overfishing
Last edited 1 March 2011 at 2:46pm
Maria Damanaki, the
European Fisheries commissioner, has drawn up a proposal to ban the
controversial practice of ‘discards’ - a perverse consequence of current quota
rules imposed by Brussels, and will present it to a meeting of ministers and
MEPs on Tuesday.
In response Greenpeace
UK executive director John Sauven said:
Posted by jamie — 1 March 2011 at 11:41am
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Tuna and bycatch caught in the east Pacific
Of all the tuna species, skipjack
is seen as the most plentiful and the most sustainable. The speed with which it
reproduces and matures has meant stocks are more resilient to our industrial
fishing fleets than its bluefin and bigeye cousins, and has guaranteed its
place in the sandwiches and baked potatoes of the nation. Or at least, that has
been the case until now.
Posted by jamie — 31 January 2011 at 4:07pm
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Ron with activist alongside the MV Lung Yuin in Taiwan
While in the UK we're focusing on Princes and the consumer end of the tuna trade, in Taiwan the Rainbow Warrior has been exposing the problems with tuna fishing. Last week, the crew prevented a fish cargo ship from leaving port...
Posted by jamie — 13 December 2010 at 6:41pm
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German agriculture minister Ilse Aigner walks past Greenpeace's trawler in Brussels, Belgium
Every year, it’s the same. Despite
evidence and advice from marine biologists that really there aren't plenty more
fish in the sea, European fishing quotas are set way above what's required to
halt and reverse the downward spiral of many commercial species. As Willie
pointed out this time two years ago, it's a pantomime farce which comes
along like clockwork in the week before Christmas. But that may be about to
change.
Posted by jamie — 23 November 2010 at 1:22pm
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The tunamobile makes its debut at the ICCAT tuna meeting in Paris (c) Chauveau/Grenepeace
Oliver Knowles, oceans campaigner at our international office, wrote on Making Waves last week about the start of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT meeting) in Paris.
I'm on my way to Paris right now, where some important days for bluefin tuna are going to be taking place later this week and next. Fisheries managers and representatives from countries around the world are about to come to together at the annual meeting of ICCAT - the body that is meant to manage tuna populations in this area of the world. The challenges facing bluefin tuna have never been more plentiful and more serious.
The big question that will soon be answered - can those meant to protect bluefin tuna deliver meaningful change after years of mismanagement?
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Bigeye and yellowfin tuna are fully exploited or over exploited in all oceans
- they are in serious trouble in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean,
where they were relatively healthy just a few years ago. Stocks of the
magnificent bluefin, the most iconic and valuable of all tuna species,
are on the brink of collapse. In 1999, Greenpeace recorded an 80 percent
decline in Mediterranean bluefin.
In 1999, Greenpeace recorded an 80 percentdecline in Mediterranean bluefin
And it's getting worse. Advances in technology mean that large ships - floating factories - are now able to take as much tuna in two days as whole countries can take in a year. Increasing practices of tuna ranching are further aggravating the crisis.
Posted by Willie — 25 August 2010 at 12:01pm
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Is removing salade nicoise from the menu better than searching out sustainable tuna supplies? (Photo (c) FotoosVanRobin)
When you get a bit close to a subject, you get geeky. Before you know it you are scoffing at how other people could possible not know something, because you do. Yet of course it's true that the vast majority of the public are very much in the 'don't know' camp.
