In a report issued earlier this year, WWF commissioned an analysis of UK seafood consumption, and the huge volumes that are imported without reference to how it is caught or produced. Going beyond sustainability certification, WWF argued for a wholesale…
Câr-Y-Môr, or ‘For the Love of the Sea’, a community society set up in 2019, has signed a 25-year lease with the Crown Estate for a three-hectare seaweed farm in Ramsey Sound, on the western tip of Pembrokeshire, with plans…
Record stocks ‘disprove claims of overfishing’ Scottish industry leaders have hit out angrily at calls by a coalition of leading green groups for the Scottish government to reduce bottom trawling and introduce a raft of other restrictive measures to fight…
Launching their new report – ‘Shifting gears – achieving climate-smart fisheries’ – WWF, the RSPB and the MCS call for a raft of restrictive measures aimed mainly at trawling but also including REM and VMS on all vessels fishing in…
Greens push for radical changes in Scottish fisheries SFF: Report ‘not realistic and wrong approach’ Leading green groups have made calls for more highly protected marine areas in Scottish waters, low-impact fishing by 2021, restrictions on heavy mobile gear…
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