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...
Japanese financial giant Nomura profits from lack of fish
Japan's list of environmental sins is growing. If it wasn't already pushing the boundaries of acceptable behaviour by killing whales in the Southern Ocean...
EU Fisheries Commissioner Karmenu Vella’s commitment to tackling dolphin, porpoise and whale deaths in...
Responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths every year, entanglement in fishing gear is the single biggest threat to dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively...
UK sea angling records tell a sorry tale
If you need proof that UK fish stocks have been in decline you need look no further than the British sea fish angling records....
Open your eyes to commercial fishing
After stripping the seas of life with impunity for decades, serious questions are now being asked of the industry that makes its living from...
Tuna destroyer
The Spanish owned and EU flagged tuna purse seiner "Albatun Tres" is a 115 m, 3,200 GRT 'super, super seiner' that can net 3,000...
Put seagrass on the map with citizen science
Today, June 5th, is World Environment Day and at Project Seagrass we are happy to announce the launch of our GLOBAL Citizen Science smartphone...
Big problems for the world’s biggest fish
It may surprise you that 100 million sharks are killed by people each year. What might surprise you further is that this is a...
Why is marine conservation so neglected?
There are hundreds of organisations in the UK devoted to the conservation of the land and its animals. Incredibly there is only one well...