Six skippers face unlimited fines and multi-million pound confiscation orders after admitting breaching fishing quotas By Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent www.guardian.co.uk Thursday 26 August 2010 17.45 BST Six trawlermen from Shetland face unlimited fines and multi-million pound confiscation orders for illegally landing £15m worth of herring and mackerel to cheat strict quotas designed to conserve […]
By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs CorrespondentWednesday, 11 August 2010 The European Union could impose trade sanctions against Iceland or stop its ships from entering EU ports in an emerging “mackerel war”. In an echo of the 1970s “Cod War” when British gunboats were sent to ward off Icelandic trawlers in disputed waters, the EU has […]
By Michael Morrah Mon, 16 Aug 2010 6:45p.m. Conservationists are calling on the Government to support the closure of high sea fisheries in the Pacific to industrial fish netting. Two areas have already been closed because of concerns about illegal fishing and plummeting tuna stocks. Now island nations are trying to do more to stop […]
By MIKE CAMPBELL, mcampbell@adn.com Published: August 11th, 2010 01:39 AM The worst return of red salmon to the Russian River in 33 years has convinced Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists to shutter the popular sport fishery the rest of the season and try to unravel how one of Alaska’s most consistent fisheries suddenly […]
ScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2010) — The way that humanity reacts to climate change may do more damage to many areas of the planet than climate change itself unless we plan properly, an important new study published in Conservation Letters by Conservation International’s Will Turner and a group of other leading scientists has concluded. The paper […]
By Matthew Vella Wednesday, August 04, 2010 The volume and wholesale value of fresh fish landings dropped by 9.9 and 7.5% respectively in the second quarter this year when compared to 2009. Data from the National Statistics Office for the period April-June 2009 record fish landings amounted to 331,243 kilograms, a decrease of 9.9% over […]
BBC3 August 2010 Last updated at 00:35 ET Demand for shark fin soup in Asia has been blamed for the illegal killing of nearly 300,000 sharks off Brazil, an environmental group has alleged. The Environmental Justice Institute in Brazil has accused a seafood exporter (Siglo do Brasil Comercio) of illegally killing nearly 300,000 sharks. It […]
By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News 3 August 2010 Last updated at 05:17 ET An international team of researchers has developed a model that suggests degradation of tropical forests occurs in a series of “waves”. High-value trees were felled in the first “wave”, followed by a wave that removed mid-value timber […]
The population of Steller’s sea lions is declining so rapidly in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands that the Obama administration is calling for the emergency closure of commercial mackerel and cod fishing there. The fishing industry, largely based in Seattle, is alarmed and worried such measures could eventually lead to restrictions on parts of the $1 billion-a-year […]
Bombs, the invasion of alien species and pollution among threats facing fish in the enclosed sea, according to study By Alok Jha, www.guardian.co.uk Monday 2 August 2010 21.05 BST Marine life in the Mediterranean faces the greatest risk of damage and death, the Census of Marine Life shows. “Enclosed seas have the risk that, when […]
