Top chefs Raymond Blanc and Tom Aikens will be joining forces with Greenpeace tomorrow (30 January) to urge other chefs to use only sustainable seafood on their menus.
They'll also be urging food writers to drop unsustainably caught fish from their recipes.
And the campaign has already attracted the backing of multiple Michelin-starred Heston Blumenthal and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
Responding to
news that massive quantities of cod and other fish species in European waters
are being discarded because of the fishing quota system, Greenpeace oceans
campaigner Oliver Knowles said:
Posted by Willie — 21 May 2007 at 11:08am
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Follow the crew of the Arctic Sunrise on their campaign for Marine Reserves in our North Sea Tour blog
A weekend in Lerwick allowed us to bring the campaign to land, and bring people from land to the campaign. Leaving Shetland marks the end of the North Sea ship tour, but of course we'll be taking the campaign back to our various offices around the North Sea. Meanwhile, the Rainbow Warrior is in the Mediterranean continuing our European work on marine reserves.
Posted by Willie — 18 May 2007 at 5:33pm
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Anemones on a sea mount - not known for their migratory habits
The weather forecast was ominous as we departed Aberdeen harbour, gales and high winds were ahead of us. But with the wind behind us, we've had a good night's sailing.
Posted by jossc — 17 May 2007 at 10:41am
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Follow the crew of the Arctic Sunrise on their campaign for Marine Reserves in our North Sea Tour blog
Since Tuesday morning, we've been docked in Aberdeen. The Arctic Sunrise is dwarfed amidst some of the other huge ships here. As we waited on the pilot to take us in, we had small groups of noisy arctic terns bouncing around the ship. Then, on our way into the harbour, just at the breakwater, we were treated to a pod of about seven bottlenose dolphins, lazily feeding (with an occasional show-off jump).
Posted by jossc — 14 May 2007 at 4:20pm
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Follow the crew of the Arctic Sunrise on their campaign for Marine Reserves in our North Sea Tour blog
Two pair trawlers we encountered yesterday admitted they were fishing for cod and told us confusingly fishy stories. One boat said it was catching lots of big cod, while the other reckoned they'd trawled loads of young fish. Either way they shouldn't be taking any – cod stocks are now only a fraction of what they were a decade or two ago.
It is clear that current management regimes are to blame for the widespread degradation of Europe’s seas. It is further widely accepted amongst many policy makers, scientists and others that we must therefore adopt a radical new approach to managing Europe’s seas – one that is precautionary in nature and has protection of the whole marine ecosystem as its primary objective. Such an ecosystem-based approach is vital if we are to ensure the health of our oceans for future generations.
