Q&A: The Antarctic krill fishery
We ask Dimitri Sclabos, of Tharos Ltd., a world-leading krill consultancy, what the future holds for the Antarctic krill fishery?
Q: What aspect of the boom in commercial...
Reef fish: worth more alive than dead
Despite the precarious state of our marine environment scuba diving is still one of the fastest growing sports in the world. Perhaps it is...
100% bycatch-free fish?
In a four-year study, weekly records of prices of nearly 100 different frozen fillets of cod, haddock and Alaska pollock were collated for seven...
Treating marine life like trash
The objective of commercial fishermen is to catch fish that can be sold. The higher the price that these fish fetch at market, the...
Switch the fish, spread the problem
Supermarkets, led by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Fish Fight and Sainsbury's Switch the Fish campaigns, have recently been encouraging us to eat lesser-known and so-called sustainable...
Stop the mass slaughter of dolphins by the fishing industry in EU waters
Thousands of short-beaked common dolphins are being killed by fishing vessels targeting pelagic fish species in EU waters. This barbaric practice is referred to...
Sea angling competition highlights overfishing
Old Man of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland
Nothing in recent times has come close to illustrating the problem of overfishing in UK waters quite so eloquently...
Secret slaughter of Europe’s harbour porpoises
The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) has the misfortune to live in some of the most heavily fished waters on earth. Thousands of these little...
Where have all the sandeels gone?
Most people accept that the North Sea has been subjected to the most appalling overfishing. Whitefish stocks have collapsed and the mackerel and herring...
Keeping what’s left of the world’s ocean
The oceans are a shadow of what they once were, and it is unlikely we can keep what little we have left unless we...