Blog: Oceans

Taking action for tuna on the high seas

Posted by mollybrooks — 6 October 2011 at 3:28pm - Comments

Protecting tuna is not just about dressing up as sharks and exposing the companies selling unsustainable tinned tuna.

Our ship the Esperanza is currently on the high seas in the Pacific to find, document and take action against illegal and unsustainable fishing throughout this region.

Article tagged as: defending the pacific, oceans, ships, tuna

Exposed: organised crime at sea

Posted by Ariana Densham — 2 October 2011 at 8:15am - Comments

You might not think that the criminal underworld smells of sea salt and fish guts, but when there are millions of euros up for grabs for Europe's fishing fleet the crooks with hooks surface.

Article tagged as: CFP, common fisheries policy, fish, overfishing, sustainable fishing

Same fish, new business model

Posted by simon clydesdale — 17 August 2011 at 5:40pm - Comments

The hubbub has now died down since we announced that John West’s shift completed a clean sweep of change among major players in the UK tuna market. And it’s been a week since Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fish Fight: The Battle Continues reinforced this message, making people think about how we use and need to protect the extraordinary resources of the waters that dominate this globe.

Article tagged as: fads, Fish Aggregation Devices, fish fight, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, john west, princes, sustainable fishing, tinned tuna, tuna
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