Protect sharks before it’s too late
Very few pictures sum up the plight of sharks quite as well as Alex Hofford's photos of the shark processing factory at Kesen-numa City,...
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...
Fishing for deadly ghost gear
‘Ghost Fishing’ is what fishing gear does when it has been lost, dumped or abandoned. Imagine a fishing net that gets snagged on...
RSPB risks all on climate-change policy
The RSPB have gone on record as saying they will not oppose windfarms, despite the fact that their primary concern should be the welfare...
Krill catching on
As populations of once plentiful pelagic fish become exhausted many of the boats equipped to fish for these species are unfortunately starting to turn...
Krill – The final frontier
There has to be a point where we draw a line under marine over-exploitation.Ideally we should have done this some time ago, but since...
A sense of porpoise
I saw my first harbour porpoise standing on the back of a small boat anchored at the foot of a cliff off Anglesey in...
Understanding climate, plankton and commercial fishing
If you were to ask people what influences the abundance of fish in the sea, most would probably answer ‘commercial fishing’. While it is...
The extinction of sharks
We got over the demise of the dodo, the passenger pigeon and even the Chinese river dolphin, but will we ever get over the upcoming...
Gannet success story to end with fisheries discards ban?
Seabird populations have plummeted in the UK over the last few decades, mostly due to the overfishing of fish like sandeels, a vital food species...