North Atlantic

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  UK to introduce world-leading ban on shark fin trade

  27th August 2021

  The UK is to ban the import and export of detached shark fins and products containing them, international ocean minister Lord Goldsmith has announced, meaning that the UK will go further than any other country in working for an end…

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  International fleet fishing blues west of Ireland (photos by Ryan Cordiner)

  3rd April 2020

  In recent weeks, Irish and Scottish vessels have been fishing blue whiting in the North Atlantic west of Ireland alongside a cosmopolitan fleet of midwater trawlers. The first Norwegian boats started to arrive on the grounds in February, when the…