jpg There's …
British diners could unwittingly be supporting Iceland's whale hunt as a major UK fish wholesaler continues to source seafood from an Icelandic company linked to the killing of endangered fin whales
… from HB Grandi, one of Iceland's biggest fishing companies. HB Grandi's facilities have …
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.
… Horatio Morpurgo | 25th July 2014 News UK Fishing Ecology Natural World History … waters. The relationship between those fishing grounds and the cod we continue to eat … fish can live up to twenty years. The UK's fishing industry has reacted to such news as …
Marine conservation is usually expressed in austere and negative terms, writes Alasdair Harris, with strict quotas and exclusion zones. But the truth is the exact opposite: it's about working with natural ecosystems to unlock their productive potential, creating sustainable wealth and abundance for fishing communities while enhancing marine biodiversity.
… Alasdair Harris | 12th May 2015 Activism Fishing Ecology Madagascar Fishing traditional fishers-cut.jpg Marine … creating sustainable wealth and abundance for fishing communities while enhancing marine …
Alaska's long-standing wild salmon-fishing industry could be under threat from large-scale mining development
… Alaska's long-standing wild salmon-fishing industry could be under threat from … and today also support a healthy sustainable fishing industry that is critical to the … Alaska's subsistence, commercial and sport fishing interests, the Alaska Intertribal …
With California's wild Coho salmon populations down to 1% of their former numbers, there's growing evidence that beavers - long reviled as a pest of the waterways - are essential to restore the species, writes Maria Finn. In the process, they raise water tables, recharge aquifers and improve water quality. What's not to love?
… | 1st March 2015 Comment Ecology USA Water Fishing Natural World … where commercial and recreational salmon fishing brings in $1.5 billion a year, and … California officials shut down Chinook salmon-fishing entirely, leaving not just fishermen …
There has been a significant reduction in the killing of seals in Scotland but the Seal Protection Action Group needs your help in ending the killings altogether
… are killed to protect salmon farms and other fishing interests. The Saving Scotland's Seals … towards the 'indiscriminate shooting by fishing interests'. The Scottish Government … Our oceans are suffering from chronic overfishing - but are fish farms any better for …
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 its catastrophic decline . Apart from overfishing, the causes of this decline and its …
In 2003 nations pledged to place 20-30% of the world's oceans into no-take marine parks, writes Jessica Meeuwig - but more than ten years on, such areas now cover just 1% of ocean area. Now the World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia, provides an opportunity to drive marine protection forward, and benefit both ecology and economy.
… Meeuwig | 15th November 2014 Comment Oceans Fishing Ecology Economics ocean-sharks-cut.jpg … about-face, with NSW allowing recreational fishing into existing 'no-take' marine parks . … parks support commercial and recreational fishing. Researchers led by Hugo Harrison from …
Reporting from the frontline of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at those who fight the abuse of marine environments.
… Andrew Wasley | 1st June 2009 Activism Overfishing Oceans Fish Andre Wasley Greenpeace … the world to investigate the impact of overfishing, concluding that blame for the crisis … of fish stocks, illegal ‘pirate’ fishing and destructive trawling to …
Marine biologist, lecturer, ocean ambassador and founder of several conservation initiatives, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols speaks to Deborah Bassett about the benefits of wildlife tourism, saving baby turtle eggs and an 112 day trek along the US west coast
… Sea Turtles Ocean Conservation Sustainable Fishing How To Make A Difference Wallace J. …
Following the closure of some of the UK's most stunning lakes, a dynamic campaign has been set up to stop phosphates from washing detergents causing algal blooms
… - rising temperatures, ocean acidity, fishing practices... But can clever management …
Wide-ranging plans to link up Kenya, Ethiopia and Southern Sudan include the building of a port which threatens the Lamu district's indigenous coastal communities and fragile ecology, reports Tafline Laylin
… for a major new port could destroy local fishing Both the endangered Green and Ridley … approximately 80 per cent of an artisanal fishing industry. In Mombasa, where there are … of every Kenyan coastal community relies on fishing for subsistence, and the Lamu …
Dam builders have a new mantra, writes Tom Fawthrop: 'sustainable hydropower'. Repeated at every opportunity, it is based on the unproven idea that large dams can be made 'sustainable' by promising future 'mitigation'. And so it is at the Don Sahong dam in Laos which is about to devastate the mighty Mekong and the 60 million people who depend on it for food and livelihood.
Damming the Mekong - the myth of 'sustainable hydropower' Tom Fawthrop | 16th January 2016 News Water Ecology Food Indigenous Peoples Cetaceans Hydropower Laos dam river contrast-cut.jpg Dam builders …
Behind the relatively sanitized faç;ade of the exotic pet industry resides a vast chronicle of species decline, ecological disruption, animal suffering, mortality, and the global dissemination of pathogens, writes Clifford Warwick. We are in the midst of a profit-fueled frivolous wildlife biocide, as animal traders strive to bring the next curiosity fish, turtle or primate into our homes.
The exotic pet trade is a global evil that must be stopped Clifford Warwick | 10th November 2014 News Wildlife Trade Oceans Ecology Health lizards-cut.jpg Behind the relatively sanitized faç;ade of …